IBM commits $1.2bn to cloud data centre expansion

IBM chief executive Virginia Rometty wants to expand her company's cloud services business Continue reading the main story IBM, the global computing giant, has said it is investing more than $1.2bn (£735m) expanding its data centres and cloud...

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IBM commits $1.2bn to cloud data centre expansion

IBM chief executive Virginia Rometty wants to expand her company's cloud services business Continue reading the main story IBM, the global computing giant, has said it is investing more than $1.2bn (£735m) expanding its data centres and cloud...

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IBM commits $1.2bn to cloud data centre expansion

IBM chief executive Virginia Rometty wants to expand her company's cloud services business Continue reading the main story IBM, the global computing giant, has said it is investing more than $1.2bn (£735m) expanding its data centres and cloud...

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IBM commits $1.2bn to cloud data centre expansion

IBM chief executive Virginia Rometty wants to expand her company's cloud services business Continue reading the main story IBM, the global computing giant, has said it is investing more than $1.2bn (£735m) expanding its data centres and cloud...

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Need a Refund for In-App Purchases on Your iPhone? Apple Owes You Money, Says FTC

For years, parents all over have used one of Apple's mobile devices, whether it's an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, as a means of both entertaining and educating their children. Never has it been easier to find a piece of family-friendly content when you're on the move, and the App Store has provided...

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Adobe brings 3D printing to Photoshop CC

Adding to the program's existing 3D capabilities, the latest version of Photoshop CC will import files with user-selectable scales and dimensions. (Credit: Screen capture by Lori Grunin/CNET; 3d model by Yowan 2008 on deviantArt) Watching 3D printing evolve reminds me of the nascent days of...

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Overfishing 'Domino Effect' Could Affect More Species Than We Expect; Will We Reach The Tipping Point?

A loss of anchovies and sardines caused a number of other species to decline in population. (Photo : Reuters) Researchers warned of a "domino effect" related to overfishing. If too many fish of a certain species are harvested from a specific area it could affect other animals in the ecosystem...

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Risking Lives to Promote Climate Change Hype

Will global warming alarmists ever set aside their hypotheses, hyperbole, models and ideologies long enough to acknowledge what is actually happening in the real world outside their windows? Will they at least do so before setting off on another misguided adventure? Before persuading like-minded or naïve people to join them? Before forcing others to risk life and limb to transport – and rescue...

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Ecobank Whistle-blowing Director Resigns

Ecobank Whistle-blowing Director Resigns Ecobank logo Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has revealed that its Group Executive Director of Risk and Finance, Laurence do Rego who reported senior management of the bank to Nigerian...

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Prairie dogs do 'Mexican wave' to keep others alert

A new Canadian study revealed that black-tailed prairie dogs have an unusual method of alerting their friends of danger — a Mexican wave, or "jump-yip." Researchers at the University of Manitoba described the contagious behaviour as "testing the emergency broadcast system." As soon as one prairie dog does the wave, others in its pack do the same, seemingly to verify...

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Jim Byers' Travel Blog Get travel news & updates for everyone from high-rollers looking for the next French Riviera to budget-minded folks hoping for a bargain in southern Ontario or Canada. Life ...

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Restore large carnivores to save struggling ecosystems

The key to keeping ecosystems in good health is to maintain or restore populations of large carnivores, argues William Ripple. Yet around the world, these vital species are on the decline. From the actions of the top predator, widespread impacts cascade down the food chain. We are losing our large carnivores. In ecosystems around the world, the decline of large...

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Meet 'Toothless' the 3D dragon

Australia's national science agency has issued a rare apology to a seven-year-old girl for not being able to make her a fire-breathing dragon, only a 3D printed toy, blaming a lack of research into the mythical creatures. The youngster, Sophie, wrote to a "Lovely Scientist" at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), politely asking whether they...

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3D systems reveals ChefJet 3D food printer at CES

in september 2013, 3D printing company 3D systems acquired the sugar lab, the husband-and-wife start-up micro-design firm of liz and kyle von hasseln dedicated to creating bespoke, 3D printed edible confections from real sugar. working together, the two parties are redefining and expanding...

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Will automakers embrace of Android aid drivers or just Google?

The biggest takeaway from CES 2014 may be that most of the auto industry plans on delivering next-gen driving experiences by relying mostly on technology that runs through Google somehow. Consider the following: Google launched partnerships with General Motors, Audi, Honda, Hyundai...

