Google has bowed to concerns over unauthorised eavesdropping by announcing that it will start to automatically encrypt data stored in Google Cloud Storage. The company says that it will use 128-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) ...
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As the BlackBerry brand slowly dies, considerations are being made about what do do with its assets, including more than 5,000 US patents built up over a decade of innovation in the mobile marketplace, and more than 3,700 wireless ...
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Sony has introduced its SmartWatch 2 but it's about to get some serious competition if rumours are correct. Two sources have told Bloomberg that the Galaxy Gear will launch on 4 September, just before IFA kicksoff. That places the ...
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new model to simulate with unprecedented accuracy on the computer the way cloth and light interact. The new model can be used in animated movies and in video ...
Sony on Thursday launched its new Portable Wireless Server (PWS) in the UAE. The device is designed to help users view, share, and store content from their smartphones, the vendor said. The device serves as a battery charger and card ...
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After a closed beta for a few months, Lenovo has opened for public preview its Reach consumer cloud service, which is a “cloud desktop” service through which applications can be launched without downloading and installing them ...
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Some level of government surveillance is “essential” if the nation is to minimize the incidence of terrorist strikes like the Boston Marathon bombing, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. In a rare interview with CBS This ...
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Apple’s innovation problems were highlighted today when Forbes published its 2013 list of the world’s most innovative companies and ranked Apple at No. 79. Apple’s plummet has been dramatic. In 2011, the first year ...
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Google is distributing patches for a cryptography flaw in Android that may affect hundreds of thousands of applications. The patches have been passed to partners belonging to the Open Handset Alliance, a trade group dedicated to ...
The University of St Andrews, one of the oldest universities in the world, has slashed its power bills and carbon emissions with a radical process of server consolidation and virtualisation. The project, which is ongoing, involved ...
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Samsung remains the runaway market leader in smartphones, according to the latest figures from analysts at Gartner. It sold 71.4 million units in the second quarter to claim a commanding market share of 31.7 per cent, while Apple in ...
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Senator Kate Lundy, GS1 Australia's CEO Maria Palazzolo, GS1 Australia's manager consumer goods Sean Sloan, Catherine Caruana-McManus from Smarter Planet and cities executive IBM Australia and New Zealand. GS1 Australia and the Australian ...
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Apple’s App Store still pulls in twice as much revenue as the Google Play Store, despite the continued growth in Android smartphone use, according to a report from mobile app tracking firm Distimo. However, Android app sales have ...
Ubergizmo is a media partner of Glazed Conference and the co-producer of Digital Fall, the closing party featuring a Tech Fashion Show. Ubergizmo readers get 25% off the registration fee with code UberGlazed. Since the launch of Google ...
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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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