Computerworld-NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is three-quarters of the way through a major software upgrade NASA has dubbed a"brain transplant." The four-day software upgrade started Saturday and,if all goes as planned,should wrap up by ...
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Computerworld - HP CEO Meg Whitman is telling the company's India workers that they won't be hit by HP's plans to cuts its global workforce. In India, Whitman was interviewed by the Economic Times, and said this: "We are not reducing our ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today said that Windows RT, the spin-off of Windows 8, has been completed and will power ARM processor-equipped tablets and PCs from Asus, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung. The Redmond, Wash. company had earlier ...
Computerworld-Gen.Keith B.Alexander,the director of the National Security Agency,asked hackers for help securing cyberspace when he spoke at the Defcon conference late last month. "This is the world's best cybersecurity community,"said ...
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Computerworld-Oracle researchers are winding down development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing,an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems. The Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
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Computerworld - Verizon Wireless Tuesday revealed that there are five additional data tiers over and above the six tiers announced with its Share Everything plans earlier this summer. The new top tier costs $150 a month for 20GB, a ...
Computerworld - A final copy of Windows 8 leaked to the Internet on Thursday, just a day after Microsoft stamped the new operating system as finished. Identified as Windows 8 Enterprise N -- the "N" marks it as aimed at European users -- ...
Computerworld - Samsung will unveil the larger Galaxy Note 2 on August 29 in Berlin, according to a Reuters report today. Reuters reported Friday morning that a Samsung spokesman told it that the next Galaxy Note will be unveiled two days ...
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Computerworld - NASA announced Friday morning that it's on track to once again launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil within five years. As part of its strategy to launch astronaut-carrying spacecraft again, NASA has inked deals ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today announced that it's wrapped up Windows 8 and declared that the operating system has met the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) milestone. "A short while ago we started releasing Windows 8 to PC OEM and ...
Computerworld-Twitter is looking to take the country's temperature when it comes to the presidential election in November. The micro-blogging site today launched the Twitter Political Index,a tool to show in real time the popularity of ...
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Computerworld-The Nexus 7 with 16GB of storage reappeared"in stock"on Wednesday in the Google Play online store after it was unavailable there and in many retail stores in the U.S.for about a week. Google launched its Nexus 7 tablet at ...
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Computerworld-More than 1 million people had registered with the new Outlook.com email service on opening day,Microsoft said yesterday. The company announced the milestone in a tweet posted about six hours after Outlook.com went live."One ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft last week warned IT administrators that critical vulnerabilities in code licensed from Oracle could give attackers access to Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 systems. Oracle patched the vulnerabilities ...
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Computerworld-Google is adding the Google+Hangout feature to Gmail,the company's popular cloud-based email service. The Google+Hangout feature,which allows users to video chat with up to nine people,replaces Gmail's older peer-to-peer ...
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