May 14, 2012
The Google vs Oracle trial has been a huge case with potentially extremely harmful repercussions. Oracle is accusing Google of both Copyright infringement and patent infringement. According to Oracle, Google’s Android platform is said to contain code from Java. Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, the creator of java, in 2010. Though Java is an open sourced platform, [...]
May 6, 2012
Current Mayer of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, says that his new years resolution is learning how to program. He is using a service known as Codecademy. Codecademy sends the user weekly coding exercises straight to your email for simple access to programming exercises. They currently teach Javascript, Ruby, and Python. Though these programming languages are not [...]
Apr 29, 2012
Google, Amazon, and Yahoo all began life as websites. However, they have all grown and turned into much more than that. Google has the Google App Engine. Amazon offers its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Yahoo will follow the companies with their own online service known as Yahoo! Manhattan. Yahoo! Manhattan is designed to facilitate the [...]
Apr 22, 2012
The day before Google’s I/O conference, Adobe announced an extension to CSS. It is called CSS Regions. CSS regions makes text appear more as if it were on a magazine or a well-presented publication. For example, some of the things that it does is wrap text around images and fills text from one area of a web [...]
Apr 16, 2012
This article directly matches up flash and html5. It compares the number of games each platform has. The number or users capable of viewing the content. The method of distribution. It compares whether it is browser dependent or plug-in dependent. It measures the CPU percentage used while running each platform. How secure each system is. [...]
Apr 8, 2012
With the emergence of personal cloud services such as Google’s Play, Apple’s iCloud, and Microsoft’s SkyDrive, cloud computing is set to replace personal computing sooner rather than later. The research firm, Gartner, believes that cloud computing will over take the personal computer in 2014. The next generation computer operating systems are already implementing heavily on [...]
Apr 1, 2012
More and more companies are posting positions with the term “cloud computing” in the job description. In February, more than 5000 jobs were posted. That is 92% more than Feb.2011 and 400% more than Feb.2010. The demand for cloud computing skills is growing at such a rapid rate that the talent pool cant keep up. [...]
Mar 13, 2012
845 million people in the world use Facebook as a means of social media. 152 million of those users are located within the United States. Many more millions of users also use other platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Many businesses are trying to find ways to integrate these platforms together with customer relationship [...]
Mar 5, 2012
Yet another example of online databases being hacked. Steam, an extremely large gaming platform on millions of computers, was hacked on Sunday November 6, 2011. Initially, steam believed that only the online forum database was hacked. It was later found that the attack was much deeper than expected. The hackers gained control over user names, [...]
Feb 27, 2012
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York sued Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase in New York Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Mr. Schneiderman is the co-chairman of the new mortgage crisis unit formed under the Obama administration. The database is called the Mortgage Electronic Registration System or MERS. It was created in [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Just five years ago, the Smithsonian Institution started collecting data about every living thing on earth. The planet has an approximate 1.9 million species of living organisms on earth. Currently the researchers have collected around 40% of the total species. The database includes observations such as describing the nocturnal behavior of the flying lemur, and maps [...]
Feb 13, 2012
Throughout the years that the United States military have been in Iraq, it has collected over 3 million biometric scans. All of this is placed into a large database that the United States military holds. This valuable database is used for counter terrorism. The troops of the United States military carry viewfinder-like scanning devices that [...]
Feb 6, 2012
Just a couple of years ago, everyone wanted more capacity in their mobile devices such as the phones or iPods. Even today, people want more storage for their devices. Music files take up a considerable amount of space for mobile devices. However, all that is changing. With the introduction of cloud service players such as [...]
Jan 30, 2012
There are more than 1.5 million users that read articles posted by Gawker. Of those 1.5 million users, many of them use the same usernames and passwords that they have for many other websites. Those other websites may have their personal information and credit card information. In December 2010, the Gawker databases that held these [...]
Jan 23, 2012
Relational databases have been around for over 30 years. Relational databases may be good at providing a database that is simple, robust, flexible, scalable, and compatible, however, it may not perform as well as other solutions that isolate each of those properties. In current times, the most important of those properties may be scalability. As [...]
Jan 15, 2012
It is important for companies to plan out their plan before they design and deploy their data model. Three models are used for the design phase of the project. The first is conceptual data modeling, second is logical, and third is physical data modeling. Conceptual data modeling usually includes the entity relationship diagram. What creates [...]
Jan 8, 2012
The Dallas Cowboys Stadium is the newest and most technologically advanced stadium in the world. In a building that houses the over 105,000 people for a football game, technology is vital to keep operations running smoothly. The stadium is comprised of 3000 networked televisions, the world’s largest Hi-Definition screen, Wi-Fi throughout the stadium, 250 miles [...]
