Of the major categories of NoSQL databases - document-oriented databases, key-value stores and graph databases - we've given the least attention to graph databases on this blog. That's a shame, because as many have pointed out it may become the most significant category.Graph databases apply graph theory to the storage...
Today Revolution Analytics announced a partnership with Kaggle to provide Revolution R Enterprise software for free to participants in Kaggle's data contests. Competitors can download the software here.Revolution is a company that provides commercial support and tools for the statistical programming language R (see our previous coverage). Kaggle hosts data...
The rise of the mobile web and the integration of our online and offline experiences point towards one big opportunity: for the world's information to be organized by place. Hyperlocal news service Fwix today announces a new service that allows any other application developer to pull the names, locations and...
One of our top posts this week was Richard MacManus' look at the future of the camera. We all know how smartphones integrated cameras. "Could we be about to see the inverse - cameras integrating smartphone technology?" he asked. The story is part of our ongoing series looking at what...
Oracle made the announcement today that OpenOffice will become a community project and no longer a commercial endeavor.It's not a surprising move. But it does feel like a victory for the open source community and a sign that Oracle may be easing up a bit on its hard-line stance toward...
We try to tell you everything you need to know about the cloud here every week, but sometimes there's just too much news and analysis for us to give everything the space it deserves. This posts highlights some important events and interesting thoughts in cloud clouding from around the Web.Microsoft...
It's fast approaching tax day and if you haven't already filed, you may be feeling a lot of pain around the whole process. Fortunately, the Internet is here to help. Especially with next year. New innovations online, both literally and as metaphors, can substantially reduce the headaches associated with paying...
Twitter is facing a lot of scrutiny by the business press this week, its founding myth has been called deeply into question (news: not founded by angels) and its management characterized as dysfunctional and ineffective.Yet the Tweets keep flowing, the lists listing, the replies replying. No one has Direct Messaged...
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11 a.m., a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics...
A recent Brookings Institute survey found that Americans want more media coverage of education. People said they want more information about their local schools, about violence on campus, about teacher performance and student achievement. But even if there was more reporting and better access to official data about crime and...
A bipartisan bill limiting what companies can do with online user activity and profile data may be introduced tomorrow by Senators John McCain and John Kerry, according to reporting first in the Wall St. Journal and then today on marketing news site Clickz. The Journal's Julia Angwin, citing anonymous sources,...
At the end of February, Google announced a "big algorithmic improvement" to its search algorithm that was intended to address much of the criticism the search engine had been garnering for content farms increasingly appearing in its search results. Today, Google has announced that this algorithmic "improvement," known as "Panda,"...
Cloudera, one of the primary contributors to Apache Hadoop, has released a new version Hadoop distribution: Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop v3 (CDH3).The new version contains over 1,000 patches and changes, many of which will be contributed back to the open source project. CDH3 includes a full stack of software,...
Our top story this week was Audrey Watters' report on a survey that asked students how they use technology in the classroom. Almost 300,000 students from kindergarden through 12th grade - along with 43,000 parents, 35,000 teachers, 2,000 librarians, 3,500 administrators - took part in the study.The results show that...
The US Department of Justice appears to have made a deal with Google that would allow it to acquire ITA Software, a company that provides airline data to travel search engines, for $700 million with a list of conditions. One of my favorite websites in the world is now in...
If you weren't one of the few who snagged tickets to Google I/O during in the 59 minutes before they sold out, you're in luck. Google will stream the event from www.google.com/io. Something tells me home viewers won't be finding a Nexus S phones under their chairs, but it's better...
The executive body of the European Union signed an agreement today titled Privacy and Data Protection Impact Assessment (PIA) Framework for RFID Applications (PDF), intended to safeguard consumer privacy and offer assurances to citizens that RFID [Radio Frequency Identification] and connected devices are safe for industry to develop. The agreement...
At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. Andrew Wong,...
In Android market share news, analysts at Gartner are now forecasting the Google-created mobile operating system will reach 49% smartphone market share by the end of 2012, based on handset sales. By the end of this year (2011), Android will be the most popular operating system in the world, as...
We love it when Computerworld's JR Raphael releases his comprehensive, research-backed articles about things Android users and developers care about, like this analysis of trustworthy manufacturers posted in January. (Our coverage of that news here.) This week, he has updated his list of Android phones getting Gingerbread, complete with links...
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