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American firms are being advised not to do business with China’s two leading telecom companies because they pose a significant national security risk, warned a US congressional panel. The House Intelligence Committee recommends that the two firms – Huawei and ZTE – …
Microsoft Uses Big Data To Help Save The World’s Most Endangered Species
The animal kingdom has a lot to thank big data for. Following last week’s news that Japanese scientists are mapping bluefin tuna populations to ensure a sustainable supply of sushi, Microsoft’s engineers are getting in on the act as well, lending a …
Time To Make Sense of Tumblr with Union Metrics Analytics Tool
Blogging platform Tumblr has teamed up with Union Metrics to finally be able to offer its users the chance to visualize and analyze traffic. The data visualization and analytics platform was unveiled by Tumblr’s marketing and revenue consultant Rick Webb, reports The …
Good Riddance, Steve Jobs
One year on from Steve Job’s death and yet again we see the fanboy crowd come out in full force, stampeding over each other in their desperation to lavish praise on their hero as if he was some kind of demi-god. Jobs’ …
Keccak Chosen as SHA-3 Competition Winner, But Will Take Years To Make Its Mark
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finally chosen a replacement for one of the most widely-used computer security algorithms, following a five year contest among the world’s leading cryptographers. NIST hopes that the new algorithm will reassure those security …
ZocDoc “Checks In” So You Can Check Out Faster
ZocDoc, the web-based medical booking platform that allows users to find and book appointments with doctors online, has added a new feature to its service that aims to speed up the whole ‘checking in’ process by letting patients fill out those irritating …
Big Data Startup Trifacta Sets Its Sights On The Holy Grail
Gathering big data, crunching it, storing it somewhere – all of this is relatively easy thanks to the Moore’s Law and the unstoppable march of storage technology. The difficulty with big data comes with trying to glean actual information from it, and …
Screw The Advertisers, Let’s Start Selling Our Data
Are you sick of advertisers tracking your every move online? If so, then join the club – according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, almost two thirds of Americans feel exactly the same way, yet the online behavioral advertising industry (as …
Ellison: No More Major Acquisitions, Oracle’s Focus is on Cloud Products
Despite rumors to the contrary, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has insisted that the world’s 3rd biggest software maker is not pursuing any more acquisitions, claiming that the company is fully focused on promoting its current suite of cloud products. Speaking to CNBC’s …
Big Brother’s Big Data: New Data Strategies for a Digital World
Governments have already enjoyed some limited success through their intelligent use of big data, combating water shortage problems and fighting crime amongst other things, but up until now these projects have largely been localized ones, affecting very small segments of the population. …