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PC Shipments Slump Again As Lenovo Skips Past HP
Things are going from bad to worse for OEMs in the PC industry, which has reportedly entered the longest slump in its history with a 10.9% decline in shipments over the last quarter. Altogether, the research firm Gartner reports that global PC shipments have fallen to just 76 million units for the second quarter of ...
Apple Ebook Price-Fixing Ruling Plays Right into the Hands of Amazon
In a ruling that could have massive implications for the electronic book industry, a federal judge has found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to fix the price of e-books, and has called for a trial to ascertain how much damages the Cupertino-based firm will have to pay. US District Judge Denise L. Cote’s ruling ...
Is Iran Really Planning To Shut Off Access To The Web?
Iran’s plans to create a domestic email service and assign each citizen a government email address have led to renewed speculation that the Islamic Republic wants to shut down the World Wide Web and replace it with its own domestic intranet. Recently, Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rowhani has spoken publicly in support of greater internet freedoms, ...
Big Data’s Still On Track To Save The World
Big Data’s reputation has taken a bit of a battering lately thanks to allegations that the NSA is collecting and storing people’s web and phone records, leading to a wider debate about the appropriateness of such extensive data-gathering operations. But this negative publicity detracts from the reality of Big Data today, which for the most ...
Factual Pushes Targeted Mobile Ads with Location-Based Big Data
Big Data company Factual has just rolled out two new products that should helps its clients to extract even greater insights from the location-based data it specialized in. The five-year old Los Angeles-based company has just announced Geopulse Audience and Geopulse Proximity, two new services designed to facilitate mobile app personalization and advertising. By using ...
How To Ditch Google: Alternatives For Every Google Product Known To Man
Of all the companies implicated in the NSA – PRISM scandal, Google’s involvement has to be the most worrisome. Reason being, practically 99% of the world’s internet users (if we exclude China) must be using at least one Google service or product, and in most cases they’ll be using dozens. Be it search, email, news, ...
What Chance a Nikon Smartphone?
More than a few consumers these days are content to give up on the idea of buying a camera, instead settling for whatever happens to be built into their smartphones, especially now that the quality of these optics has improved immeasurably in recent years. From the consumer’s perspective, it’s cost-efficient and convenient, as it only ...
Don’t Stuff your Big Data in a Woman’s Handbag
All kinds of businesses are looking to get into the Big Data game, but a worryingly high number of them are doing so without fully understanding what they’re getting themselves into. It’s one thing to collect and store masses and masses of data, but doing so is only half the battle – companies also need ...
Your Metadata: Here’s What It Can Reveal About You
One of the most oft-heard claims to come out of officials mouths since this whole NSA-PRISM thing first became public knowledge is that the spooks are ‘only’ collecting metadata, rather than reading the content of your emails. But does that lack of readable content mean the NSA knows any less about you and those you’re ...
AT&T Wants To Sell Everything It Knows About You
In a glorious example of spectacular bad timing (or should we say, arrogance), AT&T has just gone and updated its privacy policy, noting that it plans to start selling its customer’s data to marketers and (we presume) anyone else who’s prepared to pay for it. AT&T assures us that all data will be anonymized and ...