Big Data’s Use In Colleges Much has been written about how Big Data and cloud computing can be used for diversifying educational learning platforms. For example, Big Data is being [...]
Ransomware IT security company KnowBe4 has issued a warning regarding a new strain of ransomware called VirRansom, which “utilizes both ransomware and parasitic virus features,” according to a statement released [...]
Big Data’s Place in the Legal System Big Data has found its niche in the legal system as well. Some 20 states have implemented data-driven evaluation of future crime risk [...]
Captcha Madness Could this be the end of the annoying squiggly text? Google has announced an upgrade to the concept of Captcha, the challenging text identification quiz that humans have [...]
PaaS vs Docker Docker started as just a software container on top of a Linux operating system which seemed like a simple optimization for a fat hypervisor. Its disruptive force [...]
The Internet of Things By 2020, Gartner estimates that the Internet of Things (IoT) will generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion worldwide. It’s an astoundingly large figure given that the [...]
Amazon Elements Amazon has taken one more giant leap in its ongoing quest to redefine the retail world. This time it has gone into private labels. It was announced last [...]
Internet of Things and beyond… According to IDC, the upcoming year is going to be a busy one for the Internet of Things, in many cases filling and stretching the [...]
Does Proprietary Data Hinder Research? A widely-discussed article at Newsweek about the ‘data problem in medicine’ sheds light on the fact that doctors don’t have access to data about the [...]
Not Everyone Buys It. The new status symbol of the rat race is the personal device. Not the company issued laptop, but the device, whether smartphone, tablet or laptop that [...]
Will Apple or Google Win the Battle? The Apple versus Google war has already raged across PCs, smartphones, tablets, wearable tech and software. The latest battlefield looks set to be [...]
High Cost of Storage Petabytes don’t come cheap. High-volume file transporter Hightail found this out recently and have chosen to switch providers to keep pace. Based in San Francisco, Hightail [...]
E-Cigarettes Yet more evidence that smoking is bad for you: A brand of e-cigarettes manufactured in China, has been found to carry malicious software that can be implanted into a computer [...]
