Big Data and Data Science Events: October 2013

16th International Conference on Discovery Science and 24th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, October 6-9, Singapore IEEE BigData 2013, October 6-9, Santa Clara, CA ACM Conference on Online Social Networks, October 7-8, Boston, MA The ACM...

7 Observations from the Big Data Innovation Summit

The Innovation Enterprise events group put together recently the second annual Big Data Innovation Summit in Boston. Here are a few of the highlights of the first day: Banana production in Central America is twice the rate of trash production in New York City This and...

BlackBerry, As We Know It, Is Done

The highway of mobile technology is littered with broken companies and products. Apple Newton, Go, Palm, and many more could easily be characters in a info tech version of a Bruce Springsteen song. And now BlackBerry, previously Research in Motion, is heading out on...

Salesforce.com and Workday

There sure has been a lot of partnerships announced by major software companies. First there was the Oracle-Microsoft alliance (which I admit sounds like something out of the book 1984), then the Oracle-Salesforce.com bromance. Yesterday (September 18. 2013),...