Big data is about processing large amounts of data. It is often associated with multiplicities of data. But the ability to generate data outpaces the ability to store it.
Has Facebook found a potential new business venture?
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The social network giant is developing new software that could be used to help personalise learning in schools. It’s a move that should have some worried they could lose business.
It’s likely that many people knew Volkswagen was cheating on emissions tests, including the engineers who built the ‘defeat device’. But why did no-one at the car maker blow the whistle?
Windows 10, a bit of the new, a bit of the old.
Microsoft
Teaching children to code with computers is only part of the challenge to preparing people for a career in the IT industry. But it can also do more harm that good in some cases.
‘If I’m honest I just don’t think this is Windows 10-compatible.’ (with apols to Ritchie & Thompson)
Peter Hamer
The question of whether or not to go for the upgrade or stick with the devil you know is an increasingly common contemporary dilemma; the lure of new features against the threat of potentially disabling…
The smartphone, and increasingly Apple’s iPhone, is the center of the fast-growing app economy.
Reuters
Even as the US economic recovery remains subpar with employment gains in only the lowest-paying jobs – and sluggish gains at that – one segment is surging: the still-nascent app industry. Apple’s latest…
If Spock would not think it illogical, it’s probably good code.
Alexandre Buisse
Legendary Dutch computer scientist Edsger W Dijkstra famously remarked that “testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs”. In fact the only definitive way to establish that software is correct…
Upgrade rage - what to do when things go wrong?
Flickr/Nicola Albertini
In the tech world there is a dynamic tension between needing to get products to market before the competition and the need to take enough time to make those products completely defect-free and user friendly…
Apple computers could be at risk from the latest Bash bug.
Flickr/Oliver
A serious security flaw has been discovered in a ubiquitous utility program present on a wide variety of important computer systems, including many Unix-based servers and Macintosh desktop computers. “Shell…
OpenOffice.org helped make Open Document Format popular.
Flickr/Josep Puigdemont
We often wish to share electronic documents with friends, colleagues, business or government, and the software application we use to prepare these documents will save them in a particular format. Any application…
The advent of digital music caused a few headaches, but digital copyright issues go back further than that.
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There’s been a bit of talk recently about getting internet service providers (ISPs) involved in the enforcement of copyright law. The federal Attorney-General and Minister for Communications recently released…
OS X Yosemite will be available this autumn.
Apple
Apple has set developers in a frenzy with an overwhelming spread of software updates, unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The new releases include updates for its desktop operating system…