Analysis Google's BigQuery Gets Big Dashboards and Expanded Multiple Queries Google has been busy adding features to its BigQuery service in the six weeks since it became available. There are new visualization dashboards, the ability to process more concurrent queries and additional commands. Clearly, Google is trying to make this a go-to service for ad hoc data processing. Cloud David Strom View comments
Cloud Computing Tell Your Children to Learn Hadoop It is time for your kids to start learning about Hadoop, the formless data repository that is the current favorite of many dot-coms and the darling of the data nerds. Indeed, the younger the better. The Hadoop ecosystem is a big tent and getting bigger. Hack David Strom View comments
Apple Why Siri Matters Apple had plenty to show off last week during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The MacBook Pro's retina display and iOS 6 got plenty of attention, but a trend that bears on the future of computing went mostly unnoticed. John Paul Titlow View comments
Apple Why We Need Firefox (and Chrome) on the iPad Safari on the iPad doesn't cut it. Apple's mobile browser, we've long argued, has plenty to learn from its third-party competitors. And the list of iPad alternatives to Safari is about to get longer, as Mozilla prepares to make the leap from the desktop to iOS. The company recently previewed a demo of Junior, which aims to "reinvent… John Paul Titlow View comments
Startups How to Craft Your Own “Startup Legend” Tech startups are a dime a dozen, so how do you make yours stand out - to the media and to the public? You need a “hook” to attract jaded reporters, busy bloggers and seen-it-all journalists. In short, you need a “startup legend” - which might or might not be 100% rooted in fact. Rieva Lesonsky View comments