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Friday, 20th April 2012

Insider's Guide to Technology Analysts

Insider's Guide to Technology Analysts

Gartner. Forrester. IDC. And lots of smaller fish, too. You can't read a tech-industy news story, attend a conference or listen to a sales pitch without someone quoting an industry analyst. For tech companies, analysts are big news and big business, promising to help with transformation, monetization and a slew of other things ending in…

Enterprise Cormac Foster comments

Read/Write Daily: Cosmic Puzzles

Today's theme is cosmic puzzles. The technology that fires our imaginations here at RWW wouldn't be possible if we didn't understand fundamental physical laws. But how well do we really understand them? Joselle at Mathematics Rising wonders whether all the matter and energy in the universe really just boils down to abstraction. Are we living in a…

Science Jon Mitchell comments

With Backing of Donors and Facebook, Don't Expect a Big CISPA Fight

Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of U.S. public policy, wrote in a blog post last week that the company has "no intention" of sharing "sensitive personal information with the government in the name of protecting cybersecurity," explaining why the company is supporting CISPA but did not support SOPA, which would have required such…

Dave Copeland comments

Kaazing Launches WebSocket Platform in Amazon's EC2 Cloud

It's the stateful communications protocol that HTTP lacked from the very beginning, and now it's a key component of the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. The HTML5 debate has cast WebSocket as a future component of every Web browser and every real-time Web app. Now its principal architects at Kaazing are changing the…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Moore's Law Doesn't Apply to Health Care Technology

The recurring theme at the TedMed conference earlier this month was the application of Moore's Law to health care. As Robin Carey noted after the conference on Social Media Today, the idea that Moore's Law could be driving health care innovation "has given American medicine a sense of inevitable optimism." Moore's Law, which is more a rule of…

Dave Copeland comments

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