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Earlier this month, Hugh E. Williams made the move from vice president of experience, search and platforms at eBay to senior vice president of research and development at Pivotal, the cloud computing and big data vendor that spun out of EMC and VMware in 2012. The move was officially announced on Wednesday, and he came on the Structure Show podcast to explain why, and how he expects his experience operating advanced infrastructure at web companies will help him lead the development of products that can make life easier for all types of companies.

Here are highlights of that talk, but you’ll want to listen to the whole thing for more details on specific use cases for big data and why he thinks Pivotal’s technology portfolio, in particular, is well suited for enterprise deployments.

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O Dropbox afirmou nesta ultima semana, que estava tendo progressos para restaurar o serviço após a conhecida plataforma de armazenamento de arquivos sair do ar na última sexta-feira.

Depois do anuncio Dropbox afirmou que mais de 99% dos usuários já podiam acessar seus arquivos. Mas 5% dos usuários estavam tendo problemas para sincronizar os arquivos a partir do cliente desktop, e cerca de 20% estavam tendo problemas com os aplicativos mobile do serviço.

“Em algumas horas, vamos liberar uma mudança que vai melhorar as coisas para esses usuários”, afirmou a empresa em seu blog.

O Dropbox negou as afirmações de que teria sido hackeado e atribuiu os problemas a “uma manutenção interna de rotina”.

Um dos problemas é relacionado ao uso de fotos no app. Ele desabilitou o compartilhamento de fotos e desligou a aba “Fotos” no dropbox.com. As fotografias ainda estão disponíveis por meio do cliente desktop e da…

Turning your entire house into one giant speaker is not only possible, but likely already probable. That is, provided all of the speakers in your house are AirPlay enabled. If they are, then it is surprisingly simple to send the audio from your iTunes music library to all of your speakers simultaneously.

To start, you will need to check and see if all of your speakers are truly Airplay enabled. If not, here are some suggestions for different types of AirPlay-enabled audio setups; or if you prefer, how to make your existing audio equipment, no matter how old it is, AirPlay enabled.

AirPlay audio equipment

Home theater receivers – More and more home theater components are becoming network devices, which includes adding in support for features like Apple’s AirPlay. A while back I took a look at Denon’s AVR–4311CI and its built-in AirPlay abilities. The advantage of…

The future of TV is a hotly debated topic. And while consumption of TV content has increased (Nielsen reports that the average American watches almost 34 hours each week) in many ways TV has resisted many of the technology revolutions that transformed other industries. These include the Internet, the advent of mobile and social and the “UI/UX is everything paradigm shift.” With newcomers like Google(s goog), Apple(s aapl)  and even Intel(s intc) now looking to disrupt the status quo, how can we try to model the future?

What if I said, “Just look to your pocket”? The evolution of television parallels another industry in an eerie way: the mobile phone evolution. Hear me out:

In the early days of mobile (which was not so long ago), various device manufacturers (HTC, Motorola, Nokia) and service providers (AT&T(s t), Verizon(s vz)) tried to develop their own ecosystems around their brands. Fragmentation…

The Orange Chef recently closed a $1.2 million round led by Google Ventures, and its new iPad-connected food scale, the Prep Pad, is about to hit the market. The San Francisco startup is well on its way to establishing its technology bona fides in the quantified kitchen. It may surprise you then to learn that the Orange Chef was never supposed to be a tech company.

When Santiago Merea founded the startup in 2011, he intended it to be kitchen accessories outfit — more Martha Stewart Living than internet of things. He was watching his wife cook from a recipe on her iPad, and to protect the tablet from spattering grease and flying garlic bits she covered it in a Ziplock bag. That’s where Merea got the idea for the Chef’s Sleeve, a form-fitting envelope that protects your iPad even as you pinch and scroll your way through…

Here we are — another week has passed by us and we are heading into the weekend. For those of you who are going to have sometime on your hands, check out these seven stories I read and loved this past week.

• My life working as a model in China — Meredith Hattam shares her fashion story and it isn’t what you think it is. Amazing and shocking tale!
• Looking for lessons in Iceland’s recovery — in other words, how did the nearly broke nation got is fiscal mojo back.
• Big Data + Big Pharma = Big Money — Yup, you got the gist of this story, but ProPublica has done an amazing job with this report.
• Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky’s State of the world 2014 –  The Well tradition.
• The White Ghetto — This story of Owsley County, Ky as told by Kevin Williamson will open your eyes to…