IDG News Service - Apple released on Sunday an update that fixes a problem where the iPhone 5 draws data from the carrier Verizon despite being connected to a Wi-Fi network. Apple's advisory said the scenario happens "under certain ...
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IDG News Service - Well Fargo urged its customers on Thursday to visit bank branches or use telephone banking due to continuing problems with its website. In a statement, a bank spokeswoman described the issue as "an unusually high volume ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft last week began providing European consumers a "browser ballot screen" for Windows 8, a move that may be just the first of several steps the company will take to head off a new antitrust investigation. According ...
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Yahoo today said it has fixed the flaw that allowed hackers to steal more than 450,000 passwords from one of its many services. The company also provided more information about whose passwords had been pilfered. "We have...now fixed ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook today apologized to users for the substandard Apple Maps app in iOS 6, and steered them toward alternatives including Microsoft's Bing app and Google's online Maps. The Hoover Dam bypass bridge south of the dam ...
Research in Motion's said today that service had been restored to users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa who had experienced service problems. Around 7:44 a.m. Eastern, RIM said service had been restored. No further information was ...
Tags: Europe, Middle East, Africa, Blackberry service, service problems
Cisco Systems has taken a step back from its Cisco Connect Cloud service, removing it as the default setting for management of its Linksys EA Series Wi-Fi routers after a firestorm of complaints from customers about automatic firmware ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook's apology earlier today was unnecessary, a Wall Street analyst said. "Despite the chorus of negative media coverage around the new Apple maps, Tim Cook did not have to write this letter and bring even more attention to ...
Microsoft could have escaped the wrath of European Union antitrust regulators and the risk of potential fines in the billions if it had paid attention to an exchange on its own support site more than a year ago. The back-and-forth between ...
Xinhua reported that Colonel San Yu Myanmar's Sagaing region police commander has apologized to senior monks at a ceremony for wounding some junior monks among protestors in the November 29th 2012 disperse action of boycott camps at the ...
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In the past, on the 6th day of the 6th lunar month every year, in the villages people would invite those married daughters, young and old to dinner and then send them back. It is said that during the Spring and Autumn period, in the Jin ...
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A long, long time ago, Humanity and Nature became sworn comrades and signed a non-aggression treaty. But soon, the humans who had pledged never to invade their ally realized that without Nature's offerings, they could not survive. ...
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The ExxonMobil Chemical Plant has warned the communities of Mossmorran in the United Kingdom about the intermittent flaring at the Fife Ethylene Plant. The plant was shutdown for maintenance work and it has restarted again. “As ...
IDG News Service-Japan's space agency said Friday that sensitive information on a new long-range rocket project may have been stolen by a computer virus. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,or JAXA,said it found evidence that a single ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a "rumor control" section on its website to counter misinformation on social networks that has affected relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy. "Fema.gov/sandy now ...
Tags: Online, Misinformation, networks