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Windows Blue Now Officially “Windows 8.1,” Available for Free This Summer
Microsoft has made an announcement about its soon-to-be-released “Windows Blue” update, officially naming the next iteration of its operating system as “Windows 8.1”. More important than the labeling however, is that Microsoft intends to make the update available for free to all Windows 8 users via a download in the Windows Store. The news came ...
No More Whoring: LinkedIn Bans Professional Escorts
LinkedIn claims to connect the world’s professionals and help them to further their career success, but for those with one particular type of skill set, there’ll be no more naughty business taking place within its confines. The world’s biggest professional networking site, which boasts more than 220 million users, has decided to ban prostitutes and ...
FBI Enlists US Bank’s Help To Head Off Iranian Cyber Attacks
In order to combat a wave of cyberattacks that have rattled the US banking industry since last year, the FBI has given certain banking executives extensive briefings of their classified investigations. The collaboration is part of a new policy being initiated by the FBI to try and foster closer cooperation between authorities and the private ...
Google I/O Goes Big Brother With Sensors Tracking Every Move You Make
Attendees at this week’s Google I/O event have unwittingly volunteered themselves as guinea pigs in an experiment being run by Google’s Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. That’s right. Google is planning to quite literally keep track of everything and everyone who attends its annual Google I/O summit in San Francisco later this week, by installing ...
Facebook’s Waze Acquisition Hits Major Snag Over Relocation
Facebook’s proposed $1 billion acquisition of the satellite navigation startup Waze appears to have hit a major snag, according to reports in Israel. The daily newspaper Calcalist is reporting that the talks, which were said to be in their “final stages”, have broken down following a row over the relocation of the company’s R&D center ...
Facebook “Kills Off” Social Roulette Before It Kills You
Would you play Russian Roulette with your digital life? The idea of committing ‘social suicide’, by which we mean deleting all of your Facebook, Twitter and whatever-else-have-you profiles has probably occurred to quite a few of us at one time or another. We all get strung out at times, what with the endless stream of ...
Why CIOS Need To Embrace Failure
It’s pretty depressing for CIOs and IT staff when their projects fail to get off the ground, but don’t be too disheartened if it happens to you. So long as these failures can lead to changes in your attitude towards experimentation and management, they don’t have to constitute a net loss. At least, that’s the ...
Android Gobbles Up The Competition, Runs on 59.5% Of All Devices Sold in Q1
The Android operating system might only be five and a half years old, but you would never of guessed that by its overwhelming dominance of the world’s mobile landscape. And according to at least one research firm, its grip on mobile is getting even stronger, as it now runs on a staggering 59.5% of all ...
NTT Docomo Invests $50M into Smart Car Traffic Services
NTT Docomo, Japan’s number one mobile carrier, is revving up for a push into the Smart Car space by using location data from the 61.5 million odd devices registered to it to create a platform that monitors traffic conditions in the country. Docomo, which made its announcement via press release, said that it plans to ...
Faceook Home Flops In Just One Month
So it’s not looking good for Facebook’s big push to takeover Android. One month on from its grand launch of Facebook Home, less than 0.1% of its 1.1 billion or so active users have actually installed the app, and even worse, it’s popularity’s dropping like a lead balloon. Facebook Home actually got off to a ...