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How Dimension Data Is Keeping Track of Entire Tour de France

One can find big data in almost anything. There is big data inside baseball statistics, weather conditions, census reports and traffic-flow studies.The Tour de...

Hiri Takes On the Challenge of Reinventing Email

In a 2012, Paul Graham, co-founder of venture capital firm Y Combinator (which has invested in Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe and Reddit, among others), wrote...

eWEEKchat July 13: Hot New Trends, Products in Health Care IT

On Wednesday, July 13, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 45th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be "Hot...

Google DeepMind Just Made Eye Disease an AI Challenge

Google DeepMind is engaged in a medical research partnership with England's Moorfields Eye Hospital, in an effort to more quickly and effectively treat eye...

Google Acquires French Startup for Image-Recognition IP

Google is known for plenty of innovation emanating from within its own walls, but sometimes it's simpler and more direct to buy specific types...

Key Problem in Clinton Email Case: Backward Regulations

History recorded the first successful email event going across disparate networks as occurring way back on Nov. 22, 1977, when data flowed seamlessly from...

Obama Administration Launches Data-Driven Justice Initiative

The Obama administration, which eight years ago instituted a "Cloud First" IT modernization policy for all federal offices and agencies, on June 30 issued...

Obama Administration Releases $150M in Grants for TechHire

The Obama administration is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to investing in tech education projects.On June 27, the U.S....

Obama Talks Innovation at Global Entrepreneurship Event

President Barack Obama made a visit to the Stanford University campus June 24, meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage at Memorial Auditorium...

Why Use of Video at Congress Sit-In Was Watershed IT Moment

Back in the early '70s, when sit-ins, demonstrations and heated gatherings of all types were often staged to protest the Vietnam War and lack...