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How To Ditch MS Office – Five Free Alternatives That Are Almost As Good
What with the news that Microsoft’s Office 365 preview is about to expire, there’ll be a lot of worried Windows 8 users out there contemplating having to shell out a small fortune on a license for the full edition. As of March 16, all those using the preview edition of Office 365 will find that ...
German Lawmakers Rule Out “Google Tax” for News Snippets
There was some good news for Google in its battle with European publishers at last, as Germany’s Bundestag voted in favor of an amendment to the country’s Leistungsschutzrecht act that previously allowed publishers to charge search engines for content re-published by news aggregators. Before the vote was taken, the proposed Leistungsschutzrecht gave German publishers the ...
IBM Swoops On OpenStack Cloud Advantage
IMB has just announced its plans to embrace OpenStack in an effort to help enterprises better balance private and public cloud resources. The new initiative will see Big Blue switching all of its cloud services and software to open-cloud architecture, allowing customers to easily alternate between equipment and service vendors, and do away with any ...
Stupid Evernote Can’t Even Reset Passwords Properly
What with the likes of Apple, Facebook and Twitter all falling victim to high profile hacks in recent weeks, few were surprised to hear of Evernote suffering a similar security breach last weekend. Evernote, which is a kind of web-based scrapbook/notebook that allows you to save notes and webpages, and sync this across multiple devices, ...
Headhunting Talent With Big Data
Ask any company boss or personnel department head, and they’ll tell you that recruiting is one of the toughest aspects of running a business. It’s hard to find good people who can do a great job, and even the most scientific approaches to recruitment tend to be hit and miss. Just because it’s possible to weed ...
Fujitsu Gives Seniors A Helping Hand With World’s First “Smart Walking Stick”
Fujitsu smartphones are almost unheard of outside of its home country, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Japanese electronics maker is a bit behind the times as far as its push for global smartphone dominance goes. But judging by its latest devices, ‘behind the times’ is exactly where it wants to be, with the ...
Kim Dotcom Suffers Setback In Extradition Battle
Embattled Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has lost the latest round of his legal fight against extradition to the United States, after a New Zealand court ruled that the US does not have to grant him access to key evidence in the case ahead of the main hearing in August. According to the court, the main ...
China Hits Back, Accuses US Of Cyber Attacks Against Its Military
Apparently China isn’t too pleased about recent allegations that its military is behind a spate of cyber attacks on US corporations, infrastructure and media organizations over the last couple of years. Following up from the usual angry denials of responsibility, China went one step further yesterday, accusing US officials of orchestrating similar hacking attacks against its own infrastructure. During a press briefing yesterday, China’s ...
The Big Data Enigma: No Big Data? No Problem!!
The potential of Big Data is no secret – we’ve all heard about it and we’d all like to tap into it and discover actionable insights. But what about those organizations that don’t actually have that much Big Data lying around to dig into? Not everyone has the capability to store up such vast quantities ...
Extreme Weather Forecasting With Big Data
We all worry about the weather from time to time, but where business is concerned these worries are often heightened. Take the example of a ski resort operator, which is trying to determine the best location for its newest hotel. Ideally, it’d want to build its new property somewhere that receives abundant snowfall during December, ...