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ComScore US Digital Report: One Third of Display Ads Never Seen
ComScore has just released its Digital Future in Focus Report for 2013, offering reams of data on areas such as display advertising, social networking, search and mobile, as well as dozens of insights on what we can expect for the rest of the year. As always, ComScore’s report is bursting with information that’ll appeal to ...
Big Data for Small Enterprise: Painful, But Worth It
It’s not just big business that can get something from Big Data. While they might only be talking terabytes instead of petabytes, small to mid-sized businesses have to just as much to gain – or lose – depending on how they act upon their customer’s data. Not surprisingly though, small to medium-sized enterprises are finding ...
Google Files Lawsuit Against “Russian SOPA” Law
Google is launching an appeal with a Russian court in what it describes as a test case against a new law that some critics say could lead to censorship of the internet. The internet giant announced today that it’s filed a lawsuit in a Moscow court against Russia’s consumer protection and public health and safety ...
Cisco Shrugs Off Challenges With Record Q2 Earnings
These might be uncertain times for the computer networking industry, but you wouldn’t know it going by the recent performance of pack leader Cisco, which has just recorded a 44% jump in quarterly profits on top of a 5% increase in its total revenue. Cisco’s performance came as a surprise to Wall Street analysts, given ...
Spanish Cops Smash “Ransomware” Cybercrime Ring
Police in Spain say that they’ve smashed a cybercrime ring that infected millions of computers with ransomware, using the virus to extort potentially millions of dollars from their unsuspecting victims, it was reported today. According to European Cybercrime Centre, which led the investigation, the suspected hackers would install ransomware onto their victim’s computers, using it ...
The Opera Browser is Dead. Long Live Opera!
Opera doesn’t even come close to the likes of Google Chrome, IE and Mozilla in the popularity stakes, but nevertheless the plucky software company from Norway has built up a dedicated following of some 300 million users that swear by its alternative web browser. So it’ll be interesting to watch how they react to the ...
Dell Buyout On The Rocks As Investors Say “No Way!”
Those who thought that the Dell buyout was done and dusted might need to think again. Apparently, some of the PC maker’s major shareholders – the very people who have the power to put the skids on the deal – are none too pleased about CEO Michael Dell’s valuation of the company. We first heard ...
BlueStacks Transforms Your Windows 8 Device Into An Android PC (Sort Of)
In spite of the bad press it’s received, more than a few consumers have been won over by Microsoft’s Windows 8, but there’s just one major sticking point – it remains almost completely and utterly devoid of apps, especially the good ones. Or at least, that was the situation, until today. Now, thanks to those ...
Winston App Creates A Customized Morning News Show, Just For You!
It’s been compared to Siri, but quite unlike Apple’s personal assistant, Winston doesn’t come up with dumb answers to your stupid questions, nor does it give you any backchat. Instead, Winston is more of a voice-enabled, visually-orientated news reader, scanning your social media accounts and favorite news websites for the most relevant content, which it ...
Relationship Science: Connecting The World’s Elite With Big Data
For high-flying Wall Street smarts and successful entrepreneurs alike, networking can be absolutely critical to their success. Those all-important connections to big shots at the biggest banking institutions and venture capital firms are often the only people that can get things moving and The only problem is, making those connections in the first place isn’t ...