Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)to its entire global user base. For the past several ...
Tags: Facebook, HTTPS, security benefits, account hijacking attacks
Computerworld-Wireless smartphone and tablet users helped both presidential candidates raise funds and support in 2012,while mobile computing contributed directly to President Barack Obama's edge in Tuesday's presidential election. Most ...
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Some Web browsers can be tricked into using so-called malicious extensions that can give hackers the ability to hijack the user's session,spy on webcams,upload and download files,and in the newer mobile-device area,hack into Google Android ...
Tags: zombie browsers, malicious extensions, advanced persistent threat, Chrome
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has told shareholders that the world's largest software firm is a software firm no longer–but instead,a"devices and services company". In his annual letter to investors,Ballmer said there is ...
Tags: Microsoft CEO, Devices and Services Company, release of Windows 8
IDG News Service-More than 1 billion people now use Facebook each month,almost one-seventh of the world's population,the company announced Thursday. The company said it passed the milestone on Sept.14,but only revealed the figure ...
Tags: Facebook, active users, fake accounts
As it continues to face post-IPO monetisation challenges,Facebook has now taken the step to allow ordinary users the opportunity of paying to promote their own posts on the social networking site. Similar to a scheme launched in May that ...
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In large technology departments,dysfunctional relationships breed like mushrooms in a dank basement.Your dev and ops teams are no longer on speaking terms,while your junior and senior developers can't seem to agree on anything.IT and legal ...
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Microsoft is taking a"big gamble"with its new Windows 8,one that will see the operating system peak at just 20%to 25%of corporate PCs,Gartner analysts said today. "Microsoft is taking a big gamble over the next few months with Windows and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Gartner, Windows 8, analysts, Michael Silver, Steve Kleynhans
When Yahoo's new CEO,Marissa Mayer,addressed company employees Tuesday,she reportedly talked about making Yahoo part of people's everyday lives. She didn't,however,explain how she plans to do that. Industry analysts,though,were quick to ...
Debenhams has cut its email storage in half by implementing an archiving system. The retailer was running out of disk space on its Exchange servers as the company was seeing 13.8 million emails per month across its 8,000 mailbox users. ...
Tags: Debenhams, Novell filer, Netapp route, archiving system
Computerworld - Looking to get in on the booming mobile market, social network Pinterest has unveiled mobile apps for its pinboard service. Pinterest announced Tuesday new apps for Android-based smartphones and for Apple's iPad. It also ...
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Calligra has published the second stable release of its open source suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets and a sketching program. The new version greatly improves the support of Open Document Format (ODF) documents, said one of ...
SAP's revenue for the second quarter grew 18 percent over the same quarter last year to AA!3.9 billion(US$4.9 billion)following record software revenue of over AA!1 billion,it reported on Tuesday. The business software company in ...
Tags: SAP, Cloud, mobile, business software company
Twitter is teaming with NBC to make it easier for users to take in all the tweets about the upcoming Olympic Games. NBC Olympics , an arm of the NBC Sports Group, announced this week that Twitter will gather tweets about the London 2012 ...
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The newly updated version of the open source Jaspersoft business intelligence suite offers end users more controls on how they can format reports and dashboards, including the ability to filter results and remove unnecessary columns. ...
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