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As most readers probably know by now, Julian Assange, Wikileaks' leader, has gone ahead with the release of 391,832 secret documents related to the war in Iraq. These documents cover

VMware is acquiring Gemstone, a Beaverton, Or.-based company that develops real-time caching and distributed database technologies that serves as an in-memory data fabric for masive data processing and transaction environments.

Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap "computing in the cloud" business that changed

Google just announced a new feature for mobile called Search History; users can opt-in to having their logged-in searches saved, starred, edited and accessed from across mobile or desktop searching.

Impure is a new programming language designed to give non-programmers access to professional tools for data visualization. Users can use it to process and display data from social media

Part of the complexity in the cloud comes down to how the data is managed within a cloud computing environment. But even a bigger challenge is how to move applications

Google Squared launched to a lot of hype earlier this year, but the initial reaction from most pundits was rather negative. Squared, which gathers and displays structured data, often returned

A study from earlier this summer by wireless vendor Meraki reveals some starting information based on the data collected across their customers' networks. Apple's iPad users are piggy when it

Where are you checking in? More importantly ... why are you checking in? In March, 16.7 million used location check-ins with services like Facebook Places, Foursquare and Gowalla, with 75%

PolicyMap is a new website that offers more than 4,000 points of data about any location in the United States, including demographics, real estate markets, crime, schools, housing affordability, employment