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Building Big Data: Will a Super Wi-Fi Network Kill Off Mobile Carriers?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is working on an extraordinarily ambitious plan to create “Super Wi-Fi networks” that are so incredibly powerful they could reach every corner of the nation, allowing people to make calls and access the internet from anywhere, completely free of charge. Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the FCC, says that these Super ...
Facebook Ads Become Ever-So-Slightly More Transparent
Given the way that Facebook seems to change things up every other week, you would be forgiven for never knowing where you stand on privacy issues. Facebook collects masses of data about you, but very rarely does it tell you what it does with it. However, this week, the world’s favorite social media site has ...
Oracle Acquires Network Solutions Provider Acme Packet In $1.9 Billion Deal
Oracle will bolster its communications portfolio with the acquisition of Acme Packet, which makes networking gear for data, voice and unified communications services, in a deal reportedly worth some $1.9 billion cash. The company announced that it will acquire Acme Packet for $29.25 a share, a significant 22% mark up on its Friday share price ...
Strange Big Data: Can We Really Predict Everything?
Anyone who knows anything about Big Data understands that, at the end of the day, it all boils down to guesswork. The reason we accumulate so much data, and store it, and try to glean insights from it, is so we can guess what happens next. So far, much of the emphasis has been on ...
Is Google Being Racist?
A new study of Google’s search engine has found that searches for names typically associated with black people are far more likely to throw up ads relating to criminal activity, leading one Harvard professor to suggest that the search engine could be “racially biased.” For example, a search on Google for names primarily given to ...
Super Bowl on Twitter & Facebook: Power Outage and Beyonce Steal the Show
Facebook and Twitter saw more than their fair share of action during yesterday’s Super Bowl, and not surprisingly the power outage that left the Superdome in the dark was among the ‘biggest trending’ topics on both social media sites. Super Bowl on Twitter . The power outage was by far and away the most talked ...
The Deadliest Security Threats Right Now
Security threats are ever-present online, always changing, always adapting, constantly probing for weaknesses in a seemingly infinite number of ways, with the express goal of turning your life upside down (and making money for the perpetrators). As an internet user you need to be aware of the increasingly sophisticated ways that hackers are able to ...
Bing Apps for Office – Another Nail in Google’s Coffin?
Just when you thought that Microsoft had run out of ideas how on how to tackle Google’s search engine dominance – wham! All of the sudden they come up with the truly genius idea of integrating your new Microsoft Office suite with Bing. We probably should have seen this one coming. After all, we already have Bing-powered apps for Windows 8, ...
Google Submits EU Anti-Trust Proposal, But it’s Unlikely to Wriggle its Way Out This Time
Google has just beaten the deadline to submit its proposal on how it plans to conduct its search engine business in future, in the latest round of its ongoing European anti-trust probe. Antoine Colombani, spokesperson for the European Union’s Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, confirmed that the regulatory body had received the files, adding that these ...
Kim Dotcom Dangles $13,500 Carrot For The First Person Who Can Hack Mega
It’s no secret that Kim Dotcom thinks he’s got this security thing nailed on with his new site Mega, but now the entrepreneur has gone and put his money where his mouth is, offering a €10,000 ($13,500) reward to the first person who can successfully hack into the site. Dotcom has made good on a ...