Microsoft's two-pronged OS push into tablets -- Windows RT and Windows 8 -- confuses customers, and the company should focus on the more robust Windows 8, an IDC analyst said today. Tom Mainelli, IDC's research director for tablets, said ...
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A Michigan developer last week started selling a $5 utility that lets Windows 8 customers shun the new Modern UI by running apps on the classic desktop. Stardock, best known to Windows 8 users for Start8, software that restores the Start ...
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Microsoft‘s two-pronged push into the tablet market, consisting of the Windows RT and Windows 8 operating systems, confuses customers, an IDC analyst said on Wednesday. The company should instead focus on the more robust Windows 8 ...
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Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds. Based in Mountain View, California, ...
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In yet another nod to the explosive growth of lighting technologies, Philips has announced the launch of software that will enable people to control lighting through their iOS devices - be it an iPad tablet computer or just their iPhone ...
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A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites to fill visitors' hard disk drives with ...
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Facebook has blocked Vintage Camera, an Instagram-like photo app, from accessing its API (application programming interface). The move follows the recent blocking of other apps by the social networking giant. Vintage Camera is an app for ...
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Twitter will end support for TweetDeck on the iPhone and Android in order to focus solely on browser-based versions for those platforms. And it is also apparently dumping Facebook. TweetDeck, a popular application that was acquired by ...
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Facebook is rolling out a patch to fix a rare bug in its API that had apparently been leaking users' phone numbers to app developers. The glitch, which was first reported back in June 2012, was affecting the email field in some mobile ...
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A Polish security firm known for rooting out Java vulnerabilities has reported two new bugs in the browser plug-in to Oracle, Security Explorations said today. On its bug-reporting status page, Security Explorations noted that it had ...
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Google yesterday released Chrome 25, patching 22 vulnerabilitiesand debuting a new security feature that blocks silent installations of add-ons. The latter is Chrome 25's most noticeable change to users. It automatically disables ...
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Twitter is aiming to give marketers more control in how they advertise on the site by giving them access to its API through third-party service companies. The program is based on Twitter's Ads API (application programming interface), ...
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Salesforce.com is hoping to give its Marketing Cloud product line a fresh boost with a new social advertising platform for Twitter. The offering, now in closed beta, is powered by a new advertising API (application programming interface) ...
One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none of which met its highest severity classification. Since Mega was launched three weeks ...
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LinkedIn has shut off its API access to "Bang With Professionals," a Web service that was intended to facilitate more, say, intimate connections among users of the business-oriented social networking site. The service was designed to ...
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