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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 ...
Architects Take 3D Printing To The Next Level, Two Storeys Up
3D printers have been pretty innovative of late, replicating such weird and wonderful items as dinosaur bones, iPhone cases and even ‘meat’, among other things. But now a bunch of architects have also gotten their hands on the technology, and they’re setting their sights on something bigger, much bigger. The latest crazy idea to see ...
Can Dotcom and Mega Avoid a Second Takedown?
Kim Dotcom’s newest file-sharing site MEGA got off to flying start yesterday, with more than one million new users registered in the first 24 hours, according to some reports. But despite this early success, many will be privately wondering to themselves whether or not MEGA can successfully avoid another government takedown. To answer this question, ...
Google Imagines a Future With No Passwords
Google is upping the ante where it comes to online security, outlining a dramatic new vision of a future where passwords will be shunted aside in favor of dedicated authentication devices for each user of the web. Naturally, it’s going to take a monumental effort to lead a shift away from passwords to its new ...
Intel Slump Not a Problem – Death of BYOD Just Around the Corner
In the wake of disappointing news regarding its Q4 profits, Intel CEO Paul Otellini remained surprisingly upbeat over its prospects for the future, insisting that the next generation of PC designs would soon subsume today’s tablet craze. Otellini’s comments came as Intel announced disappointingly slow fourth quarter sales of $13.5bn that only just met the company’s ...
Security Essentials Fluffs Malware Test; Microsoft Goes on the Warpath
Apparently Microsoft isn’t too happy with the outcome of a recent test that labelled its antivirus software as one of the worst performing around. The company has challenged the methodology used by Germany’s AV-Test, after its Security Essentials and Forefront Endpoint Protection programs failed to pass its tests and gain certification. Out of 25 such ...
Kim Dotcom Gears Up for MEGA Launch
Almost a year to the day after the original Megaupload was shut down by the FBI, fugitive internet tycoon Kim Dotcom is getting ready to launch the second coming of his file-sharing site from the safety of his Auckland mansion. Dotcom hopes that his latest venture, Mega.co.nz, will be able to replicate the overwhelming success ...
