The Tizen 2.3 Beta SDK has been released and is available for immediate download (links below), and now includes support for the Tizen wearable profile. We would hope that Tizen 2.3 beta source code will also be released soon, which would enable additional hardware vendors to develop Tizen wearable devices,...
CIOs are of two minds on Hadoop. They're not convinced that it can help them tackle their data but at the same time they're hiring Hadoop talent in droves. What gives?The reality is that while enterprises continue to stumble in the Big Data dark, they know that Hadoop—a framework for...
The allure of Big Data is that given enough data, human intuition stops mattering and the data takes over. It's a beautiful utopia where, as The Economist's Kenneth Cukier avers, we can "let the data speak" and stop hunting for causation while the data reveals correlations. Sadly, it's complete nonsense.In a...
NoSQL, the newish alternative to traditional relational databases, is a big deal, but it can also be a big mess: there are more than 100 different NoSQL databases, and several different kinds ranging from document to key-value to columnar to graph databases. Even more confusingly, relational databases are now cross-dressing...
Big companies talk about "operating like a startup," but few actually do. Hamstrung by bureaucracy and organizational friction, the Fortune 500 make lots of money but generally play it safe with technology, buying from the same incumbent vendors they've always used.Or do they?I wanted to dig into the technology choices...
The Smartwatch market is certainly going to be a lucrative space for the companies that can be first to release their products, go through the lessons learnt cycle, and also be able to build a viable application ecosystem on top of it, which shouldn't be confused with standard smartphone apps,...
British companies might as well give up now. According to a new Teradata survey, UK companies are losing ground to their peers in Germany and France when it comes to "use of the new types of Big Data and the evolving techniques of analysis."While this may be true, it's just...
Many of today’s most well-known programming languages are old enough to vote. PHP is 20. Python is 23. HTML is 21. Ruby and JavaScript are 19. C is a whopping 42 years old. Nobody could have predicted this. Not even computer scientist Brian Kernighan, co-author of the very first book on...
Secret, the anonymous application that lets users post random comments and share them with friends, is finally doing something about bullying.Secret now uses sentiment analysis to determine if someone is posting something against the app’s guidelines—like a harassing comment—and will prompt users to rethink their posts if so. If someone...
Local reporters in Ferguson covering the ongoing unrest have turned to what's become a mandatory tool for war correspondents covering conflict in real time, Twitter. For Danny Wicentowski, 24, a staff reporter at the Riverfront Times, a St. Louis weekly, Twitter serves as his pipeline to the newsroom, allowing him to provide realtime...
Robot usage in the global manufacturing industry has been climbing steadily since 2009, the MIT Technology Review reports.Sourcing World Robotics, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the OECD, MIT found that robotic worker purchases increase every year. However, a closer look at the numbers indicates that robots aren’t taking...
I hear a man strolling by the Original Stitch pop-up stand on San Francisco's 4th and Townsend nonchalantly say, “That’s a nice shirt.”The Original Stitch pop-up stand.He's eyeing two button-ups neatly folded on a table, next to a giant Goodwill donation bin. The pop-up stand is part of last week's #DitchTheHoodie event...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.Three years ago, a pipe burst in Alex Hawkinson’s family vacation home when he was away.“We found it totally destroyed by moisture,” he told me in an interview earlier this year. “The electricity went out, and the pipes...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series in which ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.My Nike+ Running app is free, like most of the running apps I've tried. So how does Nike make money off of it?It's all in the shoes. Nike's app asked me which shoes I run with,...
The actors and creators behind the hit HBO show Silicon Valley took to Twitter Wednesday to answer questions from fans with the hashtag #AskSiliconValley. The hit show parodies the technology industry from its perch in Hollywood, but it's beloved by techies and critics alike. The second season begins airing in April...
Over the years, Gartner has taken its fair share of criticism for hype and wildly wrong predictions. But in a Twisted Sister moment of karmic payback, Gartner analyst Nick Heudecker has come out swinging in a new report that rails against one of the latest examples of Big Data hype—what he...
Ever wonder why your Silicon Valley developer peers make more money than you? As Brookings analyst Jonathan Rothwell points out, it's not because they're more experienced than you. Rather, it's because the technology skills they do have are "particularly valuable."What are these skills, you ask?While it's impossible to get an...
You depend on your team. So when a key staff member tells you that they are considering moving on, it's usually an unexpected (and unwanted) surprise. We asked eight members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what questions they should ask in this situation. Here's what they had to say: What...
The machines are taking over. Or they will, if we keep teaching machines to think for themselves. And we can't seem to stop.Two years back GigaOm's Derrick Harris opined that "it’s difficult to imagine a new tech company launching that doesn’t at least consider using machine learning models to make...
Well, that's one way to bend the Internet to your will. Google on Thursday applied its not-inconsiderable leverage as Search King of the Universe to "encourage" websites to encrypt their traffic, thus protecting themselves and their users from hackers and other spies (hello, NSA!)What Google is doing here is an...
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