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Why Does Microsoft Want a Piece of Dell?
There’s a new dynamic to the speculation about Dell’s bid to buy back stock and become a private entry, with reports emerging yesterday that Microsoft is also taking part in the discussions and may be…
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Did Yahoo ‘Snap Up’ Snip.It Just To Get Its Hands On Ramy Adeeb?
Yahoo is moving forward with CEO Marissa Mayer’s strategy of acquiring high value startups with talented teams, announcing that it’s snapped up the content discovery and sharing website Snip.it for a price thought to…
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Growing Data Demand Will Lead To “Mobile Rush Hours” By 2016
Mobile carriers will soon be unable to keep up with the growing demand for bandwidth from smartphone users on the go, according to a new report by the UK consulting and advisory firm Deloitte.…
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Future Big Data: How Analytics Will Impact NFL
Using data to try and predict the outcome of a football match – or any sport, for that matter – is a notoriously difficult science that can stump even the most talented of data…
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Is Cuba Gearing Up to Go Online?
Internet usage in Cuba isn’t anywhere near as restrictive as it is in North Korea, but it sure is painful. With connections only possible via satellite, the cost of getting online in the tropical…
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Architects Take 3D Printing To The Next Level, Two Storeys Up
3D printers have been pretty innovative of late, replicating such weird and wonderful items as dinosaur bones, iPhone cases and even ‘meat’, among other things. But now a bunch of architects have also gotten…
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Can Dotcom and Mega Avoid a Second Takedown?
Kim Dotcom’s newest file-sharing site MEGA got off to flying start yesterday, with more than one million new users registered in the first 24 hours, according to some reports. But despite this early success,…
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Google Imagines a Future With No Passwords
Google is upping the ante where it comes to online security, outlining a dramatic new vision of a future where passwords will be shunted aside in favor of dedicated authentication devices for each user…
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Intel Slump Not a Problem – Death of BYOD Just Around the Corner
In the wake of disappointing news regarding its Q4 profits, Intel CEO Paul Otellini remained surprisingly upbeat over its prospects for the future, insisting that the next generation of PC designs would soon subsume today’s…
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Security Essentials Fluffs Malware Test; Microsoft Goes on the Warpath
Apparently Microsoft isn’t too happy with the outcome of a recent test that labelled its antivirus software as one of the worst performing around. The company has challenged the methodology used by Germany’s AV-Test,…