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Strange Big Data: The World, According to the Twitterverse
What with something like 3% of the world’s population now confirmed as active users and around 370 million-odd tweets sent each and every day, Twitter is home to a pretty vast amount of information. But what can all of that data tell us about the world we live in? Quite a lot, as it happens, ...
Microsoft Wants A Piece Of Nook: Lets Read Between The Lines
Reports today have surfaced saying that Microsoft’s looking to splurge a billion readies on Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media business. The report, which came from the website TechCrunch, was based on leaked internal documents that were later confirmed as being genuine by the New York Times. What’s more, the documents also disclose the fact that ...
How To Stalk The Web Like A Spy
When it comes to information resources, nothing can compare to the sheer enormity of the world wide web. For all the talk of wiretaps and surveillance techniques, the internet can probably provide more data on someone or something than any other resource, so long as you know how to sift through it. And that’s the ...
BitDefender Warns Of Rise in Fake Escrow Sites
Anyone who’s used to carrying out transactions regularly will probably be familiar with escrow. For the uninitiated, escrow basically refers to a trusted third-party that holds the amount to be transacted until the buyer has received his goods and is satisfied. The system is often used on sites like eBay – the buyer deposits his ...
Why Nokia Should Tell Its Investors To “STFU” And Stick With Windows Phone
With Nokia continuing to play second fiddle to the likes of Apple and Samsung, CEO Stephen Elop has come under heavy pressure from investors to rethink his strategy of sticking with Windows Phone as its only mobile platform. Investors are concerned that the plan just isn’t working, as Windows Phone struggles to gain market share ...
Fusion-io Co-Founders Pushed Out? Boardroom Shakeup Leads to Speculation as Shane Robison is Named CEO
UPDATE: New CEO Shane Robison just came on SiliconANGLE.com TV theCUBE to clear the rumors – link to his statement with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. It’s all going on over at Fusion-io this morning. The flash storage giant has been left reeling by the sudden departures of not just one, but BOTH of its ...
Syria’s Just Been Wiped Off The Internet Again
For the second time in six months, Syria has just fallen off the face of the internet. Umbrella Labs reports that outbound and inbound traffic to the country just flatlined in the space of two minutes overnight on Tuesday, leaving the country facing a web blackout that has lasted for 14 hours and counting. As ...
Ultimate EMC World Collection : 2013 on theCUBE
It’s been a great week so far in Las Vegas, as we near the end of our three-day broadcast from EMC World. It’s our third year in a row live broadcasting from this massive event, kicking off a hectic but thrilling Summer Tour that takes our premier video production, theCUBE around the world as hosts ...
Juniper/EMC Whip Out Software-Defined Solutions With Support For OpenStack
Juniper and EMC have just outlined their respective software-defined-networking and software-defined-storage strategies, with support for OpenStack being the common thread between both new solutions. We’re expecting plenty more SDN news before EMC World comes to its conclusion later this week too, with companies like Red Hat, Mirantis and Citrix all expected to enter the conversation ...
“The Internet Needs A Delete Button”
Eric Schmidt’s words, not mine. In surprising comments made during a conference at Manhattan’s New York university yesterday, the Google Chairman touched upon a sticky subject that’s likely to resonate with most internet users today. No two ways about it, the world is much better off with now it has the internet. The internet has ...