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The first SMS-capable mobile phones were approved for sale in Europe 20 years ago this month. By any measure, text messages have become a huge success, at least for the telephone companies, with more than 6 trillion text messages sent worldwide in 2010, generating more than $110 billion in revenue. But the future may not be anywhere near as bright because of increasing use of "free" Internet-based services such as Facebook, Apple's iMessage and WhatsApp.com.
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Microsoft rolled out significant changes for its SkyDrive cloud storage service that pit it directly against the popular Dropbox service.
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Proponents say remote systems can be trusted
The face of data science is changing, are you ready?
Wave of optimisers, monitors, and management products fuelled by network changes
New Wallpaper created by French scientists hopes to solve your problems by blocking Wi-Fi signals.
Although Fibre Channel is seeing single-digit growth rates, Ethernet for storage is exploding
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Financial analyst criticizes Zuckerberg for wearing a hoodie sweatshirt at IPO road show presentation
How the new Samsung Galaxy S III stacks up against its competitors from Apple, HTC, Nokia, and Google
Parties with strong opinions are weighing in on the controversial Cyber Information and Security Protection Act
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Sites like Kickstarter offer both established businesses and startups a chance to finance their dreams
The question is now less how do I become a CIO, but what kind of CIO do I want to become?
Get the most out of enterprise social networking
Media organisations must adapt to survive
Chrome extension lets you quickly select text and search for it
There is no standard way of creating or managing the way cloud resources get accessed by the end user, despite their increasing use by IT organisations
The BigQuery service is an online analytical processing (OLAP) system designed for terabyte-scale datasets
Instagram users unsure about a Facebook future have plenty of options, especially on the iOS platform
IT executives should take a leading role in sustainability initiatives
Environmental group ramps up criticisms of pollution against leading tech companies
Is ‘Going Green’ really the most important thing you can do for your business?
OLPC has a bizarre distribution plan: to hurl tablets into remote villages
Android allows for more customisation and has cheaper apps - there's so much you can do
From Windows XP to IBM 402 - why're you all still using the old stuff?!
Choices will abound for users of this free OS, which is now available as a release candidate.
Despite critical acclaim and cheap phones, few people in the US want a Windows Phones
We pinpoint the cloud storage services with the best attributes for accomplishing specific tasks.
Outsourcing contracts typically include detailed termination and transition assistance provisions that outline the provider's responsibilities regarding data return
A recent uproar over the Google Drive service for consumers raised several important questions about cloud storage
The very thing that makes cloud efficient makes it insecure. OK, potentially insecure, but that doesn’t scan so well
Co-founder Jay Hallberg says growth rate is accelerating
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Believed to be over the file-sharing website's criticsm of the recent Virgin Media DDoS attack
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The move calls Facebook's advertising model into question ahead of its IPO
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Work like a pro with this professional photo cataloging application
Breezi lets you visually create a personal or business website, without a single line of code
HijackThis, useful as ever but now open source, helps you spot anomalies in your Windows and program installations
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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...
Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...
New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it read more...
Facebook is a lot of fun...until you realize that much of the information posted there could be found by someone you might not want to see it. Like your boss, or potential boss. Your mother, or your potential mother-in-law. Ever wonder how your Facebook page might make you look to someone else? NetworkClean can show you: This free service scans and monitors your Facebook account, alerting you to any problems lurking there. read more...
The HP Folio 13 is a sleek 13.3-inch Ultrabook that comes in a slim profile measuring just 18mm thick. HP positions it as a business-grade laptop that eschews an optical drive for portability and crams in a battery that the company says is good for up to 9.5 hours. The HP Folio 13 also includes a number of business-centric capabilities ignored by other computer makers. read more...
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