Nov 27, 2011
A data staging area is in part of data warehouse. In the data staging area, it extracts data from a source, transforms data, and loads data into the data warehouse. There are many reasons and advantages to have a staging area in the data warehouse. It can load tables directly so that it can prevent [...]
Nov 21, 2011
Database Management Systems is like a bridge between database and user. Under advanced DBS information technologies, Business Intelligence is primary for enterprise to manage and analyze its business information systems. It is designed for flat data structure and complex calculation. And redundancy is introduced. Its data storage is transaction summary for historical data. Multiple integrated [...]
Nov 13, 2011
This article is about iTunes Match. After iTunes Match beta finished testing, Apple is almost ready to launch its iTunes Match. This service will have a flat rate fee of $24.99 charge per year. Apple’s iTunes Match uses its own cloud server to store music files. iTunes Match will first match Apple’s cloud databases when [...]
Nov 6, 2011
This article is about the Central Intelligence Agency is reviewing people’s tweets. According to Dozier, CIA analyzes all kinds of tweets; no matter what language they are or what content they have. First, the agency will collect all information and translate into plain English. And based on the tweets origin, the analysts cross-reference them with [...]
Oct 27, 2011
Since smartphone users are growing in fast pace, many companies wants to place mobile ads to reach their customers. According to Millenial Media’s recent report, Android smartphones have the most of mobile ad impressions and followed by Apple’s iOS and Blackberry. Although there are more Android users, Apple’s iAd almost shares the same mobile ad [...]
Oct 16, 2011
This article is about Electronic Communications Privacy Act(ECPA). ECPA was introduced in 1986, but since then it has not been changed a lot. Technology has brought many different ways that people communicate such as cell phones, search engines, social networking sites and so forth. In the meanwhile, these technologies also help and gather more user’s [...]
Oct 10, 2011
YouTube offers movie rentals in the U.K. now. It tries to put on different variety of movies to its users. According to Matteo Vallone, YouTube business product manager wrote, “we’ve got some cracking films to keep everyone entertained through the upcoming winter months and beyond.” YouTube movie rentals price is from $0.99 to $3.99, but [...]
Oct 2, 2011
Summary: The article discusses about how to utilize analytics tool to improve companies sales. In recent years, many companies have joined social media and tried to gain more market shares. However, the research shows most of companies just use social media as a channel to send message to their customers and forget listening from them. [...]
