The total annual value of property and casualty (P&C) and life insurance policies sold through digital channels in Europe is expected to touch €25bn in 2016, which is more than twice the 2012 volume of €12bn. A new study by ...
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Social networking giant Facebook is to acquire mobile data compression start-up Onavo in a bid to make its services more cross-platform - especially for users accessing the service on mobile devices. Founded in 2010 by Guy Rosen and Roi ...
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The National Security Agency (NSA) is harvesting data from contact lists of millions of personal email and instant messenger accounts from across the globe, according to documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The latest Prism ...
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The Home Office has said it is working with the biggest mobile phone firms in a bid to implement new security features that would make handsets less attractive to thieves. Crime prevention minister Norman Baker met with the likes of ...
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Brazilian regulators are to investigate Google after claims by Microsoft and Brazilian search rivals that the firm is involved in anti-competitive practices. Brazil's antitrust watchdog Cade said that it was looking into accusations that ...
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The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has released a training resource that covers the installation guidelines and safety advantages of winter and studded tires on passenger and SUV/LT vehicles. Winter Tire Replacement is a 15-minute video ...
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Tesco's bargain-tastic Hudl 7-inch tablet seems to be going great guns, selling 35,000 units in its first two days alone after release in the UK. It's cheap - coming in at just £120 (or £60 if purchased with specific Tesco ...
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Lamborghini has made touring its exclusive Sant’Agata museum an everyday possibility for fans of the brand around the world via a new expansion of Google Maps. Derived from Google’s street view technology, the Lamborghini ...
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Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp of Thief River Falls, MN, USA has announced new inventory of gallium nitride (GaN) power management products, available for immediate shipment as part of an exclusive global ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
Microsoft has joined Google and Facebook in plotting a replacement for the cookie. For many years the humble cookie, a small text file that browsers download when they visit a web site, has been one of the mainstays of online advertising, ...
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The search engine firm has sparked further debate over tax affairs. Google shifted €8.8bn of revenues to Bermuda last year, up a quarter on 2011, sparking further debate over search engine's tax affairs. The tech giant has reduced ...
Valve, the company behind the popular Steam games website and portal, has released the technical specifications of its Steambox, a games console intended to take the popular service from the desktop PC to the living room. Valve started ...
Google said Wednesday it plans to reward developers for developing proactive security improvements for some of the most widely used open-source software programs. The program aims to “improve the security of key third-party software ...
Accidentally leaked user manuals from PC maker Lenovo show that the company is preparing a new laptop that runs Android instead of Windows. Called the IdeaPad A10, the laptop has a 10.1 inch HD screen and is listed as an Android device, ...
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Apple's October launch for the new version to the iPad Mini is in jeopardy, as the high-resolution Retina displays for the device are not ready. The Cupertino, California-based firm's supply chain is starting production now on the ...
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