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Channel Tunnel Will Offer Freight and Passenger Traffic Complete Wireless Communications

UK – FRANCE – It’s official, you cannot get away from a mobile phone signal these days even if you choose to travel beneath the waves. Having agreed terms with French mobile operators, Bouygues Telecom, Orange and SFR to provide GSM-P services in the South Running Tunnel in 2012, travellers will from March be able to connect to services in the North Tunnel (UK to France) when using Eurotunnel's...

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Snapchat snaps into post hacking apology mode

SOCIAL PHOTOBOOTH Snapchat has apologised to its users for the hacking attack on it and them last week. A week after facing the issue and being fairly dismissive of it the firm has issued an apology and delivered a new version of its app that should prevent further exploits. The hacking attack on four million Snapchat users was revealed at the...

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Apple, Samsung get a room to settle patent war. Forgive us if we don't hold our breath

With the start date of their next trial looming, Apple and Samsung have agreed to try to settle their long-running patent disputes through a mediator. Bloomberg reports that the bitter rivals announced their intention to enter talks outside the courtroom in documents filed with the US Federal Court in San Jose on Thursday. The move comes following a request by Judge...

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Odds and Ends (Emphasis on the Odd)

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Alan Mulally 'pullout' shifts focus of Microsoft CEO speculation

Ford CEO Alan Mulally earlier this week said he has no plans to take the top job at Microsoft. PHOTO: Reuters After Ford Motor Co CEO Alan Mulally took himself off the list of potential CEOs at Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, speculation over the company's succession plans...

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Samsung takes on Apple with iris scanner in Galaxy S5

Samsung Electronics has taken the smartphone war with Apple Inc to the next level. Meeting head-on with Apple's finger scanning technology in the latest iPhones, the Korean manufacturer has reportedly announced its plans to roll out Galaxy S5 smartphone with 'iris scanning technology'.The...

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Marissa Mayer gets her Yahoo moment

Comments 0 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during her keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. (Reuters) SummaryYahoo CEO unveils handful of new products, possible rival to Google Now, at CES in Las Vegas. Yahoo chief executive Marissa...

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CES: Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 hands-on review

LAS VEGAS: KOREAN TECHNOLOGY GIANT Samsung has been trying to shed its reputation as a purely consumer focused company, releasing a steady stream of enterprise friendly applications and services. At CES this year the company has taken this to new...

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T-Mobile comes as a Wrecking Ball to CES 2014

John Legere will always love you. If you're clawing, chaining your heart in vain at your current cellular carrier, T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS) suggests you jump, never asking why. Will you fall under CEO John Legere's spell? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers just walk away. Not to mention: ...

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Samsung to release the Galaxy S5 in April, will feature iris scanner

CES 2014 - 2014 is here, which means we're in the year of the Galaxy S5, something we're beginning to hear more concrete information about. Bloomberg is reporting that the Galaxy S5 will be released in April, and that Samsung will pack in iris-scanning technology into its upcoming smartphone.  Samsung's Mobile Executive Vice President, Lee Young-hee has said that the Galaxy S5 will ...

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Intel Rebrands McAfee Software to Creators Delight

John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, told reporters he was thrilled to hear that Intel will no longer use his name on the product. “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words,” McAfee, who founded the anti-virus company in 1987, told the BBC in an interview about the name change. The announcement about the change came from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Monday at the Consumer...

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Intel Rebrands McAfee Software to Creators Delight

John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, told reporters he was thrilled to hear that Intel will no longer use his name on the product. “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words,” McAfee, who founded the anti-virus company in 1987, told the BBC in an interview about the name change. The announcement about the change came from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Monday at the Consumer...

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Intel Rebrands McAfee Software to Creators Delight

John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, told reporters he was thrilled to hear that Intel will no longer use his name on the product. “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words,” McAfee, who founded the anti-virus company in 1987, told the BBC in an interview about the name change. The announcement about the change came from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Monday at the Consumer...

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Intel Rebrands McAfee Software to Creators Delight

John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, told reporters he was thrilled to hear that Intel will no longer use his name on the product. “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words,” McAfee, who founded the anti-virus company in 1987, told the BBC in an interview about the name change. The announcement about the change came from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Monday at the Consumer...

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Intel Rebrands McAfee Software to Creators Delight

John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, told reporters he was thrilled to hear that Intel will no longer use his name on the product. “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words,” McAfee, who founded the anti-virus company in 1987, told the BBC in an interview about the name change. The announcement about the change came from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Monday at the Consumer...

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Intel Rebrands McAfee Software to Creators Delight

John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, told reporters he was thrilled to hear that Intel will no longer use his name on the product. “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words,” McAfee, who founded the anti-virus company in 1987, told the BBC in an interview about the name change. The announcement about the change came from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Monday at the Consumer...

