Oracle has unveiled their Oracle Big Data SQL, a tool which runs single SQL queries across Oracle's own database, Hadoop ...

VentureBeat reported recently that Kaplan, a company that provides higher education and test preparation material, will be introducing its first ...

Dr. Joss Wright is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), where his current research focuses on analysing ...

We met with Adam Drake to hear his thoughts on Data Science and the qualities a Data Scientist should have. ...

Press Release: Splunk Inc. provider of the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced that John Lewis is using ...

Datastax, the leading enterprise Cassandra provider, recently unveiled Datastax Enterprise 4.5. DSE 4.5 is focused around making it easier than ...

Japanese IT vendor Fujitsu announced on Monday that it is injecting $2 billion over the next two years to expand ...

When we see archaeologists on the big screen, we think of them running through tombs, outrunning traps laid centuries ago ...

It's often said (with a slight tone of disdain) that American hospitals are run like businesses. What better way then ...

After Germany’s World Cup victory on Sunday, we reported how Microsoft’s Cortana, the company’s artificially intelligent personal assistant, was used ...

LinkedIn just announced they have acquired Newsle, a startup which uses algorithms to drown out social network noise and deliver ...

Warning: The following post contains moments of wild speculation. You have been warned. Right now is an interesting moment in ...

In line with our coverage of predictive analytics and the world cup, we’ve been looking at interesting technologies that have ...

IEEE, the "world's largest professional association for the language of technology", have released an interactive ranking of programming languages. In ...

America has once again hit the headlines for using the latest technology to clean up its streets. A few months ...

The Fifa World Cup saw some incredible records being broken this year: the largest margin of victory in any semi ...

The past few weeks have seen Facebook under fire over the announcement that it has been running secret “mood altering” ...

Exonar have released a big data calculator to discover how much data you really have. By inputting an estimate of ...

Your average Javascript library is pretty capable of dealing with moderate-sized hierarchical data. But what when you're dealing with thousands ...

Living in an increasingly globalised world, imports and exports play have a huge stake in a country's prosperity. The Observatory ...

Twitter has released a tweet analysis of online activity during the penalty shootout of Brazil vs. Chile quarter final face-off. ...

Datashine, a data visualisation platform developed by Oliver O'Brien at UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analytics, has harnessed the data ...

This week we reported on more fall-out from the Facebook "mood manipulation" experiment revelation, some expert advice from Big Data ...

Swansea University have added the brand new MSc in Health Data Science to their curriculum, the first of its kind ...

In our cartographic overview of the big data ecosystem, we stated a Big Data environment should allow you to store, ...

Global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture has added a new collaboration to its list of recent partnerships. ...

Big Data - Bigger Challenge The volume of net new data being created each year is growing exponentially — a ...

The advances in the field of speech recognition over the past couple of years have been huge. Since Microsoft began ...

Imagine knowing which buildings would catch on fire, which people wouldn't pay their loans, or to solve overcrowding in California's ...

In a letter sent to Microsoft employees yesterday, Satya Nadella declared that the company is shifting its focus from Steve Ballmer’s ...

The public transport provider of San Diego, the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS), is now using big data analysis in order ...

Facebook is again under attack, this time by U.S Senator Mark R. Warner, who is asking the Federal Trade Commission ...

SAP announced yesterday two initiatives that will aim to use Big Data to help better understand the planet’s diversity and ...

We met with Toby Rush, the CEO of Eyeverify, at the Finovate conference in San Jose. Toby is a 13 year ...

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), The BIRT Company™ and the leader in personalized analytics and insights, today announced the immediate availability of ...

According to his LinkedIn profile, Robert Muir is Mongolia-based Ghostbuster for Elasticsearch. Any activities involving the elimination of supernatural entities ...

On the 16th and 17th of July, Berlin will once again be overun with pioneers from the creative and technological ...

Data Origami, a new startup focused on developing learning techniques, tools, libraries and common solutions that data scientists and analysts ...

Earlier in the month we reported on Germany's national team working with IT giant SAP for the current World Cup ...

Accel Partners are putting their money behind a price optimization SAAS for the hospitality industry, which uses big data to ...

To say the Open Data Institude (ODI) know a thing or two about big data would be understatement. In the ...

Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky started Numenta with the intention of modeling and mimicing how the human brain processes information. ...

IBM announced yesterday that it would invest $3 billion over the next five years to develop processors and create the ...

EMC, a provider of IT storage hardware solutions, announced yesterday that it has acquired TwinStrata, an enterprise cloud storage company. ...

In an announcement on Monday TIBCO Software Inc. presented the strong performance of its analytics and data discovery platform,TIBCO Spotfire®, ...

A group of tech giants has come together to develop an open-source code that is applicable to all wireless—connected devices. ...

We recently discussed the pitfalls of big data with Gartner's Research VP, creator of the 3 V's and all-round big ...

IBM announced yesterday that it has embarked on a major collaboration with China’s educations system to focus on addressing the ...

Although the days of endless drawers of VCR tapes are over, home videos are still alive and well. With cameras ...

In an effort to improve its response to buying trends and costumer preferences, sportswear giant Adidas is now starting to ...