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Google ‘Drives’ Up Encryption, But Can It Be Trusted?
With privacy concerns over cloud storage services at an all time high, Google is reported to be experimenting with new methods of encrypting files stored within Google Drive. Though Google has yet to confirm or deny the story, the move is likely one that’s aimed at easing user’s fears that the US government might have ...
ICANN Awards Four New Internet Domains, But .amazon Is Up The Creek
It’s been an interminably long road, but the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally taken its first concrete steps towards changing the way the world wide web will be navigated in future. Yesterday, it awarded contracts for the first four new top level domains. Till now, we’ve hardly used any top ...
Cloud Computing & The Internet of Things go Hand in Hand
There’s no holding back the Internet of Things – this is where the world’s heading, and we’re already seeing it in concepts ranging from smart electricity meters to IBM’s rather more ambitious Smart Cities initiatives. The basic fundamental holding IoT together is connectivity, a world in which machines with intelligent sensors are hooked up to ...
Understanding Big Data: The Easy Way to Become Data Literate
The enterprise is driving up demand for data scientists, but all the evidence suggests a big shortfall in the number of professionals with the expertise to transform data into tangible business insights. This ‘Big Data skills gap’ was recently illustrated in Wikibon’s Big Data manifesto “Big Data: Hadoop, Business Analytics and Beyond”, which warns that ...
Backed By GE, Ayasdi Gets $30M To Automate Big Data Analysis
GE just can’t say no to an attractive Big Data startup. Spurred on by its vision of revolutionizing industry with its Industrial Internet, it’s invested hundreds of millions of dollars into Big Data initiatives that can help ito to better understand the maintenance needs of industrial equipment. It’s first major play was its $105 million ...
Spy Games in the Enterprise: The Business Value of Telephony Metadata
Ever since The Guardian first published its explosive report on the wide-ranging access that the NSA has been given to Verizon’s call records, there’s been lots of discussion about this thing called “metadata” and the kinds of insights it provides. According to no less than President Obama himself, it’s this metadata that holds the most ...
Russia Accelerates Its Own Internet Spying, Thanks to Snowden
“I don’t want to live in a world where there is no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.” These were the words of former NSA security contractor and now the world’s most famous whistleblower, Ed Snowden, shortly after fleeing the US and exposing its massive surveillance program known as PRISM. But ...
The Moto X Will Be “Always On”… Always Spying On You Too?
If you’re planning on buying a new Moto X phone, you might want to watch what you’re saying. A newly leaked video showing several features of Google/Motorola’s new flagship handset was posted online by Canadian carrier Rogers over the weekend, with one of the standout revelations being a new voice command system that’s “always on” ...
Moto X: A Deadly Threat To Samsung & Apple – If The Price Is Right
Motorola used to reign on the mobile scene. It was the first company to offer a commercial cellphone. It was hugely popular in the early 2000s when it first released its iconic Razr line, a series of slim phones that caught the attention of fashionistas and business people alike. Unfortunately, when the dawn of touchscreen ...
PC Shipments Slump Again As Lenovo Skips Past HP
Things are going from bad to worse for OEMs in the PC industry, which has reportedly entered the longest slump in its history with a 10.9% decline in shipments over the last quarter. Altogether, the research firm Gartner reports that global PC shipments have fallen to just 76 million units for the second quarter of ...