German technology giant SAP has agreed to buy Qualtrics International in what will be the company’s second-largest acquisition. Qualtrics offers customer experience software — why is that so important for SAP? Europe’s biggest technology company,...
They say it’s a computer for the big data era. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has unboxed The Machine, boasting 160 terabytes of memory. But wait! It’s just a prototype. It has been developing this computer...
There’s no let up among German consumer rights organizations who want technology firms to respect privacy and data protection laws. This week, Samsung’s in the dock over one of its Internet-enabled TVs. Alas, we should...
Bioelectronic medicine is embryonic. But British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline and US tech firm Alphabet see its potential. With one eye on research and another on your data, they will jointly invest millions. Look around the web...
American philosopher Michael P. Lynch says the internet is high on fast facts but low on deeper knowledge and understanding. The age of big data – the “internet of us” – may fail us, if...
Big data is taking its startling curve, everywhere we hear about data and related analytics. It helps us take a step further by making decisions based on real-time data rather than only past and big...
The most sought after characters on-board the Star ship Enterprise’s ships of the famed ‘Star Trek’ were the Science Officers Spock and Data. Technology in the 23rd century has evolved to a stage where it...
Keyhole Inc., a venture-capital funded startup, was acquired by Google in 2004. Its product became Google Earth. Its technology filtered into Google Maps and Google Mobile. One of the venture-capital investors? The CIA. It didn’t...
