In the days of yore parents pushed their children to pursue noble lucrative professions – doctor, lawyer, banker – but as times change they may soon encourage another career path: data scientist. Big data is being billed as the next big thing – the key to gaining

Hey, what should we do with our data? Perhaps you've heard, or asked, that question before. It's a common query these days, a byproduct of the growing interest -- some may say obsession -- with big data and data science. Unfortunately, it's not the right question to ask, says Steve Weber, a professor

Robin Bloor – author of a number of books like Cloud Computing for Dummies and Chief Analyst and Co-founder of the Bloor Group, has just finished telling an Australian audience this week that Big Data is not much more than an “utterly meaningless” term created by marketers.

In just a few years, MongoDB NoSQL software has assumed a prominent role in big data. One reason is that it was built from the ground up for horizontal scale-out and parallelism, according to Dwight Merriman, company chairman and co-founder. He saw the need for such parallelism in an earlier notable stay at online ad giant DoubleClick, which he also co-founded. Here, he speaks on MongoDB's roots, and where it is going.

A modest and geeky announcement by Google and a couple other big tech names on Thursday may be the summer’s biggest development in a continuing fight over the future of huge global computing.Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat, along with others, are joining Google in creating open source software to

Google has launched an official Google Analytics app for iPhone, providing the same data you’re used to from your web dashboard on your mobile device, including visits, sources, page views and user behavior insights. The app also offers Real Time reports, which provides monitoring of site activity as it unfolds.

Yahoo has made no secret of its ambitions and advances in mobile, earlier this month reporting 450 million monthly active users and search and display mobile ad revenues growing 100%. In CEO Marissa Mayer’s words, Yahoo is a “mobile first company.”

The personal information that your smart phone can collect about you is increasingly detailed. Apps can record your location, your level of exercise, the phone calls that you make and receive, the photographs that you take and who you share them with, and so on. Various studies have shown that this