May 13, 2012
As Facebook is getting ready to become a initial public offering (IPO) in the coming weeks, it has been able to successfully tick off many of the wireless providers around the world today. Facebook boasts over 800 million users worldwide, an amount that nearly triples that of the population of the United States (~311 million); [...]
May 6, 2012
Technology revolving around users and the internet has been constantly evolving over the past twenty years. It has finally gone through the crux of personal computers and evolved into the focus of the development of mobile applications found on many mobile operating systems such as iOS and Android. This trend has left the normal “web” [...]
Apr 29, 2012
During Microsoft’s Lang.Next conference held in Redmond, Washington, many prominent software developers were invited to discuss the state of programming and the future of the languages that they will be incorporating into their own creations. The panel that was held there included Microsoft’s Anders Hejisberg, the creator of Turbo Pascal and Microsofto’s C#, Martin Odersky, [...]
Apr 22, 2012
With the new wave of mobile HTML5 applications coming through, Facebook is displeased with the rate Google and Apple have added HTML5 compatibility to their mobile browsers. Facebook recently announced that their HTML5 website has twice as many users than their Android or iOS counterparts (Constine, 2012). The problem with the applications that iOS and [...]
Apr 14, 2012
Amazon has recently just launched their new web service, Amazon CloudSearch, a technology that will allow developers around the world use Amazon’s powerful search engine technology. This new service will allow developers to infuse Amazon’s effective search engine to their own websites or databases in order to more efficiently organize and configure their data. According [...]
Apr 8, 2012
Evans Data, a company that specializes in surveys, was able to recently discover that over 75% of web developers are using and prefer HTML 5. Even though this is common knowledge, it is surprising as HTML 5 standard is still a work in progress (Taft, 2012). The data that Evans was able to attain was [...]
Apr 1, 2012
Amazon, a top internet retailer and newcomer to the cloud computing services, is planning on hosting over 200 terabytes of genetic data for the government’s newly approved “1000 Genome Project”. This program is being hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic MapReduce (EMR) platforms (Horowitz, 2012). The program hopes to be able to [...]
Mar 12, 2012
“The biggest improvement is that it’s been infused with a set of new features designed to handle larger workloads — whether on premises or in the cloud.”(Preimesberger, 2012) This is definitely exciting news for the IT sector as the database programs are constantly evolving with the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. This new release [...]
Mar 5, 2012
This article deals with the problems that many companies have been facing with the birth of the information age, hackers. Companies such as Sony, Zappos, and even the government have been targets of many different hacker groups. The author goes into detail about one group in particular, Anonymous. This group is viewed as a political [...]
Feb 27, 2012
In 2010, Oracle went through with the buyout of Sun Microsystems, a company that was very popular for their open source applications such as MySQL and OpenOffice, for 7.3 billion dollars. During that time, MySQL users were outraged at the fact that Oracle would now have control over their open source products, especially since at [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Database Administrators are one of the most sought after jobs for CIS majors once they graduate. In the article that I chose today, the author sets up a guide on how to become an effective DBA, while also doing a good job with pointing out common problems that are found within DBA’s that tend to [...]
Feb 13, 2012
In March 2010, Albert Gonzalez and his two Russian co conspirators were sentenced 17 to 25 years in prison. Why? Because they had completed the largest online theft case in history in 2010. Albert and his buddies decided to use SQL injection to hack into the databases of Heartland Payment Systems, a business that credit [...]
Feb 6, 2012
This article talks about how veterans of the United States Military have started become a huge factor in the medical field by being a part of a huge medical database set up by Veteran Affairs. The program, known as Million Veteran Program, is one of the most advanced of its kind because the VA has [...]
Jan 30, 2012
Zappos and 6PM, two of the largest online clothing retailers in the United States, have recently experienced a security breach in their big data. This cyber attack has effected the information of 24 million customers, the largest amount since the attacks that Sony had received last year. Barbara Scott, a director of a technology services [...]
Jan 22, 2012
The article that I chose talks about how important it is to design an effective structure for a database before actually putting it into practice. This means that a person planning to setup a database must actually layout an effective design that can handle everything a business needs or it will be destined for failure. [...]
Jan 15, 2012
How has Mu Sigma, a data analytics company, become such a major player in today’s economy? With the vast amount of “big data” that fortune 500 companies are forced to deal with, companies are forced to either try to untangle their vast amounts of data by themselves or hire third party companies, such as Mu [...]
Jan 8, 2012
Due to recent public outcries, hackers have been using SQL injection in order to hack into company databases. Sony, a leading electronics company based in Japan has been targeted many times due to an unpopular approach that the company had been taking in their use of the judicial system against some of their own customers. [...]
