The 2013 International CES will unveil the latest wireless technologies and trends across the mobile connected universe, including advancements in accessories, the cloud, e-books, embedded technology, smartphones and tablets, through a ...
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At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, companies tireless boast of their brilliant new products. Well, Magellan goes one better with a truly smart idea, integrating social and localized content into its upcoming SmartGPS ...
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Apple is developing a cheaper version of its iPhone, as it looks to expand its share of the smartphone market, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ said Apple could release this lower-end iPhone at some point in ...
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Direct Marketing firm Tempest Elite Marketing know the importance of brand awareness in a competitive market. The firm reveals startup businesses in Kenya have developed an innovative twist on loyalty cards for Africa's mobile generation ...
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ISACA has released insights from its 2012 IT Risk/Reward Barometer. The results from this study confirm an understanding of the risk posed by employee activities with both work and personal devices. For example, a consistently high ...
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Amazon Web Services confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service experienced degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others. AWS confirmed on its status page ...
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NETFLIX says it restored streaming video services a day after an outage triggered by technical problems at web service provider Amazon stretched across the Americas. The outage affected customers in the Americas starting about 12.30pm PST ...
Microsoft and Google are each taking steps to extend the social networking capabilities in their search services, with the goal of making it easier to find or share useful results. Bing search results will now include tips and ...
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Apple has opened discussions with Foursquare, the developer of a social media application that allows users find and share location-based information, about the possibility of sharing data. The Wall Street Journal reports that talks took ...
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A long list of Web sites went dark for one minute at 9:30 a.m.ET today to mark a moment of silence for the 26 women and children who were murdered a week ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,Conn. Earlier this week,Connecticut ...
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Garmin just introduced an update to it's smart-phone navigation apps that allows users stay connected while on the road and keep in touch with friends while traveling. Joining the social networking scene, Garmin has partnered with ...
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Foursquare is rolling out the pilot for a new program, called Promoted Updates, which will charge merchants to send recommendations to users about their products or services, the company said Tuesday. Used by over 20 million people ...
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Foursquare has expanded its recommendation capabilities by including suggestions from Facebook friends. The new feature aims for users to see more personal information about places they want to go. "The best recommendations often come ...
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In an effort to improve how MongoDB supplies its data to external applications, MongoDB keeper 10gen has extended the open source data store's query language, providing developers with more sophisticated ways to extract and transform data. ...
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Google has announced four new features for its mapping services, including 3D cityscapes in Google Earth mobile apps. The announcements are widely seen as a pre-emptive strike against Apple, which is expected to announce next week that ...
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