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Outsmart the competition with these surprising strategies. Human intuition is a fickle faculty. Sometimes it leads you to exactly what you want, for reasons that are quite mysterious to you. Other times you find your common sense, for all its popularity, is idiocy. So here are some lessons from IT that might surprise you.

From social media to mobile Wi-Fi, Google has most bases covered. Google, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has become one of the most synonymous names in technology over the past 16 years. Starting off as a search engine pioneering the 'pagerank' method of retrieving results, Google has grown into many areas, six of which are detailed below.

From before-their-time gamers to the phone shaped like a teardrop, here are five devices that just didn't work. Most mobile phones look the same these days, and it turns out that's really not such a bad thing. Before standardised forms and fucntions and the dominance of Android and iOS, manufacturers tried all sorts of crazy things to sell phones.

The definitive definition of big data from the experts for the kids (and adults, too). Jonathan Birch, Head of Architecture at NTT DATA "Imagine trying to finish the last page of your colouring book, but suddenly you find that you've got more crayons than you know what to do with.

From the space shuttle to your living room, here's how it all began. This month marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the surface of our satellite.

From virtual reality to treating brain trauma.

From artisan book imitators to the latest keyboard designs, here are 10 top iPad Air cases.

Startup Splice Machine recently rolled out its relational database management system (RDBMS) into public beta. Introduced in May 2014, the Splice Machine system combines the Java-based Apache Derby relational database with technology from the Apache HBase NoSQL database,

The proliferation of wearable devices that connect to the Internet understandably has a great many people worried about the implications for security. Soon enough, hackers could have a direct line to anything from wristwatches to pacemakers, and the damage could be devastating. Here are the top five wearable threats which could have an impact on you.

Hybrid clouds combine a private cloud with a public cloud, alleviating data privacy worries from your company if sensitive or corporate data needs to be kept on premise, whilst placing less critical environments into public cloud. Hybrid clouds are also useful for scalability.

Cloud to take up three-quarters of data centre traffic by 2018, says Cisco. Cisco's annual Global Cloud Index (GCI) reveals the latest findings and predictions on data centre traffic and cloud computing between 2013 and 2018. CBR highlights five need-to-know predictions from the report's findings. 1.

Give this list to your kids, partners, parents or whoever and get what you want on Alan Turing via Peter Thiel with a dash of Anonymous and Eric Schmidt, As you wind down from another busy year in the IT industry, the festive season is an ideal time to reflect on what has happened, as well as prepare for the future.

CBR looks at ten different start-ups from around the world and what they have to offer. IoT is changing the world, and has probably changed your life already even if you haven't noticed it. Until 1831, door-bells didn't exist. You had to knock or pull a cord to announce your arrival.

Checkout the complete guide about how to overcome problems when changing from original to compatible Epson Expression T1811 ink cartridges. The steps suggested here, apply to all Epson Expression printers and in particular the XP205, XP305, XP405, XP322, and XP202 ink cartridges.

If you sometimes experience poor print quality from your printer in the form of broken text lines or half printed images then find your solution here!! This is usually a problem caused by the print head that is located either in the printer or in the ink cartridge itself. Read the complete post here and get useful tips on how to get rid of poor quality prints by simply follow the procedure to clean clogged, dry, blocked ink cartridge print head.

News: The £1.2m figure does not include 'hidden costs' - so the figure could be much, much higher. It is widely accepted that a data breach or cyber attack is a 'when' not 'if' scenario for today's businesses. However, new figures from NTT Com Security have highlighted just how important it is for businesses to secure and protect against data breaches.

News: SME's have most to gain from the UK's digital potential.

HP is one of the reliable brand in which investing is not at all a bad idea. Without any second thought, you can pick its any related product. And if you are really looking for reasons, then go through this presentation and see why HP printers are best from the rest.

Cyberattackers have compromised a Pakistani Government website, allowing them to log the keystrokes of visitors entering sensitive information into a passport application site

When it comes to the shift from 4G to 5G, the average user will most likely only be concerned with one thing: speed. Granted, you will be able to stream or download media on your smart device far faster than before. But behind the scenes, the technology being developed to bring us 5G has the potential to offer far more than that.