Airplane mode, long commutes, limits on data plans: they all belie the notion of devices with continuous, uninterrupted Internet connections. Yet many applications assume a permanent connection when delivering content to the user. When the ...
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Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. "Syrian Internet down again since 07:01 UTC (10:00 Damascus time), Wednesday, 15 May ...
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Connectify Kickstarts Cloud Service For Faster Internet On Mac and PC Connectify has begun a Kickstarter campaign to launch Connectify Switchboard, the company's new cloud service that lets Mac and PC users combine multiple Internet ...
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GOOGLE co-founder Sergey Brin has outlined a vision for the future in which self-driving cars whisk care-free friends to verdant parks that were once paved lots. It's these kinds of ideas - which have the potential to transform lives and ...
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GOOGLE co-founder Sergey Brin has outlined a vision for the future in which self-driving cars whisk care-free friends to verdant parks that were once paved lots. It's these kinds of ideas - which have the potential to transform lives ...
Australians are falling further in love with faster internet, with more users downloading more data than ever before. Figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show record downloads in the last three months of 2012, with ...
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Next time you're at the mall and have trouble finding the restroom, a place to nosh, or a certain electronics retailer—one where you might pick up an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook—your Android phone can show you the way. A ...
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Google has paid out $7m (£4.6m) across 38 US states in a legal settlement over the "inappropriate" harvesting of personal data that occurred during its Street View project between 2008 and 2010. Data included emails, passwords and ...
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The telecoms industry is set for huge growth over coming years, thanks to the protracted maturation in the smartphone and tablet markets, said research agency Ovum in a statement on 2 March. The prediction is that that partnerships will ...
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According to new research from Cisco, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, exceeding the amount of data initiated over fixed lines by three to one by 2017. Cisco estimates that mobile data traffic ...
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Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs and more can be attacked over the Internet because of dangerous flaws in their implementation of the UPnP (Universal Plug and ...
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Cuba's Internet speeds increased on Tuesday, and the country appears to be routing more traffic through a previously dormant undersea fiber-optic cable, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. Renesys noticed last week that ...
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The Welsh government has invested 39m into faster broadband services for schools, the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones has announced. The investment comes from a new "Learning In Digital Wales Grant" that aims to help students to ...
Hurricane Sandy exposed a decided lack of contingency planning on Wall Street, according to a report by a research firm. With the Northeast still experiencing the effects of widespread storm damage, the business continuity plans of stock ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
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