Angry Birds on a Hacked ATM

Source: YouTube, 14th February 2013 So you could hack an ATM to obtain some Primary Account Numbers (PANs) and expiry dates, or on the other hand if the ATM is touchscreen...

Why we should ban resumes!

The idea of matching someone’s skills and experience on a resume to a job description consisting of an arbitrary list of skills and experiences seems rather archaic to me. Some people actually defend doing this faster as a major advance in modern HR practices. (Note: due to the interest in this topic I've scheduled a live webcast on February 28th to discuss alternatives to resumes. One idea - a performance-based segment as part of a LinkedIn profile. Add your ideas below.) In a recent post I suggested that a better first step was a candidate...

More Details Leak About Microsoft's Next Operating System: Windows Blue

As we previously reported, Microsoft is gearing up to release a new version of Windows, possibly this summer. It's codenamed Microsoft Blue and more details about it are emerging. Redmond is rumored to be halfway done with its development, reports Mary Jo Foley. Windows Blue is some kind of update to Windows 8 and it is expected to be free to all Windows 8 users, win8china, reports. They will get to test it and offer feedback to Microsoft before Microsoft makes it available to everybody. It sounds like it will be an upgrade to Windows...

Big Data Without Integration Is Broken

Big data involves interplay between different data management approaches and business intelligence and operational systems, which makes it imperative that all sources of business data be integrated efficiently and that organizations be able to easily adapt to new data types and sources. Our recent big data benchmark research confirmed that big data storagetechnologies continue to follow many approaches, including appliances,...

Business Analytics and Hollywood: A Match Made in Heaven?

My favorite acceptance speeches are from Oscar recipients in science and technology. In contrast to actors, directors and writers, these winners love pushing the envelope in fields like animation, special effects, costume design and sound editing. They are like NASA engineers enjoying the thrill of landing an astronaut on the moon, placing a telescope in orbit, or landing a rover on Mars that can provide facts that answer questions that so many of us are interested in the answers. How do film awards relate to implementing projects? There ...