Alex Williams

Alex Williams is an editor for SiliconAngle and lives a charmed life in Portland, Or.

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Why App Management Is Becoming A Differentiator for Services Providers

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

This may be a big year for the IBM Rational group. On a macro level, the market is adapting to a new app culture. Tens of thousands of people have taken up coding. It’s a sign that the “second economy,” has slowly …

Is Salesforce.com Planning a Facebook Style Timeline for Chatter?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is just bonkers about Facebook. Listen to one of his keynotes and you’ll get the picture. Dion Hinchcliffe did the play-by-play at last year’s event. Here’s his take on the action: “….Entering new era, an exciting new era”. …

Comparing Google and Facebook on the Night of the Iowa Caucus

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Both Google and Facebook have more data about people’s political views than practically any two companies in the world. How they use that data points to the deep differences between these two Web giants on this night of the Iowa caucus and the …

The Drive by Download and Mobile Botnet Seen As Top Threats for 2012

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Kaspersky Labs has issued a report detailing the top cybersecurity threats for 2012. It’s a report worth reading. Nation states will develop new forms of cyber attacks. Logic dumps will proliferate. Mobile drive by downloads will increase and botnets will not just be …

5 Big Data Startups to Watch in 2012

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Big data, without question, is a 2011 buzz word finalist. But like all metaphors, it communicates a universal understanding that data dominates our lives and will increasingly do so in the years ahead. How can you deny that a company’s success will depend …

Top 10 Developer and Engineering Skills Employers Will Look for Going into 2012

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Job listings give a view into company strategy and the direction of the overall market. Indeed is a job listing service that provides excellent analysis of top job skills. For our purposes, we looked at Indeed’s top 10 listings to give a …

A New RSS Reader With No Sign Up Form – A Google Reader Alternative?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Google changed the Google Reader interface this Fall and scaled back development. Since then a backlash erupted among those who had used it as their primary RSS reader. In particular they missed the “shared” items feature, now replaced by Google+. The changes forced many Google Reader …

The 28th Chaos Communication Congress: A Look at the Future of Hacking Food, Society and Ourselves

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

It’s nearing the end of 2011 and a certain reality is emerging about the years ahead. Computers are not just desktops or smartphones. They have found their way into just about everything we know of. And it’s increasingly apparent that we have …

The Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Data visualization is emerging as the best way to understand the massive data streams and the events in our lives that shape who we are, where we live and the communities that define our interactions. Last week, Flowing Data, one of the …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

Why App Management Is Becoming A Differentiator for Services Providers

Comparing Google and Facebook on the Night of the Iowa Caucus

The Drive by Download and Mobile Botnet Seen As Top Threats for 2012

5 Big Data Startups to Watch in 2012

Top 10 Developer and Engineering Skills Employers Will Look for Going into 2012

A New RSS Reader With No Sign Up Form – A Google Reader Alternative?

The 28th Chaos Communication Congress: A Look at the Future of Hacking Food, Society and Ourselves

The Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year

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