The world’s computers crunch through 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data every year.
That’s 9.57 zettabytes. One zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power, or a million million gigabytes.
And if you still can’t get your head around that kind of number (I know I can’t), let’s convert it into average-sized books.
In book form, our …
Email marketing provider Epsilon recently revealed that “a subset of Epsilon clients’ customer data” has been exposed.
As “the world’s largest permission-based email marketing provider” with a roster of more than 2,500 big-name clients, the subset of data includes “email addresses and/or customer names,” as the original press release …
In what’s being touted as possibly one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history, online marketing firm Epsilon warned some of its customers over the weekend that the personal information of many, many people could be at risk.
Follow-up: See a list of which companies’ e-mail lists have been exposed.
Last Friday, an outside …
If you have a Twitter account, there’s a very good chance that you are one of the millions of tiny dots on this chart.
That’s because Rob Weir has been watching Twitter’s publicly available data since 2009, patiently aggregating it so he had a huge dataset to work with.
Then he began making graphs, plotting individual Twitter …
London-based software engineer Gareth Lloyd and colleague Tom Martin created this wonderful video of the history of the world – well, of Wikipedia’s history of the world, at any rate.
It turns out that no less than 424,171 Wikipedia articles have geographical co-ordinates and dates associated with them. Cross-reference the two, and …
Many panels at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive have revolved around the introduction of something new – new technologies, applications, visions or theories. But one of the most intriguing panels I’ve attended thus far was also one of the least declarative. It was held Saturday afternoon, was dubbed “Time Traveling: …
Data caps on your internet? It was only a matter of time.
Starting May 2, AT&T will start putting caps on people who surf the internet just a tad bit too much, according to DSLReports.
AT&T DSL users will be capped at 150GB, while AT&T U-verse users will get a slightly higher allowance at 250GB.
Users will probably want to be …
Back in early June, AT&T switched from a $30-per-month unlimited 3G data plan to two separate data plans: a $15 per month plan with 200MB of data and a $25 per month plan with 2GB of data.
At that time, customers paying for unlimited data were grandfathered in to their plans unless they proactively switched to one of the newer …
The $250 ioSafe SoloPRO external hard drive promises protection against fire up to 1,550 degrees and water up to 10 feet deep. The internal hard drive is a standard one-terabyte desktop drive and the external enclosure connects via eSATA or USB 3.0.
In the event of a catastrophe, the company will either walk you through extracting the …
Sprint has a pretty decent headstart in the next-generation 4G mobile data race, although the company’s decision to go with the WiMAX standard over the LTE standard, which many people consider to be a better long term option, has drawn some criticism in the past.
During Sprint’s earnings call today, CEO Dan Hesse was asked about …
