Microsoft has announced general availability of Apache Spark support for the Azure HDInsight cloud-hosted service for big data analytics, bringing the advantages of the Spark platform for in-memory processing...
Privacy campaigners have criticised plans for a "strategic data-sharing initiative" targeting people in Greater Manchester that will create a database of citizen information from all public-sector databases...
A Russian social media site called VK.com has had 100 million records stolen as hackers continue to target big sites. LinkedIn and Myspace also saw huge amounts of data from hacks dumped online. The...
Most smartphones are much the same these days, and even sub-£200 devices offer high-quality specs and svelte design. It was not always so. V3 has put together a little round-up of five of the worst...