In July, we wrote about an ongoing case wherein a woman accused of fraud was being asked by the prosecution to provide the password to access her computer’s data, which otherwise would remain encrypted and unreadable, weakening their case. They got permission to compel her to reveal the password, but the defense said that...
Boston-Cambridge may not be the hub of the big data universe as some recent research suggests, but it got a leg up this week with news that Hewlett-Packard is moving some of its big data operations to Cambridge. Big data refers to the proliferation of data types that are too large and unwieldy for...
The Consumer Electronics Show, that turgid January gadget fest in Las Vegas, has been widely seen in the industry as a great place to show off your wares if you’re not Apple. But is that true? SigFig, the stealth investing startup that’s growing out of stock portfolio manager Wikinvest, has run some numbers on the...
We’re looking for a full-time (maybe PT if necessary) Australia based tech writer. You need to be incredibly passionate about technology, startups, entrepreneurship and Internet culture. You’ll be keen to immerse yourself in the Australian technology scene – or indeed already be part of it. You’ll enjoy chasing up stories and the people behind...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. Much has been said about Facebook’s Timeline feature, but very little...
Codecademy is on fire right now. The startup, which teaches users how to program with an interactive and social web application, has garnered more than 1 million users (including bold-faced names such as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg) and made learning how to write computer code trendy with its “Code Year” program aimed at...
The January draft of NIST’s interface specifications (PDF available here) shows five layers of what are periodically described as subsystems. Think of these functional components as comprised of devices, software, and people. Acknowledging that not every CM process can or should be automated, NIST’s architects have created these five classes of subsystem to represent...
Internet security company Dasient has announced via its company blog that it has been acquired by Twitter. Dasient’s team will be moving to Twitter to join its ‘revenue engineering’ team. Dasient says that it will be bringing its “technology, tools and team” to Twitter’s revenue engineering team. Dasient describes its areas of focus as...
Hi, my name is Matthew and I’m a packaholic. I have a long history of taking way too much stuff with me when I travel. Half of what I pack ends up staying in the hotel room unused, waiting for me to haul it back through two airports on the way home. As I’ve...
Let’s say you want to give your small business a mobile presence. You’d like to develop some mobile apps, but you don’t have the time, money, or technical skills to do it yourself, and you’re not too excited about the idea of paying a developer an armload to do it for you. Of course,...