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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Salesforce and Philips last week announced they had teamed up on a cloud computing initiative designed to transform existing healthcare platforms. The companies plan to create an open cloud-based healthcare platform that will allow everyone from software developers to health insurance companies to connect and exchange information via Salesforce's health cloud. The ultimate goal is to streamline several aspects of healthcare, optimizing the experience both for providers and patients.

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Salesforce.com, Philips Launch Health Cloud Revolution

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Salesforce and Philips last week announced they had teamed up on a cloud computing initiative designed to transform existing healthcare pl...

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Back in March, the second generation of Oculus’s work-in-progress virtual reality headset went up for pre-order. No one knew exactly when the new headset would actually ship, outside of a target window of “sometime in July”. Word on the Oculus fan forums was that the company would announce more details today, and sure enough: the company has just announced that the first… Read More

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With 45,000 Pre-Orders, The New Oculus Rift Will Start Arriving Around July 14th

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Back in March, the second generation of Oculus’s work-in-progress virtual reality headset went up for pre-order. No one knew exactly when th...

The energy industry in the United States and Europe is being targeted by a cybercriminal gang that's suspected of being state-sponsored and has links to Russia. Known variously as "Dragonfly" and "Energetic Bear," the group has been operating at least since 2011. Its focus appears to be espionage and persistent access, with a side dish of sabotage as required, Symantec said. It has changed tactics of late, and it appears the group is "less interested in general espionage" and is possibly moving more toward sabotage.

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Dragonfly Swoops Down on Energy Firms

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The energy industry in the United States and Europe is being targeted by a cybercriminal gang that's suspected of being state-sponsore...

Once again, Facebook is embroiled in a controversy over privacy. This time, hackles have been raised by publication of a study for which the company manipulated the News Feeds of nearly 700,000 subscribers. The study concluded that, yes, negative messages on social networks make people sad, and positive ones make them happy -- and those feelings can spread through a social network to third parties. Led by Adam Kramer of Facebook's Core Data Science team, the study was published in PNAS.

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Manipulative User Research Earns Facebook a Shiner

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Once again, Facebook is embroiled in a controversy over privacy. This time, hackles have been raised by publication of a study for which t...

As any Android user knows, the version of the operating system you're using can vary widely because it depends on parties other than Google. That's why nearly two-thirds of users are running a version of Android introduced in 2012 or earlier. With Android making the leap to wearables and the Internet of Things, however, Google is aiming to make that kind of fragmentation of its mobile operating system a thing of the past. It plans to limit what a hardware maker can do to the Android interface and control updates to the operating system.

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Google Aims to Defrag Android Universe

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As any Android user knows, the version of the operating system you're using can vary widely because it depends on parties other than G...

At last week's Google I/O, Nvidia was the big winner. It was showcased in TVs, mobile devices and automotive as the supplier of a key technology. Other brands were mentioned in the keynote, but it was Nvidia that was mentioned most consistently -- and its technology apparently was connected to most of the demos. In the gaming segment, Nvidia even figured in the talk preamble, which spoke to how mobile technology was starting to rival PC platforms. Though it was mentioned only in passing, Lenovo actually was the other big winner.

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