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Hadoop Seeing a Surge of New Products at EMC World 2011 from Greenplum to Brisk
EMC World 2011 is casting the umbra of Big Data and the Cloud over Las Vegas today and Hadoop has taken its usual front-and-center stage in the spotlight. Amid announcements of EMC’s own addition to the Hadoop ecology of products, several others have also made their debut including products that enhance storage, delivery, and software ...
Happy Cloud Brings the Power of the Cloud to Video Game Downloads
With the advent of higher bandwidth and fat pipe Internet connections to residences we’ve been seeing the rise of streaming for everything. It can affect more than just TV shows and movies, but also video games. Gaming-on-demand is the Holy Grail for impulse buys of interactive media from the Internet. The usual video game purchase ...
PlayStation Network Still Down, Ups the Ante for Users with Identity Theft Insurance
Thousands of TVs and controllers that would otherwise be playing Call of Duty and Killzone are still stranded as this weekend Sony delayed the restart of gaming services on PlayStation Network yet again. The gaming network and console developer appears to be playing it as safe as possible with the secret data of its customers ...
QLogic Earnings Call Shows Symbiosis Between FCoE and Silicon Products
Networking and storage technology solutions provider QLogic made their earnings call recently (transcript posted on Seeking Alpha) in the rough seas of the cloud and they’re still looking very good. The company has been pressing into the Fiber Channel switch market as well as a very real silicon angle involving the Sandy Bridge processor. CEO ...
Sony Still Buried Under Investigation of PlayStation Network Breach
As more layers are uncovered in the investigation of the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Online user-information breach things continue to get more interesting. The United States Congress reached out to Sony, asking them to provide explanations of what they were doing about the breach and why it took them so long to inform their ...
Apple Addresses Location Tracking with iOS 4.3.3 Software Update
It’s been a hot week for Apple and Google when it comes to tracking the locations of customers who use their smartphones. Almost two weeks ago, security researchers in the UK made it widely known that iOS devices track users everywhere they go. This revelation (which wasn’t really a revelation to much of the security ...
Google’s Location Services Trigger Raid on South Korean Offices
It looks like lawsuits and more lawsuits aren’t the only thing that smartphone service carriers like Apple and Google need to worry about—in South Korea it’s lead to a police raid of one of Google’s offices. According to an article in eWEEK what triggered this raid by South Korean police happens to be a hyperlocal ...
Nokia Waiting for the Right Time to Enter Tablet Marketplace
In a market that is saturated with basically all the same product what’s the best way to get sold? Stand out. At least that’s what Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, believes will be how his company will make their mark when they go to market with their first tablet. An article on PCMag picks out ...
Data Loss from PlayStation Network Extended to Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment went temporarily offline Monday after it was discovered that they also lost customer records in a hack that attacked the PlayStation Network. In this latest string of video game and entertainment related information loss, it continues to send ripples through consumer awareness of how vulnerable their information can be online. The initial ...
Android WiFi Takes Blows in Tracking Class-Action Lawsuit and Tether-Wars
A class-action lawsuit has finally emerged from complaints against Google Android over handsets tracking customer locations. This seemed only inevitable after Apple found itself on the receiving end of its own lawsuit involving the furtive tracking of users. The differences between the two devices seem to be that iOS doesn’t send tracking data to Apple, ...
