According to a report by market research firm YouGov, the use of Facebook in the UK has declined by nine per cent year-on-year. This fall coincides with the social media site's advertising push, which has seen promotions jump over the ...
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Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web traffic filtering and business assurance products and services, plans to buy security analytics specialist Solera Networks, which uses data mining techniques to classify network traffic and detect ...
Definiens, a provider of image and data analysis solutions for quantitative digital pathology, has launched new software that improves productivity in tissue-based research and biomarker development. The new software widens the ...
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Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based start-up with a data visualisation engine that helps to discover patterns in live data streams. Lucky Sort's chief executive officer, Noah Pepper, announced the news on the ...
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Google is reportedly negotiating with messaging app WhatsApp over a possible takeover worth nearly $1bn (£655m) According to an inside source, the negotiations started more than a month ago, says DigitalTrends. Further reading ...
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More details have emerged about the new "Facebook phone", which is expected to be launched as early as Thursday 4 April. The press event will be held at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California - revealed after invitations ...
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Forrester Research predicts that with the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops as well as smartphones and tablets, the approach to managing such devices is in for some big changes. In its 2013 Mobile Security Predictions ...
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US-based biotechnology company BioTime and its subsidiary LifeMap Sciences have entered into a definitive data mining collaboration agreement. Under the agreement, BioTime will use LifeMap's computer-based tools to extract information ...
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Merchants Insurance Group has selected Risk Control Technologies’ RC Inspection software to streamline its loss control operations. The software will be delivered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis, using cloud technologies to ...
Facebook has admitted that laptops belonging to its employees were recently infected by malware, blaming a zero-day Java exploit for the incident. Users of the social network will be concerned that their private data may have been ...
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New software capable of dredging social media websites, mining people's social networks and "predicting their behaviour", has been developed by defence contractor Raytheon. The software, called Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), ...
Digi-Key has signed two new supplier franchises military chip specialist Holt Integrated Circuits and cognitive memory supplier, CogniMem. CogniMem has developed a neural network architecture to resemble the synapses of the human ...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) today announced what it said is the industry's highest-capacity 10,000rpm, enterprise-class hard drive: the Ultrastar C10K1200. The 2.5-in. drive comes in capacities of up to 1.2TB and features a ...
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Midwest-based property/casualty insurer West Bend Mutual Insurance has selected Risk Control (RC) Technologies-built RC Inspection software solution to enhance efficiency of loss control operations. West Bend loss prevention manager Chuck ...
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The #1 KLAS ranked Digisonics Cardiology PACS & Structured Reporting system provides pediatric cath specific functionality to create a more efficient reporting workflow. HOUSTON, TX, January 25, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Digisonics CVIS ...