The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
IBM Makes Hadoop Quick and Easy with BigInsight The article titled InfoSphere BigInsights on IBM promotes the use of Apache Hadoop, an open source software framework, with IBM’s BigInsight. Not only is the product free to download, but IBM offers BigInsight to simplify Hadoop for users. To begin, visit the Quick Start Edition page, with …
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Big Data Startup Parade Begins with These 14 Companies July 14, 2013 Business Insider posted an article titled 14 Big Data Startups You’re Going to be Hearing A Lot More About on June 4, 2013. The article explores the big data companies teetering on the edge of wild success and fame. The companies named include …
The Dark Side of Information Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:46 PM PDT Free information will be our doom, Quartz‘s Jaron Lanier asserts in, “Free Information, as Great as it Sounds, Will Enslave Us All.” From high-frequency trading to online marketing, insists Lanier, big data is being used by those with the resources to collect and …
Palantir: $300 Million Not Enough? I spotted a blog post called “Could Palantir Technologies Be Raising Additional Funding?” I have no clue who or what is behind this interesting item. The main idea is that Palantir, a high profile company which has been in the news about litigation and other matters, has been funded already. …
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Government Opens Information Highway Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:04 AM PDT The U.S. Government is trying to improve the American dream by making sure that its citizens have access to some of the government’s arsenal of information. According to the Whitehouse article “Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government …
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SRCH2 Poised to Take Industry by Storm Posted: 10 Jun 2013 05:31 PM PDT We came across a recent press release that posed an interesting question. At this point, can any vendor in the enterprise realm produce a search solution disruptive to Google? SRCH2 might be an outfit to keep an eye on, according to …
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Russian Made Surveillance Invades the US Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:11 PM PDT Russia and the U.S. don’t often agree when it comes to politics and social issues but it seems that the two can agree on the need for top grade surveillance technology. According to the Wired article “5 Russian-Made Surveillance Technologies Used in …
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