New Interest in Hacking as Threat to U.S. Security. Big Data, Trust, and Reliability: Can Microsoft Still Play a Role? The freedom of data from the constraints of single volumes and its expansion to Web-wide scale is no longer a trend.
It is an event which, for many companies, has already happened. The result is a completely new landscape, which appears to have taken Microsoft by surprise. This week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, the company whose Trustworthy Computing initiative in 2002 was seen as euphemistic for "Big Brother," is now fighting to keep its seat at the discussion table. Blog Archive » The Web’s third frontier. Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development.
One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Functional explanations emphasize the real time web, collaborative systems and location-based services.