Technology/Science
SNL Acquires Analytics Firm iPartners
SNL Insurance, a division of SNL, has acquired iPartners LLC, which offers analytics and reporting software and services that help insurers collect and analyze internal business data. Terms were not ...
Scientists Say Americans Becoming Weather Wimps; Statistics Prove It
We've become weather wimps. As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation last week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists ...
Researchers to Study Earthquakes in Central Virginia
Researchers are preparing to conduct a two-month study of earthquakes in central Virginia, a region that has a history of seismic activity. Twenty seismic stations are being installed for the study ...
Consumers Not Ready for Clunky Wearable Gadgets: CES Report
Despite the hoopla, wearable gadgets like wristwatches for checking your text messages or eyeglasses that capture video are unlikely to make a splash with consumers anytime soon, given the clumsy ...
3 More Well-Known But Unidentified Retailers Were Breach Victims: Reuters
Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants ...
Privacy Groups Worried About Gmail Links to Google+ Network
A new feature in Google Inc.'s Gmail will result in some users receiving messages from people with whom they have not shared their email addresses, raising concerns among some privacy advocates. The ...
Avoiding the Pitfalls and Pratfalls of a UBI Product Launch
Any usage-based auto insurance (UBI) product launch is vulnerable to common reversals that can slow or even derail the project. Some simply cause delays, but others have cost the clients significant ...
IBM Giving ‘Jeopardy’ Champion Watson Its Own Division
International Business Machines Corp. is turning Watson, the technology that triumphed over human "Jeopardy!" contestants, into a separate division to help the computing-services giant return to ...