Software

Google Adds Grand Canyon, Terrain Features To Maps

Google has added information about terrain, vegetation and other features to its Google Maps, while also bringing in Street View…

12 years ago

TechWeekEurope Readers Plan To Shun Windows 8

TechWeekEurope readers are not enamoured with Microsoft's new OS

12 years ago

Microsoft Finally Brings Hadoop Big Data To Windows Azure

Redmond and Hortonworks are bringing big data to Windows users, with previews of Hadoop solutions for Windows Server and Windows…

12 years ago

Dell Lends An ARM Server Concept To Open Source Community

Dell donates a concept to the Apache Software Foundation, as ARM server revolution gets going

12 years ago

Platfora App Promises Much Easier Hadoop Analytics

The new Platfora application promises to make deep analytical Hadoop queries much simpler and easier

12 years ago

Google Renames Chrome Productivity Apps

Google has quietly renamed its business productivity apps and better integrated them for Chromebook users

12 years ago

Gartner: Big Data To Create 4.4 Million Jobs

Gartner has predicted a 3.8 percent increase in global IT spending next year, with one of the main beneficiaries being…

12 years ago

Windows 8 Gets ‘Truly Modern Skype’

The new Skype doesn't do much different, but it looks a little slicker

12 years ago

What Happens If We Can’t Get Big Data Skills?

Big Data may be risky, but it's cheap enough to learn on the job, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

Ancestry.com To Be Sold For $1.6 Billion

New owners are planning a European expansion

12 years ago

Companies Value Big Data But Are Still Hesitating, Says IBM

Lack of understanding may be holding up Big Data, says a study from IBM and Oxford University

12 years ago

Doug Cutting: Big Data Is No Bubble

Even the hype can't spoil the real future of Big Data, says Hadoop creator Doug Cutting

12 years ago

Twitter Removes Anti-Semitic Tweets In France

A complaint by the Union of Jewish Students of France leads Twitter to remove messages

12 years ago

IT Life: Complexities Are Fascinating

TechWeekEurope chats to Pravin Paratey, CTO at Affectv, about the appeal of complex problems, wearable computing and his days as…

12 years ago

Apache Promotes OpenOffice As Top-Level Project

The OpenOffice productivity suite is now an Apache top-level project, but will LibreOffice users care?

12 years ago

Mark Hurd: Oracle Accepts Cloud And Hadoop

Oracle chief operating officer Mark Hurd says the company really is enthusiastic about open source, big Data and the cloud

12 years ago

One Day Left To Enter Tech Success Awards

TechWeekEurope wants to write about successes, not failures

12 years ago

Citrix Should Go Home And Rethink Its Life

Cloud and mobile are boring, and Citrix needs to get better at exciting customers, says Tom Brewster

12 years ago

Government Launches GOV.UK

A single website for all government services goes online

12 years ago

LinkedIn Rolls Out New Visual Design For Profiles

Professional social network refreshes its profile pages

12 years ago

Windows 8 Will Disrupt Mobile Device Market in 2013

Windows 8 will bring both choice and confusion to the market, thinks Robert Mulins

12 years ago

IBM Posts Flat Q3 As Revenues Slip

IBM has reported sluggish quarterly financials after posting flat income coupled with a 5 percent fall in sales

12 years ago

LG And Sony To Release Google Nexus Smartphones?

New smartphones will promote Android partners and a Samsung tablet could be on the way

12 years ago

HP Offers Outsourced Analytics Services

HP is now offering business process outsourcing (BPO) big data analytics services via its enterprise services division

12 years ago

SGI, MarkLogic Bring Plug-And-Play To Big Data

SGI and MarkLogic have delivered a preconfigured, open-standards big data storage analytics package designed for large-dataset analysis challenges

12 years ago

Startup Targets Predictive Analytics

Quant5 has teamed up with Booz Allen Hamilton to target big data in the enterprise with predictive analytics

12 years ago

Premium Rate Firms Fined £450,000 After Dodgy Facebook Campaigns

PhonePayPlus reaches out to Facebook to clamp down on dodgy premium rate businesses

12 years ago

Kickstarter UK Launches, Pledges To Begin 31 October

Kickstarter UK projects can be submitted from today and can be launched and the end of the month

12 years ago