GigaOM Archive
24 May 2013
Adios, Dora: Netflix is starting to take Viacom shows offline
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Don’t ask Netflix subscribers: The video service removed Spongebob Squarepants, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, Blue’s Clues and other animated Nickeolodeon fare from its streaming library this week
24 May 2013
BYOD is for amateurs. Try bring-your-own-laboratory
Smartphones never cease to amaze me. I’m still impressed by how productive I’m able to be on my Android device no matter where I am (often to the chagrin of my wife), and I’m still surprised every
24 May 2013
Dodgy data: the iceberg to science’s Titanic
There’s an epidemic going on in science, and it’s not of the H7N9 bird flu variety. The groundbreaking, novel results that scientists are incentivized to publish (and which journalists are then compelled to cover) seem peppered with
23 May 2013
Box acquires Folders technology to enrich iOS offering
Box indicated on its blog Thursday that the cloud-storage company has “acquired the technology” for the Folders iOS app enabling users to open many kinds of files on the iPhone. The deal marks Box’s third acquisition, closely
23 May 2013
WibiData gets $15M to help it become the Hadoop application company
WibiData — the big data startup from Cloudera Co-founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball — doesn’t have too big of plans. It only wants to become one of the first, if not the first, company selling off-the-shelf
23 May 2013
6 things every CIO should know (or at least think about)
CIOs have a tough gig. They’re besieged by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) boom; have to keep up with the latest cloud services; they have to assess the value of the latest big data innovations; and often deal with