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Facebook and MySpace Announce Mashup Project

(Nov. 18) -- How the mighty have fallen. In an exclusive Web announcement, MySpace, the former giant in social networking, introduced plans for a "mashup" with Facebook, the reigning king of connectivity. The new initiative allows MySpace to improve its service by utilizing data contained on Facebook's profile pages....

Targets and Touches: Dwayne Bowe Is Way Too Solid

Fantasy football is all about opportunities. When your players are getting looks, they're usually producing. Targets & Touches is a weekly column that analyzes backfield touches data as well as trends for runners, receivers and tight ends being targeted by their quarterbacks. Let's break it down ... Running...

How to Keep Your Info Safe From Future Mark Zuckerbergs

(Oct. 1) -- A little movie by the name of "The Social Network" opens in theaters nationwide this weekend, and though the overwhelmingly positive reviews are already in, the debate has just begun over what effect the film will have on the popular perception of Facebook, and more specifically, on its founder, Mark...

Highway Deaths at Lowest Level in 60 Years

(Sept. 9) -- Fewer people died on U.S. highways last year than in any year since 1950 -- a huge drop in fatalities that the government credits to greater use of seat belts, safer cars and tougher drunken driving laws. In 2009, 33,808 people died in U.S. car crashes -- a 9.7 percent drop from the previous year, according...

For New AT&T Users, No More 'All You Can Eat' Data

NEW YORK (June 3) -- Just in time for the release of a new iPhone, AT&T will stop letting new customers sign up for its unlimited Internet data plan for smart phones and iPads and charge more for users who hog the most bandwidth. AT&T hopes to ease congestion on its network, which has drawn complaints, particularly in big...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST - TECHNOLOGY

Steve Hamby: 2012: The Year of the Semantic Web -- Revisited!

Six months after blogging that 2012 would be the Year of the Semantic Web, I am now sharing some recent events that are indeed suggesting this prediction to be true.

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Junar Nabs $1.2M To Help Small Government, Business Unlock Big Data

Last month, San Francisco unveiled a new cloud-based open data site as part of its move to adopt cloud services and, in turn, to encourage open government, transparency and accountability by improving access to data and information.

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06/01/12 HMS Selects ViaWest for Disaster Recovery and... Source: TMCnet ViaWest, a provider of data center, cloud computing and managed services, announced that it is going to deliver reliable colocation, managed bandwidth, disaster recovery and temporary office space solutions to HMS, a provider of cost containment healthcare solutions.
06/01/12 Steve Hamby: 2012: The Year of the Semantic Web --... Source: The Huffington Post - Technology Six months after blogging that 2012 would be the Year of the Semantic Web, I am now sharing some recent events that are indeed suggesting this prediction to be true.
06/01/12 OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Enhanced Data Model... Source: Directions Magazine The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGCÂ®) membership seeks comments on an OGC candidate standard, the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Encoding Standard.
06/01/12 Video is Data Source: Stores At ClickIt we regard video as data â at its most simplistic level, 0s and 1s written to a hard drive.
06/01/12 Data Storage Corporation CTO Matthew Grosso and Senior... Source: TMCnet (Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) GARDEN CITY, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 06/01/12 -- Data Storage Corporation (OTCBB: DTST), long-standing leader in cloud storage and cloud computing for over 10 years focusing on data protection and business continuity solutions, today announced its participation at the invitation-only Asigra Partner Summit 2012 which takes place June 11th through 13th, 2012, at the Sheraton Center in downtown Toronto, Canada.

Background on data

Data ( , , or ) are values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items. Data in computing (or data processing) are often represented by a combination of items organized in rows and multiple variables organized in columns.

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