Mike Wheatley
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64-bit ARM chips will be a game-changer for Apple
When Apple launched its new iPhone earlier this month, the device hit record-breaking sales. This helped boost Apple’s stock considerably, hardly surprising since half of its revenues come from iPhone sales. But besides these solid figures, the iPhone 5s was notable for something else entirely, coming with a new component that could prove to be ...
US consumers still being screwed over broadband costs
Broadband speeds in the United States have been the subject of debate for some time now, and yesterday a new study confirmed what many had already suspected – that the US is still playing catch-up with the rest of the world. Okay so that’s not strictly true – it is possible to get super-fast connections ...
Firefox Add-On Lightbeam Tracks Who’s Tracking You Online
Mozilla has been feasting on the cookies, and now it wants to share them. The non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox web browser has announced the release of a new add-on called Lightbeam, that lets users track the cookies that track them across the web. With the add-on, users will be able to identify each ...
The Internet Archives Delivers A Blast From The Past
If you ever find yourself yearning for the days machines like the Intellivision console and Spectrum ZX first bought computing to the masses, well, you’re in for a treat. This weekend, the Internet Archive announced the “Historical Software Collection,” a curated set of noteworthy games, productivity software, and more from the 1970s and 1980s. From ...
Freedom With Open Source: How Nations Can Escape Their Dependence On US-Made Tech
Foreign nations have been left reeling by news that the NSA has been happily monitoring the private communications of at least 35 world leaders, on top of its all-encompassing PRISM program that was leaked earlier this year. Ed Snowden’s leaks paint a miserable picture of the dystopian position we’re in now, with the US government ...
Apple Condones Piracy Because Free Software Has More Value
Apple is deadly serious about its free software commitment. Following its announcement earlier this week that OS X Mavericks, along with iLife and iWorks would be made available to downloaded completely free of charge, something curious happened. The updates were made available to all – even those using trial or illegally downloaded versions of its ...
DARPA Offers Up $2M Cash Prize To Anyone Who Can Build Hacker-Proof Software
There are few problems that money cannot solve. And with the US government waging a never-ending war against cyberattacks on its systems, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just decided to get its check book out. The agency has just announced a new competition for budding developers to design a “fully automated ...
Microsoft’s Scathing Attack On Apple Makes It Look Desperate
Apple caused a bit of a stir yesterday when it announced that its iWork productivity software for Mac and iOS devices would be available to download for free. This was immediately taken as a shot at rival Microsoft and its own Office productivity suite – the undisputed leader to be sure, but also very expensive ...
3 Ways Driverless Cars Will Revolutionize Road Transport
There’s been a lot of talk about the potential benefits of so-called ‘driverless’ cars of the type that Google is working on, but much less has been said about the other ways in which smart cars might ‘drive’ a revolution in road transportation. Previous research has shown that we could make serious inroads into the ...
Facebook Moves To Ban Beheading Videos Once Again
Earlier this week the BBC reported that Facebook had reversed a ban – imposed last May – on users posting videos of violent acts such as people being decapitated, just days before clip of a woman being beheaded went viral. This immediately caused uproar, with the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron calling Facebook “irresponsible” for ...