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Government teams up with business on Midata scheme

...support a standard electronic format for consumer personal data. Midata will present consumer data held by organisations including Google and MasterCard back to individuals in... Read more

4 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Hacktivism: Threats and reality for IT managers

Hacktivism: Threats and reality for IT managers

...in attacks and its effect on businesses. As high-profile breaches involving consumer data become the norm, this guide looks at where hacking is heading... Read more

9 December, 2011
Amazon launches Cloud Drive desktop app

Amazon launches Cloud Drive desktop app

...Amazon on Wednesday introduced a desktop application for Cloud Drive, its consumer data storage service, in a bid to raise its game against the... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

Amazon plugs A9 search into its AWS cloud

...rise of the app developer culture, there is an increasing number of consumer data sources that cannot be simply queried with a web search engine... Read more

13 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Cyberattack forces Adidas site take-down

...sophisticated, criminal cyberattack. Our preliminary investigation has found no evidence that any consumer data is impacted," the company said in a statement on its news... Read more

8 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Intel: 100Gbps silicon photonics due in May

...was the challenge." Intel's silicon photonics efforts have led to the consumer data transfer technology Thunderbolt which, though it pushes data over copper rather... Read more

16 September, 2011

Firms pledge consumer access to data

...companies that have signed up to a UK government initiative to make consumer data more available. The 'mydata' initiative, which was launched on Wednesday, is... Read more

13 April, 2011
Hacked off: Protect your email from a breach

Hacked off: Protect your email from a breach

...High-profile breaches involving consumer data are becoming the norm. Rik Ferguson asks what individuals can do... Read more

2 April, 2011 by Rik Ferguson

Google One Pass challenges Apple subscription plan

...of revenue from One Pass sales and publishers will retain control of consumer data. Google One Pass offers more revenue for content providers than rival... Read more

17 February, 2011 by David Carnoy

BT joins forces with Arqiva, Detica for smart meter bid

...it is ideal in ensuring the security of supply and protection of consumer data while meeting the needs of the energy industry," BT said. Energy... Read more

19 July, 2010 by David Meyer
Targetbase Enhances its Client Services with Oracle Exadata

Targetbase Enhances its Client Services with Oracle Exadata

...increasing business velocity and complexity. Targetbase, an agency that uncovers and understands consumer data and translates it into intelligence, went in search for the right... Read more

1 March, 2012
Good for Enterprise 1.7.5.183

Good for Enterprise 1.7.5.183

...and personal data dont mix, ensuring the integrity of both business and consumer data on-device.Recent changes:Key features in this service release 1... Read more

3 December, 2011
Consumer Count 1.1

Consumer Count 1.1

...the app powered by Consumersketch. Consumersketch are a leading provider of quality consumer data to the direct marketing industry. Our unique consumer lifestyle database consists... Read more

24 August, 2011
Field Forge 1.0.0

Field Forge 1.0.0

...the Kappa framework to access the data. The Kappa Library uses producer/consumer data flow scheduling which maps well to database transactional processing. The data... Read more

8 November, 2010

Dot-coms see gold in consumer data

...market, as a slew of companies launch projects to make sense of consumer data collected online. Units of AOL Time Warner and SPSS, an analytical... Read more

25 October, 2001 by Stefanie Olsen

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