Google is hanging onto its dominant share of the search market, while its competitors inch up and down. Google edged a bit further ahead in January, going from 66.7% of the search market in December to 67%, industry tracker comScore said. ...
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Intellectual property company I/P Engine has sued Microsoft for infringing two search patents it acquired from Lycos. Microsoft allegedly infringes two patents that cover a relevance filtering technology that is mainly used to place high ...
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Responding to a growing user base of online service providers, VoltDB has outfitted its namesake in-memory database management system with additional tools to communicate with other technologies usually found in a Web applications stack. ...
More than 300 technology companies based in the Northeast region of the United States (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont) will unveil their latest cutting-edge ...
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Ten years ago Monday, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs introduced Apple's first, and so far only, browser for OS X, according to the former head of the Safari team. Don Melton, who retired last year as Apple's director of ...
Yahoo has started providing webmail users the option of using a secure connection, matching a similar feature Google and Microsoft have offered for several years. Yahoo’s delay in providing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection ...
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A little more than a year after Mozilla debuted a customized version of Firefox starring Microsoft's Bing search engine, the open-source developer on Tuesday shipped another Microsoft tie-in, Firefox with MSN. MSN is a Microsoft-owned ...
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ, July 31, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Fantasy Football Starters announced today that its Draft Analyzer now includes enhanced scoring capabilities for the 2012 Season. In addition to the system's fantasy football projections ...
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U.S. marketers spent 14% more in online advertising in the first half of the year, compared with the same period in 2011, hitting $17 billion, according to a study sponsored by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and conducted by PwC ...
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Facebook has paid far lower than the announced $1 billion in cash and stock for photo-sharing app Instagram, following a drop in its share price. The social networking company said in its Form 10-Q quarterly report to the U.S. Securities ...
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Companies seeking to enable enterprise-wide data analytics need a chief analytics officer (CAO) to lead the way, analysts say. The explosive growth in corporate data over the past few years has created both an opportunity and a challenge ...
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Outlook.com, the new webmail service that Microsoft is previewing and that will replace Hotmail, has gained security boosts against phishing and spam. The new safety features come via support for the DMARC email authentication standard ...
Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone: one for personal use, one for work. The technology could help ...
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AOL offered a limited preview Thursday of a new cloud-based email service that sorts content automatically to help combat "inbox fatigue" and doesn't force users to get a new address. Getting users to change email provider is no mean ...
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Even as the dog at the center of a global animal rights battle was put to death on Wednesday, social networks proved to be a massive weapon for protestors. Lennox, a seven-year-old black dog who lived with his family in Belfast, Ireland, ...
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