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The Open Data Center Alliance launched today with the goal of making the modern data center more open, efficient and simpler to use. The group is developing a steering committee

Federal government transparency programs, including data resource directory Data.gov, face across-the-board budget cuts by 75% in the latest version of the federal budget to emerge from Congressional negotiations.  According to

Just yesterday, Google outlined its principles around free expression on the Internet. Today, the company is going one step further. Google just released a new tool that is meant to

2010 brought with it a number of security issues - new regulations, technological changes - for small businesses, and there are many indications that security will continue to be an

The BBC will broadcast an hour-long special next Tuesday called The Joy of Stats and it looks great. Hosted by Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and

The Library of Congress and Columbia University are taking steps to assure we keep our maps intact through a partnership to provide best practices, methods and services to assist organizations

Google is facing another lawsuit today as two Oregonians have filed a writ in an Oregon district court. The writ is part of a class action lawsuit against Google accusing

Microsoft's Windows Azure DataMarket, the company's online store of various large data sets, has partnered with Colorado-based web mapping software service OnTerra Systems to offer a quick map view of

The Web is awash in "exchange data" - from apartment listings on Craigslist to job listings on LinkedIn, Monster and Twitter. There are handcrafted goods on Etsy and real estate

This week Microsoft announced its intentions to bring Hadoop to SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). PDW was introduced last year and brought centralized data warehousing capabilities to