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Intel Rebrands McAfee Software to Creators Delight

John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, told reporters he was thrilled to hear that Intel will no longer use his name on the product. “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words,” McAfee, who founded the anti-virus company in 1987, told the BBC in an interview about the name change. The announcement about the change came from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Monday at the Consumer...

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Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s App Store Sales Surge in 2013

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s App Store customers spent more than $10.0 billion in 2013. The company recently announced that December spending alone accounted for $1.0 billion. Customers downloaded almost 3 billion apps making it the most successful month in the company’s history. The...

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Alan Mulally 'pullout' shifts focus of Microsoft CEO speculation

Ford CEO Alan Mulally earlier this week said he has no plans to take the top job at Microsoft. PHOTO: Reuters After Ford Motor Co CEO Alan Mulally took himself off the list of potential CEOs at Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, speculation over the company's succession plans...

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Apple, Samsung CEOs agree to mediation in U.S. patent figh

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a mediation session to be held on or before February 19, as they prepare to clash in court in March over smartphone patents. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Oh-Hyun Kwon will attend the session with in-house lawyers only, according to a Wednesday court filing. Their legal teams had met on January 6 to “discuss settlement opportunities,”...

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Facebook buys Indian startup Little Eye Labs

(Credit: Little Eye Labs) Facebook has acquired Indian startup Little Eye Labs, the social network's first acquisition of a company in that country. Little Eye Labs announced on Wednesday that it has been acquired by Facebook. In April, the company officially released its tool, Little Eye Labs...

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Channel Tunnel passengers to get 3G data services

PARIS--Train passengers traveling to Paris from London will soon have access to second-generation and 3G mobile telephone services in the channel tunnel, Groupe Eurotunnel SA (GET.FR) said Thursday. Eurotunnel has signed a contract with mobile telephone operators Vodafone Group PLC (VOD.LN) and EE, owned by Orange Telecom (ORA.FR) and T-Mobile,...

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Twitter founder Biz Stone defends Q and A-based Jelly search engine for mobile

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone formally announced the question-and-answer based search engine, Jelly, for iOS and Android devices and defended it for being a way of allowing people to 'help each other' and get 'direct answers'. Jelly is a free app and users can connect with their Facebook and Twitter accounts to ask friends or friends of friends questions, and the app encourages users to post their...

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'Transformers' director Michael Bay gets flustered at Las Vegas event

Hollywood director Michael Bay's appearance—and abrupt disappearance—at Samsung’s press conference last Monday has left a lot of people utterly confused, a reaction usually caused by the dizzying explosions and action scenes of his films.During the event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the director of the Transformers trilogy was called onstage together with Samsung executive...

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo specifications leaked via purported internal documents

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo, rumoured to be a new mid-range smartphone under company's Grand series has been unofficially 'confirmed' via leaked internal documents.GSMArena has posted a few leaked internal documents related to the Samsung's yet-to-be-announced Galaxy Grand Neo which...

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AT&T’s Sponsored Data plan is terrible for everyone

The same people that brought you quotes like “65 percent of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 200MB of data per month on average” and “our customers love Skyfire Horizon” are back with an all new plan to make even more money for each megabyte you use on their networks. Don’t worry though, they aren’t really charging you for it. Well, they are, but they sure make it sound like they...

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LIKE A BOSS: T-Mobile CEO crashes AT&T party, gets bounced F

Corporate competitiveness took an odd turn at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show Monday night after T-Mobile CEO John LeGere crashed a party hosted by AT&T, and was subsequently kicked out. “Some security guards escorted him out,” CNET reporter Roger Cheng tweeted after LeGere was caught. “It was crazy.” The service provider CEO apparently gave himself up by posing for a picture with Cheng,...

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HOME View Archives Intel Corporation Unveils Microcomputer Edison At CES; Fits In SD Card, Multi-OS Functionality, Connects To Wifi; Reference Computing Device For Wearable Technologies

Intel has unveiled its Edison microcomputer, the size of a SD Card There's been a lot of talk about wearable gadgets, watches and bracelets at CES 2014. But are we ready for a wearable computer, when we're just fumbling our way through numerous OS-based smartphones? Here's what Intel CEO Brian...

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Apple’s 2013 App Store sales reach $10 bn

Download Android Apps - Get All Your Favorite Apps & Games Instantly for Android Phone, Tablet www.mobogenie.com/Android-Manager San Francisco, Jan 8:   Apple sold more than $10 billion worth of apps in its online App Store in 2013, the maker of the iPhone and...

