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Hadoop meets Google Docs: Analytics made easy

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 16:00

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Categories: IT General

Oracle hasn't killed Java -- but there's still time

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

Oracle's last two crap quarterly earnings can most definitely be described as the chickens coming home to roost.

Categories: IT General

Beyond iBeacons: 7 cool uses of beacons you may not expect

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00
There's much more to beacons than tracking customer visits and offering coupons in retail stores Dek:  There's much more to beacons than tracking customer visits and offering coupons in retail stores External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/160948
Categories: IT General

Beyond iBeacons: 7 cool uses of beacons you may not expect

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00
There's much more to beacons than tracking customer visits and offering coupons in retail stores Dek:  There's much more to beacons than tracking customer visits and offering coupons in retail stores External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/160948
Categories: IT General

The battle against stupid software patents is on

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

How dumb are all-too-many software patents? "Spectacularly dumb," says Vera Ranieri, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an advocacy group for freer flow of digital information.

Categories: IT General

Oracle hasn't killed Java -- but there's still time

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

Oracle's last two crap quarterly earnings can most definitely be described as the chickens coming home to roost.

Categories: IT General

Adobe, Intel want in on Famo.us mobile app magic

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

Credit: Pavel Khorenyan

Categories: IT General

Where your personal data goes when you're not looking

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

What businesses know about any given individual is a lot. But what are companies doing with that data? Not as much as you might think -- at least not yet. Companies are getting more sophisticated, however.

Categories: IT General

Beyond iBeacons: 7 cool uses of beacons you may not expect

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00
There's much more to beacons than tracking customer visits and offering coupons in retail stores Dek:  There's much more to beacons than tracking customer visits and offering coupons in retail stores External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/160948
Categories: IT General

The battle against stupid software patents is on

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

How dumb are all-too-many software patents? "Spectacularly dumb," says Vera Ranieri, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an advocacy group for freer flow of digital information.

Categories: IT General

Oracle hasn't killed Java -- but there's still time

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

Oracle's last two crap quarterly earnings can most definitely be described as the chickens coming home to roost.

Categories: IT General

Adobe, Intel want in on Famo.us mobile app magic

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

Credit: Pavel Khorenyan

Categories: IT General

Where your personal data goes when you're not looking

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:00

What businesses know about any given individual is a lot. But what are companies doing with that data? Not as much as you might think -- at least not yet. Companies are getting more sophisticated, however.

Categories: IT General

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile face Net neutrality complaint

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 21:55

Digital rights group Public Knowledge will file Net neutrality complaints against each of the four largest mobile carriers in the United States over their practice of throttling some traffic, in some cases on so-called unlimited data plans.

Categories: IT General

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile face Net neutrality complaint

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 21:55

Digital rights group Public Knowledge will file Net neutrality complaints against each of the four largest mobile carriers in the United States over their practice of throttling some traffic, in some cases on so-called unlimited data plans.

Categories: IT General

It's official: Windows 8.1 Update 2 is a dud

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 13:21

Windows 8.1 Update 2 will drop next week, and it's officially a nonevent.

Categories: IT General

It's official: Windows 8.1 Update 2 is a dud

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 13:21

Windows 8.1 Update 2 will drop next week, and it's officially a nonevent.

Categories: IT General

Review: WordPress 4 plugs in, turns on, grows up

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 12:00

Software often evolves to serve purposes beyond what its makers intended. WordPress stands as a classic example.

Categories: IT General

The Azure-Active Directory connection just got easier

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 12:00

On InfoWorld this week, Matt Asay questioned some of the bold comments from the Microsoft camp about Azu

Categories: IT General

Overpromised, underdelivered -- and the joke's on them

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 08/06/2014 - 12:00

The rock-bottom bid price should've raised a red flag. The database issues should've made our company reconsider. Instead, we soldiered on, but no Band-Aid could save this IT project.

Categories: IT General
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