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Soni Is Responsible for Building End-to-End Cloud Hosting Capabilities
Sep 22, 2013The idea that cloud computing providers could suffer as a result of the US National Security Agency's (NSA) policy of obtaining data from web companies as part of its Prism surveillance programme is a "red herring", argues Bobby Soni, chief ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Cloud Industry
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Google Is Migrating From Oracle's MySQL Databases to MariaDB
Sep 16, 2013Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by its co-founder, Monty Widenius. The news was broken by Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer at Google at the Extremely Large ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Government Requests to Twitter to Reveal Private Information About Users
Aug 6, 2013Government requests to Twitter to reveal private information about users has rocketed by 40 per cent in the first six months of this year, the social media company has revealed as part of its bi-annual transparency report. The report, ...
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The U.S. Congress Should Press for Privacy Protections and More Information at The NSA
Jun 21, 2013The U.S. Congress should press for privacy protections and more information about surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency, some technology and civil liberties activists said Friday. After recent news leaks about two ...
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They Will Not Cooperate with The Proposed Communications Data Bill
Jun 3, 2013In a leaked letter to home secretary Theresa May, five US web giants have warned that they will not cooperate with the proposed Communications Data Bill, widely known as the "snooper's charter". In the letter, dated 18 April, which was ...
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Fusion-Io President David Flynn Has Resigned and Will Be Replaced by Shane Robison
May 10, 2013Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard. Flynn resigned effective immediately "to pursue entrepreneurial investing activities," according to a news ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Individuals' Personal Data Needs to Be Monetised
Mar 6, 2013Individuals' personal data needs to be monetised if web service business models are to be sustained, otherwise we risk coming against an industry-wide "brick wall", computer scientist and Microsoft Research "scholar at large" Jaron Lanier ...
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LinkedIn's Q4 Earnings Comfortably Beat Analysts' Expectations Yesterday
Feb 17, 2013LinkedIn's Q4 earnings comfortably beat analysts' expectations yesterday for a second quarter running, causing shares to rise by almost 10 per cent. Analysts had predicted revenue for Q4 of $279.5m whereas the actual figure came in at ...
Tags: LinkedIn, Q4 earnings, company news
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Internet Companies to Find a Way to Protect User Privacy to Avert a Clash
Feb 1, 2013Internet companies will soon have to find a way to protect user privacy to avert a "clash" which could lead to increased government regulation, eBay chief executive John Donahoe says. "There's going to be, at some point in the next few ...
Tags: User Privacy, Regulation, eBay
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It's Been Making for Its Biggest Customers and Turned Them Into Products
Jan 16, 2013Fusion-io has taken the flash storage cards it's been making for its biggest customers and turned them into products that almost any company can buy. The new product, called Fusion ioScale, is based on the same design that Fusion-io makes ...
Tags: Flash Cards, Computer Products, software
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The Internet Society Today Sends The Message That It Is Time to Embrace IPV6
Dec 28, 2012The Internet Society today sends the message around the world that it is time to embrace IPv6. A number of high-profile technology companies will turn on the protocol and make the permanent transition from IPv4. "Major internet ...
Tags: IPv6, IPv4, ISP, permanent transition
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Users of The Emerging Technology Should Also Develop Reasonable Security Protections
Dec 27, 2012Web companies using facial recognition technology should avoid identifying anonymous images of consumers to someone who could not otherwise identify them, unless the companies have the consumers' consent, a U.S. Federal Trade Commission ...
Tags: FTC, Web companies, facial recognition technology, anonymous images
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It's Urgent for The U.S. Senate to Pass a Cybersecurity Bill
Dec 26, 2012It's urgent for the U.S. Senate to pass a cybersecurity bill now stalled because of opposition from several lawmakers, officials from the U.S. White House said Wednesday. Four White House officials called on the Senate to pass the revised ...
Tags: U.S.Senate, cybersecurity, bill, lawmakers, White House
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Software-Defined Networking Won't Turn Enterprise Switches Into an Inexpensive Commodity
Dec 21, 2012Software-defined networking won't turn enterprise switches into an inexpensive commodity until three to five years from now, according to Arpit Joshipura, the former Force10 Networks executive who now manages Dell's networking products. ...
Tags: SDN, enterprise switches, inexpensive commodity, Dell
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It Seems Impossible to Imagine Finding Our Way Without Handheld Phones and Web-Base Maps
Dec 18, 2012A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, copy them down, and hope we had a foldable map to help us find our way. Then along came MapQuest, followed by Google Maps in 2005. Today, it seems ...
Tags: Web, foldable map, MapQuest, maps
