Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

5 Geolocation APIs You May Not Have Heard Of

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

If you follow the tech space, you’re probably already familiar with the big geolocation services and know that they have APIs – things like Google Maps, Foursquare, Bing Maps and even the Twitter Geolocation API. Here are a few APIs that aren’t …

Game Lab: A New Fund for the Open Web Game Ecosystem

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Boston based venture capital firm Atlas Venture and consulting firm Bocoup have launched Game Lab, a new fund for companies building technologies that will advance the development of video games with HMTL5 on the Open web. These need not be game companies, …

Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich Open Sourced, But is Google Still Open Washing?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Google has released the code Android 4.0, better known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Google delayed releasing the code for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), which criticism from some open source advocates. The acquisition of Motorola furthered fears that Google was backing away from its …

Salesforce.com Acquires Cloud Consulting Company Model Metrics

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

At Dreamforce this year Salesforce.com executives said the company is taking a more consultative role. The company is making good on that promise today with an agreement to acquire Model Metrics, a social cloud consulting services company. Model Metrics handles Salesforce.com deployments …

Survey: Nearly Half of Businesses Received No Leads from Social Media Campaigns

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Last week I mentioned I was a bit grouchy about the failures of social business. Here’s an example of why: 42% of the respondents haven’t generated any leads from their social media campaigns, according to an article by Jeffrey L. Cohen writes …

Hadoop is Ready for Enterprise Says Creator Doug Cutting and Former Bank of America Data Scientist Abhi Mehta

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Abhi Mehta was a managing director for Bank of America. Now he’s running his own big data startup Tresata, which he announced on theCube last February. Mehta returned to theCube at HadoopWorld 2011, where he talked to hosts John Furrier and Dave …

Apache BigTop: The Next Big Thing in Hadoop

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday during his keynote at HadoopWorld 2011, Apache Hadoop creator and Cloudera employee Doug Cutting announced that the next version of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Hadoop (CDH4) will be based on Apache BigTop. But what exactly is BigTop? Eli Collins, one of the …

MapR Launches Free Online Hadoop Training Program

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

As we’ve noted there’s an increasing demand for workers with Apache Hadoop skills. But if you’re a developer or IT operations professional, how can you learn more about Hadoop? MapR, a company that sells its own enterprise distribution of Hadoop (see our …

Yammer Rolls Out New Real-Time Collaboration Features

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Yammer announced a new version that incorporates three new features: Yammer Pages, Yammer Files and Yammer Ticker. Yammer Pages is a document collaboration tool that Yammer CTO Adam Pisoni describes as a cross between Google Docs and a wiki. Actually, it looks …

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Latest from Klint Finley

Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich Open Sourced, But is Google Still Open Washing?

Hadoop is Ready for Enterprise Says Creator Doug Cutting and Former Bank of America Data Scientist Abhi Mehta

Apache BigTop: The Next Big Thing in Hadoop

MapR Launches Free Online Hadoop Training Program

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