Google will now be able to assure its customers that their data is hosted in European datacentres after announcing upgrades to its Google Cloud platform. According to the technology giant it is increasing its European datacentre support, ...
Tags: Google, Google Cloud platform, Core data, European datacentres
Lobbying among countries and various special interests to"take control"of the internet is intensifying in advance of the International Telecommunications Union(ITU)World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai next week. ...
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UK's insurance price comparison websites comparethemarket.com has teamed up with car insurer Debenhams Car Insurance,with a motive to facilitate the aggregator to provide its customers an even wider selection of great car insurance deals. ...
Not waiting until Cyber Monday,online shoppers made Black Friday the biggest online spending day of the year so far. On Black Friday--the marketing term given for the day after Thanksgiving,generally one of the biggest shopping days of ...
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When it comes to kitchens, the 21st century homeowner is deciding to simplify. Yet, while functionality and comfort when it comes to everyday interaction in this very busy room of the average home, they still want to get the balance right ...
Tags: kitchen cabinet, the basics of the minimalist kitchen, Kitchen design
Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has outlined her strategy for the company, with the focus firmly fixed on mobile and improving the "user experience" of the company's services. Further reading Yahoo's Mayer brings fellow ex-Google exec on ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
Tags: UK IT, UKtech50, ARM, GCHQ, Government Digital Service, Salesforce.com
Crowd-sourcing site Kickstarter is set to be sued by 3D printing firm 3D Systems,which alleges that Kickstarter is helping to raise funds for a product that it says infringes one of its patents. Formlabs,against which 3D Systems has also ...
Tags: Kickstarter, sued over 3D printer, 3D Systems, Formlabs
Alvanon, the world's leading apparel sizing and fit expert, has launched AlvaKids, an ingenious new mobile phone application and online widget that will help consumers buy the right size garment from over 500 of the UK's most popular young ...
Tags: Alvanon, Kidswear, apparel, mobile phone application, online widget
Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)to its entire global user base. For the past several ...
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Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
Tags: Cyber criminals, Facebook, Windows users, chameleon of internet threats
GERMANTOWN, Tenn. -- Mega Group USA buying group has added mobile features to its basic and premium Mega WebFronts websites program. Every retailer member of the buying group gets a basic WebFronts website covered by Mega for one year, ...
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IDG News Service - Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com, a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform, because the site's user database was compromised. On Tuesday, a hacker named "ViruS_HimA" claimed ...
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IDG News Service-Bank of America Merchant Services will extend its mobile payments service to small retailers in December,allowing them to use smartphones and tablets as point-of-sale terminals. The entry of the country's largest ...
Tags: Bank of America, Mobile Payments, smartphones, tablets, sale terminals