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Time To Ditch Android: ZTE’s Firefox Phone Finally Lands On eBay
If you’re at all like me and have been itching to get your hands on a funky new Firefox phone but unfortunately don’t live in one of the nine countries currently selling them, well today’s your lucky day. ZTE, the Chinese company that makes the Open Firefox phone, has just taken the rather unusual step ...
How Wearable Tech Will Take The Enterprise By Storm : Google Glass, iWatch and Beyond
Wearable tech is all the rage these days, with much of the talk about these devices centring on their use as entertainment and lifestyle aids. But there are many exciting potential use cases for wearable technologies in the enterprise as well – so exciting in fact, that some observers are saying that enterprise adoption is ...
How Ethical is Your Big Data?
Imagine this scenario: you go for a routine check-up at the hospital, but instead of the doctor giving you the all clear sign, he informs you that you’ve an extremely aggressive medical condition – one so aggressive, that even the doctors haven’t encountered it before. The medical team attempts to treat your condition, but unbeknown ...
VMware Bets on $700 Million Share Buyback as Virtualization Battle Heats Up
Virtualization software maker and all-round cloud computing giant VMware is betting that its stock could be worth a buyback. Yesterday the company announced its given authorization for as much as $700 million in share buybacks, with the shares available for purchase between now and the end of 2015. Transactions can take place either on the ...
“Hand of Thief” Malware Makes A Grab For Linux
So you thought you were safe from all the internet nasties – worms, Trojans, spyware and so on whilst tapping away on your Linux flavoured computer? Well, you might want to think again. Reports today have surfaced of a new kind of malware that’s specifically targeted at Linux users, which is being hawked on underground ...
iOS 7 Update Will Track & Display Your Every Move
Will Apple face a new privacy storm when it launches iOS 7? It feels like the dark clouds are looming above, for it’s been revealed that when it’s rolled out, iOS 7 will keep track of and display all of the locations that iPhone users have visited in the past. The new feature hasn’t been ...
China’s Leaders Warm Up to Big Data for Better Governance
China’s repressive internet regime is famous the world over, what with its “Great Firewall of China” put in place to block any sites that censors deem critical of the regime, not to mention the increasingly sophisticated systems it employs to suppress discussion of controversial subjects. China has long seen the internet as something dangerous, something ...
Google Chrome ‘Hacked’: How Your Passwords Can Be Exposed
If you’re one of the millions of people using Google Chrome as your preferred browser, and if you happen to have any important passwords saved within the browser itself, you might just want to reconsider how wise that is. Your data is, of course, at risk any time your computer is stolen, lost or borrowed ...
Crossbar’s Resistive RAM Chips: The Successor to Flash?
Santa Clara-based startup Crossbar has just announced a potentially game-changing new memory chip that it claims has the potential to replace standard flash memory in a number of applications. Crossbar calls its new technology Resistive RAM, and says that it has the ability to store up to a terabyte of data onto a single chip ...
Microsoft Slashes Cost of Surface Pro: A Sign of Failure?
Just a week after it slashed the price of its failed Surface RT tablets by $150, Microsoft has taken a similar drastic measure with the price of its premium Surface Pro, cutting the cost of the device by $100. As of today, the 64GB and 128GB versions of the Pro will be priced at $799 ...