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Following Andy Rubin’s sudden departure from Android last week, only to be quickly replaced by Chrome OS boss Sundar Pichai, speculation has been rife that Google is planning to merge its two operating systems into a Windows-killer spanning mobile and desktop devices. …
HP Labs Create 3D Displays For Mobile Devices
It’ll probably be some time before we see mobile devices with 3D displays hitting the shops, but at least we’ve been allowed a glimpse of what the future holds in store for us. According to a report in the scientific journal Nature, …
iHT2 Report Identifies Big Data Strategies For Healthcare
There are plenty of advocates touting the potential that Big Data has in healthcare, whether its helping us to fight flu epidemics, manage asthma and diabetes, or prevent disease epidemics at mass gatherings. Few doubt that Big Data will eventually be able …
Amazon Launches “Share to Kindle” Button For Easy Offline Reading
Gone are the days when all online content had to be consumed on the very site on which it was published. What with the rise of popular news readers and bookmarking services like Pulse News, Pocket and Instapaper to combat web-page information …
CIA Spies Amazon For Its Private Cloud
An intriguing report has emerged today that claims the CIA has turned to Amazon to help it build a private cloud. According to the report in Federal Computer Weekly, the spy agency has signed a massive, $600 million deal with the cloud …
Microsoft Ending Support for Windows Phone 8 Next Year, But What’s Coming Next?
Microsoft caused a bit of a stir earlier this week when it announced that support for Windows Phone 8 will end after a period of 18 months, on July 8, 2014. The revelation instantly led to a flurry of speculation among Windows …
Moor Insight & Strategy: “Windows 8 Tablets Best Bet for the Enterprise”
Windows 8 hasn’t exactly had the best of receptions since its launch in fall of last year, but despite the negativity surrounding it there’s still a large body of opinion that insists it remains the best operating system around for those looking …
Repressive Surveillance Software FinSpy Used By At Least 25 Countries
The controversial surveillance software FinSpy has been deployed by more that 25 countries around the world, lumping together “democracies” like the US, Canada, the UK and Germany with some of the world’s most repressive and dubious regimes, such as Turkmenistan, Bahrain, Ethiopia and Vietnam. …
BYOD Is “Most Significant” Influence On Cloud Adoption
We’ve suspected a link between BYOD and cloud service adoption for some time, and this theory has all but been confirmed by the latest Cloud Trends report from IT provider CDW. One of the biggest findings from CDW’s survey of IT professionals …
SDL Wants To Translate Your Foreign Big Data
Organizations can yield a veritable gold mine of insights and opportunities from their Big Data streams, but what happens when their text-based data comes in a mish-mash of foreign languages? For companies that operate on an international level, there’s no doubt that opportunities …