Thursday December 26, 2024

The Virtual Assistant Could Be The Next Interpreter Of Enterprise Data, Starting With Google Now

 You can ask Siri, Google Now and Cortana about movies, weather and sports, but you can’t yet ask them about your company’s budget for the fiscal year, or your department’s sales performance last quarter. That may be about to change, however, as Google is said by The Information to be in talks with HP about […]

Hadoop meets Google Docs: Analytics made easy

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Backed By Tencent And Felicis, Scaled Inference Wants To Be The Google Brain For Everyone

 Google Brain, an artificial intelligence and machine learning project at Google, has been used to power services like Android’s speech recognition system and photo search on Google+. Now, two of the most longstanding machine learning engineers, one of whom worked on Google Brain, have left the search giant to start a new company. The idea: to build machine learning, […]

Google Starts Selling Its Aerial Imagery To Maps For Business Users

 Google Maps for Business is a service for enterprises and government organizations that need to visualize their assets on a map. Today, the company has announced that customers can now purchase Google’s aerial imagery directly from the company and use it to map public service projects, study the environmental impact of a project, or evaluate […]

Google, Microsoft, IBM And Others Collaborate To Make Managing Docker Containers Easier

 It’s not often that you see this combination of backers, but today, Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack all banded together to support Google’s open-source Kubernetes project for managing Docker containers. Docker containers are quickly becoming the go-to technology for building and running distributed applications. Every major cloud vendor has… Read More […]

Databricks takes on Google streaming analysis with Spark

Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software. Databricks Cloud is designed to provide a platform for analyzing streaming data, much like the Google Dataflow service announced last week. Tweet This Post

How much is Hadoop worth? For Google, $80 million

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Google service analyzes live streaming data

Taking what many see as the next step in big data analysis, Google is previewing a service called Google Cloud Dataflow that analyzes live data, potentially giving users the ability to view trends and be alerted to events as they happen. “There’s an enormous amount of data being created, and so you need a way […]

Google, in promoting encryption, calls out Microsoft and Comcast

Encryption is like a relationship — both parties need to be on the same page for it to work. And Microsoft and Comcast are apparently not on Google’s page. Google began a campaign Tuesday to raise awareness around encryption, and in the process it reported that less than 1 percent of emails sent during May […]

Google Close To Snapping Up Satellite Startup Skybox Imaging For $1B+, Say Sources

 Google made a play for the skies in April when it swept in and acquired Titan Aerospace amid reports that the drone maker was being pursued by Facebook. But Google’s interest in hardware companies that provide primary sources of data is not ending there. Google is closing in on a deal for Skybox Imaging, a satellite company that specialises in recording very detailed […]