Subtitles should be promoted to all users
Subtitles (captioning) on videos is designed to help people with hearing impairments but it can benefit most users and should be promoted as such.
The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.
HP reverts to type
After Mike Lynch's resignation and 27,000 job cuts at HP do the company's software products have a future?
Objectivity and InfiniteGraph
InfiniteGraph is a graph database built on top of Objectivity/DB
Ancelus - Ancelus is an entity-relational database with extreme performance characteristics
Ancelus is a successor to ERDB, specifically for 64-bit MPP environments with continuous availability. It is suitable for OLTP, warehousing & hybrid environment
The problem with matching
What do you want from data matching/cleansing software? Key requirements, needless to say, are that the solution be inexpensive and easy to use.
IBM, Big Data, and its analytics solutions
My thoughts after being given an update on how IBM are progressing with the roll out of their BI and analytics suite following the recent spate of acquistions
Consuming big data, Advizor and EMC Greenplum
Advizor and Greenplum provide advice on how to get started in the exploration of Big Data
Alteryx, the next step
Alteryx release a new version - and this is what is new
Android: Ice Cream Sandwich Accessibliity
Android 4 has a built in screen reader. It is a major step forward but is not nearly enough
CEP and Big Data 2
Should it be called CEP? Is CEP only about real-time BI? These were questions we answered 6 years ago. Also, a mention of some Hadoop-based CEP engines.