By BobGourley Sandy was a massive storm. Based on a reading of social media sites and Twitter lists plus local news (an a feeling in my gut) I believe people in my immediate region (Northern VA, DC, MD) will generally say this went easier on us than expected, and is far lighter than the damage [&hel...
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This year Hadoop World has joined forces with Strata Conference to seek new community-wide synergies to accelerate Big Data solutions. This will be the best of Big Data conferences. CTOvision is a media partner for this event which means we can offer all our readers a discount code. Register for the...
Editor’s note: The following was written by Kord Davis from a post originally at KordIndex. Kord is the author of a forthcoming book on Ethics of Big Data. – bg New York Judge Gary Brown recently found that an IP-address is not sufficient evidence to identify copyright infringers....
A panel representing Internet Service Providers at a House subcommittee meeting unanimously opposed any cybersecurity legislation that might lock businesses into a static compliance regime. More here. Meanwhile, in a closed-door meeting with Senators, briefers including White House national se...
Science & Technology Directorate spending would increase by an inflation-adjusted 22.8 percent under the White House fiscal 2013 budget proposal transmitted Feb. 13 to Congress. The directorate would see funding under the budget proposal go down for some efforts, notably the proposed National Bi...
A response to a freedom of information law request by the City of Rye, N.Y., has exposed the social security numbers of city employees....
Despite the increased frequency and severity of online crime and espionage in 2011, many American corporations and consumers are still not taking the threat seriously, the FBI’s top cyber official said Thursday....