By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) — The new U.S. intelligence czar is developing a computer system capable of data-mining huge amounts of information about everyday events to discern patterns that look like terrorist planning. The technology is reminiscent of the axed Total Information Awareness program.
Civil liberties and privacy advocates [...]

By Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer, SearchCRM.com
Gartner Inc. says it has seen the future for investment services firms, and it is not free checking.
According to the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm, business activity monitoring (BAM) and its brainier subset, complex event processing (CEP), have become make-or-break tools in investment services because they can predict, not just [...]

by James Borck, Information Age
Larger companies that have rolled out RFID have done so primarily in experimental, proof-of-concept deployments. These pioneers have quickly learned that RF-enabling the enterprise takes more than mere tags and interrogators. Deriving true business value demands tuning out the noise from RFID discussions and channelling their insights into the business logic [...]

Esper issues the first production release of its open-source Esper event-stream processing and event-correlation engine.
By Seth Grimes
The Esper development team has issued the first production release of its open-source Esper
event-stream processing and event-correlation engine.
It will compete with commercial complex-event processing (CEP) offerings, including StreamBase and Coral8, that also analyze high-volume, low-latency data [...]

Amlan Debnath is a vice president for the Oracle Server Technologies division and an evangelist for event-driven architecture (EDA), which might be called the lesser-known cousin of SOA. In this interview he talks about EDA and SOA, what technologies and standards they share, how they are different, as well as how they overlap. Read the [...]

by Nina Mehta
The full panoply of electronic trading devices was on display at the Securities Industry Association’s Technology Management Conference & Exhibit this year. Hawkers of order management systems, direct market access, algorithmic trading servers and high-speed data management were sprawled out over three floors of the Hilton New York.
Event streams processors were [...]