by Connie Hwong, Community Manager
Jan 26 2014, 6:00am PDT
For
a deeper dive into the topics and technologies covered on Gigaom, check
out the latest in-depth analyses on Gigaom Research, our
subscription-based research service. This week: getting Hadoop up to
speed for the enterprise, cloud benchmarking, and more.
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by James Urquhart
Jan 25 2014, 12:00pm PDT
Platform
as a service has been hailed as the next frontier in cloud computing,
but some experts are saying it's more a feature than a market. James
Urquhart says PaaS versus IaaS is a moot debate, because "Services as a
platform" is the real cloud model.
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by Alex Colon
Jan 25 2014, 8:00am PDT
The
Xperia Z1s has a gorgeous waterproof design and an innovative camera,
but it's slightly unwieldy and has a lackluster display.
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by Om Malik
Jan 25 2014, 12:00am PDT
TV
fanboy with his own show; drugs and death in the Animal Planet, NSA and
blackmail, death on a diamond and crazy A-Rod stories and more
importantly, shadow banking. Oh, and why stories go viral.
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by Signe Brewster
Jan 24 2014, 4:33pm PDT
A
colony of ants arrived at the International Space Station this month.
Researchers are interested in how they react to microgravity, as robots
could use similar behavior to better explore difficult places, such as a
collapsed building.
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by Om Malik
Jan 24 2014, 2:43pm PDT
Competing
directly with Uber is really hard. Maybe others that want to overthrow
the traditional taxi system should try a few new tactics.
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by Stacey Higginbotham
Jan 24 2014, 1:23pm PDT
A
single connected device is less than the sum of its parts in an open
ecosystem. Here's how Birdi is trying to make consumers see the value in
a $119 smoke detector.
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by Barb Darrow
Jan 24 2014, 11:41am PDT
Get a grip people. The same folks who say email is dead are the first to scream when email goes down. Am I right?
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by Stacey Higginbotham
Jan 24 2014, 10:58am PDT
I
thought I wrote a lot about network neutrality, but this in-depth post
over at Kotaku by Comcast gadfly and game industry executive Andre
Vrignaud and Public Knowledge’s Michael Weinberg tackles the threat a
court’s decision to kill net neutrality poses for gamers. It also spends
[…]
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by Derrick Harris
Jan 24 2014, 10:38am PDT
One
of the big themes at our Structure Data conference in March is the
advent of new techniques to make sense of new data sources. One of the
most-promising is video, which had value well beyond capturing crimes
and making us laugh on YouTube.
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Jan 24 2014, 9:18am PDT
Just
days after we spotted the Incipio Cashwrap for iPhone, the case has
launched. You can use the $69 accessory to pay for goods wirelessly at
ISIS terminals but only if you have an AT&T iPhone for now.
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by Adrian Tuck, Tendril
Jan 24 2014, 8:23am PDT
Google's purchase of Nest shines a spot light on the crossroads ahead for utilities.
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by Jeff John Roberts
Jan 24 2014, 7:40am PDT
Most
Googlers you meet are Democrats but their company, adapting to the ways
of Washington, has discovered a newfound taste for funding conservative
groups like Heritage Action.
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by Katie Fehrenbacher
Jan 24 2014, 6:00am PDT
Mark Rolston has launched a new design group after a two-decade career at design agency giant Frog.
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by Signe Brewster
Jan 23 2014, 5:20pm PDT
The
education center and accelerator, which focuses on exponential
technologies with big potential, will begin raising capital in the
second quarter of 2014.
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by Barb Darrow
Jan 23 2014, 4:18pm PDT
Company said seats of its SaaS-based Office 365 and Dynamics CRM along with WIndows Azure were up 100 percent year over year.
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by Derrick Harris
Jan 23 2014, 3:52pm PDT
The
White House announced on Thursday that it will form a working group to
study big data and report on its implications to privacy, policy and
society. That might be easier said than done.
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Jan 23 2014, 1:38pm PDT
Microsoft
Surface revenues in its second fiscal quarter topped $893 million, the
company said on Thursday. The figure is more than double the $400
million in Surface sales from the prior quarter and follow a $900
million inventory write-off of Surface devices in July, most of which
[…]
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by Kevin C. Tofel
Jan 23 2014, 1:28pm PDT
Did
you hear the reports? Apple's working on a bigger iPhone. That's not a
huge surprise but people don't necessarily want a huge phone. And iOS
developers don't want yet another resolution to support. Here's how
Apple might address the challenge.
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by Stacey Higginbotham
Jan 23 2014, 12:27pm PDT
Consumers
complaining of poor Netflix and YouTube streams on certain ISP networks
are the pawns in a fight over internet business models. Too bad knowing
why this happens doesn't fix this problem.
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