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EnterpriseDB Rolls Out Postgres Security Tools
We’ve heard it already, security in the cloud has become an important thing so when EnterpriseDB has released a new security suite for PostgreSQL our ears perked up. Notably because we’ve been watching EMC and their move to enable the open-source cloud—to do so, they acquired Greenplum who happen to leverage Postgres to realize this. ...
Scott Yara of Greenplum on Why Big Data is…the Next Big Thing
For a long while, computing power, storage, and network speed were bottlenecks to building an empire of data within the Information Technology sector—we’ve certainly always had the information, but the technology to harness it still needed its internal-combustion engine revolution. All that was almost a decade ago: now we’re not just swimming in storage and ...
Strata Keynote Sees Data Marketplaces for the Future
Taking in the keynote from the Strata has felt a lot like watching what amounted to a advertising blitz—each of the speakers took less than ten minutes a piece and focused on an individual industry sector rather than outlining things to come. One sector that caught our eye was Zane Adam’s segment on the deluge ...
IPv4 Going Extinct, It’s Way Beyond Time We Started Migrating to IPv6
“You have reached the end of the Internet. Please go back.” According to the Internet Address and Naming Agency (IANA), which hands out blocks of Internet addresses, they will be allocating the last seven remaining blocks this month. The IPv4 address set has over 4 billion addresses and it’s taken us almost 40 years to ...
Apple Ejected Sony E-Reader App Because They Want a Cut of Sales
Now that Apple has responded in relation to nixing the Sony E-Reader app on iOS devices things have gotten a little bit weirder from the initial coverage. This particular row started on Tuesday morning when The New York Times published a story about how Apple had rejected Sony’s app while leaving other e-readers alone—such as ...
Apple Tightens In-App Purchase Policy, Shoulders Out Sony E-Reader
Reports of what Apple just did with their policy tightening and how that affected Sony’s e-book Reader seem extremely sketchy right now, but the gist of it is that Apple has tightened its rules on in-app purchases. Sony has appeared to say that Apple has rejected their e-book app for the iPhone—the Android version, however, ...
Real-time Translator Device: How We Could Do It
Francis Tan over at The Next Web has picked up on a concept device from Samsung called “The Real Translator.” It supposedly works by holding up the device equipped with a transparent AMOLED while facing the person you are talking to. The device will then interpret whatever is spoken in real time and give a ...
Holographic Airport Staff Introduced at London Luton Airport
Well, not holograms per se, but it’s the buzzword being bandied about by every media outlet discussing the innovation so it’s in the title here. The actual technology rolled out at London Luton Airport is a sort of back-projection onto a translucent surface, providing a free-standing appearance of a 3D image. In this case, a ...
Microsoft Brings the Cloud Out of the Internet and Into the Home
It’s the stuff of science fiction, but personalizing our environments and living spaces using our technology is the mast that we hoist our civilization on. The cloud has been big on virtualization and separating our data from our home computers, divorcing it from big hardware and allowing any computer terminal to become a window into ...
Nokia Takes Yet Another Blow, Android Outshines Symbian in Q4
Right now, Symbian OS is staring down the barrel of a loaded Android smartphone. It looks like the record in total mobile sales that Nokia’s Symbian once held has been overwhelmed by Android sales. The last quarter of 2010, Android shipped just 6% more handsets, beating the record by a nose. According to some research, ...
