Last week represented the first time in history that more people used mobile phones and tablets to visit online stores than using computers. Looking at data from over 100,000 ecommerce stores that use the Shopify platform, we saw 50.3% of…
Tableau, Infosys Form BI Partnership
Tableau Software, a data discovery and emerging analytics vendor, has teamed up with Indian IT outsourcer Infosys in a BI partnership that aims to help both companies capitalize on big data. The partnership will essentially combine the strengths of each company, as…
Android Lollipop (5.0) Rollout Delayed
If you were wondering why your Nexus or Google Play Edition phone hadn't received an over the air (OTA) update delivering Android 5.0, the answer appears to be that Google is ironing out some serious bugs that would have made it unwelcome in the…
HP’S MOVE INTO 3D PRINTING WILL RADICALLY CHANGE MANUFACTURING
HP's announcement this week that it's entering the 3D printing market with an industrial machine that is 10 times faster and 50% cheaper than current emerging systems. HP's new 3D printer is aimed at manufacturing, not consumers "The question is, will it…
Tableau 8.2 brings data to the Mac
"Mac users now have simpler and more seamless access to their data using this new version of Tableau Desktop. It's specifically designed from the ground up to take advantage of the user interface and rich Retina displays that the Mac…
OS X Yosemite Public Beta Nears Release
Apple may release a public beta for OS X Yosemite as early as next week, according to an online report. Citing "sources briefed on the plans," 9to5Mac asserted that Apple plans to ship the public beta of Yosemite -- prosaically…
RED ALERT! App
Last night I downloaded the red alert app even though I'm not living in Israel. I wanted to how often the siren was really going off and what it would feel like to be disrupted during my day. Well since…