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Google Under Attack: Battered By Brazil and the EU
It hasn’t been the best of weekends for Google, with the search engine giant suddenly finding itself backed into a corner by angry publishers in both Brazil and the EU. Google’s biggest problem seems to be in South America, where it’s made an enemy of Brazil’s mass media. Claiming that Google’s news service is costing ...
Yahoo Pulls Out Of Korea, Conditions “Too Difficult”
Yahoo has just announced that it plans to dump the Korean search market, as part of new CEO Marissa Mayer’s ongoing efforts to realign the firm’s global business and streamline its operations. Mayer was hired back in July of this year, and since then the former Google executive has wrung the changes, hiring several of ...
Thailand Sells Off 3G Licenses (At Last), But Implementation Could Still Be Years Off
Thailand has just completed its joke of a 3G auction, but even now the country’s long-suffering populace may have to wait months for high-speed mobile services to be implemented, a scandalous FOURTEEN years after the service was first introduced in Japan. Yesterday’s auction of nine 3G licenses saw Thailand raise a total of $1.4 billion, ...
No More “Big Data” – Soon, It’ll Be “Just Data”
For those who can’t wait for next week’s Strata Hadoop World Conference in New York, when we can expect dozens of new developments in the big data world, a couple of interesting items came up yesterday courtesy of Gartner and IBM. First up was Gartner’s latest report, which made some big noises about big data ...
Leaked Report: No Evidence Of Huawei Spying On The US
A US government probe has found no evidence that the under-fire telecommunications firm Huawei carried out espionage on behalf of the Chinese government, according to leaked reports. The 18-month review, which is a different investigation from the one carried out by the Congressional panel that accused Huawei and ZTE of being ‘security threats’, suggests that ...
Twitter Censors Nazi Account For German Users
Twitter has restricted access to the account of a neo-Nazi group following a request by the German government. Users in Germany will no longer be able to view tweets made by the Saxony-based group, although they will still be visible to the rest of the world. This marks the first time that the social networking ...
Yellowstone Supercomputer Goes Online To Tackle Climate Change
Today’s a big day for the engineers at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, who have just begun powering up the world’s newest kick-ass supercomputer for the first time. Known as the ‘Yellowstone’, the new 1.5 petaflop, IBM-made supercomputer has been designed to tackle a hugely ambitious agenda of experiments and calculations that could ...
Google’s Data Centers Serve Up A Virtual Feast For The Eyes
Given its status as the owner of the world’s biggest search engine, not to mention the dozens of other web services that it provides, Google has gathered up quite a lot of data since it first went into business in 1998. To store all of that data it’s collected, it’s had to develop some of ...
Reddit Defends “Biggest Internet Troll”, Says It Stands For “Free Speech”
Reddit, one of the biggest and most influential sites on the web, is at the center of yet another storm after appearing to leap to the defense of one of its most notorious moderators, who just days earlier exposed as one of the creepiest and most perverse internet “trolls” in the world. The website has ...
Kaspersky Hopes to “Save The World” With New, Ultra-Secure OS
Kaspersky Labs has taken it upon itself to protect the world’s most critical infrastructure from viruses and cyberattacks, by creating its own malware-proof operating system. Eugene Kaspersky says in a blog post that the new OS will be designed to protect key information for the world’s most critical industries, such as transportation control centers, telecommunication ...