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Big Data “Hype” Coming To An End
Gartner says that the so-called ‘hype’ over Big Data is reaching its peak, and that the idea will soon descend into a ‘trough of disillusionment’. Thousands of businesses have already begun exploring ways in which Big Data can be used to provide them with strategic insights, but right about now many are starting to feel ...
Graph Search is Death Sentence for Gay Iranian Men
Facebook’s new Graph Search feature had the internet buzzing with excitement last week as netizens gasped in awe at the potential of such a service. But while it undoubtedly has the means to improve our lives in many wonderful ways, it could also impact them in a negative way, as I explored in an earlier ...
Google Transparency Data Shows ECPA Laws Need Urgent Overhaul
Google has just released the latest edition of its annual Transparency Report, which for the first time gives a breakdown of how often US law enforcement agencies request data from the company’s users and how often it complies with those. Google’s data covers the period from July to December 2012, and shows that requests from ...
Four Things That Google’s Q4 Profits Tell Us
On the financial front today, all talk surrounds Google’s stunning fourth quarter results which showed the search giant scooping up a dizzying $14.42 billion in profits, defying even the most optimistic of analysts’ expectations. Larry Page and Sergey Brin will undoubtedly be patting themselves on the back for a job well done, but really the ...
Kim Dotcom Hits Back at Mega Critics
In spite of its successful launch, which saw Kim Dotcom’s new storage site Mega accrue over a million users in the first 24 hours, the site has since attracted a lot of flak from security bloggers over its questionable encryption practices. Kim Dotcom has never been one to keep his opinions to himself, and so ...
Why Does Microsoft Want a Piece of Dell?
There’s a new dynamic to the speculation about Dell’s bid to buy back stock and become a private entry, with reports emerging yesterday that Microsoft is also taking part in the discussions and may be planning to invest anything between $1 billion and $3 billion into the company. According to CNBC’s report, investment firm Silver Lake ...
Did Yahoo ‘Snap Up’ Snip.It Just To Get Its Hands On Ramy Adeeb?
Yahoo is moving forward with CEO Marissa Mayer’s strategy of acquiring high value startups with talented teams, announcing that it’s snapped up the content discovery and sharing website Snip.it for a price thought to be in the “mid-teens” of millions of dollars. The deal seems to have gone through fairly quickly. AllThingsD first revealed Yahoo’s ...
Growing Data Demand Will Lead To “Mobile Rush Hours” By 2016
Mobile carriers will soon be unable to keep up with the growing demand for bandwidth from smartphone users on the go, according to a new report by the UK consulting and advisory firm Deloitte. The report, Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT), which is published annually be Deloitte, underlines the vast amount of data consumed by smartphone ...
Future Big Data: How Analytics Will Impact NFL
Using data to try and predict the outcome of a football match – or any sport, for that matter – is a notoriously difficult science that can stump even the most talented of data analysts. This much is evident from the failure of Big Data whizz kid Nate Silver’s attempt to use analytics to predict ...
Is Cuba Gearing Up to Go Online?
Internet usage in Cuba isn’t anywhere near as restrictive as it is in North Korea, but it sure is painful. With connections only possible via satellite, the cost of getting online in the tropical communist paradise is extremely prohibitive for the vast majority of its citizens – not to mention as slow as molasses. Tourists ...