Big Data Isn’t Just a Product of the Internet, It Is the “New Internet
Mary Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins Claufield & Byers, released her annual "Internet Trends" report this week to the accolades of…
Smartphones and the Rise of Contextual Apps
If you are familiar with where technology is heading, you know that the future belongs to smartphones. More and more,…
2020: US Banks Are Betting Big on Analytics
A recent study by Accenture talks about the future state of banking in US by 2020. Thankfully, the study reports,…
MDM Industry Becoming New Standard for IT
When commercial email was incorporated into the workplace in the latter part of the 20th century, many were concerned not…
eBay’s Data Breach Exposes 145 Million User Records
In what is one of the largest data breaches in history, eBay has gone public with the news that they…
The Culture of Cloud in an Information Security World
Working in the information security field, I obviously hear a lot about “the cloud” and its many security implications. Working in the information…
From Data Ownership to Data Usage: How Consumers Will Monetize Their Personal Data
In a world where more data is created than ever before, data ownership is gaining in importance. Not only organisations…
Protecting Privacy: Is a Big Data Marketplace the Answer?
Big data may not be completely understood by everyone, and there are certainly things that remain unclear about it’s purpose.…
What Facebook’s Audience Insights Really Gets At
For the past three years, Facebook has made enormous strides in targeting specific groups of users across the Facebook ecosystem.…
Business Intelligence and Your Business: Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Last month we talked about determining whether your company is ready to deploy business intelligence ‘intelligently.’ I mentioned that…