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Microsoft close to naming CEO, Ford's Mulally stays put

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is closer to naming a new chief executive, according to a source familiar with the board's thinking, but it lost a front-runner candidate on Tuesday when Ford Motor Co's (F.N) chief, Alan Mulally, said he would not be going to the software giant. Mulally's comments reignited the guessing game over who will take over at Microsoft, following the elimination in December of...

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CES 2014: Sony unveils new cloud-based gaming service

LAS VEGAS - Sony executives announced a series of new, cloud-based services and entertainment technology on Tuesday as they seek to improve the fortunes of the struggling consumer electronics giant. Sony unveiled a new cloud-based gaming service called PlayStation Now and said it is working on a TV service that combines live programming with video on demand. The company also announced that sold...

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Facebook mined private messages to advertisers, lawsuit claims

US lawsuit claims that Facebook "misleads users into believing they have a secure, private mechanism for communication" It comes less than a month a US court ruled that investors could pursue claims against Facebook over...

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Skype says user information safe in Syrian Electronic Army hack

Los Angeles: A day after the Syrian Electronic Army said it had hacked into Skype's social media accounts, the Internet calling service acknowledged it had been hit with a "cyber attack" but said no user information was compromised. A Tweet posted on Skype's official Twitter feed on Wednesday read:...

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Apple to release two iPhone 6 variants Reports claim that Apple is likely to treat its fans with two variants of the iPhone 6 this year and not just one. According to C Technology, Apple iPhone...

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Lenovo's four musketeers to lead Android smartphone charge at 2014 International CES

(Photo : Lenovo) Lenovo is all set to introduce its first LTE smartphone, Vibe Z, and three other phones at the 2014 International CES. Lenovo may be more known for its ultrabooks and laptops but this isn't stopping the company from introducing a handful of smartphones at the 2014...

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Corning to come up with 3D-shaped Gorilla Glass for wearable devices

New Delhi: Keeping up with the popular trends, Corning has announced that it will manufacture a 3D glass-forming technology to shape Corning Gorilla Glass. The company is targeting commercialisation of finished 3D-shaped Gorilla Glass parts in 2014 and is working with G-Tech Optoelectronics Corp. (GTOC) to establish a vertically integrated operation in Taiwan. Product design continues to drive...

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We're here at CES 2014!

LG lays out its CES claims Related stories LG is dragging some huge OLED TVs to CES 2014 after all Valve Steam Machine shipping to testers Friday, SteamOS available to us all then Samsung patent reveals how its curved, 3-sided smartphone could work CES time is finally upon us! TechRadar...

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Acer Liquid Z5: Meet the new 5-inch budget Android smartphone

Acer unveiled the Acer Liquid Z5, a budget smartphone that features a 5-inch screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It is 8.8mm thick and has rounded edges. ...

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BlackBerry sues Seacrest’s typo over Iphone case design

BlackBerry Ltd., the smartphone maker that withdrew plans to sell itself and go private last year, sued Ryan Seacrest’s Typo Products LLC alleging it copied designs for a keyboard case. The company said Typo’s product, an external case for Apple (AAPL)’s iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s with an integrated physical keyboard, infringes patents and designs used in the Q10, a keyboard-equipped smartphone...

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Snapchat Finally Responds To Hack, But Doesn't Apologize

NEW YORK (AP) — Snapchat says it plans to put out a more secure version of its application following a breach that allowed hackers to collect the usernames and phone numbers of...

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Smartphone Maker Xiaomi’s Sales More Than Doubled in 2013

Fast-growing Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. sold nearly 19 million phones last year. But it wasn’t quite enough to beat the expectations of the Beijing-based company’s founder and leader. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Xiaomi CEO Leijun showed off a new Xiaomi smartphone in September. Xiaomi ...

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Apple suffers another blow after Wells Fargo downgrade knocks shares

Apple shares have fallen after investment bank Wells Fargo downgraded the company due to “limited” opportunity for it to improve profits and lower expectations on the success of the soon-to-launch iPhone 6. Shares in the company fell by as much as 1.4pc in US trading on Thursday following the decision to downgrade Apple’s rating from “outperform” to “market perform”. According to Wells Fargo,...

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Steam hit by DDoS as Origin stutters from separate attack

Steam was brought low by a series of DDoS attacks overnight. Photograph: /Valve The digital gaming service Steam was down for over an hour on Friday after being targeted for a distributed denial-of-service...

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