data mining

Yet another reputation management service strives to help you get a handle on how you look on the Web. But Intelius's TrueRep is a work in progress at best.

When CIOs elect to build software from scratch, analytics systems are a popular project. The hope is that companies can find new insight and competitive advantage using data they already have. Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts (KKR) built such a system.

Deloitte Consulting says that predictive analytics and data mining can focus corporate safety programs on high-risk tasks and people.

Bundle.com can recommend a restaurant or another service, based on the transactions of 25 million credit cards

Sounds like an infomercial doesn’t it? You too can enhance your privacy and make money from the comfort of your own home. No, you don’t have to stuff envelopes, sell Amway products, or become a money mule for Eastern European scam artists.

Benjamin Spock De Vries would like the world to know he is not a cyber terrorist.

EMC today introduced a free Community Edition of the its Greenplum Database, a high-performance massively parallel processing database product.

Businesses should not deploy open source software for data mining just because it is generally cheaper, an open source consultant has advised.

Evercookie is a JavaScript tool for data miners, was updated recently. Evercookie is a tracking cookie technology of sorts, but it's made using JavaScript, and it doesn't go away when you delete your browser's cookies.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt had some scary things to say about privacy yesterday.� In a nutshell, he said there's an almost incomprehensible amount of data out there about all of us -- much of which we've generated ourselves via social networks, blogs, and so on -- and we are totally unprepared to deal with the implications of that fact.