Apple's stumble with its new mapping app is a debacle right up there with 2010's "Antennagate," analysts said today. "This ranks with 'Antennagate,'" said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, of the 2010 ...
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Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data. The schools have all seen the McKinsey Co. report warning of a mega shortage in analytical talent of as many as 190,000 ...
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MicroStrategy is adding an Express option for potential users of its cloud-based BI (business intelligence) service, the company announced Tuesday. The Express edition, now in beta, is a move up from MicroStrategy Cloud's Personal ...
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As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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Facebook appears to be losing users in the U.S. and other major markets, though its user base in parts of Asia is growing, according to an investment company report. Facebook saw its U.S. user base drop by 0.7% over the past three months ...
With an eye for better serving big data projects, Oracle and partner Fujitsu have commenced building the next generation of Sparc64 processors, in a project called Athena. The new design will feature a number of new features, including a ...
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Icebreaker New Zealand Ltd., which manufactures merino innerwear from wool sourced exclusively from New Zealand Merino sheep, will utilize cloud services offered by Microsoft Office 365 for its Intranet to support global expansion. ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle has agreed to acquire Eloqua for about $871 million in a bid to build out a set of marketing automation software. Eloqua's board has approved the deal and it is expected to close in the first half of next year, ...
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StrongMail, a leading provider of digital marketing solutions for email, mobile and social media engagement, announced that Guess? Inc. has centralized its triggered, lifecycle and promotional email streams on StrongMail, resulting in more ...
The government is to publish details of its controversial plans to make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet activity. The Queen's Speech in May revealed that the government would go ahead ...
Tags: UK, Internet Monitoring Law, controversial plans, police services
Consumers ranked Google Maps better than Apple's new homegrown mapping technology by more than 2 to 1 on Twitter, a social media analytics company said today. iOS 6 users can sidestep the change to Apple Maps by calling up Google's ...
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Residents of Estonia have the most freedom to do what they want on the Internet, with the U.S. ranking second among 47 countries examined by a group that pushes for democratic freedoms worldwide. However, residents of several countries ...
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Semantelli has launched a healthcare focused big data collection solution, which is built with Apache Hadoop and other standard big data stacks. BIGHEALTHr solution, which comes with built-in ontologies, can be configured to collect big ...
Twitter has filed an appeal of a New York judge's June decision requiring the company to turn over detailed information about a user tied to the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. Twitter on Monday filed the appeal of the June 30 ruling ...
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SAN RAMON, CA, June 08, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ventana Research has released its 2012 Value Index for Agent Performance Management, the latest in a new category of quantified, research-based Indexes on technology vendors and products. ...
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