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ARM Steps Up To Power The Internet Of Things
UK mobile chip maker ARM is refusing to stand still. In the coming months we’re expecting a slew of new ARM-based tablets to arrive, including Apple’s latest iPad and Nokia’s first Windows RT slate, not too mention the brand new iPhone. But ARM’s no longer satisfied with ruling the roost on the mobile scene – ...
VMware’s Focus on Existing Customers As It Drives Virtualization Deeper
One of the biggest challenges for Vmware over the next few years lies in sustaining its current leadership, and to do so the vendor is seizing the opportunity to go deeper with its existing partners with new solutions that will help them to integrate virtualization even tighter with their customer’s IT environments. Kicking off its ...
Ballmer’s Successor Faces Unenviable Job Cleaning Up His Mess
Few people will say it, but under outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer’s leadership, Microsoft has been enormously successful, growing and expanding, innovating, raking in billions of dollars for its shareholders. The profits are clear for all to see. Windows and Office continue to be cash cows. On the innovation side of things we’ve seen some brilliant ...
Why Yahoo’s ComScore Crown Doesn’t Mean Crap
Yahoo raised a few eyebrows yesterday when ComScore reported that its home page drew more hits than that of Google’s, leading some to speculate that it might finally be winning over new users after years in the doldrums. That could be so – but then again, could these stats be misleading us? After all ComScore’s ...
Lenovo Snubs Microsoft With Pokki’s “Real” Start Menu & App Store
Microsoft might be confident that its forthcoming Windows 8.1 updates will be enough to satisfy the legions of critics who’ve made a hobby out of bashing its latest OS, it seems that the world’s largest PC maker is less convinced. Fact is, as good as Microsoft’s planned updates might sound (bringing back the Start button, ...
Your Privacy Isn’t Google’s Concern, It’s Yours Alone
Last week the Consumer Watchdog turned up some court filings from Google in which, the search giant apparently claimed that users of its Gmail service didn’t have any legitimate right to expect their emails to be private. The apparent ‘admission’ set off alarm bells all over the web, with the Consumer Watchdog recommending that people ...
SmartThings – The Easy Way To Automate Your Home & Office
Lots has been written about what the Internet of Things will mean, with visions of smart office buildings equipped with sensors that track activity, responding by turning things on and off automatically, regulating the temperature and so on, but few of these offices actually exist. Problem is, smart offices require a significant investment in these ...
Can US Cloud Companies Can Put A Stop To The NSA’s Spying?
Yet more evidence has emerged about how damaging the NSA’s PRISM program has been for US tech firms since Ed Snowden first revealed its existence, but the question is now, do these same corporations have enough power to put a stop to it? One undeniable fact about the United States of America, since it booted ...
Facebook’s Mission To Connect The World: Noble, But It’s All About The Money
Facebook stole the headlines this morning with the announcement of its new master plan to connect the more than five billion people living in the world who’re stil unable to access, or only have limited access, to the internet. The drive, which was announced by Mark Zuckerberg in a blog post and the New York ...
How The Gambling Industry Is Betting On Big Data
Banks, retailers, Google, the NSA, they all lover their data. But one of the more intriguing use cases for Big Data involves the gambling industry, a sector that’s so reliant on number crunching and intelligent prediction that it’s been left with little choice to grab a hold of its masses of data and exploit it ...