Chinese internet giant Baidu is also developing its own Google Glass-like device that will allow for hands-free Internet searches. But the company has yet to decide if the device will ever reach the market.? The device, called Baidu Eye, ...
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US-based IT company IBM and Excel Medical Electronics (EME) are collaborating with The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Neurosurgery in a study to test the effectiveness of a real-time alarm, which is designed to ...
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Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). In this video, the CEO of sector skills body e-skills UK ...
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Big Data isn't just about the datacentre. Data architecture, data processing and data management are all important. That's according to Alan Priestley, director of strategic marketing EMEA for Intel, who was addressing the audience at ...
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Vendor Managed Technologies, Inc. (VMT) DBA Retail Velocity, a leader of “Big Data” retail demand sensing and retail execution solutions, was again honored by Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) readers as a leading demand data ...
There's plenty of reason for optimism about IT jobs. CIOs are ramping up hiring, average salaries are climbing, and companies are increasing their investments in core tech areas such as security, mobility and data analytics. Concerns about ...
Some school administrators are testing a bold idea to integrate the multitude of systems that are used to store student data, giving teachers a single view of how students are performing and allowing them to better deliver the right ...
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Computing's semi-regular podcast this week features a roundup of Mobile World Congress - everything you need to know from the world of mobile computing. We also discuss HMRC's new policy of trawling social media for evidence of tax ...
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Software AG last week announced the availability of ARIS 9.0 at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The vendor said that ARIS 9.0 combines the four emerging technological forces of cloud, mobile, social and big data, making them ...
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IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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Merkle, a customer relationship marketing (CRM) firm and privately held agency, has been awarded a three-year contract extension from GMAC Insurance. Under the terms of the contract, which follows a full-service engagement in 2008, Merkle ...
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WASHINGTON - The federal government's automatic budget cuts, due to begin Friday, may accelerate cost savings measures already in place via sharing of services across agencies, IT consolidation, and an increasing reliance of off-the-shelf ...
Applying big data approaches to information security can help enterprises build better situational awareness capabilities, but implementation could prove to be a major challenge, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2013 being held ...
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Intel has released its own Apache Hadoop distribution as the firm looks to extend its reach in the big data market. Apache Hadoop is an open source framework that specialises in running data applications on large hardware clusters. ...
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US-based restaurant chain The Cheesecake Factory is using IBM Big Data analytics to quickly alert its restaurants to remove ingredients that do not meet safety standards. The Cheesecake Factory manages a variety of data in bulk volumes ...
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