Big Data
This tornado could have implications for the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s mobile push.
Footing the bill for some of its customers’ data use could make a lot of sense for Amazon.
There is no reason why, with technology, that we can’t turn health care into a merit-based market.
Information that may offer medical insights has been locked away in the filing cabinets of doctors’ offices.
It’s not just some largely invisible boring piece of infrastructure.
Closing the loop two months after a massive funding round.
Better to just leave the talent alone, says CEO Reed Hastings.
The clinical database will enable analysis of some 81 million de-identified patient records.
Crime mapping helps citizens understand what’s going on in their neighborhoods. But the increasing use of private companies to organize the data may defeat the purpose.
New York? San Francisco? Try Colorado Springs.
Nike says it will continue to sell the FuelBand SE, but the future of their sports devices unit remains unclear.
I coincidentally got sick while during tests of the Kinsa Smart Thermometer. (Oh, the things I do for my job.)
Big data, big dollars.
Digital natives program their thermostat. Data natives expect the thermostat to program itself.
Everything is growing again, at last.
Cloudera doesn’t just want Intel’s cash, but access to its network of customers.
The chip giant throws its weight behind Hadoop in the data center.
“We are a private company. This was a stock deal.”
Intel throws its weight behind Hadoop’s biggest player.
Six reasons why their time is now.
The round caps a big month for the big data technology known as Hadoop.
Making big data make sense.
Threading that needle isn’t simple but it can be done, the longtime regulator tells Re/code.
The “uncanny valley” looks different for everyone, but you know when you’ve taken that sudden step into the abyss.
The longtime regulator said Europe has a competitive opportunity if it can help build a more secure Internet.
The comments came at the start of CeBit, where data protection concerns are likely to loom large in the wake of the NSA revelations.
A doctor rarely praises an electronic health-record system for being easy to use or improving care.
Market to me -- not to those like me -- and deliver it at the time and place that best suits me. If you don’t, you’ll lose me, because someone else will deliver.
And the only thing people hate more than telecom companies is cable companies.
The inevitable tension between human intuition and the harsh light of data.
Imagine finding out that your headquarters is sitting on a diamond mine.
Recommendations for creating a foundation for data privacy.
How do you make money on free software? Look to Linux for an example.
Metadata unification continues.
The prehistoric world was a “small-data” world.