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Cisco-challenge winners use AI, IoT to tackle global problems
An IoT-enabled system for transporting dairy products earned its designers the top prize in a competition run by Cisco. The...
Read moreBalloon-powered internet service goes live in Kenya
ISP Telkom Kenya is launching the first commercially available 4G LTE service using balloons that act as a network of...
Read moreUnicode update lets you say ‘spider,’ ‘dark glasses’ in pictures
Unicode, the character-encoding standard that underpins a vast amount of the Internet and many computing applications, has been updated to...
Read moreDropbox learns Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Thai in international expansion
Dropbox launched Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Thai versions of its application and clients, as the company seeks to grow the...
Read moreChina cuts access to Dropbox
China on Wednesday started blocking the online storage service Dropbox.Censorship watchdog group GreatFire.org reported the blocking on Thursday, stating that...
Read moreGoogle acquires video ads company mDialog
Google has acquired video advertising company mDialog in a bid to provide more high quality video options to its advertisers.The...
Read moreCountries don’t own their Internet domains, ICANN says
The Internet domain name for a country doesn’t belong to that country—nor to anyone, according to ICANN.Plaintiffs who successfully sued...
Read moreKey Takeaways from Cisco’s Annual Internet Report
By 2023, two-thirds of the world’s population will have Internet access—that’s 5.3 billion total Internet users, compared to 3.9 billion...
Read moreGoogle hit with new antitrust complaint in Europe, officials confirm
Google has been hit with yet another antitrust complaint in Europe, this time for alleged anticompetitive behavior in the app...
Read moreWill full encryption sideline Google’s targeted ads?
Mining personal data to deliver targeted ads is the lifeblood of Google’s business—and of many other online firms. But what...
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