The "right to be forgotten" online, a principle that broadly aims to govern when and how websites are allowed to serve cookies to users' devices, was dealt a blow today by privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). ...
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Media giant News International is progressively shifting its IT infrastructure from in-house data centres to the cloud, after deciding three years ago to shift from being a newspaper company to a multimedia company. Further reading ...
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BACtrack, the leader in personal and professional breathalyzers, today makes available the first-ever, affordable, wireless, smartphone breathalyzer for immediate public purchase. The BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer is the first ...
Infor's CEO, Charles Phillips, on Monday said that the vendor has no intention of owning its own data centres for cloud services, despite having a desire to offer more cloud-based products in the future. Instead, Phillips said, Infor's ...
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Director of information services and security at Wolfson Microelectronics, Andrew Ralston, railed against cloud services providers on a panel at the Infosecurity Europe conference today. Further reading Wozniak: Cloud is going to be ...
Apple has ensured that it will not face an import ban on its iPhones, after it persuaded a US trade agency that it did not infringe a sensory patent, owned by Motorola Mobility. Google acquired Motorola's mobile phone unit last year for ...
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Standalone e-book readers—Nooks, Kindles, and their ilk—are plummeting in sales; only a third as many Americans will buy one this year as did in 2011, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. That only confirms that a ...
April 22 marks the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day, when millions of Americans turn green or at the very least think about the environment. At Consumer Reports, green--in the form of fuel economy, energy efficiency, recycling, and many other ...
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Amazon.com is continuing the global expansion of its Appstore by announcing that developers can submit their apps for sale in another 200 countries around the world. The latest batch of countries include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, ...
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Infor on Monday announced Sky Vault, a big data cloud service based on its ION Business Vault suite that utilises Amazon's new Redshift service. Sky Vault will collect XML documents from any enterprise application enabled with ION – ...
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Retailers were awash in data Thursday as the second annual IBD Summit wound down with sessions on key performance metrics used by the National Bicycle Dealers Association’s Profitability Project and why the oft-neglected triathlon ...
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"Amazon Elastic Map Reduce runs like a dog. It's pathetically slow, we've done benchmarks. It's because it's metered; they charge by the minute." Further reading Outage hits Amazon Web Services as Google lies in wait Intel launches own ...
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Microsoft has signed up another major electronics manufacturer to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program, this time Taiwan's Foxconn, which will pay royalties to the U.S. software giant. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, ...
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Homing in on many brick-and-mortar retailers' most daunting concerns—how to survive and thrive amid online price slashing and better market themselves in the crowded digital marketplace—the second edition of the IBD Summit ...
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In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation. Citrix announced the donation Monday at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration ...
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