In 2012, the High Park Fire in Northern Colorado smoldered as a small fire for a day and a half before erupting into a firestorm that consumed 87k acres of forest. Could it have been detected by a drone when it was...
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Facebook did the same thing when it acquired Instagram, and that service is still going strong. I get the impression that this complaint may be more for consumer awareness than to elicit actual action. As you mentioned,...
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Bglynn, I know there is frustration in some circles about schools being more geared for female learning styles vs. male. I assume that's what you're referring to when saying the world is "more women oriented." It's true...
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We'll hear more from Koehler on the predictive part of this implementation at the March 31-April InformationWeek Conference in Las Vegas. The SUN platform was an essential staring point because it provides so much more data...
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Google has built up good will with the Android dev community. Who would be Google's main rival to dominate wearables ecosystem? Apple? I am interested to hear from our Tom Claburn, an early Google Glass tester with a dev...
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Law enforcement use of drones could create plenty of controversy during the next few years. What other uses worry you on a privacy level, readers?
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Does anyone else want to share fun, unusual things that folks can do in Las Vegas? Or have you tried any of the suggestions above?
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Point #2 is real, not only for many companies targeting IT industry customers, but also for retail, travel industries, etc. Anyone working at a company where you feel you're making great strides targeting the next generation...
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"that had been dormant for more than a year."Try three months.Why no mention of their dropping ymail and rocketmail addresses? It happened as part of disabling the third party logins.Why no mention of their requiring a cell...
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I'm not so sure it's a fine line. I think the two are very different, although folks probably confuse them all too often. I would place a significant distinction between customer support and what we refer to as operations...
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The issue is really a "scoreboard" one. $30 billion RDBMS market; $0 billion NoSQL market. I agree that the analytical database space has shown more progression, but I really see that as a result of how intractable...
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There's a fine line here between what counts as human middleware and what counts as great customer service that sets you apart from competition. Healthcare is a great example of an industry struggling to figure this balance...
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Does that limit just the OEMs or does it lock customers to Bing too? If it just limits OEMs to Bing, that's fair. If the customer doesn't have a choice, it's not going to fly. Microsoft has thoroughly missed...
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I'm hearing that some banks see Hadoop as a tool in meeting regulatory requirements. Banks are having to do stress testing often enough that they need the speed of Hadoop to meet the demand.
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Excellent coverage of all things database. And, yes, the most popular databases of 10 years ago are still market leaders today, but Netezza and Greenplum were just getting the ball rolling on what is now a...
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@PDXnativeson So you're saying Oregon did a superior job of vendor and product evaluation, which led them to select Oracle foundation technologies as the basis of the state health insurance exchange? So where do you see...
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Yes, the state bought some substantial commercial-off-the-shelf systems for database, CRM, and other functions as the basis for the health insurance exchange, but these were to be treated as components of the grand system....
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After the Snowden's leaks, it has obvious that no feature of our digital life is secret. Your messages, photos, videos, whereabouts and preferences leave a lasting blueprint for the NSA. Tor is mainly used to obscure personality...
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Great captions! Keep'em coming. The contest closes March 18.
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