Tag: Report
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Apple Dominates SmartWatch Market
It’s no surprise that Apple have reportedly dominated the Smart Watch market. After all, most people have at least heard of the Apple Watch, but few could name the top tier rivals. According to a report undertaken by Strategy Analytics – the Cupertino, California based company dispatched an approximate 4,000,000 Smart Watches during the second…
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Netflix Subscribers And Stock Values Soaring
Netflix is drawing ever closer to becoming a full time competitor with normal older ways of watching TV as the months go by. Subscribers, stock market values and countries where the service is available are all growing rapidly. Netflix now even create their own shows in partnership with Marvel, like Daredevil and Agent Carter, and…
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Phishing Emails Still Major Security Problem
Phishing e-mails are certainly one of the oldest methods of infecting a computer with a virus – the rogue mail lands in an inbox and awaits a user clicking on a link or attachment within that leads to a virus being downloaded. According to Verizon, in a new Data Breach investigations report, users are still…
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Facebook Addresses Suicide Prevention with New Feature
Facebook has partnered with a number of suicide prevention organisations to introduce a new feature with which users can report posts that might suggest a friend is in need of help and support. In a post made on the Facebook Safety page, the social network comments on its responsibility to our safety and outlines what…
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Recent iPhone Sales Beat Android By 0.1%
It’s always a competition in the phone industry as to who manages to sell the most devices, and the two biggest players are undoubtedly Apple and Android. the two command the biggest market share in terms of operating system, Android versus iOS is the name of the game. Recent numbers show that Apple managed to…
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Crime Reporting Site May Open In The UK
The UK government have been looking in to ways to decrease the threats they perceive to the general populace posed by online sites and other web services. Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced that he would crack down on encrypted web services in the event he gets re-elected. However, a new proposal from Home Secretary…
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Ofcom Publishes ‘Internet Of Things’ Paper
UK communications regulator Ofcom are taking a look at the ‘internet of things’ – a loose umbrella term for the new wave of internet enabled devices which is expected to explode onto the scene in the coming years. The internet of things means devices which are connected to a wider service via a network, and…
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1 Billion Android Phones Shipped In 2014
Last year global mobile phone shipments broke a new record in terms of the sheer volume of smartphones shipped. Over 1.3 billion handsets made it into the wild from manufacturers, and it’s partly due to the incredible popularity of Android. the mobile phone operating system from Google has recently hit one billion units shipped. Out…
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Apple Now Top Smartphone Seller In China
It’s a difficult thing getting western products into China – companies trying to peddle tech in the closed economy in the country often tread carefully to avoid friction with the Chinese government. But today, it seems Apple has navigated the hurdles and come out on top, with iPhone sales taking the top spot in Chinese…
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Facebook Cracking Down on Hoax News Stories
Facebook will be cracking down on bogus news articles by inviting its users to flag potentially phony posts. To allow Facebook users to report a dodgy news story they have placed a new option in the pop-up menus attached to each post on the website. Before users could use this to report a post for…
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Netflix Will Go Global Within 2 Years
Executives from streaming service Netflix have announced that their product should be widely available across the globe within a two year time frame. The service, which provides shows to users over the internet, currently serves North America, South America, and in Europe the countries of Denmark, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the UK, France, Switzerland, Austria,…
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90% of People Will Own a Mobile By 2020
The future as a concept is changing very radically, of late time honored visions of rayguns, hoverboards and other staples from the elder days of science fiction have mostly vanished from the silver screen, or at least been thoroughly revamped – the same can be said of the 80’s-90’s era of ‘grimy future’ stories… all…