• How Apple's Local and Mapping Investment Will Lead to Web Search

    Updated: 2012-09-29 17:54:08
    [I work at Microsoft where I work on projects that drive data quality in our local search experiences on Bing and other clients.] Most of the civilized world, by this time, has heard about Apple's fumble with their new mapping...

  • Google opens €75m energy-efficient datacentre facility in Dublin

    Updated: 2012-09-28 14:15:31
    Google’s new €75m Dublin datacentre facility that that uses air-cooling for energy efficency is now operational

  • BT and Yahoo block UK2 IP addresses

    Updated: 2012-09-28 11:07:01
    Customers of ISP UK2 have received no emails from Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for over a week after their IP addresses were blocked

  • Top ten cloud computing confidence killers

    Updated: 2012-09-28 10:23:05
    A survey of cloud users reveals regulatory failure to keep up with developments in technology is eroding confidence in cloud computing

  • More work in standardisation, data protection needed to meet EC’s cloud plans

    Updated: 2012-09-28 03:45:02
    Industry welcomes EC’s cloud strategy but insists more efforts are needed in standardisation, security and data protection

  • ICO publishes cloud data guidelines

    Updated: 2012-09-27 15:22:06
    The ICO has published new guidelines that underline businesses’ sole responsibility for the protection of data

  • Cisco buys Wi-Fi data specialist ThinkSmart

    Updated: 2012-09-27 13:35:01
    Cisco has confirmed it is to buy location analytics technology company ThinkSmart for its wireless networking division, for an undisclosed sum

  • Swiss consortium turns to business analytics to help build smart electricity grid

    Updated: 2012-09-27 13:32:07
    Switzerland's largest retailer is working with IBM to use business analytics to turn its refrigerated warehouses into part of a smart grid

  • EC sets out strategy for EU cloud data and standards

    Updated: 2012-09-27 11:41:04
    The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a strategy for standards and a legal framework for cloud computing in European Union (EU) states

  • Martial arts retailer Blitz Sport drops Sage for SuiteCommerce

    Updated: 2012-09-27 10:16:40
    Blitz Sport, a supplier of martial arts equipment, is among a handful of UK firms implementing NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce platform

  • Download: IT Priorities Survey - The Results

    Updated: 2012-09-27 05:01:57
    Computer Weekly and TechTarget asked 2,642 IT professionals and business analysts around the world for their IT forecast for 2012. Conducted in November 2011, the survey covered North America, the UK, and Asia (predominantly India, but also incorporating Australia, Indonesia and Japan). In the UK, 225 IT professionals took part in the research.

  • Local Search - How Hard Can It Be?

    Updated: 2012-09-21 06:56:05
    This week, Apple got a rude awakening with its initial foray into the world of local search and mapping. The media and user backlash to their iOS upgrade which removes Google as the maps and local search partner and replaces...

  • Forecasting: standard methods

    Updated: 2012-09-17 18:24:43
    To continue the first post of a series on forecasting, let’s discuss standard methods used for predicting time series. The two firsts methods can be used as benchmark for comparing with more advances models: Mean value: the mean of the time series used for training is used as the forecast for all values in the test [...]

  • Data Mining Book Review: The New Era of Enterprise Business Intelligence

    Updated: 2012-09-07 19:33:38
    Mike Biere is the author of the book reviewed today on Data Mining Research. This recent book (2011) focuses on building and deploying BI in the company. The subtitle of the book is misleading: “Using Analytics to Achieve a Global Competitive Advantage”. Let’s be clear on the fact that the book [...]

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