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Google Zeitgeist and Facebook ‘Year In Review” Show Top Web Trends For 2012
We’ve already seen Twitter coming out early with its own list of top trends, and now both Google and Facebook have come up with their own takes on our online activity over the last 12 months, with the release of this year’s Google Zeitgeist and Facebook’s new ‘Year in Review’ feature. Google’s 12th Annual Zeitgeist ...
Would You Buy A Russian-Made, Dual-Screen Smartphone?
Let’s be honest here, smartphone innovation has become a bit stale in recent months. Granted, we’ve seen lots of new devices with new ideas in recent months, including Windows 8 phones, larger displays, edge-to-edge screens, LTE, bla bla bla… but aside from these new features, they all look and feel pretty much the same. So ...
Team GhostShell’s Great Christmas Giveaway: 1.6 Million Public Records Dumped
Hacktivist collective Team GhostShell delivered its Christmas presents well ahead of schedule yesterday, celebrating the upcoming festivities by leaking more than a million public agency records stolen from organizations including NASA, the European Space Agency, the FBI and others. The latest high profile dump was done in the name of #ProjectWhiteFox, a movement that claims ...
MediaTek Enters Mobile Quad-Core Arena with MT6589 System-on-a-Chip
MediaTek has just made its first entry into the emerging mobile quad-core chip market with the release of its new MT6589 quad-core system-on-a-chip (SoC), which comes with a fully integrated modem supporting HSPA+ and other standards. The Taiwanese firm’s decision means that it will be taking on the likes of Samsung and Nvidia in one ...
Big Brother’s Big Data – So You Thought You Were Safe? Think Again…
Electronic privacy is a bit of a thorny issue at the moment, what with the whole scandal surrounding former FBI Director David Petraeus still fresh in our minds. So what better time than now to take a look at some of the more ‘sinister’ ways in which the government - or someone else - might ...
Amazon Web Services Offers Support For Windows’ Big Data Apps
Amazon has made another move to further cement its position as the leader of the cloud, giving Microsoft developers the option to integrate Windows server-based apps within Amazon Web Services. Amazon made the announcement late last week, with support being offered for Windows Server versions 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012. The AWS Marketplace ...
Austria Considers Tax On Cloud Services Like Google Drive, Dropbox
A call by an author’s group in Austria to expand taxes levied on storage media to include systems such as hard drives and cloud storage has led to concerns that consumers in that country could be forced to pay to access services such as Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive. The group, which goes by ...
Google Suffers Monday Morning Blues
Some of Google’s services had a hard time waking up yesterday morning, with hundreds of users reporting 502 error messages whenever they tried to login to Gmail, Google Apps, and in some cases, tried to open the Chrome web browser.
Iran Launches Its Own, ‘Appropriate’ Version of YouTube
What with YouTube having been deemed “inappropriate” by the powers that be in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the country has instead decided to launch its own version of the video-sharing website, with the major difference being that users will only be allowed to upload “appropriate” content. Known as Mehr, after the Zoroastrian God of ...
IBM’s Silicon Nanophotonics: The Answer to Big Data Traffic Jams
IBM has announced a major breakthrough with its silicon nanophotonics research, developing a system for transferring data using light instead of electronic signals, which could have massive ramifications for the future of computing. Silicon nanophotonics refers to the integration of different optical components side by side with electrical circuits on single silicon chips using sub-100nm ...