Day: October 30, 2013

Vocus turning Manly spur into a ring

Five minutes from fibre, a thousand miles from care……


Google’s Halloween doodle turns you into a witch

This year’s Google doodle for Halloween lets people mix ingredients to play various minigames. Just don’t look for an ending…….


Will the Singapore Do Not Call Registry lead to more email marketing?

Will there be more email marketing after the Do Not Call Registry is implemented in Singapore?……


ZTE intros trio of Blade Q phones

The Chinese handset maker debuts a new range of Android handsets, each with a different size display…….


Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe’en?

Hallowe’en is my favorite holiday: I like seeing costumes (and walking around in my own), and seeing what people do to decorate their houses, yards, etc. For the second year in a row though, I’ve failed to come up with a really good scheme for making my own place appropriate spooky. So, in hopes of…


Need a job? The ‘Internet of Things’ WANTS YOU

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, ‘Do you want to install patches for the rest of your life? Or do you want to change the world?’……


Jive’s Q3 earnings loss not as bad as expected but outlook is weak

Wall Street was actually expecting a loss at 15 cents per share on a revenue of $36.74 million…….


What do we want? Strong consistency! When do we… oh, it’s in Riak v2

NoSQL datastore flexes muscles to woo enterprises……


Facebook’s bigger picture: Internet.org and the ‘knowledge economy’

Based on the third quarter earnings report alone, Facebook’s CEO defended, “The results show our approach is working.”……


Hadoop and Big Data, Stratafied

As Hadoop moves beyond MapReduce, an Enterprise focus, in-memory technology and accessible machine learning are the next frontiers…….