Monthly Archives: November 2011
Android, Other Tablets to Chip Away at iPad
Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad commands 83 percent of the U.S. tablet market share today, but that number will drop to 68 percent by 2014 as...
HP TouchPad Second Behind Apple iPad in Market Share: Report
Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad may soon reside in history's dustbin of dead technology, but the webOS-powered tablet can mark at least one small victory before it...
The Big Data Analytics Opportunity
The Big Data Analytics Opportunity
Every day people create the equivalent of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data from sensors, mobile devices, online transactions and social...
Apple iPad Is a PC and Nothing Less: 10 Reasons Why
Apple's iPad is often the subject of debate when research firms release PC market share figures. Some research firms say the iPad should not...
I Guess Android Really Is a Hive of Scum and Villainy
We've had a running joke in the office about the Android platform being a hive of scum and villainy, but the latest quarterly threat...
In the Lab: Taming Tweets with Talend Open Studio 5
It's been a couple of years since I reviewed Talend Open Studio, and with a major new point release from Talend in the works,...
Back-Up, Disaster Recovery, Business Recovery: Two Out of Three Is Bad
The world is growing more dangerous every day. There appears to be more devastation from natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and tsunamis...
Amazon Kindle Fire 8.9-, 10.1-Inch Versions in Development: Report
Whether Amazon's Kindle Fire proves to be the iPad challenger expected by pundits and analysts, the next version of the tablet may already be...
FCC Chairman Poised to Decide Against ATandT, T-Mobile License Transfer
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has begun circulating a draft order that would refer the proposed transfer of T-Mobile's licenses to AT&T to...
Weak Security Prevails With 12345 Among Most Common Passwords for 2011
The 25 most popular passwords in 2011 include such gems as "password" and "123456," according to an analysis of various lists and databases dumped...