Mike Wheatley
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Ho Ho Ho, Where’s Santa Now? Google and Bing’s Tracking Tools Disagree…
Given that Bing and Google simply love tearing each other to pieces, going head-to-head in just about every single aspect of web search they can think of, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that the two web giants are now battling it out over who gets to track Santa this year. Bing made the ...
Verizon ‘Hacker’ Vanishes Into Thin Air, Along With Everything He Stole
Verizon looks to have gotten one over a hacker who claims that it was responsible for a security breach that led to the the private information of more than 300,000 of its Verizon Wireless customers being posted onto the website Pastebin. The breach supposedly took place more than three months ago and led to the ...
Healthy Big Data Shows That Prevention Is Better Than The Cure
If I asked you to suggest some ways to make the world a healthier place, no doubt you’d have plenty of ideas to put out there. Ideas such as developing more and better drugs, building more hospitals, and vaccinating more people would all go a long way towards improving our health. And you’d be right ...
Toyota Plans to “Jump Start” Mobile Phones with Wireless Charging
Wouldn’t it be great if charging your cellphone in your car was as simple as tossing it on the dashboard and just waiting a while? No more messing around with tangled up wires and losing adaptors for the cigarette lighter? Well, buy yourself a shiny new Toyota Avalon when it hits the showrooms next year, ...
Facebook’s New Paid Messaging Feature – A Tax On Being Social?
Facebook is reported to be testing out a new money-grabbing feature on its social network, charging users a $1 fee to send messages directly to the inbox of non-friends, thus ensuring they’re not labeled as spam. The pilot scheme is currently only available to users based in the US, and so far can only be ...
What’s It To Be – An IPHONE or an iPhone? (Or Maybe Even An iFone)
Apple is facing a new legal challenge in Brazil, where its claim over the rights to use the “iPhone” brand is being challenged by a local electronics maker that produces its own handsets bearing the same name. IGB Eletrônica SA, which goes by the brand name Gradiente, has recently began seling its own smartphone device ...
The Data Behind Doomsday: Does The World Really End Tomorrow?
All over the world, millions and millions of conspiracy theorists, armchair prophets, numerologists, soothsayers, New Age hippies and the entire population of China are quaking in their boots at the impending end of the Mayan calendar and predictions of “global cataclysm” that will take place on Friday 21/12/2102. These fortune tellers point to any number ...
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”.