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LinkedIn Accused of Hacking User’s Emails To “Grow Its Own Network”
The professional social networking site LinkedIn is being sued by its customers for apparently hacking into their email accounts in order to hunt for contacts in their address books, a report in Bloomberg claims. According to the complaint, LinkedIn does so in order to bombard those contacts with promotional emails aimed at growing the website’s ...
Ellison’s Oracle Dedicated to Cloud : Product Refresh Right on Track #oow13
Oracle posted a rather mixed Q1 earnings report this week, with software up, hardware down and net income and earnings per share rising ever so slightly, but by far the bigger talking point on everybody’s lips was the one important tidbit that CEO Larry Ellison gave up about the agenda at next week’s OpenWorld event. ...
Google Wants To Cheat Death With Big Data
In a surprise announcement yesterday, Google’s CEO Larry Page lifted the lid on what may well be the search engine-cum-everything giant’s most audacious project yet – a new life science startup named Calico that’s hoping to come up with new ideas to combat aging and its related diseases. In other words, as Time Magazine notes, ...
Big, Messy Data & The Internet Of Things
The concept of the Internet of Things isn’t nearly as futuristic as some might have you believe, in fact its dead simple. Take an object, stick on some sensors and Wi-Fi capability, and there you have it – a device. These devices are rapidly taking root, and as their number grows exponentially, so does the ...
Salesforce Cozies Up To Workday in Cloud Alliance
This morning Salesforce.com and Workday announced the beginning of a closer relationship that’ll see the two enterprise software providers step up integration between some of their key cloud offerings. The announcement, which can be read in full here, lauded the benefits of closer integration whilst also making clear that each company plans on using products ...
NSA Keeps Its Hands Clean, Buys Zero-Day Vulnerabilities From French Firm Vupen
So it seems the NSA doesn’t do all of its own dirty work after all. On occasion, it’s also prepared to stump up a fair bit of cash to get its hands on so-called ‘zero-day vulnerabilities” (previously unknown bigs) that it can use to attack computer systems, according to a new freedom-of-information request. The request ...
Google’s Secret Plan To Ditch Cookies & Track EVERYONE With AdIDs
When it comes to online advertising firms, they don’t get much bigger than Google. And so when Google decides that it’s going to make fundamental changes to the way netizens are tracked online, the repercussions of that move are going to be felt far and wide – with one possible ramification being that it’ll become ...
How Facebook Plans To Get The Whole World Online: Cheaper, Bigger Data
Facebook, which recently teamed up with the likes of Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, MediaTek, Opera and others to launch the Internet.org initiative a few weeks ago, has just published a white paper that outlines its master plan to wire up the rest of the world to the web. For those unfamiliar with Internet.org, the initiative was ...
Jolla’s Sailfish OS Gets Android Apps & Hardware Compatible
Finnish mobile startup Jolla has big plans for its nascent Sailfish mobile OS to emerge as a genuine rival to the likes of Android and iOS, and now it’s taken a massive step in achieving those goals with the announcement of compatibility with Android’s software, apps and even its hardware ecosystem. This is a huge ...
Vultures Circling Over BlackBerry: Patents + OS Most-Valued Assets
There’s been no word yet on the identity of any of the likely bidders that BlackBerry sounded so confident about just a week ago, but one thing seems clear – whatever does happen, BlackBerry will no longer be the same. According to the latest report from Reuters, a few potential interested parties are looking at ...