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Facebook opens the door to anonymous Tor users
Facebook Inc., has finally opened up to users of the Tor network, which lets people browse the Internet anonymously. Tor, which was launched in 2002, gives people a way to surf the Web without giving away information such as their IP address and location, which can be used to identify them. It doesn’t just let ...
IBM wants to become a superpower in social media analysis
The marriage of Big Data with business intelligence is still evolving, but already it’s become an industry that’s worth multiple billions of dollars. Organizations are falling over themselves to transform their Big Data into actionable insights, and now IBM and Twitter Inc. are getting in on the act. The partnership, which was announced earlier this ...
Pure Storage joins forces with OpenStack
OpenStack might still have plenty of detractors who say it’s an over-hyped and immature technology, but the number of backers continues to grow. Yesterday, Flash storage vendor Pure Storage Inc., became the latest company to pledge support for the OpenStack Foundation, joining a long list of tech firms who believe in its potential to build ...
CoreOS delivers private Docker registries for the enterprise
Linux vendor CoreOS has made its Docker-centric Enterprise Registry available as a standalone product. Now, the product can be used with any Docker-enabled operating system, having previously only been available as part of CoreOS’s Premium Managed Linux service. With the Enterprise Registry software, companies can store and manage images of their Docker apps using any ...
Lenovo completes Motorola buy, becomes major mobile player
Last January it was announced Google Inc. had agreed to sell off its subsidiary Motorola Motobility to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. in a deal worth some $2.91 billion. Now, the acquisition has finally been completed and sees Lenovo suddenly become the world’s number three smartphone maker, according to its CEO Yang Yuanqing. The terms of ...
EMC makes a late hybrid cloud play with triple acquisition
Just when you thought EMC Corp. couldn’t be any busier, it’s gone and acquired no less than three cloud startups in one fell swoop – The Cloudscaling Group Inc., Maginatics Inc., and Spanning Cloud Apps Inc. Apparently these weren’t impulsive buys. Each company has been carefully chosen to fulfil a key part of EMC’s hybrid ...
Google wants to inject Robots into your blood
Google Inc., has made no secret of its obsession with search, but it’s about to take things to the extreme with the development of nanoparticles that can be injected into people to seek out diseases like cancer. The idea was announced at the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.D Live conference Tuesday. Google’s nanoparticles will be able ...
Verizon Wireless uses invisible code to track mobile customers
For the last two years, Verizon Wireless has been secretly tracking its customers online by adding tokens or ‘permacookies’ to web requests made over its cellular network. The data is used to build profiles of its users for advertising purposes, and it collects data even if people opt out of the program. According to Wired.com, ...
Drone strike: Pilot claims quadcopter was “deliberately” flown at passenger plane
As if drunk passengers, extreme turbulence, volcanic ash clouds and terrorists weren’t enough, pilots now have to be on the lookout for yet another threat – unnmanned flying drones being purposefully flown towards them. Such an event apparently occurred earlier this year, according to a report from the UK’s Airprox Board, which is responsible for ...
Pure Storage plots all-flash assault on hyper-converged systems
Pure Storage Inc., the all-flash array vendor, has just given the strongest hint yet that it’s about to change direction and start building hyper-converged systems as part of an assault on the commodity server hardware market. In a blog post to celebrate the company’s fifth birthday, Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen effectively stated his intent ...