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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Net Freedoms In The Balance? Russian Proposal to ‘Share’ Control Attracts Support
Serious divisions have emerged at a UN conference on international telecommunications, with countries including Russia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE insisting that each of the 193 nations present should have an equal say in how the internet is ran, and demanding this …