In the immortal words of Iron Man, “Lets do this.” This past week was packed with noteworthy developments in the tech sector. Along with a stream of third quarter news from the big boys of tech, we covered a lot of interesting developments spanning the wire from the US military building its own Iron Man, to analytics for all in the realm of Big Data.  Here is a recap of the seven must reads from SiliconANGLE this week.

Is “Analytics for All” Finally at Hand?

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Business intelligence vendors have kind of been like that one “guy” in your friends circle. You know the one who keeps promising to do something but every time the day comes there is a reason why not yet? While exact figures are difficult to come by, by most estimates BI usage rates within the enterprise stall out around 18 percent to 20 percent. The reasons for this lack of success are several, but follow a general lifecycle.

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US Army Building Real-Life Iron Man

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What if I told you that you could get your hands on a high-tech armored suit that makes you nearly invincible, à la Tony Stark in Ironman? Well, not really, but according to multiple reports the US Army military chiefs have just commissioned a program to create a ‘Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit’ (TALOS) for its soldiers of fortune, with the promise of “superhuman strength with greater ballistic protection”.

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Square Cash Raises Security Questions : Too Simple for the Masses?

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This week Square, Jack Dorsey’s mobile payment processing start-up, launched a new feature allowing users to send money with little more than an email address. Properly named Square Cash, the update is targeted at debit card holders in the US, now able to send money using any email service. It isn’t the first to allow payments tied to an email address, but such easiness in sending and receiving money raises a slew of security concerns already plaguing the mobile payments industry.

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Google Readies New Treats for Halloween Event

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Who’s ready to Trick or Treat at the front door of Mountain View search giant Google? I’m not kidding…well sorta. Google is said to be prepping for an event on October 31, 2013, and reports are suggesting that a new phone, a smartwatch and the new version of Android will all be launched at said event. Make sure your Trick or Treat basket is big enough!

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How to Hadoop? | #bigdataNYC CrowdChat Recap

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It was a great week of #bigdataNYC CrowdChats. One of our favorites was the How to Hadoop chat. As far as the enterprise is concerned, Big Data has introduced a big challenge and a bigger opportunity – how to commercialize analytics in a software-led world? As the race to commoditize analytics as a service pushes on, the major obstacle of deliverable solutions becomes unavoidable. So what’s the better model for commercial Hadoop: Open Core or Open Source?

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NoSQL Market Snapshot: Past, Present, and Future

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In the world of “Web 2.0”, SQL databases were the cats meow. But that just didn’t cut the cake anymore. The LAMP stack (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) was the savior of dynamic websites around the world. Even today, MySQL and other SQL databases still play an important role, but there is also another option, particularly for high volume, high traffic websites — Its called NoSQL. Over time, some of them have become very commercially successful offering NoSQL services in particular and Big Data services in general. We take a look at the major players in NoSQL.

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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 16: MtGox Upgrades Its Game

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Who thought the seizure of Ross William Ulbricht aka Dread Pirate Roberts aka DPR was going to be a significant setback for Bitcoin? [raises hand] Well it wasn’t. Bitcoin’s value has seen a banner week with a remarked recovery from a sudden dip in value during the Silk Road raid to see value soar from $140 before to hover around $150 now with peaks near $160. We roundup all of the Bitcoin news for the week from MtGox improves their infrastructure game with upgrades to Dwolla unexpectedly shutters accounts related to virtual currencies.