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One must not tinker with things that one doesn't adequately understand. This is manifest in the case of a Columbia University Medical Center physician who tinkered with a server, leading to data leaks and an expensive $4.8 million settlement.

Blu-ray discs may sound a little obsolete but Facebook may be unwittingly reviving the optical storage format. The social network has built a storage system comprising of 10,000 Blu-ray discs, using them for 'cold storage.'

When data saved in cloud storage is deleted, the hard drive need to be scrubbed to totally annihilate the data, or someone else may access it later. Digital Ocean had a policy of not scrubbing hard drives until quite recently when a developer exposed this flaw in the cloud service's data management.

Every year, with faster connectivity options and better smartphones, we are getting used to increasingly greater amounts of mobile data usage. A report now reveals that average data consumption of U.S. cellphone users nearly doubled during 2013.

Data usage on today's mobile devices can be expensive. Especially if you are using online services using your cellular connection, you may end up with a huge bill. Here are a few tips to cut down on your monthly mobile bills.

The habits, choices and preferences of the consumers are increasingly important for the retail industry. To that end, many retail stores actively gather location data of the users when they are within a retail location. A US Senator now aims to regulate and restrict such industry practices.

T-Mobile has been hinting for the last few days that it is preparing something big for its customers. The carrier has finally ended the suspense by announcing global data coverage in 100 countries for T-Mobile subscribers, at absolutely no additional charges.

A number of major consumer and business data aggregators often share huge amounts of personal data of US citizens with each other. Now, it has transpired that hackers were able to access this data using malware and have been able to gain and sell the personal data of 4 million US citizens.

If you have few different Android devices and you use same apps on both of them it can sometimes be quite difficult to keep their data sync especially if we consider Games and Apps. When it comes to files and folders, this should not be too difficult since you can use a cloud services such as Dropbox, Box.net, Google Drive,… But with games and apps…

Over the years, big data has come about to play a critical role in the IT industry. IT companies are spending billions to dig useful data and further their business goals. By 2016, Gartner notes, the overall IT spending driven by big data will reach a whopping $232 billion!