How-To How R Can Help Your Business Looking for innovative ways to use R, the Big Data open source analytics language? Then take a gander at the two top winners of the first of a series of contests that R's corporate caretaker Revolution Analytics has produced. The winners, announced today, receive prizes that range from $1,000 to $10,000 for their submissions. It is an interesting… Hack David Strom View comments
News EU Draft Data Law Warmer on Patriot Act, Colder on "Right to Be Forgotten" There were two big expectations from this morning's release of the initial draft of data protection regulations from the European Commission, both of which were built up through quite a bit of fanfare from EC Vice President Viviane Reding's office last November. One was that the Commission would "stick it to" the U.S. Patriot Act, the law that… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
Digital Lifestyle Engineer Hacks Android With the Kinect API Take two open source projects, do a little creative hacking and ingenuity and what do you get? The Android-Kinect project. An engineer that goes by the name DDRBoxman hacked a Galaxy Nexus smartphone with his a projector, a PC and Microsoft's Kinect API and was able to use "touch" based gestures to control the user interface by interacting with the… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Facebook Angry Birds Crash Into Facebook Asia Tech News reports that the smash hit Rovio game Angry Birds is coming to Facebook on Valentine's Day. The release will happen fast, rolling out to all 800 million users at once as opposed to a slow Facebook feature rollout like Timeline, which first became available to New Zealand users, then to all - and now it's being forced upon everyone… Play Alicia Eler View comments
Analysis Who Will Win the Race to Build the Web's Best Real-Name Identity Service? When Mixel an iPad-based collage app launched last November, one of its features quickly caused frustration: Its requirement that users log in with Facebook before they could start creating and sharing art. The reason for that requirement, Mixel co-founder (and former NYTimes.com design director) Khoi Vinh explained, was real names… Social Dan Frommer View comments