The Crashlab in Western Sydney. NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance and NSW Minister for Roads Duncan Gay have announced the establishment of the state’s first Smart Innovation Centre in Western Sydney ...
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SnapDragon uses proven techniques to search and monitor sites around the world and take down offenders. SnapDragon, a new anti-counterfeit service for SMEs specialising in the nursery and toy industries, has been launched by Totseat ...
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North American truckers ordered more trucks in November 2013 than they did last year, according to commercial vehicle data analysts at Americas Commercial Transportation (ACT) Research. ACT researchers expect truck orders for Classes 5 ...
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As the Chinese economy firms with recent upbeat data, analysts expect a reform package to be unveiled in a key plenum this weekend to bring changes not only to China but to reinvigorate the global economy, which has been in a slow recovery. ...
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U.S. consumers should be able to reclaim control of their personal data from data brokers, websites and other companies, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. Commissioner Julie Brill, a long-time privacy advocate, ...
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Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine. The Tibco Enterprise Runtime ...
Companies are rebranding what they have offered for many years as "big data solutions", Financial Times CIO Christina Scott warned delegates at Computing's Big Data Summit today. Speaking at Computing's flagship event on the topic ...
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Hoping to lure more Apache Hadoop users to its own data analysis services, Google has outfitted BigQuery with the ability to query multiple data tables. "Joining terabyte-sized tables has traditionally been a challenging task for data ...
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DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python's data processing and visualization capabilities for big data jobs. The ...
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Microsoft has announced that its business-oriented Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet computer will debut in the US and Canada in February with a lofty starting price of $US899 ($A851). Microsoft also said that the consumer-focused version of ...
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While the world’s online sharing community is excited about Kim Dotcom’s bold new venture, the file-storage and sharing service Mega, it is already drawing criticism from security researchers, who advise not to trust it. The ...
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). At the launch at BCU yesterday, the university's vice ...
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Data specialists can earn 20% more than other IT professionals and there has been an increase in data roles of 43% in the past year. Research from e-skills UK, sponsored by SAS, suggests demand for big data analysts will double over the ...
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Companies seeking to enable enterprise-wide data analytics need a chief analytics officer (CAO) to lead the way, analysts say. The explosive growth in corporate data over the past few years has created both an opportunity and a challenge ...
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Apple apparently made the right decision to omit NFC from the iPhone 5, given that 68% of U.S. consumers prefer to buy goods using cash and credit cards over mobile wallets, according to a recent consumer survey. "Consumers aren't ready ...
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