Optoelectronic component maker rises on record sales as data centers demand more optical technology. Photonic component and subsystem manufacturer Finisar has delivered an all-time record for revenues in its latest quarter, thanks to ...
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The UK runs a secret internet surveillance station in the Middle East which it uses to capture and process huge quantities of emails, telephone calls and internet traffic on behalf of GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA). The ...
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Site went offline for about 45 minutes Users of Amazon.com were not able to access the online retailing website on Monday afternoon as the site experienced a brief outage, making it the latest one after Google. During the outage, ...
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Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), leaked to the media by ex-contractor Edward Snowden, has shifted companies' priorities when sizing up cloud services providers in and outside the U.S., experts say. The economic ...
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The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday launched a review of whether the country uses optimally advancements in technology to protect its national security while preventing unauthorized disclosure and maintaining public ...
The PRISM revelations and the National Security Agency's programme of obtaining data from web firms could cost the American cloud computing industry $35bn (£23bn) over the next three years, as wary customers switch to providers that ...
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Based on an analysis of mobile data traffic from its installed customer base, Flash Networks, the leading provider of mobile Internet optimization and monetization solutions, found that Instagram video viewing exceeded YouTube on the fourth ...
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The Middle East and Africa (MEA) will be the fastest-growing IP traffic region in the world from 2012 to 2017, showing a compound annual growth rate of 38 percent, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast for 2012 ...
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British spy agency GCHQ taps and stores all transatlantic network traffic, totalling between 60 and 100 petabytes, for at least three days. That is the claim of investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, speaking at The World Conference of ...
British spy agency GCHQ is tapping global internet traffic and phone calls, processing information from around the world which it is sharing with its opposite number in the US, the National Security Agency (NSA). That is the latest ...
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With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
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Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third parties, but the correct implementation and use of data ...
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APPLE chief Tim Cook says he sees promise in computers shrunk down and worn like watches or other accessories, but drew the line at internet-linked eye wear such as Google Glass. Google Glass is "not likely to be a mass market item" but ...
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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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