Data mining specialist, SAS Institute, is in talks with a major pharmaceutical company which could result in bespoke medication based on the genetic make-up of individual people. According to Helton, the first real benefit will be to identify...
Software distributed under an "enhanced source" licence released this week will be legally prohibited from censoring or spying on users. Crafted by Hacktivismo, a hacking group organised by the Cult of the Dead Cow, the Hacktivismo enhanced-source...
now owns, and a self-proclaimed geek who holds a doctoral degree in data mining. Within the division's first year, it authored several academic papers, filed several patents related to search technology, and helped integrate Overture's web search...
The models for open source and proprietary products may be different but the total costs are not, according to Gavin Whatrup, IT director at Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners. IT leaders are probably realising that to really benefit from open...
The JBoss deal is "probably one of the strongest proof points to date that different types of business and development models can exist on Windows", he said. One company not likely to benefit from the partnership is IBM, whose WebSphere product...
Open source continues to increase its reach into colleges and universities, with three-quarters considering it when shopping for IT. Research by OSS Watch found that most institutions (69 per cent) have deployed open source on their servers.