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Thailand Sells Off 3G Licenses (At Last), But Implementation Could Still Be Years Off
Thailand has just completed its joke of a 3G auction, but even now the country’s long-suffering populace may have to wait months for high-speed mobile services to be implemented, a scandalous FOURTEEN years after the service was first introduced in Japan. Yesterday’s auction of nine 3G licenses saw Thailand raise a total of $1.4 billion, ...
No More “Big Data” – Soon, It’ll Be “Just Data”
For those who can’t wait for next week’s Strata Hadoop World Conference in New York, when we can expect dozens of new developments in the big data world, a couple of interesting items came up yesterday courtesy of Gartner and IBM. First up was Gartner’s latest report, which made some big noises about big data ...
Leaked Report: No Evidence Of Huawei Spying On The US
A US government probe has found no evidence that the under-fire telecommunications firm Huawei carried out espionage on behalf of the Chinese government, according to leaked reports. The 18-month review, which is a different investigation from the one carried out by the Congressional panel that accused Huawei and ZTE of being ‘security threats’, suggests that ...
Twitter Censors Nazi Account For German Users
Twitter has restricted access to the account of a neo-Nazi group following a request by the German government. Users in Germany will no longer be able to view tweets made by the Saxony-based group, although they will still be visible to the rest of the world. This marks the first time that the social networking ...
Yellowstone Supercomputer Goes Online To Tackle Climate Change
Today’s a big day for the engineers at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, who have just begun powering up the world’s newest kick-ass supercomputer for the first time. Known as the ‘Yellowstone’, the new 1.5 petaflop, IBM-made supercomputer has been designed to tackle a hugely ambitious agenda of experiments and calculations that could ...
Google’s Data Centers Serve Up A Virtual Feast For The Eyes
Given its status as the owner of the world’s biggest search engine, not to mention the dozens of other web services that it provides, Google has gathered up quite a lot of data since it first went into business in 1998. To store all of that data it’s collected, it’s had to develop some of ...
Reddit Defends “Biggest Internet Troll”, Says It Stands For “Free Speech”
Reddit, one of the biggest and most influential sites on the web, is at the center of yet another storm after appearing to leap to the defense of one of its most notorious moderators, who just days earlier exposed as one of the creepiest and most perverse internet “trolls” in the world. The website has ...
Kaspersky Hopes to “Save The World” With New, Ultra-Secure OS
Kaspersky Labs has taken it upon itself to protect the world’s most critical infrastructure from viruses and cyberattacks, by creating its own malware-proof operating system. Eugene Kaspersky says in a blog post that the new OS will be designed to protect key information for the world’s most critical industries, such as transportation control centers, telecommunication ...
Healthy Big Data: Putting Patients In Control
For centuries, healthcare has largely been in the hands of professionals. People get sick, they go to the doctor’s where he or she tells them what medicines to take or what type of surgery they need to have. And more often than not, patients just go along with their recommendations. Aside from getting a second ...
Yahoo Breaks the Bank to Sign Up Google’s Henrique de Castro as New COO
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made another major move in her mission to overhaul the flagging internet company, snatching up Google Executive Henrique de Castro and appointing him as its new chief operating officer in a four-year deal reported to be worth close to $58 million. De Castro, 47, had previously worked for Mayer as ...