Q&A: ESRI's Jack Dangermond on cloud, big data and Apple-vs-Google map wars
GIS pioneer Jack Dangermond founded ESRI in 1969 and has steered the company since the mainframe era. With today's announcement of ArcGIS Online organizational subscriptions, he sees ESRI's evolution into the era of cloud and mobile computing. (Insider, registration required.)
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ESRI rolls out ArcGIS map services for the cloud
ESRI today is slated to roll out an ambitious cloud offering for government and enterprise customers that allows users to create data-driven maps and map services without ArcGIS servers or desktop software.
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Chinese police investigate Foxconn worker's fatal fall
A worker at a Foxconn facility in southwestern China fell to his death on Wednesday, just a week after a dispute erupted with company employees in the same city.
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Verizon defends new shared data plans
The head of marketing at Verizon Wireless has defended the new shared data plans that take effect June 28 against criticism from some analysts and many outraged customers.
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Nokia plans to cut 10,000 staff by end 2013, sells Vertu
Nokia said it plans to cut up to 10,000 positions globally by the end of 2013 and is selling luxury phone maker Vertu in a bid to cut costs, even as it plans to boost investments in feature phones and smartphones based on the Windows Phone operating system.
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Alleged Lulzsec member, Ryan Cleary, indicted in U.S.
A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted Ryan Cleary, a British citizen, accusing him of orchestrating a hacking rampage last year that victimized Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Entertainment Group and others.
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Facebook, Twitter, Google, AOL join alliance to fight 'bad ads'
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and AOL have joined an alliance set up to counter "bad ads," including those that deliver malware, direct users to scams, or try to sell counterfeit goods, said StopBadware, the promoters of the alliance.
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AT&T works on expanding Toggle BYOD service to PCs, Macs
AT&T plans to extend its dual-personality software for mobile devices, called Toggle, to provide a walled-off and encrypted work environment within PCs and Macs as well as mobile devices.
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Twitter looks to get more interactive with expanded tweets
Twitter is updating its "expanded tweets" feature, giving users more previews, images and videos from a growing list of news outlets.
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Facebook tackles Hadoop Achilles' Heel
Running what they believe is the world's largest Hadoop-based collection of data, Facebook engineers have developed a way to circumnavigate a core weakness of the data analysis platform, that of relying on only a single name server to coordinate all operations.
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