IDG News Service - Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay US$1.25 million to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to resolve a complaint that it blocked third-party tethering applications on Android phones, the FCC said Tuesday. ...
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Computerworld - Samsung Tuesday unveiled a mobile music service, called Music Hub, that will initially run on its Galaxy S III smartphone that is sold by all the major U.S. carriers. Samsung last quarter sold twice as many smartphones ...
Huddle co-founder and CEO Alastair Mitchell talks about the simplicity of cloud-based collaboration, the technology that came before, and resurrecting dead content. The application service provider (ASP) model was a buzz in the dot com ...
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Researchers have confirmed the existence of new Mac malware just hours before the release of Mountain Lion, the latest version of Apple's OS X operating system. Within hours, researchers at security company Sophos also confirmed an iOS ...
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Apple giveth,and Apple taketh away.As it released Mountain Lion through the Mac App Store Wednesday,the company simultaneously removed Lion from the store:You cant find Lion if you search for it,its no longer listed as one of Apples apps in ...
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Apple will launch its Mountain Lion operating system tomorrow, the company's chief financial officer said Tuesday. Speculation had centered on July 25 as the likely launch data for OS X 10.8, known as Mountain Lion, based on Apple's ...
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To simplify life for developers,platform-as-a-service provider Heroku has released a version of the open-source Postgres database designed to be easily run on Apple Macintosh computers. While the Postgres project itself maintains a ...
Tags: Heroku, Mac Postgres, platform-as-a-service provider, Soldo
Cooper Lighting,an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry,has announced that the sixth edition of its Product Selection Guide(PSG)is now available.The ...
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Barclays has launched a mobile banking app with similar functionality to its full online banking platform. It follows the mass adoption of its Pingit app, which allows users to make and receive payments with just a mobile number. The ...
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An app known as"Find and Call"has been targeting users of both the iPhone App Store and Google's Play market,say researchers at security firm Kaspersky Lab. At first,it was thought to be an SMS worm spread through text messages,rather ...
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Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
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As personal mobile devices flood the corporate workplace,you'd think every company would have its own app store,right? Not so fast.Despite the obvious benefits of efficiently and securely distributing mobile apps to employees to use their ...
Autodesk debuted a range of new AutoCAD products built for Mac OS X Lion:AutoCAD 2012 for Mac,AutoCAD LT 2012 for Mac and AutoCAD WS for Mac.This marks the first time Autodesk has offered AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD WS for the Mac. The new ...
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Computerworld-Apple will launch OS X Mountain Lion July 25 if it repeats what it did last year when it announced the then-new Lion a day after its quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts. Monday,Apple scheduled its next earnings ...
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If you rely on Research in Motion's BlackBerry smartphones, it's time to prep your exit strategy. RIM is in serious decline, and the slide has accelerated dramatically in recent weeks. The company has made massive layoffs, its stock price ...
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