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Last week, a ‘proper’ version of the YouTube app finally landed on the Windows Phone. Billed as version 3.0, the app brought with it a number of awesome features specific to Windows Phone users, including the ability to download videos to view …
Firefox 21 Arrives: A Healthier, Faster & More Social Browsing Experience
Mozilla has just come out with a new Firefox 21 open source browser release, just six weeks after its previous update, including at least eight security fixes, three of which were rated as being critical. In addition, the new browser comes with …
3 Ways Big Data’s Helping to Eradicate Disease
After falling victim to an extremely rare kind of vocal chord paralysis that’s preventing him from giving the kind of long-winded keynote speeches we’re used to hearing from CEOs, Google’s Larry Page has announced a plan to gather data from people suffering …
Windows Blue Now Officially “Windows 8.1,” Available for Free This Summer
Microsoft has made an announcement about its soon-to-be-released “Windows Blue” update, officially naming the next iteration of its operating system as “Windows 8.1”. More important than the labeling however, is that Microsoft intends to make the update available for free to all …
No More Whoring: LinkedIn Bans Professional Escorts
LinkedIn claims to connect the world’s professionals and help them to further their career success, but for those with one particular type of skill set, there’ll be no more naughty business taking place within its confines. The world’s biggest professional networking site, …
FBI Enlists US Bank’s Help To Head Off Iranian Cyber Attacks
In order to combat a wave of cyberattacks that have rattled the US banking industry since last year, the FBI has given certain banking executives extensive briefings of their classified investigations. The collaboration is part of a new policy being initiated by …
Google I/O Goes Big Brother With Sensors Tracking Every Move You Make
Attendees at this week’s Google I/O event have unwittingly volunteered themselves as guinea pigs in an experiment being run by Google’s Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. That’s right. Google is planning to quite literally keep track of everything and everyone who attends …
Facebook’s Waze Acquisition Hits Major Snag Over Relocation
Facebook’s proposed $1 billion acquisition of the satellite navigation startup Waze appears to have hit a major snag, according to reports in Israel. The daily newspaper Calcalist is reporting that the talks, which were said to be in their “final stages”, have …
Facebook “Kills Off” Social Roulette Before It Kills You
Would you play Russian Roulette with your digital life? The idea of committing ‘social suicide’, by which we mean deleting all of your Facebook, Twitter and whatever-else-have-you profiles has probably occurred to quite a few of us at one time or another. …
Why CIOS Need To Embrace Failure
It’s pretty depressing for CIOs and IT staff when their projects fail to get off the ground, but don’t be too disheartened if it happens to you. So long as these failures can lead to changes in your attitude towards experimentation and …