The Kenyan government has said that it has no intention of censoring what citizens do online or of closing access to social media networks in the country, despite facing challenges of identifying and tracking down people behind online hate ...
Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorized changes to ...
The European Commission is deciding whether to launch an anti-trust investigation into Apple's contracts with European mobile phone operators. Concerns have been raised by a group of European telecommunications operators, but no formal ...
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Friday 15th March saw the second instalment of the PLASA Golf Day charity event at the Drift Golf Club in Surrey. Following on from the success of last year's competition, the fundraiser was held to raise money for Light Relief - a charity ...
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Tineka Smith caught up with Trevor Healy, CEO of Amobee, to talk about the growth of mobile advertising and what this means for the PC. Amobee is the mobile advertising company for the big guys. We drive mobile campaigns for very large ...
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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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An implant to do blood tests has been developed by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. The implant beams its findings back by Bluetooth to a mobile phone. Researchers say it will be useful for providing continuous tracking of ...
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Seoul Semiconductor, has announced a 0.6T side view LED that achieves 8.8 lumens, the world’s best performance in light output, to occupy the fast-growing phablet market. (phablet: smart PHone and tABLET PC) This new side-view LED ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo has added a new engine variant and upgraded an engine used in the V40 model sedan that is available in Europe. Launched at the 2013 Geneva Motor show, the manual versions of the V40 D2 and V40 D2 ...
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Andy Rubin, the head of Android at Google - officially, senior vice president of mobile and digital content - is stepping down to be replaced by Sundar Pichai, who currently runs the company's Chrome web browser and Apps division. Rubin ...
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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has launched a 0.6T side-view LED, optimized for the fast-growing smart-phone and tablet (phablet) market, which requires high brightness and high efficacy. The 0.6mm (tall) LED delivers 8.8 ...
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Facing a rapidly evolving technology market, Bell Labs is paying more attention to projects that can bring it short-term gains, in areas such as software. "The biggest challenge we face is speed," said Bell Labs' president Gee Rittenhouse ...
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BLU Products, one of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world announced today the new BLU LIFE Series of smartphone devices delivering stunning design and premium build quality with flagship performance. The BLU LIFE ...
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Arduino has gone mobile by offering a GPRS/GSM add-on module to the Arduino motherboard. This will allow the development platform to connect to the internet via GSM mobile phone networks. The module, or shield, was developed in ...
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Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Late Monday, a group of senators and ...