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RIM makes a tablet play
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The company smartly tries to court its core audience of BlackBerry users as well as expand its reach with its new Playbook tablet.
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NoSQL Is Not Everywhere
0How many places really use NoSQL? Facebook, one of the largest sites on the Internet, has had their Cassandra database service receive a lot of press over the last year. In pointing to them as an example, many technologists use the argument that if Facebook uses Cassandra to run their extremely data intensive business, then it ought to be good enough for the rest of us.
Cassandra might be great for your business, but is it the best choice? How does that argument apply when Microsoft.com, also one of the largest web sites in the world, serves millions of users a day with SQL Server as the back end? Twitter also uses an RDBMS to store it’s tweets. It uses the MySQL database, an RDBMS, though they are investigating and integrating Cassandra in places.
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Hundreds of Netflix users rated 50,000 movies, shows
0Some Netflix users are extremely busy. Leaked internal documents show that hundreds of the rental company’s users have rated more than 50,000 films and TV shows.
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iOS 4.2 turns iPad's screen lock into volume switch
0The developer build of iOS 4.2 brings with it a handful of changes, one of which changes some hardware functionality users may be accustomed to.
CBS News app for iPad lifts off
0New iPad app brings users the latest news from CBSNews.com as well as content from such programs as “The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” and “The Early Show.”
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