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Amazon Web Services Offers Support For Windows’ Big Data Apps
Amazon has made another move to further cement its position as the leader of the cloud, giving Microsoft developers the option to integrate Windows server-based apps within Amazon Web Services. Amazon made the announcement late last week, with support being offered for Windows Server versions 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012. The AWS Marketplace ...
Austria Considers Tax On Cloud Services Like Google Drive, Dropbox
A call by an author’s group in Austria to expand taxes levied on storage media to include systems such as hard drives and cloud storage has led to concerns that consumers in that country could be forced to pay to access services such as Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive. The group, which goes by ...
Google Suffers Monday Morning Blues
Some of Google’s services had a hard time waking up yesterday morning, with hundreds of users reporting 502 error messages whenever they tried to login to Gmail, Google Apps, and in some cases, tried to open the Chrome web browser.
Iran Launches Its Own, ‘Appropriate’ Version of YouTube
What with YouTube having been deemed “inappropriate” by the powers that be in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the country has instead decided to launch its own version of the video-sharing website, with the major difference being that users will only be allowed to upload “appropriate” content. Known as Mehr, after the Zoroastrian God of ...
IBM’s Silicon Nanophotonics: The Answer to Big Data Traffic Jams
IBM has announced a major breakthrough with its silicon nanophotonics research, developing a system for transferring data using light instead of electronic signals, which could have massive ramifications for the future of computing. Silicon nanophotonics refers to the integration of different optical components side by side with electrical circuits on single silicon chips using sub-100nm ...
Net Freedoms In The Balance? Russian Proposal to ‘Share’ Control Attracts Support
Serious divisions have emerged at a UN conference on international telecommunications, with countries including Russia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE insisting that each of the 193 nations present should have an equal say in how the internet is ran, and demanding this be stated in a treaty. On the other side of the fence sits ...
LCD Contact Lens Displays Promise “Terminator Vision”
Imagine being able to text or view maps whilst driving, or better yet, read up on your emails while taking a shower in the morning, without even so much as glancing at your mobile phone. Such fanciful ideas are no longer the stuff of science fiction, thanks to the development of new technology that can ...
Interactive Tool Lets You Carve Up The Middle East
Fancy yourself as a bit of a peacemaker? If so, you’ll probably have some fun playing with a new interactive tool that lets you carve up the West Bank and deliver a two-state solution leading to the creation of an independent Palestine, and hopefully, a long-lasting peace in the Middle East. Not that your task ...
New Interactive Map Visualizes The London Blitz Like Never Before
During World War Two, London was subjected to what’s commonly referred to as ‘The Blitz’, one of the longest and deadliest campaigns of terror ever unleashed on a human population. For a period of eight months, from September 7, 1940 until May 11, 1941, Germany’s Luftwaffe dropped over a million incendiaries and 50,000 high-explosive bombs ...
TV/DVR Spies In Your Living Room: The Future Of Targeted Ads?
Many people think Google has already crossed the line with its targeted ad campaigns that track what sites you look at and the things you search for. Now imagine if they could – quite literally – watch every single move you make? That is exactly what Verizon are up to, having just filed a patent ...