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Big companies need big software for big data. Big data, “Big Table” and now big collaboration.  Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn went all ‘Avengers’ on everyone and teamed up to develop a new database based off the MySQL database program […]

In your face, spies! It took a long while, but they’re about to finally change things around with how the NSA works.  President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to end the bulk collection of phone metadata by the NSA, […]

Because banning people from a free service always works out well… If you haven’t been paying attention to the news (how dare you!), then you likely haven’t seen that Turkey (the country, not the bird) has tried to ban Twitter […]

Pot, meet Kettle… Cybersecurity and cyber warfare are at an all-time high, and are big concerns for companies large and small, as well as national governments.  Especially national governments.  Spying allegations tied with cybersecurity issues are the reason that China […]

The Constitution of the Internet–signed by cats and pictures of food… Things are picking up in Brazil, and not because Carnaval is popping off.  This week, Brazil’s Congress is going to vote on what is known as the Constitution of […]

Going the way of the dinosaurs… There has been some speculation on whether or not laptops and desktops are a dying fad, and in real terms the answer is no.  It is thought that with the growing number of tablets […]

So much for sticking it to The Man… Twitter’s most private of all things—the direct message—was reportedly going to undergo some changes when Twitter announced they would start encrypting the private messages between users.  This was mostly in response to […]