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Future Big Data: Sport Analytics Gives Competitors An Edge
Some people like to say “it’s the taking part that counts,” but let’s face it, that’s crap. Competitive sports these days are all about the winning, with huge stacks of cash being the primary motivating factor. It’s true for athletes, coaches and team owners alike – sure, the ‘taking part’ might be ‘nice’, but the money ...
Anti-Piracy Groups Monitoring BitTorrent Swarms
Ever had that feeling that you’re being watched? Well, if you’re one of those people who likes to save on money by downloading torrent files, then your suspicions might just be correct. This is especially true if you happen to download your torrents from the popular file-sharing service BitTorrent, where researchers from Birmingham University have ...
State Governments Urged To Adopt Big Data Strategies
IT experts are urging state governments to begin laying the foundations so that big data can be utilized for the public good at the earliest opportunity. The report, Is Big Data a Big Deal for State Governments?, was put out by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) last month, and advises states ...
BitFloor Bites The Dust Following $250,000 Virtual Heist
A major Bitcoin currency exchange, BitFloor, has been shut down following an online ‘heist’ that saw 24,000 units of virtual currency, worth around $250,000, stolen from its servers. BitCoins, as the currency is known, are used in online transactions and trades and in large part by speculators trading also for real money. BitCoins themselves are ...
40% Of Mobile Ad Clicks Are Worthless
As if figuring out mobile advertising wasn’t hard enough in the first place, researchers are now claiming that a huge proportion – as many as 40% – of all mobile ad clicks are completely worthless. New research by the German mobile marketing company Trademob shows that a disturbingly high four out of ten mobile advert ...
FBI Denies Stolen Apple Codes Link
Hackers continue to hog the headlines this morning, with fresh doubts being cast on the origin of over a million Apple UDID codes that were allegedly stolen from an FBI agent’s laptop before being posted online by AntiSec. Late last night, the FBI issued a strenuous denial that one of its laptops was compromised, and ...
ClassedIn: The New Learning Social Network That’s Set To Take Education By Storm
Imagine this: Students, teachers, parents, all connected on a safe social networking platform, which allows document sharing for homework and assignments, provides online testing, a massive educational library, and real-time interactions – wouldn’t that be a great idea? Well, it already is, and it’s about to take off in a big, big way any day ...
Hack Attacks, Cyber Wars, Data Theft… Just A Normal Day At The Office
It’s been a rip-roaring 24 hours or so in the hacktivist world, with dozens of Swedish government websites being forced offline in suspected DDoS attacks; Armenia and Azerbaijan engaging in Cyber-Wars, and the hacker group AntiSec stealing over 12 million Apple device IDs from the FBI, later posting a million of them online. Swedish Websites ...
Apple Shoots Down App That Tracks Military Drone Strikes
iPhone apps fit into just about every category there is, include media and games apps to keep us entertained, social apps that let us stay connected, and news apps that keep us informed about what’s going on in the world. Josh Begley, developer of an app called Drone+, probably thought that his creation would fit ...
Big Brother’s Big Data: Just Go With The Flow
There are plenty of reasons to be paranoid about the government’s use of big data and how authorities could one day use it to control every aspect of our lives. This is the ultimate fear of many (usually the same people who believe in Armageddon and conspiracy theories), but in general, most of the stories ...
