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Korean Scientists Make “Bendy Batteries” a Reality
Scientists in South Korea have announced a major breakthrough in the development of flexible mobile devices, with the creation of the world’s first ‘bendable’ and ‘imprintable’ lithium-ion battery, which would be essential for powering such devices should the idea ever be realized. According to the Yonhap news agency, the new bendable batteries are quite unlike ...
EMC’s On-Premise File Sharing Service “Syncplicity” Goes Live
Even as cloud adoption becomes increasingly widespread in the enterprise today, there remains a core of businesses that steadfastly refuse to shift away from on-premise storage. Now, in an effort to marry the two concepts together and bring the best of both worlds to these types of businesses, EMC is fusing two of its most ...
White House Blocks Plans to Build “Death Star”
There was some bad news on the national defense front last weekend as White House chiefs confirmed that the government has no immediate plans to build a Star Wars style ‘Death Star’, citing ethical concerns and the exorbitant costs that the project would entail. You might think I am joking, but this was actually the ...
Hounded to Death: Did Prosecutors Abuse Cybercrime Laws in Swartz Case?
It would have been impossible not to witness the outpouring of grief, anger and suspicion that consumed the internet since last weekend. The untimely death of Reddit co-founder, internet activist and all-round computer genius Aaron Swartz on Friday in a suspected suicide has given birth to intense debate over what many have termed as ‘legal ...
Kaspersky Unearths “Red October” Cyber Espionage Campaign
Security chiefs at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered evidence of yet more cyber espionage, targeting dozens of governments, businesses, political groups, and other organizations. Kaspersky said that the discovery was made following an exhaustive five-year investigation carried out alongside numerous Cyber Emergency Response Teams (CERTS). Details about the exact origin of the cyber espionage campaign remain ...
Greedy iPhone Users Europe’s Biggest Data Hogs
Commentators like to talk about the popularity of different mobile devices around the world, and keeping that in mind there are probably few better gauges of this than the amount of data that each type of device uses. Which is why it comes as a mild surprise to learn that the iPhone continues to gobble ...
Flow Adds Semantic Search from Hakia to Revolutionize E-Commerce
Flow, a Canadian start-up offering an innovative, peer-to-peer ‘social commerce’ solution, has just teamed up with Hakia to provide semantic search functionality within its closed platform. While the news is unlikely to draw too much attention now, it could well have massive implications on the way people do their shopping online in the future. Internet commerce as ...
Samsung Snubs Windows RT, Says it’s “Too Confusing”
Samsung has just given Microsoft the big thumbs down, announcing that it’s cancelled plans to release a Windows RT version of its upcoming Ativ Tab in the US, saying that the operating system is “confusing” for consumers. Mike Abary, head of Samsung’s PC and Tablet operations in the US, said that the company had originally ...
The Big ‘Big Data’ Sale is Coming Soon!
No one said that storing big data would be cheap, but soon the costs of doing so will become so excessive that more than a third of businesses doing so will be forced to look at ways they can monetize that data, according to a new report from Gartner. Doug Laney, an analyst with Gartner, ...
EU Gets Tough On Google, Will Force It To Change Search Results
Google may be forced to change the way it presents its services and search results in the EU, after the European Union’s anti-trust commissioner said that he believed the search engine was abusing its position as the market leader in search. In an interview with the Financial Times, EU anti-trust commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that ...
