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Sunday, 31st October 2010

TextSlide Launches a Chatroulette for SMS

Estimates peg the number of text messages that'll be sent worldwide this year to be around 6.1 trillion, triple the number that were sent in 2007. American teenagers - renowned for ther embrace of text messaging - send and receive on average 3339 texts per month. And although many people, teens included, are moving to smartphones and beginning to…

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Saturday, 30th October 2010

Cloud Computing

Yelp's mrJob: Powering Recommendations and now Open Source

Yelp has a few nifty features on its network that gives it that special sauce. It's what you see with most world-class social networks where features provide context and allow for discovery. It make it simple to use the service with such features as review highlights, autocomplete, spelling suggestion and top searches. "People Who Viewed this Also…

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Magic Quadrant 2010 for Internal Social Software

Gartner released its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Workplace Social Software report this week. The same five vendors held onto the Leaders and Challengers quadrants, while the Visionaries and Niche Players quadrants thinned out. IBM, Jive and Microsoft remained the "Leaders" and Atlassian and OpenText remained the "Challengers." Several vendors…

Enterprise Klint Finley comments

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Weekly Case Study: Gateway Bancorp Reduces System Downtime by 80%

Gateway Bancorp's bank tellers, loan officers, and other employees rely on a series of financial software applications behind the scenes to better serve customers. In order to achieve maximum uptime for these key applications, Gateway chose to virtualize its infrastructure. The result? The bank reduced system downtime by 80%.

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Cloud Computing

Twitter by the Petabyte: Using Big Data to Define Market Sentiment

Millions of tweets run through Twitter. It's the poster child for big data on the Web. To get data out of Twitter and use it to track sentiment requires tools with considerable processing and computational capabilities. BigSheets is a tool created by IBM that takes terabytes or even petabytes of Web data and turns it into information that…

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