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Newer, Faster Chips Save 30% On Cloud Computing Costs
New research has shown that it may be possible to cut the costs of cloud computing by 30%, but only if your data center server is using the right kind of chip. A team…
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Another Victim of the Internet: Ceefax Bites the Dust
The BBC’s Ceefax service, the world’s first teletext service, will finally be laid to rest this evening when the UK’s analogue TV signal is switched off for the last time. The UK is set…
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Anonymous Goes It Alone With Project TYLER: “WikiLeaks on Steroids”
Following last week’s high profile spat between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, reports from Russia say that the hacktivist collective is set to go it alone and launch its own “secure, no cost, decentralized” whistleblowing platform…
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Shock, Horror!! Pervy Porn Sites Grab 88% Of Teen’s Sexy Photos
In somewhat shocking but unsurprising news from the UK, a recent study suggest that as many as 88% of all “self-made” sexually explicit photos posted online by teenagers end up being stolen and posted…
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Yahoo Has $2B to Play With. Millennial Media on the Buy List?
With Yahoo struggling to pull in revenue through its online content creation businesses, new CEO Marissa Mayer is rumored to be planning a new direction for the company, one that will see it revert…
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NTT DoCoMo Offers Instant Phone Call Translation
The ability to speak a foreign language is a highly prized skill in today’s globalized world, what with cultures and peoples mixing more freely now than at any other time in history. Particularly in…
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Google Under Attack: Battered By Brazil and the EU
It hasn’t been the best of weekends for Google, with the search engine giant suddenly finding itself backed into a corner by angry publishers in both Brazil and the EU. Google’s biggest problem seems…
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Yahoo Pulls Out Of Korea, Conditions “Too Difficult”
Yahoo has just announced that it plans to dump the Korean search market, as part of new CEO Marissa Mayer’s ongoing efforts to realign the firm’s global business and streamline its operations. Mayer was…
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Thailand Sells Off 3G Licenses (At Last), But Implementation Could Still Be Years Off
Thailand has just completed its joke of a 3G auction, but even now the country’s long-suffering populace may have to wait months for high-speed mobile services to be implemented, a scandalous FOURTEEN years after…
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No More “Big Data” – Soon, It’ll Be “Just Data”
For those who can’t wait for next week’s Strata Hadoop World Conference in New York, when we can expect dozens of new developments in the big data world, a couple of interesting items came…