Investments in ICT are expect to increase in 2014 in Africa as both public and private spending rises and local content businesses partner with larger operators and tech companies, according to IDC. Adoption of data analytics and cloud ...
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A newly launched Athena service uses the tagline "Fall in love. With what big data can do for you and your company." No, it's not a dating site and no, big data isn't always very loveable. However, the new service, provided by Vigillo, ...
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Big Data is improving decision making, according to a newly released global survey by EMC. Findings of the report based on a survey of IT decision makers from 50 countries indicate that big data is also impacting companies’ ...
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Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the country against attacks, the agency's director said Wednesday. The NSA's ...
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IDC has released its predictions for the IT industry in 2014, and said it believes that Middle East spending will exceed $32 billion in the coming year. It predicts that the region will make a 7.3 percent year-on-year growth, one of the ...
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eClinical Insights, a provider of cloud-based clinical trials software, has announced the introduction of its eClinical intelligence platform, a cloud-based platform that provides real-time data insights for clinical trials. eClinical ...
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True Fit, a big data technology company providing leading fit personalization software to top retailers across the globe, announced it has become a Demandware LINK Technology Partner, joining a best-of-breed community committed to ...
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More than a week after the FDA told 23andMe to stop marketing its Personal Genomic Service tests, the Mountain View, CA–based company says it is complying. "23andMe halted all marketing last week in accordance with the FDA’s ...
MP Liam Fox has claimed that "exploiting and unleashing the potential of big data is a massive economic opportunity". Fox was speaking at the SAS Careers Fair at Brunel University today which was attended by Computing. Further reading ...
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Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
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Several opportunities are predicted to emerge in the coming months as more data is generated by machines or things other than human beings. Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific says that 2014 will see more IT buyers and sellers focused on the ...
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Posted in Testing Services by Chris Newmarker on November 25, 2013 The FDA is telling 23andMe to stop marketing its Personal Genomic Service tests. The FDA’s move is but another sign that the regulator is increasingly concerned ...
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Research from data company EMC suggests that UK enterprises trust security and resilience of IT systems much less than their Chinese and US counterparts. The EMC Global IT Trust Curve survey, administered by independent market research ...
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Campus networking solutions vendor Brocade has unveiled its ICX 7750 fixed-port, high density 10/40 GbE switch. Brocade says the switch enables scale-out of campus aggregation networks, in theory helping organisations reduce TCO, add ...
Toyota has unveiled its Smart Mobility City display at the Tokyo motor show, providing a glimpse into the brand’s future plans for connected mobility and safety. Designed to showcase the key areas Toyota believes are essential to ...
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