Proposals in Congress to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. telephone records would compromise the agency's ability to find and track terrorists, representatives of the intelligence community said Monday. The USA ...
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BlackBerry's appointment Monday of former Sybase CEO John Chen as its next executive board chair and interim CEO could be the best news in months for the struggling smartphone company. Chen is seen as someone who can give business ...
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A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers. The supercomputer, called Catalyst, will be ...
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Kaspersky Lab has revealed research results that show an increase in malware in the Middle East. The data, provided by Kaspersky Security Network, reveals that The UAE had the highest rate of attacks in the region, suffering 34% of all ...
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Hewlett-Packard has announced a multi-year effort to port its Nonstop server systems, used by banks, telcos and other businesses that need maximum reliability, from Intel's Itanium architecture to x86. HP's latest and perhaps biggest move ...
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With its powerful data mining capabilities, Hadoop is bringing together people across different places and even across different generations. While Hadoop continues to grow in popularity, most reported use cases around the open-source ...
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The global IT market will require 20 per cent more skilled big data analytics roles than it currently has within the next five years, Les Rechan, general manager of IBM business analytics, has warned. Speaking at IBM's Information On ...
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Systems giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced plans to migrate its mission-critical HP NonStop technology to the Intel x86 server architecture, providing customers with an alternative to Intel Itanium-based systems. At the same time - ...
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The cyber-extortionists behind the Cryptolocker "ransomware", which encrypts users' files and refuses to decrypt them without payment, have extended their deadline for affect PC users. Cryptolocker uses 256-bit Advanced Encryption ...
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Google is set to invest an extra €450m (£385m) into its Finnish data centre, the web giant has revealed. Based in a mill formerly owned by paper company Stora Enso, the Hamina data centre in Southern Finland has already seen ...
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A partnership between Apple and Google in which the firms share technology, software and ideas would be beneficial to both companies, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has said. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computers alongside Steve Jobs in ...
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IBM kicked off its IOD 2013 conference in Las Vegas today by launching several new big data analytics-based products. The company announced an expansion to its BLU Acceleration offering, with new software that it says "will enable clients ...
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Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian investment fund leading a takeover of smartphone maker BlackBerry, is to invest $250m in BlackBerry via a $1bn private placement of convertible debenture. The financing move marks the close of ...
The Co-operative Bank is to invest another £500m in upgrading its IT systems over the next three years as the Co-operative Group cedes control of its troubled bank to US hedge funds. The news was revealed as the Bank unveiled a ...
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Critical vulnerabilities in SAProuter, the SAP module used to connect users of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software with SAP's update services, could be compromising their security, according to Alexander Polyakov, chief ...
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