Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday 24 November 2014


 
 
Do You Manage Your Data or Does It Manage You?
Databases, warehouses and Big Data analytics projects are changing the way IT and the enterprise think about data management. How is your organization evolving to handle the data explosion that continues to stress developers, IT and users alike? Take our quick four-question Slashdot Pulse poll and let us know what is most important to your data efforts. 
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What Is the Best Way to Launch an Online Business?
As businesses plan their move to the cloud, the choice of provider can be daunting. Performance, reliability and security concerns can paralyze IT before a migration ever begins. Take our quick poll to let us know what is most important to your organization when considering hosting your online presence in the cloud.  
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From the not-if-they're-like-the-ones-in-maximum-overdrive department
HughPickens.com writes: Jerry Hirsch writes in the LA Times that personal transportation is on the cusp of its greatest transformation since the advent of the internal combustion engine. For a century, cars have been symbols of freedom and status....
 
From the and-your-cheese-stinks-too department
An anonymous reader writes If you hate cat videos, personality quizzes, and endless list stories about a specific school or region, then you should blame the USA according to this story. From the article: "'In France, articles about cats do not...
 
From the go-ahead-and-throw-it department
An anonymous reader writes "Corning introduced next-generation Gorilla Glass, which it said is ten times tougher than any competitive cover glass now in the market. The company says that the Gorilla Glass 4 so launched is to address the No.1...
 
From the going-for-the-high-score department
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from Ars Technica: A judge in Charlotte, North Carolina, has unsealed a set of 529 court documents in hundreds of criminal cases detailing the use of a stingray, or cell-site simulator, by local police. This...
 
From the too-little department
An anonymous reader writes with news that a global climate deal seems to be on the horizon. "A global deal to combat climate change in 2015 looks more likely after promises for action by China, the United States and the European Union, but any...
 
From the breaking-the-internet-one-thousand-steps-at-a-time department
An anonymous reader writes: Starting about a week ago, The Great Firewall of China began blocking the Edgecast CDN. This was spurred by Great Fire's Collateral Freedom project, which used CDNs to get around censorship of individual domains. It...
 
From the protect-ya-neck department
An anonymous reader points out this story at Ars about a new trojan on the scene. Researchers have unearthed highly advanced malware they believe was developed by a wealthy nation-state to spy on a wide range of international targets in diverse...
 
From the let-it-go department
theodp writes "The purpose of product placement/product integration/branded entertainment," explains Disney in a job posting, "is to give a brand exposure outside of their traditional media buy." So, one imagines the folks in Disney Marketing must...
 
From the making-the-lawyers-rich department
An anonymous reader writes: Bloomberg reports that Samsung has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission asking them to block the import of Nvidia's graphics chips . This is part of Samsung's retaliation for a similar claim...
 
From the we-can-cure-cancer-if-everyone-in-the-world-jumps-at-the-same-time department
schnell writes: The New Republic is running a fascinating article that analyzes the changing state of foreign development. Tech entrepreneurs and celebrities are increasingly realizing the inefficiencies of the old charitable NGO-based model of...
 
From the coming-soon department
An anonymous reader writes Elon Musk sent a number of tweets recently in which he detailed a program to test the function of "X-Wing" style grid fins that could help spacecraft navigate upon re-entry. The tweets describing how it would work, also...
 
From the stop-the-bleeding department
An anonymous reader writes "Officials of New Mexico's Spaceport Authority were grilled by lawmakers about the now vacant Spaceport America following the deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. The spaceport was built as a hub for...
 
From the worth-a-thousand-words department
An anonymous reader writes with news that NASA has released remastered pictures of Europa taken by the Galileo spacecraft. "Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa. The...
 
From the all-the-better-to-see-it-with department
An anonymous reader writes Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, spoke at the 2014 Samsung Developer Conference last week about the company's forays into the young medium of virtual reality. In addition to...