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Semantic Advancements

By Melody Smith | May 8, 2015

Expert System is known for their semantic technology advancements. Now, with a new partnership with MongoDB to integrate its Cogito semantic technology with MongoDB powered big data environments, users can quickly and accurately access unstructured data.

New Territory for Privacy Laws

By Melody Smith | May 8, 2015

Australia has passed a controversial security law that will require its internet and mobile phone providers to store customer data for two years. This much contested government bill got Senate approval by 43 votes to 16, with the support of the opposition Labor party.

Finding Relevance

By Melody Smith | May 7, 2015

Rovi Corporation introduced the industry’s lastest and some say most robust metadata product, Rovi Knowledge Graph.

Making Content Findable Through Dynamic Search

By Melody Smith | May 7, 2015

An artificial intelligence-based site search technology has been launched to offer the best possible search experience. ThatNeedle.com is based on the company’s proprietary natural language processing technology and semantic search.

Flexibility for Users in Classification

By Melody Smith | May 6, 2015

TITUS has released Classification Suite 4. The new version of its data identification and information protection suite uses content and context to automatically classify and protect information as users handle it, and allows manual and guided classification for maximum flexibility and user engagement.

Choosing Storage Carefully

By Melody Smith | May 6, 2015

Cloud storage is fast becoming the desired solution driving users’ decisions. It seems like the perfect answer to a complicated space issue. However, there are some factors around cloud storage that would behoove anyone considering it to remember.

Google Brings Changes

By Melody Smith | May 5, 2015

A couple weeks ago, Google changed its algorithm to give preference to ‘mobile-friendly’ sites when users perform a search on a mobile device. The change was coined as ‘Mobilegeddon’ because of the potential to bury websites that haven’t been optimized to display correctly on various sizes of mobile devices, while also boosting the ranking of mobile-friendly sites.

Crowdsourcing Funds to Preserve Language

By Melody Smith | May 5, 2015

The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) has cataloged vernacular terms and idioms from around the country since it was founded in the early 1960s, Sadly, their funding is coming up empty. Previously funded by various grants, including endowments from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project will run out of money this summer.

Securing the Data

By Melody Smith | May 5, 2015

Data security breaches have not been limited to one particular type of business. Retailers have been victims, as has the healthcare industry. Ironically, education institutions also suffer data breaches at a rate of just over one per week. But the real victims have been the customers and patients who trusted their most personal information to these organizations while assuming that those organizations’ security measures would be enough.