Nov 27, 2011
Amazon is deploying Oracle databases into its AWS service. Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a platform of remote computing services in the cloud. Amazon Web Services provide online services for web applications by offering cloud computing. The benefit of cloud computing is the ability to minimize capital spending. Now with the Oracle database, clients [...]
Nov 16, 2011
On Wednesday, November 16, Google officially announced Google Music to the public. Google Music is a music service that let users store up to 20,000 songs on the cloud for free and stream listen to them on the go. Android users can stream music on their devices as well as purchase and download tracks from [...]
Nov 13, 2011
LG’s Australian website was hacked and defaced recently. The hacker team, calling itself “Intra” defaced LG’s homepage with a message: “It seems as though your website has been hacked. How did we get past your security? ……. What security? .” The breach has been archived by Zone-H.com, which is a database of defaced websites. Most [...]
Nov 5, 2011
Siri, Apple’s virtual personal assistant on the iPhone 4S, applies voice recogition to the next level. With a strong emphasis of artificial intelligence driven into the system, Siri is able to analyze and decipher the meaning behind what questioners are asking. Siri is such remarkable software because it makes some of the complex technologies seen [...]
Oct 29, 2011
Federal officials have launched an online database, which let consumers compare hospitals to one another, this year during October. This database is design to compare and rate hospitals in the US by national standards of patient safety. The ratings are calculated among a variety of issues, from surgical complications to how well patients are treated. [...]
Oct 23, 2011
Apple is scheduled to release iTunes Match near the end of October. ITunes Match is a cloud service that offers iOS5 users to stream music from their iTunes library to their iOS device. Users will be allowed to stream any song from their library; this includes songs that were not acquired from the iTunes Store. [...]
Oct 16, 2011
The article mainly focuses on how limited data modeling can be for designing databases. Most often, modelers assume that the knowledge around data modeling is all that is needed to prosper a successful database. In actuality, a successful database design does not encompass completely from data modeling. The author suggests that one of the areas [...]
Oct 9, 2011
This article focuses on why technical architects and data modelers should adapt and evolve their current modeling practices to an agile data-modeling scheme. Modelers most likely would believe that when building a data model, they should design and implement every single aspect of the model before building software that uses its resources from the data. [...]
Oct 2, 2011
Summary: The amount of data created in the world is growing at an exponential rate every day. Statistical information shows that in 2010, the amount of data information in the world has grown over a zettabyte in size. This is equivalent to one trillion gigabytes of information! Millions of data information is retrieved and inputted [...]
Oct 1, 2011
Summary: This article is relates how digitization of print media is becoming one of the largest infringements in history. One of the most notable digital infringements is Google’s Books project. Google Books has become an easy access for anyone to find reference to millions of books and magazines. Many of these books are claimed [...]
