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After being criticized for inaccuracy in its Flu Trends, Google Inc., has decided to combine ‘real’ big data with its search engine stats to try and come up with a better model. Google Flu Trends was launched in 2009, and while it …
Facebook opens the door to anonymous Tor users
Facebook Inc., has finally opened up to users of the Tor network, which lets people browse the Internet anonymously. Tor, which was launched in 2002, gives people a way to surf the Web without giving away information such as their IP address …
IBM wants to become a superpower in social media analysis
The marriage of Big Data with business intelligence is still evolving, but already it’s become an industry that’s worth multiple billions of dollars. Organizations are falling over themselves to transform their Big Data into actionable insights, and now IBM and Twitter Inc. …
Pure Storage joins forces with OpenStack
OpenStack might still have plenty of detractors who say it’s an over-hyped and immature technology, but the number of backers continues to grow. Yesterday, Flash storage vendor Pure Storage Inc., became the latest company to pledge support for the OpenStack Foundation, joining …
CoreOS delivers private Docker registries for the enterprise
Linux vendor CoreOS has made its Docker-centric Enterprise Registry available as a standalone product. Now, the product can be used with any Docker-enabled operating system, having previously only been available as part of CoreOS’s Premium Managed Linux service. With the Enterprise Registry …
Lenovo completes Motorola buy, becomes major mobile player
Last January it was announced Google Inc. had agreed to sell off its subsidiary Motorola Motobility to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. in a deal worth some $2.91 billion. Now, the acquisition has finally been completed and sees Lenovo suddenly become the world’s …
EMC makes a late hybrid cloud play with triple acquisition
Just when you thought EMC Corp. couldn’t be any busier, it’s gone and acquired no less than three cloud startups in one fell swoop – The Cloudscaling Group Inc., Maginatics Inc., and Spanning Cloud Apps Inc. Apparently these weren’t impulsive buys. Each …
Google wants to inject Robots into your blood
Google Inc., has made no secret of its obsession with search, but it’s about to take things to the extreme with the development of nanoparticles that can be injected into people to seek out diseases like cancer. The idea was announced at …
Verizon Wireless uses invisible code to track mobile customers
For the last two years, Verizon Wireless has been secretly tracking its customers online by adding tokens or ‘permacookies’ to web requests made over its cellular network. The data is used to build profiles of its users for advertising purposes, and it …
Drone strike: Pilot claims quadcopter was “deliberately” flown at passenger plane
As if drunk passengers, extreme turbulence, volcanic ash clouds and terrorists weren’t enough, pilots now have to be on the lookout for yet another threat – unnmanned flying drones being purposefully flown towards them. Such an event apparently occurred earlier this year, …