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Mediamorph Launches Mediamorph Connect (IPTV News)

Mediamorph, the cross-platform media and entertainment intelligence and analytics firm, have announced the launch of Mediamorph Connect, a new cloud-based platform that more effect... More

Breakpoint Appointed to Resell Aspera Software in SA (ITWeb)

Breakpoint today announced its appointment as South African reseller for Aspera, a California-based specialist in high-performance file transfer technologies. Aspera's unwavering... More

Francisco D’Souza: Balancing Cognizant’s Present and Future (Forbes India)

Francisco D’Souza, the 45-year-old CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions, should have a persistent headache. Pain, after all, does afflict those who are forced to look at the wor... More

MarkLogic Further Expands Support for Apache Hadoop (MarketWired)

MarkLogic Corporation today announced a significant update to its Connector for Hadoop that allows Hadoop applications direct access to data indexed and managed by the MarkLogic® ... More

It’s Time for Hollywood to Get Serious About Keeping Movie Scripts Secure (Quartz)

When potential movie goers, TV fans and reviewers get an all-access, unsanctioned preview of a script, it can hurt the bottom line and it makes script owners look bad. Why is it so... More

Hollywood, Big Tech on Collision Course Over Who Should Police the Internet (Variety)

The federal government shutdown put much of Washington at a standstill, but lobbying goes on. And when it comes to Silicon Valley and Hollywood, what clearly hasn’t slowed is the... More

Natural Analytics Transforming QlikView (Information Management)

QlikTech executives unveiled the future of what I cover in business analytics at its recent industry analyst summit in what they framed as natural analytics and how it underlies th... More

OpenText EIM Solutions Selected by Deloitte in Belgium (CNW)

OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced that Deloitte, the leading audit and consulting network in Belgi... More

Oracle Eyes Optical Links as Final Frontier of Data-Center Scaling (IT World)

Oracle is exploring silicon photonics, an optical technology drawing widespread interest, as a potential weapon in the battle against data-center power consumption. Advances in CPU... More

Tips for Aligning Business, IT and Strategic Goals for Analytics Gains (DataInformed)

Gather IT executives from different industries to talk about the challenges of harnessing value from big data and you will hear common themes: The size of datasets to manage. The... More

Cloudera Makes Hadoop an Easier Cloud Option — and IBM, Savvis, and Verizon Like It (VentureBeat)

Cloudera is embracing the cloud in a big way. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is expanding its partner ecosystem to bring its distribution of Apache Hadoop, the open-source dat... More

‘iOS in the Car’ Will Be Top Car Infotainment System by 2018 (ComputerWorld)

Half of all vehicle infotainment systems capable of smartphone-integration will use Apple's upcoming "iOS in the Car" by 2018, according to a report by ABI Research. The iOS in the... More

How Hollywood Can Capitalize on Piracy (Technology Review)

Distributing movies has gotten less expensive now that digital prints have taken the place of film. And piracy-heavy countries such as China and Russia have been fed a steady diet ... More

Gartner: Cloud-based Security as a Service Set To Take Off (Network World)

Gartner is predicting the cloud-based security services market, which includes secure email or web gateways, identity and access management (IAM), remote vulnerability assessment, ... More

Flash Is the Present, Not the Future, of Enterprise Storage (EE Times)

Upstarts may have pioneered the use of flash memory in enterprise storage arrays, but the incumbents are in an excellent position to exploit the technology with updated architectur... More

Microsoft 1st-Quarter Profit, Revenue Beats Street; Surface Revenue Hits $400 Million (Washington Post)

Microsoft posted quarterly revenue and earnings Thursday that easily topped Wall Street forecasts, marking a healthy start to a companywide overhaul it announced in July that shoul... More

IBM Licenses ARM’s Mobile Processors for Communications Chips (InfoWorld)

IBM has licensed smartphone and tablet processor designs from ARM, which will be used in new communications and networking gear. With the new licenses, IBM has the "capability to a... More

Savvis Introduces Big Data Solutions (Wall Street Journal)

Savvis today announced the availability of Savvis Big Data Solutions, a full suite of services designed to help organizations glean the most value from their data. Savvis Big Data ... More

Oracle’s Big Machines Acquisition Predicts The Future Of Cloud Selling Applications (Forbes)

Oracle’s acquisition of leading Configure Price Quote (CPQ) provider Big Machines today validates that enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud-based applications to accelerat... More

BT and Dolby Team Up to Develop ‘Natural’ Audio Conference Calls (The Telegraph)

The service, BT MeetMe with Dolby Voice, offers high fidelity audio and voice separation to improve on the existing quality of audio conference calls. It aims to create natural-s... More

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