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Google Is Set to Invest an Extra €450m Into Its Finnish Data Centre
Nov 5, 2013Google 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, webservice
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Piers Linney Will Take The Cloud Between Five and 10 Years to Fully Mature
Aug 23, 2013Piers Linney, co-founder and CEO of cloud services and unified communications company Outsourcery, believes that it will take the cloud between five and 10 years to fully mature. In an interview with Computing, the entrepreneur, who has ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Google Will Be Releasing Its New Mid-Range Smartphone
Aug 6, 2013Google has announced that it will be releasing its new mid-range smartphone, the Moto X, in the US, Canada and Latin America around the end of August or early September. Manufactured in newly-built facilities in Texas, the Moto X will be ...
Tags: Smartphone, Motorola
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ICO Has Threatened to Fine Google, If The Web Giant Doesn't Make Its Privacy Policy Clear
Jul 8, 2013The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened to fine Google, if the web giant doesn't make its privacy policy clearer by September. Failure to provide information about how it uses and stores user data could see Google fined ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Google Handed Wikileaks Volunteers' Gmail Accounts to NSA
Jun 27, 2013Earlier this year, I wrote about how I considered the ICO's meagre £250,000 fine handed out to Sony for losing control of its servers and risking the theft of every man, woman and child's data on there as "a slap on the wrist". ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Google Is Likely to Have to Agree to More Concessions
May 29, 2013Google is likely to have to agree to more concessions before the European Union's antitrust probe into the web giant is settled, says Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia (pictured). The world's number one web firm has been under ...
Tags: Google, EU Antitrust, Computer Products
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Eric Schmidt Has Stated His Firm Would Pay More Taxes
May 29, 2013Google chairman Eric Schmidt has stated his firm would pay more taxes if future changes to British tax law required it to do so. Schmidt also told BBC Radio 4 that he is "perplexed" by the ongoing corporate tax debate, which includes ...
Tags: Google, Taxes, Computer Products, Schmidt
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Amazon Has Completed a Deal Worth $26m to Acquire Cambridge-Based Start-up Evi
Apr 25, 2013Amazon has completed a deal worth $26m (£17m) to acquire Cambridge-based start-up Evi, developer of the voice-activated virtual intelligence applications of the same name. The deal has been rumoured for some time and according to ...
Tags: Amazon, webservice
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Amazon Elastic Map Reduce Runs Like a Dog
Apr 22, 2013"Amazon Elastic Map Reduce runs like a dog. It's pathetically slow, we've done benchmarks. It's because it's metered; they charge by the minute." Further reading Outage hits Amazon Web Services as Google lies in wait Intel launches own ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Amazon
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Google's Privacy Policy Is Set to Be Investigated
Apr 3, 2013Google's privacy policy is set to be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to see if it's compliant with current UK law. The move comes after data watchdogs in five other European nations - France, Germany, Italy, ...
Tags: Google's Privacy Policy, google
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Oxford University Has Revealed It Suspended Use of Google Docs on 14 February
Feb 20, 2013Oxford University has revealed it suspended use of Google Docs on 14 February following a sustained influx of phishing attacks on the network. The attacks, designed to acquire login details for university systems in order to send spam ...
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Google Reported Steady Increase in Government Requests to Hand Over Data
Jan 24, 2013Google has reported a "steady increase" in government requests to hand over data from internet users in the second half of 2012. The web giant's semiannual "transparency report" showed the most requests came from the United States, with ...
