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Kaspersky’s Antivirus Update Gone Wrong
Kaspersky Labs has hit upon a novel way of keeping its users’ computers free of viruses and malware, simply by preventing them from being able to connect to the web at all. Millions of Kaspersky antivirus users were left bemused at being unable to get online following a buggy update issued by the security firm ...
Big Data Black Hole Looms As Consumers Say “No” To Tracking
Given the chance to select a “do not track” feature on your computer or mobile device, would you willingly allow companies to gather data about you? Most likely, if the option to turn off data tracking was right there in front of you, you’d want to make use of it. But it’s not just you ...
Lenovo & HP React To Dell Buyout, Forget to Mention Microsoft
The announcement that Dell is planning to revert to its status as a private company has drawn contrasting reactions from two of the firm’s main rivals. On the one hand, we have the world’s top PC maker HP claiming that Dell faces a very “tough road ahead,” while on the other we have Lenovo, which ...
Big Data F*** Ups: What CIOs Need To Know
Enterprise is sometimes pretty quick on the uptake, as illustrated by the fact that the vast majority of organizations have given Big Data projects a very high priority in recent months. Businesses and their CIOs understand that gaining insights from Big Data will be crucial to their performance over the next few years, and that ...
Microsoft: “We’re Just Getting Started” With Windows 8
Don’t believe all the naysayers claiming that Windows 8 is struggling to win over consumers – the new operating system is doing just fine, according to Microsoft. We’ve heard this line before, with Microsoft ever quick to point out that sales of Windows 8 have matched those of its predecessor, Windows 7. But yesterday the ...
Building Big Data: Will a Super Wi-Fi Network Kill Off Mobile Carriers?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is working on an extraordinarily ambitious plan to create “Super Wi-Fi networks” that are so incredibly powerful they could reach every corner of the nation, allowing people to make calls and access the internet from anywhere, completely free of charge. Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the FCC, says that these Super ...
Facebook Ads Become Ever-So-Slightly More Transparent
Given the way that Facebook seems to change things up every other week, you would be forgiven for never knowing where you stand on privacy issues. Facebook collects masses of data about you, but very rarely does it tell you what it does with it. However, this week, the world’s favorite social media site has ...
Oracle Acquires Network Solutions Provider Acme Packet In $1.9 Billion Deal
Oracle will bolster its communications portfolio with the acquisition of Acme Packet, which makes networking gear for data, voice and unified communications services, in a deal reportedly worth some $1.9 billion cash. The company announced that it will acquire Acme Packet for $29.25 a share, a significant 22% mark up on its Friday share price ...
Strange Big Data: Can We Really Predict Everything?
Anyone who knows anything about Big Data understands that, at the end of the day, it all boils down to guesswork. The reason we accumulate so much data, and store it, and try to glean insights from it, is so we can guess what happens next. So far, much of the emphasis has been on ...
Is Google Being Racist?
A new study of Google’s search engine has found that searches for names typically associated with black people are far more likely to throw up ads relating to criminal activity, leading one Harvard professor to suggest that the search engine could be “racially biased.” For example, a search on Google for names primarily given to ...