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TalkTalk confirms data breach after customers are fleeced by Indian scammers
TalkTalk has admitted to a data breach that led to customers being scammed for thousands of pounds.A post on a TalkTalk forum explained that a third party with "legitimate access to customer accounts" was hit by a data breach last year, causing information to go...
“Open Data Platform” industry association launched to promote Hadoop
A group of IT suppliers in the US has launched an “open data platform” association to boost big data technology.This comes at a time when big data analytics projects seem to be gaining ground in corporate IT. As an instance, big data analytics and...
UK businesses are reluctant to stick their heads in the Clouds
A global study of almost 2,100 contracts covering deals worth £7.8 billion suggests that Cloud-based services are failing to capture the popular imagination of UK businesses. It also suggests that organisations are increasing the level of IT services they...
Accounting cloud provider Xero raises $111m, announces slew of appointments
Xero, a provider of cloud-based accountancy services announced it has secured $110.8m in funding from Accel Partners and Matrix Capital Management, and has appointed former Dell and Salesforce executives to head up the firm’s US operations and join the board of...
Google more than doubles free music storage in the cloud
Google has made its free cloud storage service for music a bit more appealing, especially considering alternatives from Apple and Amazon.Users can now store up to 50,000 songs for free in the cloud through the company’s Google Play Music service, which...
Motorola launches £110 next-generation 4G Moto E with Android Lollipop
Motorola has unveiled the second-generation Moto E smartphone, complete with 4G and Google's latest Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system.The 2015 Moto E is a follow up to the firm's 2014 model and comes with a number of software and hardware upgrades, the most...
Cloud software will drive $3.8tn of overall IT spending in 2015
Cloud software will drive IT spending up to $3.8tn in 2015, as competition becomes fiercer between cloud and traditional on-premise software vendors, according to a report by...
Google Translate update touts real-time translation to challenge Microsoft’s Skype Translator
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Apple plans €1.7bn data centre builds in Ireland and Denmark
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