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It appears that offering all-you-can-eat data packages for its smartphone customers has tempted a fair number of customers after UK mobile operator Three announced that data now constitutes 97% of the network traffic flowing through its networks.

Three is now the UK’s fastest growing mobile network, buoyed by an increase in mobile consumers switching from its rivals with promises of unlimited data on both its monthly and pay-as-you-go tariffs, resulting in a 427% increase in data usage on its networks, as customers use their connections to download apps, stream films and TV shows and check their social networking accounts on the go.

Last week, video eyewear maker Vuzix announced (pdf) that it has partnered with cell phone maker Nokia to produce the next generation of see-through near-eye display (NED) glasses. The glasses will use Exit Pupil Expanding (EPE) optics technology developed by both Vuzix and Nokia.Vuzix, which has been developing display technologies for the military since 1997, credits itself with creating the consumer video eyewear market, which it did in 2005 with the release of the V920 glasses. 

Nokia-enhanced NED glasses

Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia launched a new company today called Odiago, whose WibiData product utilizes Hadoop and HBase to let businesses make the most of online user data. The details around investors (Eric Schmidt, Mike Olson and SV Angel) and Bisciglia’s history at Cloudera and Google have made the rounds already, but what’s not as widely known is how WibiData actually works.

Here’s how Monash describes the essence of WibiData: WibiData is designed for management of, investigative analytics on, and operational analytics on consumer internet data, the main examples of which are web site traffic and personalization and their analogues for games and/or mobile devices. The core WibiData technology, built on HBase and Hadoop,* is a data management and analytic execution layer. That’s where the secret sauce resides. Also included are: