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What Comes After 4G? METIS Plans To Find Out
We’ve barely even got the ball rolling with 4G mobile networks, and already people are beginning to wonder what might come afterwards. To hazard a guess at what “5G” might look like, the European Commission has just doled out a $21 million grant to bring together a consortium of telecommunications companies that will study the ...
Google Lets You Scroll Through The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls, they’re some of the oldest surviving Biblical documents and today Google has made them available for free for the world to view. Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls back in 1947, only a handful of trusted scholars had ever been granted access to them, out of fears that the precious ...
IBM Unlocks The Value of Big Data With StoredIQ Acquisition
IBM’s showing no signs of letting up on its big data shopping spree, announcing its intent to acquire StoredIQ, a company that specializes in ‘big data efficiency’, deciphering large quantities of data and disposing of any information that has “outlived its purpose”.
FTC Might Not Let Google Off The Hook So Easily After All
Just days after it was leaked that Google had come to an arrangement with the Federal Trade Commission that would see it let off the hook for its apparent ‘search bias’, reports are now emerging that the antitrust case isn’t quite so clear cut as it first seemed. The FTC was thought to have agreed ...
Dell Eyes Mobile Data Management Protection With Credant Technologies Acquisition
Dell has signaled its intention to enter the bring-your-own-device space with the announcement of its latest acquisition — snapping up data protection software provider Credant Technologies. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but it will be seen as yet another sign of the mobile device management market’s consolidation. Less than two weeks ...
Does Instagram Think All Of Its Users Are Stupid?
Less than 24 hours after we revealed Instagram’s plans to sell off user’s photos to third party advertisers without their knowledge and without any form of compensation, the photo-sharing site has made a humiliating climb down, and now insists it never had any intention of doing such a thing. Instagram’s new Terms of Service sparked ...
Collectively, We’ve Watched 1.2 Million Years of Porn. Not Bad, Huh?
The Web is rapidly evolving, changing as each year passes, moving from search to social, to mobile and the cloud as it grows into the most enormous, most widespread informational resource ever known to man. But while the Web throws up new ideas and innovations with each passing year, you can always rely on some ...
Apple Might Climb Into Bed With FourSquare To Spice Up Its Maps Life
Given its humiliating climb down last week when Apple reluctantly allowed Google Maps to make its iOS 6 debut, we could be forgiven for thinking that the company had thrown in the towel in the “Maps Wars”. Not so. While the all the signs were pointing to Apple’s apparent capitulation, senior vice president Eddie Cue ...
Nvidia Tegra 4 Leak Shows Specs With 6X The Power Of Tegra 3
The first details of Nvidia’s next-generation Tegra 4 processor, known as Wayne, have emerged, and if they turn out to be genuine, the mobile chip will provide some serious competition to the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung. According to the specs listed on a leaked slide posted to the Chinese language forum Chiphell, Nvidia’s latest ...
Instagram Plans To Sell YOUR Photos To Advertisers, Without Telling You
Instagram has just crossed the line, big time. As of next month, Facebook’s protégé will make some major changes to its terms of service, giving itself the right to use your photos in its ads, or sell them to third parties for the same purpose. You, will not receive a penny for your photos, nor ...
