Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
Computerworld - Facebook may be the biggest social network in the world, but rival Google+ wins when it comes to user satisfaction. Facebook users have become increasingly unsatisfied, according to a report from the American Customer ...
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Instagram has seen a huge spike in popularity among mobile device users over the past six months, pushing it past Twitter for the first time. Instagram, which is just two years old, went from 886,000 daily mobile users in March to ...
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Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data. The schools have all seen the McKinsey Co. report warning of a mega shortage in analytical talent of as many as 190,000 ...
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VMware and EMC today confirmed rumors that have been circulating for weeks that it would spin out its big data and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud products into a new division within the company named Pivotal Initiative, which will be ...
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$33.8bn has already been spent online this holiday season According to figures from internet analytics firm comScore, shoppers spent a record $1bn online on four separate days. As consumers increasingly access the internet on-the-go ...
A U.K. analytics firm that warned earlier this week of an information leak in Internet Explorer (IE) today rebuked Microsoft for downplaying the bug. Microsoft, however, has announced it is working on a fix, although the nature of the ...
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Transonic Systems, a biomedical flow measurement innovation and quality provider, has selected business analytics firm Infinity Info Systems to implement the latter's Microsoft Dynamics CRM On-Premise solution. Using the new tool, ...
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Google will drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for its online apps and services in mid-November, effectively ending support for many users of Windows XP. "Internet Explorer 10 launches on 10/26/2012, and as a result, ...
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Instagram has seen a huge spike in popularity among mobile device users over the past six months, pushing it past Twitter for the first time. Instagram, which is just two years old, went from 886,000 daily mobile users in March to ...
Tags: Facebook, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, mobile users, social media, Twitter
YAHOO! has shaken up its board of directors, giving a seat to PayPal co-founder and former Google executive Max Levchin and bidding farewell to two of its members. Levchin's arrival on the Yahoo! board came with the departure of Intuit ...
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Computerworld-Every time a new iPhone launches,AppStore downloads soar--and app developers cheer. After the iPhone 5 launch on Sept.21,the number of daily App Store downloads in October reached 5.4 million,creating a 33%spike over all ...
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Computerworld-Apple's App Store generates four times the revenue of Google Play,but Google's sales of apps are growing fast in South Korea,Japan and India,according to a new monthly index released Thursday by analytics firm App Annie. The ...
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Social media analytics service PeopleBrowsr said it has won a temporary restraining order in a California court against Twitter's decision to end its four-year old arrangement to supply data to the company. PeopleBrowsr said late ...
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A taste of Cisco's acquisitions The threat from software-defined networking(SDN)Cisco diversifies portfolio Acquisitions more cost-effective than R&D Extending customer base and innovation There is nothing unusual about an industry ...
Tags: Cisco, software-defined networking(SDN), Lightwire, Clive Longbottom