As “dark fiber” is to the telecommunications industry so, also, is “dark data” to many businesses and organizations. These vast pools of untapped, largely unprotected data simply sit there, doing not much of anything for the bottom line. Isaac Sacolik’s Dark Data: A Business Definition describes it as “data that …
Image by Thinkstock Whether we talk about football, car racing or sailing, advances in the capture, storage and analysis of data are affecting just about every aspect of sports. Data allows athletes to train better and more effectively and it allows teams to alter their in-game decision-making based on what …
A little more than a year ago, Conservation International (CI) was wrestling with a mammoth big data problem. The nonprofit environmental organization’s mission is to protect nature and its biodiversity, but monitoring and analyzing the health of species — particularly in the tropical forests that half of all plants and animals …
Within the federal government, the shift toward virtualization and cloud computing is already well underway, but agency and industry officials warn that those migrations invite new security considerations, particularly in the form of insider threats. Eric Chiu, president of the cloud and virtualization security firm HyTrust, notes the familiar list …
Amazon Web Services will be updating a substantial number of its cloud servers, and customers are recommended to re-launch their instances in the coming days, according to AWS consultants. Amazon has not said why the reboot is happening, but AWS watchers believe it is to patch a security issue. The …
“Image by Shutterstock This month the FBI pronounced its powerful new crime fighting weapon — the Next Generation Identification — is at full operational capability. NGI replaced the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), the Bureau’s longstanding repository for fingerprints. But that’s not all it does. NGI uses a variety …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based software company for having inadequate internal accounting controls over its financial reporting, which resulted in misstated revenues in public filings. An SEC investigation found that JDA Software Group Inc. failed to properly recognize and report revenue from certain software license …
Tim Cook must be furious. You can imagine the tension among those who’ve been called into his office in the last 24-hours. Apple’s leader is no less demanding and passionate than his predecessor — he’s just more likely to reward those who work as hard as he does. And when …
Facebook knows that many of its users are concerned with how their content is shared and has taken steps to simplify the process by which users can manage and control who they’re sharing with. Earlier this month, Facebook released a new privacy checkup tool that popped up when users visited …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced suspensions in trading for nine different penny stocks as part of an ongoing enforcement initiative to combat microcap fraud. Trading suspensions provide the SEC with a means to immediately neutralize potential threats to investors when questions have arisen pertaining to the accuracy and …
Workday has made good on a promise it issued a year ago with the release Thursday of Workday Student Recruiting, the first in a series of apps it's developing for higher education institutions. read more
Известное издание в Тайване выдвинуло предположение о том, что Apple покажет новое поколение планшетного устройства iPad Air уже в следующем месяце. Как сообщает источник, производственные мощности были запущены еще в самом начале осени, поставлять устройство начнут ровно через месяц, в октябре. Из иных источников известно, что вместе с производством 9,7-дюймового iPad Air …
Despite years of lead-time, many businesses had to scramble this year when Microsoft ended support for its incredibly popular Windows XP desktop operating system. The disruption caused by the end of support for Windows XP may be nothing compared with the disruption caused by the end of support for Windows …
Apple has recommended to users of its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones to reinstall iOS 8 after an update Wednesday led to complaints of lost cellular service and functionality on the Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor. The company provided instructions to affected users on its support site …
Мировому сообществу недавно был презентован новый смартфон iPhone 6 и его версия с улучшенными характеристиками iPhone 6 Plus. В продажи телефоны поступили сравнительно недавно и уже побили множество рекордов, по предзаказам, продажам и прочим критериям. Пользователи уже успели поверхностно оценить устройство, и получить первый опыт его использования, однако впечатления не …
One of the great joys of installing a new operating system is scrutinizing the features born with it. iOS 8 has no shortage of new and enhanced features—Continuity, QuickType, voice notes appended to iMessages, Family Sharing, and Spotlight improvements. But it can be just as satisfying to step back and …
We have seen the future, and it’s square. At least, that’s what BlackBerry would have us believe. Early reactions to its new Passport smartphone are… Well, read on to find out. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers gettaloada the unity aspect ratio. <!– Not to mention: XXXXXXXXXXXX… –> Your humble blogwatcher curated …
It’s the early 1980s, and students at this university are still running their programs on a mainframe, reports a grad student pilot fish working in the computer center. “All jobs were identified by a three-character user ID and a three-character job name on a line of Job Control Language at …
William Theaker (Samsung Galaxy Nexus); Apple (iPhone 6) Apple’s iPhone 6 has been met with effusive praise from the tech press and long lines wherever it is sold. But many in the tech industry are accusing Apple of copying many features found in Android phones and the operating system they run. There …
Мировой кризис спровоцировал неизвестные волнения на валютном рынке. В то время как во всех странах вводится запрет на использование виртуальной валюты под названием Bitcoin, некоторые субъекты рынка наоборот способствуют увеличению ее оборота потому как видят в данной валюте перспективу роста и дальнейшего господства над другими денежными знаками. В качестве примера …
Apple has recommended to users of its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones to reinstall iOS 8 after an update Wednesday led to complaints of lost cellular service and functionality on the Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor. read more
Deutsche Post DHL will launch soon regular drone flights to deliver emergency medicines and other goods to the North Sea island of Juist. read more
Deutsche Post DHL will launch soon regular drone flights to deliver emergency medicines and other goods to the North Sea island of Juist. Described as a research project, the flight by the “DHL parcelcopter” is the first time in Europe that a flight by an unmanned aircraft will be operated …
Apple released, then quickly pulled, its first update for iOS 8 after customers flooded its support forum with reports that their iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones could no longer connect to a cellular network. read more
There's something inherently scary about robots acting together to accomplish a goal. read more
Гаджеты Apple неоднократно подвергались различным испытаниям на прочность, что ввиду их большой популярности весьма полезно. В то же время, лишь небольшое число потенциальных покупателей обращают внимание на подобные тесты, в большинстве своем лишь отмечая для себя те или иные особенности использования данных устройств. …