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Smartphones Not So Clever On Sales New Figures Show There were some interesting figures published when market watchers International Data Corporation (IDC) published analyses of smartphone and tablet sales for this year so far. For the first time since Apple revolutionised the mobile in 2007 by adding a touchscreen and introducing us to the world…
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Web Addiction Spoils The Party The candles glowed on the birthday cake when websites celebrated their 25th last week but some at the party pondered what the future holds. The very first website went live on the embryonic internet on August 6, 1991. For the first time an online page included links that could be…
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Hi-Tech Wizardry Employed On The Road To Olympic Gold Inevitably, the Olympic Games, now opening in Rio, will be the most technological yet. Teams are deploying tech in ever more innovative ways. The GB rowing team is using Visual Analytics to collect and compare performance data from its training sessions. US cyclists are using Google…
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360-Degree Cameras Are Transforming Our View Of The World The Faroe Islands, that remote corner of Denmark parked out in Icelandic waters, with a population much the same as Leamington Spa, has not been mapped by Google Street View yet. The islanders are feeling left out. In fact, they are so miffed they have started…
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Sunny Days Ahead Set For New Weather App With the sort of summer we are having, keeping an eye on the weather forecast is fairly essential, but which app is the best? Is it the Met Office, BBC Weather, Accuweather, Dark Sky, Weather Underground, the list goes on. Well, Climendo has been making some claims…
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HummingBad Virus Is Causing Epidemic Yet another important security warning was published last week, this time about a raging epidemic infecting Android devices. Security specialists Check Point turned the spotlight on a group of Beijing-based cybercriminals. They have infected, according to estimates, more than 10 million Android phones and tablets worldwide with a virus called…
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Hostile Takeover Of WiFi A Big Concern Security research specialists Arbor Networks unleashed a report this week that should concern everyone using WiFi to connect up stuff in their homes. Wifi enabled cameras, surveillance systems, online fridges and, especially, webcams are being taken over by a thing called LizardStresser. This is a botnet, a network…
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If Your Planning A City Visit Then It Is Time To Moovit As suitcases are being dusted off, the great summer getaway is now hotly anticipated. For some, that will mean a city visit and for them there is an extra App to consider packing and that is Moovit. This time last year, this column…
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Leo Loitering At Airport Check-In There are always boffins eager to take automation to the next step. At the airport terminal, it seems, that means putting wheels on an automated check-in machine and morphing it with a luggage trolley to create a baggage handling robot called Leo. Geneva Airport now has a prototype on test….
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LinkedIn Users May See The Dark Side Of Takeover If you are a LinkedIn user, then Microsoft just brought your CV and your list of professional contacts, and, furthermore, paid over the top for them! The Seattle-based old timer paid a walloping 26 billion dollars to acquire the business networking site, along with the records…
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Smartphones Not So Clever On Sales New Figures Show
