Essence of Bitcoin is its fees are independent of the amount being sent, which makes it attractive for heavy transactions, but despite of this fact, the use of Bitcoin in the retail and commercial marketplace is relatively...
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This blog reminded me of Investigative Report on the U.S. National Security Issues Posed by Chinese Telecommunications Companies Huawei and ZTE wherein they publicly announced Huawei and ZTE for failing to reveal the...
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According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, "Eyewear Market (Spectacles, Contact Lenses, Plano Sunglasses) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth and Forecast, 2012 - 2018,"...
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The major advantage of RDBMS is its ACID compliance capability. By loosing this rule, NoSQL DB is more powerful in handling big data with large variety. I do agree on the title of this post - the outstanding characteristics...
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From this post I do not see really cutting-edge technologies. This acquisition enhanced the capability of Saleforce.com in business data analytics area but there is no magic behind. For sure the analytics technology will...
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This discussion on Patient portal once again proves Healthcare sector's reluctance towards technology. other sectors like, Retail, Banking, Education have all embraced portal systems for efficient communication and transaction....
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Thomas, I agree that data needs to be basically plug-and-play for many people to take advantage of it. But remember a lot of devices will just be talking to other machines; they won't necessarily be bugging you with data....
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True but I bet most of those xp machines are on the internet. We have some equipment that runs on software that needs XP. We also have one that runs 98. None are connected to the internet though.
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Yes, Paul. I was thinking about the security issues when I wrote the word "unusable." But, there is one place where XP can go on forever, and that is if an XP machine is the brains behind some instrument or device that has...
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You may want to read this: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/09/apple-is-automatically-pushing-out-ios-7-to-holdout-devices This is what I am basing my post on. The actual upgrade was not forced, but if you...
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I'd be curious to know how much time you spend dealing with running data and configuring gear to deal with it? And what meaningful change has resulted from having such data? I've run for years on a treadmill and I just don't...
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Let's remember that a couple of years ago, both Gartner and IDC were predicting that Win Phone would have a marketshare of 21% in 2017. Now, that's down to 10%.
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I'll play devil's advocate here: What about the good that can come from companies tracking your data: personalization, etc.? I wonder where people draw the line. How much is too much?
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Cyberattack Tuesday?
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The flow of the site has been improved. I echo the sentiment of simplifying the user experience so the tech team can focus on security and stability. However, beyond that, we're still not addressing the fact that health...
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But to be more than a distant third option in the mobile race, it needs support from enterprises and consumers.
^^Hit the nail on the head.
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I'm reminded of when Google withdrew from the Chinese search market.
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That's a show I'd watch.
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Drone Dynasty. I smell a reality show already.
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InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
2014 Analytics, BI, and Information Management Survey
The desire to simplify data analytics and business intelligence has been gaining steam for years. But this year, interest in visual data analysis tools came to the forefront, and the use of Hadoop and NoSQL databases made slow but steady gains. While established companies like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and SAS are still the top dogs for BI and analytics, smaller and nimbler vendors like Tableau and QlikTech are forcing the giants to innovate.
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