Big Data’s Still On Track To Save The World
Big Data’s reputation has taken a bit of a battering lately thanks to allegations that the NSA is collecting and storing people’s web and phone records, leading to a wider debate about the appropriateness…
Factual Pushes Targeted Mobile Ads with Location-Based Big Data
Big Data company Factual has just rolled out two new products that should helps its clients to extract even greater insights from the location-based data it specialized in. The five-year old Los Angeles-based company…
How To Ditch Google: Alternatives For Every Google Product Known To Man
Of all the companies implicated in the NSA – PRISM scandal, Google’s involvement has to be the most worrisome. Reason being, practically 99% of the world’s internet users (if we exclude China) must be…
What Chance a Nikon Smartphone?
More than a few consumers these days are content to give up on the idea of buying a camera, instead settling for whatever happens to be built into their smartphones, especially now that the…
Don’t Stuff your Big Data in a Woman’s Handbag
All kinds of businesses are looking to get into the Big Data game, but a worryingly high number of them are doing so without fully understanding what they’re getting themselves into. It’s one thing…
Your Metadata: Here’s What It Can Reveal About You
One of the most oft-heard claims to come out of officials mouths since this whole NSA-PRISM thing first became public knowledge is that the spooks are ‘only’ collecting metadata, rather than reading the content…
AT&T Wants To Sell Everything It Knows About You
In a glorious example of spectacular bad timing (or should we say, arrogance), AT&T has just gone and updated its privacy policy, noting that it plans to start selling its customer’s data to marketers…
Dell Reveals Designs On Wearable Tech – Good Luck With That
So now’s probably as good a time for a quick recap as any. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you’re probably familiar by now with what’s soon-to-be the…
Scared of PRISM, US Firms Bank on Swiss Data Centers
Switzerland has a well deserved reputation for secrecy when it comes to banking, and now its hoping to ‘cash in’ on that legacy by providing a similar refuge for something that some say is…
“Restore the Fourth” PRISM Protest Set for Independence Day
While most of America will be celebrating with apple pies and fireworks this Independence Day, a number of high-profile web companies and activists have something else in store. Mozilla, Reddit, WordPress and others are…