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Gartner Report Paints Bleak Future for Microsoft as Consumers Embrace Tablets
Uh oh, there could be trouble ahead… Or at least, it looks like there is for Microsoft anyway. New data from Gartner paints a less than rosy picture of the future for the Redmond firm, whose dominant PC market faces being overwhelmed by consumer’s preference for tablet devices over PCs. According to the research firm, ...
Health eHeart Big Data Study Looks To Enroll 1M Smartphone Users
If researchers at the University of California in San Francisco get their own way, that shiny smartphone you’re holding will become a new tool for medical research. Launched earlier this week, the new Health eHeart Study aims to sign up one million participants from around the world to use their smartphones to monitor their heart ...
Ignition Partners Scales Down To Focus On Enterprise IT & Big Data
If you’re looking for more evidence that “small really is beautiful”, look no further than Frank Artale’s Ignition Partners venture capital firm, which has just announced the closure of its fifth investment fund at a nicely rounded $150 million. That amount is of course less than half the size of Ignition’s previous fund, which totaled ...
Anonymous Hacks North Korea’s Social Media, Kim Jong-Un Morphs Into a Fat Pig
Just days after launching a DDoS attack and data leak on the North Korean news website Uriminzokkiri.com, Anonymous are at it again, hacking the communist state’s official Twitter and Flickr accounts, whilst defacing two of its websites in a bid to disrupt its online presence. Previously, we saw hackers purporting to belong to Anonymous swipe ...
Google Forks WebKit: Say Hello To “Blink”
After a marriage lasting almost 12 years, Google has decided to bid farewell to the WebKit rendering engine, upon which its open-source Chromium browser project is based. In its place, Google welcomes Blink, a new open-source rendering engine that’s based on WebKit, which from now on will become the driving force behind its popular Chrome ...
Big Data Startup DeepDB Grabs $10M Funding For Transactional Database
Investors just can’t get enough of Big Data startups at the minute, with the latest beneficiary of this goodwill being Deep Information Sciences. The Portsmouth, N.H-based startup has just acquired $10m in series A funding from sources including Stage 1 Ventures, Robert Davoli and others to help develop its ‘high-performing transactional and analytic database’. Readers ...
Big Data Traffic Jam: Smarter Lights, Happy Drivers
Los Angeles’ reputation for being an absolute nightmare for drivers is well-deserved, but a new traffic control system might just be able to ease some of their suffering. Almost three decades in the making, the city’s newly completed Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control System will synchronize all 4,500 traffic lights in the metropolis, with the ...
Hybrid Memory Cube Specs Finalized; Superfast 3D Memory Moves One Step Closer
The Hybrid Memory Cube consortium, a group backed by more than 100 tech companies including the three largest memory makers in the world, has announced the final specifications for its three-dimensional DRAM technology after 17 months of development. The aim of the new technology is to support a new kind of computer chip that merges ...
Firefox 20 Arrives As Mozilla Celebrates Its Birthday
Mozilla has just rolled out the latest update to its popular Firefox browser, adding new functionality to its ‘Private browsing’ mode, together with a new downloads manager and other enhancements. The new browser, Firefox 20, is available today on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android platforms. The latest version of Firefox offers a much better implementation ...
Is Bitcoin Heading Toward a Bubble? If so, When’s it Going to Burst?
The astonishing rise of Bitcoin’s value over the last few weeks has caught many by surprise, while even more have been left scratching their heads, asking what the hell everyone’s getting so excited about. For those who don’t know, here’s a quick snapshot: Bitcoin is an electronic or ‘virtual’ currency – a new kind of ...