CloudOn 4.0 Brings Microsoft Office To Android Phones

CloudOn, the popular free mobile productivity app that gives its users access to Microsoft Office on their smartphones and tablets, was only available on iOS and for Android tablets like the Nexus 7 until now. Starting today, however, Android smartphone users, too, will be able to use the company’s service to create, review, edit and share their Office documents from devices like the Galaxy Nexus 4 and Galaxy Note. CloudOn tells us that it is...

Read More

Google Launches $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700 3:2 12.85″ Touchscreen, Core i5 CPU, 1TB Of Google Drive Storage & Optional LTE

After a few weeks of rumors, Google just announced the latest device in its Chromebook lineup: the Chromebook Pixel. Unlike previous Chromebook versions, the Pixel is aimed at power users who fully live in the cloud. The device features an impressive array of hardware specs. It has a 12.85 inch high-density 2560×1700 screen (that’s 4.3 million pixels) with a 3:2 aspect ratio, an Intel Core i5 processor and a whopping 1 terabyte of free storage...

Read More

Eight Answers About Predictive Analytics

With my book on the topic releasing this week, here's an interview in which I answer eight questions about predictive analytics: 1. What is predictive analytics? 2. Why is predictive analytics important? 3. Isn't prediction impossible? 4. Is predictive analytics a big data thing? 5. Did Nate Silver use predictive analytics to forecast Obama's elections? 6. Does predictive analytics invade privacy? 7. What are the hottest trends in predictive analytics? 8. What is the coolest thing predictive analytics has done? Original articl...

Read More

Big Data: A Natural Solution for Disaster Relief

By Mike Smitheman, VP of Marketing at GoodData Last Friday, a 10,000-ton meteor sped into northern Russia at 40,000 miles per hour. The resulting shock wave hurt an estimated 1,000 people. While scientists were concerned about another, more massive meteor called DA14, the Russian one seemingly slipped under the radar, catching experts off-guard. With big data as common in science as it is everywhere else, could we have...

Read More

A Data Scientist Investigates the Belgian Municipal Elections

After the provincial and municipal elections of the 14th of October in Belgium, media reported several cases of candidates who had received more preference votes than what normally would have been expected. The additional votes were attributed to a problem with the touch screens of the voting machines. When voters pressed too long when selecting a party, the system would sometimes register a preference vote for the candidate whose name appeared...

Read More

Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview Build For Nexus Devices Now Available

As promised the Canonical Team has released the Developer preview builds of Ubuntu Touch for the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and the Nexus 10. The developer preview builds are exactly that, developer preview, and are nowhere near good enough to be used as a daily driver. Before you jump the gun and flash the Ubuntu Developer Preview build on your Nexus device, make sure that your device is supported. At the moment, the CDMA variants...

Read More

Preparing for Analytics 3.0

Analytics are not a new idea. The tools have been used in business since the mid-1950s. To be sure, there has been an explosion of interest in the topic, but for the first half-century of activity, the way analytics were pursued in most organizations didn’t change that much. Let’s call the initial era Analytics 1.0. This period, which stretched 55 years from 1954 (when UPS initiated the first corporate analytics group) to about 2009, was characterized by the following attributes: Data sources were relatively small and structured, and came...

Read More

Infosys luanches tool for data analysis

BANGALORE: Infosys has launched BigDataEdge to radically simplify the complex task of analyzing Big Data to discover relevant information. By empowering business users to rapidly develop insights from vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, better business decisions can be made in near real-time. With Infosys BigDataEdge, enterprises can reduce the time taken to extract information by up to 40% and generate insights up to eight times faster. The product includes: a rich visual interface with more than 50 customizable dashboards...

Read More

Infosys’ new platform pulls big data 40% faster

Infosys on Wednesday formally launched what it says is one of the most comprehensive solutions in the big data space. The solution, called BigDataEdge, allows enterprises to easily bring together not just the organized or structured data, but also a vast variety of unstructured data (information contained in, say, emails, document files, contracts with customers or vendors, blogs, social media, call centre voice records, videos). It then enables them to glean insights from all of this data, and take appropriate action. One major element...

Read More

Red Hat's Big Data strategy: A full stack approach

Summary: Open source vendor Red Hat announces a Big Data strategy that spans the full enterprise software stack, both in the public cloud and on-premise. This morning, open source software and infrastructure provider Red Hat announced its Big Data strategy.  ZDNet's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols covered the news earlier today: The very occurence of Red Hat's announcement, as well as its multiple facets, marks a new phase for Big Data: one where it has become a matter of mainstream IT infrastructural and app dev concern. It ain't just...

