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Cerego Tracks Your Brain Data Without Implanting A Chip [BETA Invites]
What if you could tap into your brain data without implanting a chip? A startup called Cerego is looking to pick your brain with the power of visualization. The newest company to take on big data exited stealth today with a new web app that leverages visualization and memory science to accelerate the learning process ...
Has HP Cleared Autonomy’s Name with New Product Outlook?
This week was an important one for HP, coming off a controversial bout of bad PR after CEO Meg Whitman revealed a massive $8.8 billion write-down from last year’s acquisition of Autonomy. At HP Discover in Frankfurt Germany, the hardware manufacturer gained an opportunity to prove the true worth of Autonomy and several other acquisitions, ...
How Big Data Helped LiquidPlanner Build Technology Ahead of Its Time [Q&A with Liz Pearce]
I was first introduced to LiquidPlanner at DEMO in 2008, strolling the floor of the banquet hall where dozens of startups had set up booths. LiquidPlanner was one of the handful of companies I remember from the event, and one of the few that’s survived the recession, the mobile revolution and the transition to data-driven ...
Network Revolution Claims HP, Autonomy, Cisco and Others
For many of us this week’s been abbreviated, with plans to spend time with family for Thanksgiving. But even as the holiday season kicks into gear, the business world takes little time to rest, though there’s plenty of time to reflect. Perhaps one of the most resonating developments this week was uncovered during Hewlett-Packard’s earnings ...
Simple Architecture & Innovation Heed the Nature of Analytics. [Q&A with ScaleOut CEO Bill Bain]
One of the most puzzling developments in big data is the analytics piece — we’ve figured out some useful ways to store and access hordes of data, but how does one efficiently get analytics tools onto the server? Having ready access to data is crucial to real-time analytics in particular, where an in-memory solution is necessary. It’s ...
Big Data: A Big Problem for Civil Rights
When it comes to the business of big data, a growing number of companies are profiting from the collection, storage and analysis of user information. Take Axciom for example. Last year, the company registered $1.1 billion in sales for data-driven services in analytics. Much of these data sets are part our digital footprints, generated increasingly by the ...
Stiff is for Martinis. Skava Founder Talks Flexibility for Mobile
Just this morning Nokia revealed its ambitious plans for HERE, its mapping service, with cross-platform support and a penchant for the very device-compatible HTML5. It’s a flexible plan on Nokia’s part, setting the phone-maker’s sights on software and accessibility. That mentality is something Sudha Varadarajan would appreciate. As the founder of mobile development firm Skava, Varadarajan sees the necessity for ...
SugarSync Takes on Dropbox, Google Drive with Social Cloud Revamp
Cloud-based collaboration provider SugarSync just rolled out a major overhaul to its service, introducing a redesigned interface and a number of new features. The revamp is an effort to gain more of the consumer cloud market, which may not be as technical as enterprise cloud users or early adopters with tools like SugarSync, Dropbox or ...
Tableau’s Data Democratization: The New BI
Organizations around the world, cutting across every industry, are learning how to supplement their “gut feeling” with facts and figures, bringing new meaning to their business leaders’ decision-making processes. Technological advancements that can take into account historical data, internal transactions and employee logs have ushered in a new era of data analysis, and it’s empowering ...
For Pristine Logic, We Must Separate Data from the App Layer, says BDNA CEO Constantin Delivanis
We’re in the midst of a massive technological shift, where our electronics and their software are becoming self-aware. It’s a humanistic trait that characterized our emergence from the age of Enlightenment into Industrialization, discovering a common language in biology, chemistry and physics. It ushered in a new world of understanding, reshaping the way we think ...
