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SDL Wants To Translate Your Foreign Big Data
Organizations can yield a veritable gold mine of insights and opportunities from their Big Data streams, but what happens when their text-based data comes in a mish-mash of foreign languages? For companies that operate on an international level, there’s no doubt that opportunities increase exponentially as the data flows in from all corners of the globe, ...
Microsoft Brings Back Flash: Should We Be Worried?
This week saw a big reversal from Microsoft as it rolled out a fresh update for the Windows 8 and RT versions of Internet Explorer 10, enabling Flash content to run by default for the first time. According to Microsoft, the move will ensure that websites “just work”, vastly improving the Windows experience for its ...
Lenovo Wants to Repeat History With BlackBerry
Will Lenovo really end up buying BlackBerry? We can’t say for sure, but it’s fair to say that such a move is looking a lot more likely following comments by CEO Yang Yuanqing to French media earlier this week. Speaking to the newspaper Les Echos, Yuanqing agreed that acquiring BlackBerry “could make sense”, although he ...
Google Wants To Help Hacked Sites
There’s been a spate of high-profile hacks over the last month or so, with big names including Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Evernote all falling victim to malware. It might not be clear who is responsible for these attacks or how exactly they got away with it, but if there’s one thing we can take home ...
Gartner: Big Data Finally Going Mainstream
Big Data has become such a big buzzword in tech these days that anyone who’s anyone is desperate to get in on the action. And there’s good reason for that too, for the sheer amount of data that’s being collected by companies around the world is truly astonishing. What with websites and devices gathering petabytes ...
France Wants Skype To Pay Tax: Microsoft Says “Screw You”
The French really aren’t a happy bunch at the minute, or at least they’re not when it comes to American tech firms. Having spent the best part of a year chasing Google for its alleged anticompetitive behavior and its Google News service, it’s now turned its attention Microsoft. This time round it’s the turn of ...
China: The New Hub of Fake 3D Printing?
Anyone with even the remotest bit of ‘geekiness’ about them will have heard of the 3D printer by now. In case you haven’t, here’s a quick look at the technology and what it’s capable of – in short, 3D printers are like one of those futuristic replicator machines straight out of Star Trek. They take ...
With Just One Radical Step, Windows 8 Will Reclaim The Enterprise
A lot’s been said about Microsoft’s efforts to kill BYOD with Windows 8 and its new Surface Pro tablet. While some commentators have been bullish about its chances of success, insisting that Android and iOS devices just don’t have any place in the enterprise, the vast majority are yet to be convinced, with some even ...
Facebook “Likes” Guessing Your Personality Traits
Do you prefer curly French fries over straight ones? If not, then you’re stupid, or at least you are if you happened to indicate this preference over on Facebook. According to a recent study by Cambridge University that attempted to ‘guess’ people’s personalities based on their Facebook ‘likes’, those who publicly declared an affinity with ...
Uproar Over Amazon’s Plans for Worldwide Web Book Domination
As the planned expansion of internet domain suffixes draws closer, a number of publishing industry groups have voiced their opposition to the decidely ominous attempts of Amazon.com to secure exclusive rights to the domain names “.book”, “.read” and “.author, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today. Leading the critics is the Author’s ...