Macworld UK-Yesterday,more than 100 apps began to experience significant corruption problems after Apple had approved their updates,causing some apps to crash nearly instantly when you attempted to launch them.Now,Apple has responded to the ...
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IDG News Service - Sony Mobile is laying off 1,000 employees and will also move its global HQ to Tokyo, as the company tries to turn around its dwindling fortunes in the smartphone space. The reorganization comes about six months after ...
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IDG News Service-Concern is building up over the use of litigation over standards-essential patents to block sales of products,with the International Telecommunication Union(ITU)planning to hold a conference that will address what the ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced the new ElitePad 900 tablet with Windows 8, and said the device can be easily disassembled to replace components in order to save hardware and support costs. The HP ElitePad 900 ...
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Network World - Cisco, Brocade, Dell among others have jumped on board and look to ride the wave that is software defined networking. This despite experts' assertions that SDNs threaten Cisco's dominance in the tech industry. As is ...
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Infoworld-Network and endpoint security may not strike you as the first place to scratch an experimental itch.After all,protecting the company's systems and data should call into question any action that may introduce risk.But IT security ...
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IDG News Service - Mozilla released Firefox 15.0.1 on Thursday to fix a bug that potentially exposed the websites visited by users while in "Private Browsing" mode. "Private Browsing" mode enables Firefox users to surf the Web without ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft may announce the first public preview of Office 2013,the likely name for its next productivity suite,at its annual gathering with partners later today. Although Microsoft has not publicly revealed its plans for ...
IDG News Service - Adobe announced on Monday a new version of its Acrobat desktop application for creating and editing PDF documents that now features integration with other Adobe cloud services and with Microsoft PowerPoint. Acrobat XI ...
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Computerworld - An elite hacker group targeting defense industry sub-contractors has an inexhaustible supply of zero-days, or vulnerabilities that have yet to be publicized, much less patched, Symantec said today. In a blog post, the ...
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IDG News Service-U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement has seized 70 websites accused of selling products that infringe copyright,bringing the number of websites seized by ICE in the last two years to 839. The websites recently seized ...
IDG News Service - MIAMI -- Approaching Oasis of the Seas from the parking lot of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and then entering the ship, you are overtaken by its size. Almost 1,200 feet long, 210 feet wide, and rising 213 ...
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Computerworld-Apple will continue to dominate the world's tablet market through 2016 if it launches a smaller iPad this year,according to research firm IDC. In a revised five-year forecast,IDC said last month that the addition of a ...
Computerworld - General Motors, which is insourcing the majority of its IT work, Friday said it is hiring 500 IT positions in Austin to staff a new "innovation center." The announcement is part of far-reaching GM plan to hire as many as ...
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Ontario’s Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) is notifying the public that Liteline Corp. has announced a voluntary recall of 2x32W T8 fluorescent wrap-around surface-mounted EPOWRAP luminaires sold under the ElectriPro brand. Users ...
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