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Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of a free technology preview of Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime for Windows Azure. Using a set of tools for working with big data

A new study from research firm Forrester shows that consumer attitudes towards Internet security are significantly changing. Consumers are now more aware of cyber security and are taking more steps

Delicious, Yahoo's online bookmarking tool, only forces a very loose organization upon its users. While this straightforward method is great for most users, it can often make finding bookmarks harder

Teens' text-messaging habits are legion. They send thousands upon thousands of texts per month, and every once in a while, some unfortunate parents make the headlines when they get a

Yesterday SMART@znmeb (SMART stands for "social media analytics research toolkit"), a SUSE Linux appliance created by Ed Borasky, added sentiment analysis to its set of features. The toolkit now

Cloth sensors could make the Internet of Things fashionable. MIT scientists announced this week that they have created a new kind of fiber capable of detecting and emitting sound. "Throughout

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. It wasn't pure research, but rather a culture of taking sufficient risks to get products

When the Supreme Court ruled last month on the Bilksi case, denying Bilski's patent claim that Bilksi's patent but not making any real statements on the overall patentability of business

Even though baby boomers make up more than one quarter of all US Internet users, and even though the majority of this group spends over five hour per week online,

IBM's research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create 'voice' sites using mobile phones according to a