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Microsoft Revealed Some of The Changes in Windows 8 Due to Reach Customers in a Month
May 30, 2013Microsoft today revealed some of the changes in Windows 8 due to reach customers in a month, but didn't address what analysts called the biggest barrier to the OS's success. That would be Windows 8 apps, dubbed "Modern" apps, or if one ...
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Texas Is Poised to Become The First State in The U.S. to Require Law Enforcement Officers
May 30, 2013Texas is poised to become the first state in the U.S. to require law enforcement officers to get a search warrant based on probable cause before they access any electronic communications and customer data stored by a third-party service ...
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Dropbox Users Were Hit with a Widespread Service Outage This Morning
May 30, 2013Cloud storage service Dropbox users were hit with a widespread service outage this morning that lasted a little more than an hour. Tweets from outraged users around the world appeared to show the breadth of the service outage. According ...
Tags: Dropbox, Cloud Storage Service
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NASA Plans to Take 3D Printers Into Space to Enable Astronauts to Create Tools
May 30, 2013NASA scientists plan to take 3D printers into space to enable astronauts to create tools, and even food, onboard the International Space Station and later on the moon or even Mars. NASA's chief administrator Charles Bolden talked about 3D ...
Tags: 3D Printing, NASA
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The Theft of American Intellectual Property Was to Extort Money From Innocent Victims
May 30, 2013Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims. The IP Commission -- a private ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Google to Make It Easier to Find Nutrition Information Online for a Wide Range of Foods
May 30, 2013Google is trying to make it easier to find nutrition information online for a wide range of foods with a new search feature whose aim is to address the "cumbersome and daunting process" of making smart eating choices. Say you want to know ...
Tags: Google, Nutrition Information, Food
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PayPal Has Denied Him a Reward for Finding a Vulnerability in Its Website
May 30, 2013A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website. Robert Kugler said he notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19. He said he was informed by email that because he is ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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FCC Should Cap The Participation of Carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless
May 30, 2013The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should cap the participation of carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless in upcoming spectrum auctions to ensure mobile competition going forward, representatives of consumer groups and smaller carriers ...
Tags: FCC, Spectrum Auctions
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Streaming Content Provider Will Launch The Country's First Cloud-Based Gaming Console
May 30, 2013A Japanese streaming content provider will launch the country's first cloud-based gaming console, a small modem-like device that plugs into a TV and offers subscription access to titles from $5 per month. Broadmedia, a Tokyo-based company ...
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Moderate Muslims and Other People Concerned with Online Radicalization Efforts
May 30, 2013Moderate Muslims and other people concerned with online radicalization efforts need to counter the extremist propaganda young Muslims are getting on the Web with more positive messages, members of the U.S. Islamic community said. Muslims ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Prices of Sapphire Ingots Increase Causing Substrate Makers to Plan a Price Hike on PSSs
May 30, 2013Prices of sapphire ingots have been increasing causing substrate makers to plan a price hike on patterned sapphire substrates (PSSs). Some firms have been adjusting prices since the end of the first quarter, causing other firms to follow ...
Tags: PSS Prices, Sapphire Substrate
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Merck Knew Way Back Last July That This March Would Be Unseasonably Cold
May 30, 2013CIO - That itch in your throat and those watery eyes? Merck, which makes the allergy pill Claritin, anticipated your hay fever and--a year ago--started making plans to capitalize on it. With a subscription to specialized weather forecasts, ...
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More Than Half of UK Organisations Are Still Not Compliant
May 30, 2013More than half of UK organisations are still not compliant with the EU "cookie directive", a year after the legislation was introduced, according to consultants KPMG. It analysed 55 major UK organisations across the private and public ...
Tags: Computer Products
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The Creator of MySQL Wants to See The Now-Oracle-Owned Product Disappear
May 30, 2013The creator of popular open-source database MySQL, Michael "Monty" Widenius, wants to see the now-Oracle-owned product disappear from the earth within the next five years" - displaced by his own alternative, MariaDB. Speaking to Computing ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Apple Is Not Going to Stand Still with Its Products Portfolio
May 30, 2013Apple CEO Tim Cook reassured investors yesterday that the company is not going to stand still with its products portfolio, and that it has been working on "some incredible plans" for a while. Speaking at the D11 Conference in California, ...
Tags: Apple, Computer Products, software
