The social networking world may be a busy place with users loyal to their favorites, but a co-founder of start-up Branch says his new network should easily blend in. "We absolutely see ourselves as being complimentary to everything else," ...
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Google's plan to cut 20% of the workforce at its Motorola Mobility unit has reignited internal fears that the Internet giant primarily had its eye on 17,000 Motorola patents when it acquired the mobile device maker in May. Google earlier ...
In a cryptic statement during the launch of Nokia Windows Phone 8 smartphones this week, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop might have tipped the company’s hand about developing tablets. If the company does make a Windows 8 tablet, it ...
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Apple today shipped iOS 6, an upgrade that replaces Google Maps with Apple's own mapping technology and turn-by-turn GPS navigation. The company also released OS X 10.8.2, an update for Mountain Lion, shortly after 1 p.m. ET. Apple ...
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AT&T's Samsung Galaxy Note users can access the latest Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, operating system upgrade starting Tuesday. In a special link on its Website, Samsung noted that the Galaxy Note upgrade will not be provided ...
Accusations that an Android-based botnet is spewing spam may, in fact, be no such thing, but instead a sign that criminals are exploiting bugs in the Yahoo Mail app for Google's mobile operating system, a security firm said today. ...
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Atop the new investigation into Microsoft's failure to give some Windows users a browser ballot screen, European Union (EU) antitrust officials are also looking into charges that Microsoft has blocked rival browser makers from harnessing ...
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Microsoft yesterday clarified that Mac users will not be able to download and install a copy of Office for Mac 2011 as one of the five licenses allowed by the new Office 365 subscription plans. The news may make the subscription deals, ...
Microsoft has now updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago. More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late ...
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Computerworld-Apple's iPad and iPad Mini took top honors in a pair of tablet battery shootouts conducted by consumer watchdogs in the U.S.and the U.K. Consumer Reports,in the U.S.,and Which,from the U.K.,have recently run dozens of ...
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Computerworld - When one talks of computers today, he or she could be referring to a laptop, a desktop or maybe even a smartphone. Sergey Brin, CEO and co-founder of Google, wears Google Glasses during a product ...
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Dell and VMware will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the companies announced this week. Dell’s new vStart for VDI is based on VMware’s View ...
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Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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Apple on Monday released a"golden master"of OS X Mountain Lion to developers,putting the impending operating system on track to reach customers this month. "Golden master,"or GM,is a label some developers apply to software that is ...
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About a year ago,Xerox told some 600 employees,many of them engineers,that their jobs were being transferred to an India-based IT services firm. How has that worked out?Neither company is disclosing detail about what's been going on,but ...
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