Read More

I.B.M. to Take Big Step Into Mobile

For I.B.M., mobile computing has come of age. At least, smartphones and tablets may be popular enough to make I.B.M. several billion dollars. The company is announcing a major mobile initiative involving software, services and partnerships with other large vendors. I.B.M. plans to deploy consultants to give companies mobile shopping strategies, write mobile apps, crunch mobile data and manage a company’s own mobile assets securely. Thousands of employees have been trained in mobile technologies, I.B.M. says, and corporate millions will ...

Read More

Google launches competition to pick 'Glass Explorers' test group

Google founder Sergey Brin wearing a Google Glass prototype. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters Google is preparing to release 8,000 test pairs of its long-awaited glasses to carefully selected winners of an online competition who will have to pay $1,500 for the privilege. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google said it was looking for "bold, creative individuals" to help test Glass, the official...

Read More

When Do You Take Off Your Google Glasses?

Google Glasses will soon be available to the public, according to the company. Are we ready? The wearable computer will let you search as you walk, navigate, record what you see and share it, translate and more. We haven't yet figured out which pictures to share on Facebook or how to make sure we don't tweet while drunk. Now we are going to have to figure out a whole new set of social rules. Do you take off your Google Glasses in the bathroom, lest folks think you are recording? Is it acceptable to Google someone while you are speaking to...

Read More

This Company Will Only Accept 'Twitter Resumes' For A Six-Figure

By now, many employers think that who you are online is more revealing of your character than a résumé. Some companies have decided to stop accepting paper résumés altogether. "The paper résumé is dead," Vala Afshar, chief marketing officer at Enterasys," told Bruce Horovitz at USA Today. "The Web is your résumé. Social networks are your mass references." For the next month, Enterasys — a wireless network provider — will be considering applicants for a six-figure senior social media position, but no paper résumés...

Read More

Microsoft's Hotmail To Be Killed By Early Summer, Replaced By Outlook

Still got a Hotmail address? You'll be pleasantly surprised in a few months is finally taking Hotmail off the life-support machine it's been wheezing away on for so long. The reason? After six months, the software giant's Outlook has been such a howling success--60 million users in six months according to my former colleague, NBC's Wilson Rothman--that the decision was not a hard one to make. The original email system of the masses until it was usurped by an email service that actually worked (take a bow, Gmail) Hotmail has been limping...

Read More

Yahoo goes social, teams with Facebook for site revamp

* Mayer's biggest overhaul to Yahoo's Internet shop window * Will import data on Facebook users, such as shared content * Changes to be rolled out over coming days * Can this makeover can win back Web audience? By Nicola Leske Feb 20 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is overhauling its website to incorporate features familiar to Facebook users such as a newsfeed and people's "likes," in CEO Marissa Mayer's biggest product revamp since taking the helm of the ailing company last year. Mayer, who took over in July after a procession of CEOs was shown the door,...

Read More

Samsung Announces WiFi-Only Galaxy Camera

Last year, Samsung launched its first Android powered digital camera. This device offers various connectivity options including 3G as well as 4G LTE in select markets. The Samsung Galaxy Camera was shipped with the newer Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Operating System. Today, Samsung went ahead and announced the new WiFi-only Galaxy Camera. As the name suggest, the latest variant of Galaxy Camera won’t pack a cellular radio. You will need to...

Read More

HTC One Unveiled – Snapdragon 600 Processor, Sense 5, BoomSound And UltraPixel Camera

After quite a few leaks in the last few hours, HTC has finally officially announced its latest flagship – the One. The One is a typical HTC handset with an unibody aluminium fit-and-finish. The handset sports a 4.7-inch Super LCD 3 display with a resolution of 1080p (1920*1080) and a ppi of 468. The front of the handset is protected by the Gorilla Glass 2 interrupted by the dual-stereo speakers that come with their own dedicated amps...

Read More

Why Business Intelligence Software Is Failing Business

Business intelligence software is supposed to help businesses access and analyze data and communicate analytics and metrics. I have witnessed improvements to BI software over the years, from mobile and collaboration to interactive discovery and visualization, and our Value Index for Business Intelligence finds a mature set of technology vendors and products. But even as these products mature in capabilities, the majority lack...

Read More