Mike Wheatley
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Imagine this scenario: you go for a routine check-up at the hospital, but instead of the doctor giving you the all clear sign, he informs you that you’ve an extremely aggressive medical condition – one so aggressive, that even the doctors haven’t …
VMware Bets on $700 Million Share Buyback as Virtualization Battle Heats Up
Virtualization software maker and all-round cloud computing giant VMware is betting that its stock could be worth a buyback. Yesterday the company announced its given authorization for as much as $700 million in share buybacks, with the shares available for purchase between …
“Hand of Thief” Malware Makes A Grab For Linux
So you thought you were safe from all the internet nasties – worms, Trojans, spyware and so on whilst tapping away on your Linux flavoured computer? Well, you might want to think again. Reports today have surfaced of a new kind of …
iOS 7 Update Will Track & Display Your Every Move
Will Apple face a new privacy storm when it launches iOS 7? It feels like the dark clouds are looming above, for it’s been revealed that when it’s rolled out, iOS 7 will keep track of and display all of the locations …
China’s Leaders Warm Up to Big Data for Better Governance
China’s repressive internet regime is famous the world over, what with its “Great Firewall of China” put in place to block any sites that censors deem critical of the regime, not to mention the increasingly sophisticated systems it employs to suppress discussion …
Google Chrome ‘Hacked’: How Your Passwords Can Be Exposed
If you’re one of the millions of people using Google Chrome as your preferred browser, and if you happen to have any important passwords saved within the browser itself, you might just want to reconsider how wise that is. Your data is, …
Crossbar’s Resistive RAM Chips: The Successor to Flash?
Santa Clara-based startup Crossbar has just announced a potentially game-changing new memory chip that it claims has the potential to replace standard flash memory in a number of applications. Crossbar calls its new technology Resistive RAM, and says that it has the …
Microsoft Slashes Cost of Surface Pro: A Sign of Failure?
Just a week after it slashed the price of its failed Surface RT tablets by $150, Microsoft has taken a similar drastic measure with the price of its premium Surface Pro, cutting the cost of the device by $100. As of today, …
Facebook Targets Twitter Success with Embedded Posts
You don’t have to be on Twitter to read what somebody tweets, and you don’t have to go to YouTube to view a YouTube video, thanks to the way this content can easily be embedded on other website. And now, you won’t …
F#@* It! Russia Wants to Ban Swearing on the Web
“Mother Russia” is certainly living up to its nickname of late. About a nine months ago Russian lawmakers first introduced their controversial “blacklist law,” which gives authorities the power to block access to websites that are deemed to promote drug use, suicide …