Belkin completed its acquisition of Linksys on Friday and will keep the longtime home networking company's brand, products and support channels. Cisco Systems agreed to sell Linksys to privately held Belkin in January for an undisclosed ...
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BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins has taken a swipe at rival Apple's iPhone, claiming that its user interface is five years old and suggesting that it is in need of a refresh. "Apple did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices ...
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The European Commission has pledged to crack down on unfair trade practices by e-commerce sites across the European Union. The promise comes five years after the European Union's first Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which had been ...
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Three UK, the mobile phone network, is using "big data" at the heart of its business to work out where to locate mobile phone masts and to help personalise the "experience" of its subscribers. Speaking at Computing's Big Data Summit in ...
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Despite much talk during the preceding 12 months about the pivotal role that technology is expected to play in boosting the UK's ailing economy, there was precious little in today's Budget to add flesh to the bones. There is to be an ...
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Half of all businesses believe the data they process represents as much as three quarters of the value of their organisation. That's according to Microsoft UK's data platform product marketing manager, Anthony Saxby, who was discussing new ...
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There are opportunities for big data in cyber security, according to technology specialist at BSkyB Jamie Randall. Speaking at Computing's Big Data Summit 2013 today, Randall said that big data could be used to interpret alerts and ...
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Companies are rebranding what they have offered for many years as "big data solutions", Financial Times CIO Christina Scott warned delegates at Computing's Big Data Summit today. Speaking at Computing's flagship event on the topic ...
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Big Data isn't just about the datacentre. Data architecture, data processing and data management are all important. That's according to Alan Priestley, director of strategic marketing EMEA for Intel, who was addressing the audience at ...
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Businesses need to stop "pouring money" into big data storage hardware and software acquisitions, and spend resources on insight and interpretation, Autonomy has warned at today's Computing Big Data Summit. In a reimagining of ROI that ...
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Although Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said this week that Chrome OS and Android will remain separate operating systems "for a very, very long time," one analyst still thinks the two will eventually merge. Despite Schmidt's comments, ...
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Apple is the leading consumer cloud storage provider, beating out Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to a new survey. The survey of 2,300 consumers who regularly use the Internet was conducted in October by research firm Strategy ...
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Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will serve as Apple's Vice President of Technology. (Image: Adobe) Computerworld - Apple's hiring of Adobe's former CTO Kevin Lynch opens some intriguing possibilities for the Cupertino, Calif. company's future ...
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BlackBerry's new operating system faces its first big test in the U.S. Friday when the first phone based on BlackBerry 10 goes on sale. The U.S. launch comes more than a month after the phone, called the Z10, went on sale in the U.K. Jan. ...
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Following similar disclosures from companies like Google and Twitter, Microsoft has for the first time released statistics about requests it has received from law enforcement agencies for data about its users, and the criteria it employs to ...
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