RIM is hoping its reputation for superior security will smooth its path into wallet management as it gains Visa approval for the TSM platform that it is pushing to network operators.…
France Telecom-Orange is making a wad of cash from Google, the company's CEO boasted in an interview with French media yesterday.…
Nokia will outsource 820 IT staff and make 300 more redundant, leaving a skeleton IT operation at the troubled phone maker.…
It's the time of year when we promise ourselves that we're going to eat better (and less), exercise more and drop some weight. Turns out you might want to skip the weight bench and hit the treadmill if you want to keep that last resolution but don't have a lot of time to work out.
Researchers at Duke University have examined the impact of aerobic and resistance training on body and fat mass in overweight and obese adults and concluded that when it comes to losing weight, aerobic exercise has an edge.
"If you're overweight, it's good to lose fat and body weight," Dr. Leslie Willis, an exercise physiologist at Duke and lead author of the study, said of aerobic exercise. "Spend time doing cardio training if that's your main goal."
By: Beth Carter, Edited by: David Cornish
Globalstar's plan to refarm its satellite spectrum into a privately held Wi-Fi channel has come under fire from the Wi-Fi Alliance and Bluetooth SIG, which reckon it will edge out the unlicensed users.…
Ayasdi, a company that has developed data visualisation software it says uses big data to answer the questions you never thought to ask, has launched in Palo Alto with $10.25 million (£6.4 million) in funding.
Khosla Ventures and Floodgate are backing Ayasdi, which is already working with clients including US intelligence agency IARPA, Second Genome and Darpa to investigate areas such as drug discovery, cancer therapy, fraud prediction and terrorist attack prevention. Referred to as the Iris Insight Discovery platform, it's a type of machine learning that uses hundreds of algorithms and topological data analysis to mine huge datasets before presenting the results in a visually accessible way. Using algebraic topology, the system automatically hunts down data points close in nature and maps these out to reveal a network of patterns for a reserarcher to decipher -- any closely related nodes of information will be connected and clustered together, like how a social network arranges its data according to relationship connections.
By: Liat Clark, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Phones lost and stolen in Las Vegas are mistakenly telling their owners they're at the house of one Wayne Dobson, who's getting pretty angry at the late night demands and visits from the police.…
Fusion-io is pushing the idea of all-flash servers for HPC and other large scale data centre applications that need a 100 or more commodity servers, and has made its 1,000+ server hyperscale flash card technology available for down market.…
Hadoop might be a popular tool for munching on unstructured data, but setting up and tuning the software requires a lot more expertise than many people have and it takes a lot of time, too. That makes it a perfect piece of software to put on a cloud, provided you can either generate your data there to begin with or pipe it over there once you gin it up.…
BT misled customers by wrongly claiming that one of its broadband products was "free for six months", says Blighty's ad watchdog. This is the second time this year the national telco has been scolded by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).…
The New York Police Department wants to combat prescription drug theft by getting pharmacies to fit some pill bottles with GPS trackers.
These "bait bottles" would be mixed in with legitimate pill bottles so that when the pharmacy is robbed, the police are able to track the bottles back to the perpetrators. This would help crack crime rings of people stealing and trafficking prescription drugs.
By: Olivia Solon, Edited by: Liat Clark
France has put off plans to force Google and other web giants to help build broadband networks. The nation has instead handed off the controversial issue to a governmental panel described by activists as "an obscure committee".…
Facebook announced a new method of sorting and consuming information disseminated on the social network at a press conference in Menlo Park, California 15 January. The service, called "Graph Search," allows users to enter a query on Facebook and get answers based on cross-sections of information within their social network.
"Graph search is not Web search," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. Zuckerberg pointed out that a Web search with the query "hip-hop" will present links about hip-hop; Facebook's graph search, on the other hand, can answer a query like "Which of my friends live in San Francisco?"
By: Casey Johnston, Edited by: David Cornish
Trees in Brazil are being fitted with mobile telephones so they can call for help when they're cut down, alerting the authorities to illegal logging as soon as the logs get into range.…
The Chinese government has mandated the use of its new satellite navigation system Beidou (BDS) in several classes of vehicle across nine provinces, as the sat nav war between it and the United States' GPS heats up.…
