News Tumblr Opposes SOPA The Internet is rising up to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act, which is just a noble name wrapped around a dangerous package. It's an overreaching bill being pushed in the name of Homeland Security, even going so far as to target Mozilla specifically for refusing to comply with past requests. Today is American Censorship Day, and it happens to… Jon Mitchell View comments
Analysis Infographic: Effects of the Internet Blacklist Bill (SOPA) If you've been living under an Internet-free rock the past couple of weeks, you might have managed to miss the steady drumbeat of opposition to HR 3261, the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Then again, if you've been living under an Internet-free rock, you've already had a preview of what we're facing if SOPA goes into effect. I'm… Enterprise Joe Brockmeier View comments
Announcements Informatica's Integration Cloud Bridges SAP, Salesforce, Others The problem with SaaS services being delivered from different clouds is that they may as well be from different worlds. Enterprise resource planning software from SAP catalogs human resources that also happen to be addressed by customer relationship management software from Salesforce.com. But their data was designed to be driven in their… Scott M. Fulton View comments
Cloud Providers Amazon Goes XXL: Introduces CC2 Instance If you like your Amazon EC2 instances biggie-sized, Amazon has some good news for you. The AWS folks have introduced a CC2 instance type that comes fully loaded with "incredible specifications" for anyone using AWS for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. Amazon grabbed the 42nd spot on the Top 500 list using 1,064 CC2 instances, and… Joe Brockmeier View comments
Analysis Women's Heel Size Drops, Thanks to IBM Analytics Back when kids played outdoors in playgrounds, there was some taunt about acting your age not your shoe size. Well, IBM has managed to figure out that the median shoe heel height for women has been dropping for the fashion conscious, quite precipitately it seems over the past couple of years. IBM based its conclusions on tens of thousands of blog… Enterprise David Strom View comments