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Another Information Priority: Legacy Systems Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:29 AM PDT The hoohah about cloud computing, Big Data, and other “innovations” continues. Who needs Oracle when one has Hadoop? Why license SPSS or some other Fancy Dan analytics system when there are open choice analytics systems a mouse click away? Search? Lots of open …
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Locate That Pesky Web Server Posted: 09 Aug 2013 08:06 PM PDT Where are Web sites hosted? The average user has no idea how to harness the right tools to locate where a server is located, but there might be a common solution. Makeuseof.com, gotta love that Web site, wrote the article, “Find Out Where …
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Open Source and Innovation Go Hand in Hand Posted: 08 Aug 2013 09:18 PM PDT Open source, in all of its iterations, drives innovation and efficiency. More than ever, information technology circles are buzzing with news about how open source software (and an emerging open source hardware market) ensures that organizations of every shape and …
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Wolfram Alpha Is The Superman Of Databases Posted: 09 Aug 2013 08:04 PM PDT Before the better Internet we have today, school children used to have rely on poor search and hacked together Web sites to cheat on their homework. The Wolfram Alpha database did not exist and it made school children rely on their …
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Organic Results on Google a Shrinking Commodity Posted: 09 Aug 2013 07:52 PM PDT The free ride is over. Google seems to have decided it is time to make the most of AdWords, the Tutorspree Blog illustrates in, “How Google is Killing Organic Search.” The post begins by praising the Google of the past which, …
The Heat in Text Radar: August 2 to August 8 Posted: 12 Aug 2013 01:42 PM PDT The Text Radar content intelligence and big data blog covered a multitude of issues surrounding the impact that big data is having on the way that more and more industries process and gain insights from their data. The …
Google Pays AdBlock Enough Said Posted: 11 Aug 2013 04:59 PM PDT Pulling from the German Web site Horizont comes an interesting insight into Google’s dealings with AdBlock: “Google Is Funding AdBlock Plus.” AdBlock is a plugin users can download to block ads on their Internet browsers, but it still allows ads through that it …
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