Facebook did the same thing when it acquired Instagram, and that service is still going strong. I get the impression that this complaint may be more for consumer awareness than to elicit actual action. As you mentioned,...
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Law enforcement use of drones could create plenty of controversy during the next few years. What other uses worry you on a privacy level, readers?
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The issue is really a "scoreboard" one. $30 billion RDBMS market; $0 billion NoSQL market. I agree that the analytical database space has shown more progression, but I really see that as a result of how intractable...
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I'm hearing that some banks see Hadoop as a tool in meeting regulatory requirements. Banks are having to do stress testing often enough that they need the speed of Hadoop to meet the demand.
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Excellent coverage of all things database. And, yes, the most popular databases of 10 years ago are still market leaders today, but Netezza and Greenplum were just getting the ball rolling on what is now a...
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@PDXnativeson So you're saying Oregon did a superior job of vendor and product evaluation, which led them to select Oracle foundation technologies as the basis of the state health insurance exchange? So where do you see...
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Yes, the state bought some substantial commercial-off-the-shelf systems for database, CRM, and other functions as the basis for the health insurance exchange, but these were to be treated as components of the grand system....
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After the Snowden's leaks, it has obvious that no feature of our digital life is secret. Your messages, photos, videos, whereabouts and preferences leave a lasting blueprint for the NSA. Tor is mainly used to obscure personality...
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It's not horrible but there are some apps that are just clunky inside Bluestacks. Some just plain refuse to rotate to an orientation that is actually usable inside the application. Aside from that it's about...
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Here's to hoping that Nadella brings an innovative spirit to Microsoft. They are long due for this.
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HI,thanks for the post on chrome's new packaged apps, are there any documentation regarding development for the chrome packaged apps which run ouside the browser in their own window, I have been looking around but all i...
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You can easily backup you apps from iPhone to PC with iPhone Transfer.
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Clearly Mr Lord is out of touch with the current state of the COBOL language. A little time and research would have shown COBOL is alive and evolving on an annual basis as venords and standr committees continue to...
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Terms of Service are still a contract.You are correct, though, that generally the main thing a company has to do when it changes the terms or the privacy policy is make users click "I agree" to the new terms or lock them...
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With all due respect... You don't trust Facebook with your user data...but you trust Google??????
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My guess is that the acquisition of WhatsApp was purely defensive -- and, as such, very little will change with the app (think Instagram, or Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr).
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I've worked in consumer law. If this article represents the facts correctly, then this complaint strikes me as baloney -- a marketing gimmick for EPIC more than anything else. Companies with privacy policies...
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So in 2015 Microsoft may bring back features they introduced in 1995!
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Original Surface RT w/Type Cover owner here, and I've got my Surface 2 on order. In my opinion, the original RT was perfect for students and business use, whilst the new Surface 2 is ideal for a broader range of consumers...
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PaulS, "I don't believe Facebook bought it to just change nothing and to gain nothing. After all, they paid $19billion for it." Exactly. Facebook is not precisely a model on respecting users' privacy. Facebook will...
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2014 State of Storage Survey
If you look at vendor financials, the enterprise storage business seems stuck in neutral. Don't believe it.
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