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Big Data Must Make Explorers Of Us All

The rise of Big Data means everyone in business needs to have analytic skills, says Brian Gentile

11 years ago

Facebook’s Swings And Roundabouts

This week we've seen Facebook get security right and wrong, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

Lessons From The Washington Post’s Syrian Strike

The Syrian Electronic Army's attack on the Washington Post shows ad networks open up new threats, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

Google’s Stupid Sophistry Over Gmail Privacy

Google is using false reasoning to justify its scanning of Gmail messages, says Tom Brewster

11 years ago

BlackBerry Can Thrive If It Goes Private

Let's not write BlackBerry off, says Wayne Rash,. Its network and its QNX embedded software can see it through

11 years ago

How Open Source Is Android, Really?

Android is based on Linux, but some of it isn't open source. Sean Michael Kerner thinks Google should reconsider that

11 years ago

IT Life: Fighting Phishing For A Living

Ethical hacker Aaron Higbee now runs the technology at phishing awareness firm PhishMe

11 years ago

Video: The Cloud Skills Shortage

The cloud makes many aspects of IT easy, but tech professionals need to gain new skills to thrive there, says…

11 years ago

Restoring Data Isn’t Rocket Science

Recovery experts can get data back from space debris. Luckily Wayne Rash's problem wasn't so extreme

11 years ago

Google Could Be The Real Power Behind IBM’s OpenPower

Opening Power to partners is a good move by IBM, says Peter Judge. But Google's role may be crucial to…

11 years ago

The US Was Right To Overturn Samsung’s Patent Ban On Apple

Apple needed Samsung's 3G patent, says Wayne Rash. The US has followed Europe and not ban iPhones over it

11 years ago

Windows 8.1 Boosts Security And Enterprise Features

Windows 8.1 isn't perfect, but the enterprise version adds features IT has been wanting, says Wayne Rash

11 years ago

Yahoo Expanding Research Division With PhD Hires

Marissa Mayer is looking to hire 50 PhDs by the end of this year to rebuild Yahoo Labs, which saw…

11 years ago

IT Life: Open Source Is Open For Business

Steve Nice, CTO at Reconnix, tells TechWeekEurope that the future is in the cloud, as long as we can secure…

11 years ago

NSA Chief Heckled At BlackHat As Agency Defends XKeyscore

Alexander fends off attacks from BlackHat audience member

11 years ago

MIT Was ‘Neutral’ In Aaron Swartz Case

Internet activist's former parter labels the report a "whitewash"

11 years ago

Scotland Yard Investigates Twitter Threats Against Stella Creasy MP

In response, Twitter announces it will introduce a ‘report’ button on individual tweets

11 years ago

How To Make Money From Maps In A World Dominated By Google

Jon Maron from INRIX says you can still run a maps business, as long as you don’t focus on navigation

11 years ago

IT Life: Big Data For The Travel Industry

Pascal Clement has a mission. He's building Big Data solutions for travel, at Amadeus

11 years ago

EC Says Just 1 in 4 Europeans Has Access To 4G

Neelie Kroes says Europe is falling behind in 4G race and rural LTE is non-existent

11 years ago

Intel Announces 14nm Chips For An Efficient Datacentre

Intel reveals energy-efficient versions of its Xeon chips, its first products under new CEO Brian Krzanich

11 years ago

IT Life: From Lego To The Cloud

Andrew Edison of AT&T honours the educational power of F1 - and coloured bricks

11 years ago

German Government: There Are Two PRISMs

There's the PRISM of the NSA and the PRISM partly run by NATO, according to the German government

11 years ago

Dell Committee Mulls Buyout Vote Delay

Dell's directors are reportedly considering a delay for the shareholder vote over the troubled buyout proposal

11 years ago

Microsoft’s Re-organisation Ignores The Customers

Microsoft can rearrange its exectuves all it likes.Wayne Rash says the real power is now with customers

11 years ago

Why Matt Smith Isn’t On Facebook

The Doctor talks about milkshakes - and warns against Facebook's "surrogate" world

11 years ago

IT Life: Intel’s Stuart Dommett

Working for Intel has provided some thrills for Stuart Dommett

11 years ago

Music Sharing Takes UK Team To The Imagine Cup 2013

Team Colinked want to share music between devices - and that desire got them to the Imagine Cup student competition…

11 years ago

Microsoft Launches Imagine Cup 2013

Students from 71 countries meet in St Petersburg with a chance for a prize from Matt "The Doctor" Smith

11 years ago

MPs Question Worth Of Digital By Default Strategy

Francis Maude questioned over how well the government is tracking the success of its online push

11 years ago