Mike Wheatley
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Facebook Graph Search + Your Privacy Explained
Facebook made a bit of a stir yesterday with the announcement of its new Graph Search feature that enables users to search for all kinds of interesting topics and recommendations. For example, if you’re feeling flirtatious you could search for “friends of friends who are single and live in New York” and see if it’s ...
IBM and Oracle Go Head-to-Head for Splunk Buyout
Big Data Elephants Set To Battle For Splunk Hot on the heels of Dell’s rumored mega-buyout, rival firm IBM is reported to be flexing its own financial muscles as it looks to make data analytics firm Splunk its first major acquisition of the year. Once again it was Bloomberg who first jumped on the story, ...
Dell’s Buyout Moving Fast: Talks Now at “Advanced Stage”
Things are moving fast at Dell as latest reports suggest that talks about its rumored buyout have already reached an advanced stage, with investors believed to have lined up at least four major banks to provide financing for the deal. Reuters reports that shares in Dell continued to soar on the back of the rumors, ...
Dell Buyout: Investors Too Fickle for Software-Led Initiatives?
Strong rumors have emerged today regarding a possible buyout of Dell, with the PC maker said to be talking to two investment firms about a possible acquisition, according to sources close to the company. The story was broken by Bloomberg, which cited unnamed sources as saying that the company was involved in “preliminary” talks with ...
Healthy Big Data: Stopping the Spread of Flu
In the midst of one of the worst flu epidemics on record, one which has seen authorities in both New York and Boston declare health emergencies, health officials and app developers alike are turning to big data in an attempt to stop things from getting out of control. Big Data for Doctors The Centers for ...
Korean Scientists Make “Bendy Batteries” a Reality
Scientists in South Korea have announced a major breakthrough in the development of flexible mobile devices, with the creation of the world’s first ‘bendable’ and ‘imprintable’ lithium-ion battery, which would be essential for powering such devices should the idea ever be realized. According to the Yonhap news agency, the new bendable batteries are quite unlike ...
EMC’s On-Premise File Sharing Service “Syncplicity” Goes Live
Even as cloud adoption becomes increasingly widespread in the enterprise today, there remains a core of businesses that steadfastly refuse to shift away from on-premise storage. Now, in an effort to marry the two concepts together and bring the best of both worlds to these types of businesses, EMC is fusing two of its most ...
White House Blocks Plans to Build “Death Star”
There was some bad news on the national defense front last weekend as White House chiefs confirmed that the government has no immediate plans to build a Star Wars style ‘Death Star’, citing ethical concerns and the exorbitant costs that the project would entail. You might think I am joking, but this was actually the ...
Hounded to Death: Did Prosecutors Abuse Cybercrime Laws in Swartz Case?
It would have been impossible not to witness the outpouring of grief, anger and suspicion that consumed the internet since last weekend. The untimely death of Reddit co-founder, internet activist and all-round computer genius Aaron Swartz on Friday in a suspected suicide has given birth to intense debate over what many have termed as ‘legal ...
Kaspersky Unearths “Red October” Cyber Espionage Campaign
Security chiefs at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered evidence of yet more cyber espionage, targeting dozens of governments, businesses, political groups, and other organizations. Kaspersky said that the discovery was made following an exhaustive five-year investigation carried out alongside numerous Cyber Emergency Response Teams (CERTS). Details about the exact origin of the cyber espionage campaign remain ...