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HTC ‘Ya Later – What Chance a Comeback Now?
2012 has proven to be a nightmare year for HTC, and now things have just got a whole lot worse with Taiwanese smartphone maker’s third quarter profits slumping by a record-breaking 79%, well below its previous forecasts and the expectations of analysts. HTC, ranked fifth biggest smartphone maker overall, reported its third quarter revenues had ...
Huawei & ZTE Labeled “Security Threat” By US Committee
American firms are being advised not to do business with China’s two leading telecom companies because they pose a significant national security risk, warned a US congressional panel. The House Intelligence Committee recommends that the two firms – Huawei and ZTE – should be barred from any acquisitions and mergers in the US, due to ...
Microsoft Uses Big Data To Help Save The World’s Most Endangered Species
The animal kingdom has a lot to thank big data for. Following last week’s news that Japanese scientists are mapping bluefin tuna populations to ensure a sustainable supply of sushi, Microsoft’s engineers are getting in on the act as well, lending a helping hand in the battle to save several of the world’s most endangered ...
Time To Make Sense of Tumblr with Union Metrics Analytics Tool
Blogging platform Tumblr has teamed up with Union Metrics to finally be able to offer its users the chance to visualize and analyze traffic. The data visualization and analytics platform was unveiled by Tumblr’s marketing and revenue consultant Rick Webb, reports The Next Web. Union Metrics are the same people behind TweetReach, a tool that ...
Good Riddance, Steve Jobs
One year on from Steve Job’s death and yet again we see the fanboy crowd come out in full force, stampeding over each other in their desperation to lavish praise on their hero as if he was some kind of demi-god. Jobs’ legendary status has begun to take on such biblical proportions that some commentators ...
Keccak Chosen as SHA-3 Competition Winner, But Will Take Years To Make Its Mark
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finally chosen a replacement for one of the most widely-used computer security algorithms, following a five year contest among the world’s leading cryptographers. NIST hopes that the new algorithm will reassure those security experts who previously raised concerns over its existing Secure Hash Algorithm gold standard, ...
ZocDoc “Checks In” So You Can Check Out Faster
ZocDoc, the web-based medical booking platform that allows users to find and book appointments with doctors online, has added a new feature to its service that aims to speed up the whole ‘checking in’ process by letting patients fill out those irritating medical forms before they arrive. Known simply as “Check-In”, the new feature will ...
Big Data Startup Trifacta Sets Its Sights On The Holy Grail
Gathering big data, crunching it, storing it somewhere – all of this is relatively easy thanks to the Moore’s Law and the unstoppable march of storage technology. The difficulty with big data comes with trying to glean actual information from it, and turn it into something that people can work with and benefit from. Enter ...
Screw The Advertisers, Let’s Start Selling Our Data
Are you sick of advertisers tracking your every move online? If so, then join the club – according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, almost two thirds of Americans feel exactly the same way, yet the online behavioral advertising industry (as the stalkers like to refer themselves) continues to grow unchecked as more and ...
Ellison: No More Major Acquisitions, Oracle’s Focus is on Cloud Products
Despite rumors to the contrary, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has insisted that the world’s 3rd biggest software maker is not pursuing any more acquisitions, claiming that the company is fully focused on promoting its current suite of cloud products. Speaking to CNBC’s Maria Baritoromo following his second keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, Ellison ruled out making ...
