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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 ...
Are Microsoft and Google Failing Women in IT?
Given that today’s International Women’s Day and all, one might think that some of the world’s more prominent tech companies would take the opportunity to highlight whatever it is they’re doing to promote women’s rights in the workplace. But not so with Microsoft and Google, both of whom have apparently refused to disclose how many ...
Big Data To Replace Human Instincts? Not Exactly, But It helps
With big business becoming ever more competitive in this day and age, the ability to think outside the box to arrive at conclusions rival companies might not consider has become more important than ever. Previously, enterprises have always relied on executives with ability to instinctively come up with creative solutions when faced with dilemmas, but ...
Google Maps is Looking a Little Lost In Germany
Readers living in Germany who frequently rely on Google Maps might be feeling a little bit lost in a couple of months, after it was revealed that the service could well be blocked as a result of a patent dispute between Google and Microsoft. The website FOSS Patents suggests that Microsoft is likely to be ...
Microsoft To Slash Prices On Windows 8?
Microsoft might insist that it’s happy enough with sales of Windows 8, but its new operating system has far from won over all of the critics, prompting drastic action as the Redmond-based firm offers significant price breaks to manufacturers in order to boost the development of small, touchscreen-enabled laptops. According to reports in the Wall ...
Microsoft Takes Aim at Google’s Apps For Education With Privacy Bill
You might have heard about the recent privacy bill in Massachusetts that aims to make it illegal for companies to gather data on school kids using school computers for commercial purposes. And no doubt you’d have presumed that whoever’s behind the bill has some pretty good intentions – after all, this is about protecting children, ...
Deutsche Telecom Tracks Global Cyber Attacks In Real-Time
We all know that cyber attacks are incredibly prevalent in the World Wide Web today, but until you see it with your own eyes it’s difficult to grasp just how frequent they really are. In order to raise awareness about how often such attacks occur, German telecommunications firm Deutsche Telecom has just launched a new, ...