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Google Owns Up To FBI’s Warrantless Data Requests
Google has taken another step towards greater transparency with the revelation that the FBI made ‘up to’ 1,000 requests a year for user data from 2009 to 2012, using a controversial and secretive technique known as a “National Security Letter,” that does away with the need for an arrest warrant. For those who haven’t heard ...
EU Fines Microsoft $732 Million For Browser-Choice Debacle
European Union regulators have just slapped Microsoft with a hefty $732 million fine after it failed to live up to its promise to give millions of Windows users a choice of which internet browser to use upon installing the software for the first time. Microsoft had voluntarily agreed to give European consumers a choice of ...
Is China Planning To Act Over Google’s Android Dominance?
It’s no secret that Google’s Android operating system has become incredibly popular in China over the last couple of years, just as it has in almost every other county, but this might not be the case in future if its government decides to intervene. China’s authorities believe that the country is way too reliant on Android, ...
Healthy Big Data: Just What The Doctor Ordered
Big Data is creating a lot of buzz in the healthcare industry these days, but are our hospitals really ready for such a radical overhaul of the way they go about fighting diseases and saving lives? Some of the largest healthcare organizations in the country undoubtedly are, but there’s also no question that smaller to mid-sized ...
The Pirate Bay Relocates To North Korea, Or Does It?
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” or so the saying goes, and given that between them Pirate Bay and North Korea are hated by just about everyone else in the world, in some ways it would actually make sense for the two of them to embrace that philosophy. And that’s exactly what they ...
DARPA Project Aims To Record Every Single Word You Ever Speak
We’ve been keeping a watchful eye on DARPA and its catalogue of Big Data projects that threaten to change the world, be it for better or worse. Up until recently, its been fair to say that most of DARPA’s work has met with our approval, yet news of a worryingly ambitious plan to record every ...
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, ...
