Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, "As if Java updates weren't confusing already." The changes were posted in an Oracle support document last week. "Limited Update releases will ...
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spoken about his relationship and last conversation with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in?a 60-minute interview?with CBS's Charlie Rose this week.? "We were within a year of the same age, and we ...
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Computerworld - In the middle of its annual developers conference, the Google unveiled updates to its popular Gmail service. Quick Action feature in updated Google Gmail Google Thursday announced that it's adding what it calls Quick ...
Microsoft's head of corporate communications defended his company's Windows information disclosure strategy Tuesday, denying that Microsoft has adopted Apple's "cone of silence" approach to imparting news. "We know we're not Apple," Frank ...
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Dell drastically cut the online price of its Windows RT tablet and is now selling the device for $299.99. The price is a $200 drop from the original $499 price offered at the launch of the Dell XPS 10 last October. The cost cut was "due ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 app store failed a test touted by a former Microsoft manager and distinguished engineer as a way to determine an ecosystem's relevance. On Monday, Hal Berenson, now president of True Mountain Group, a technology and ...
Sometime in the coming weeks, Microsoft will tell Windows 8 users whether they will have to pay for the upgrade code-named "Blue," and if so, how much. While Microsoft remains tight-lipped on the subject, analysts believe Microsoft won't ...
Western Digital has released new information about its first hybrid drive, revealing that it is using NAND flash technology from SanDisk. The drive is now shipping. WD?originally announced?the solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD) – the ...
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Within the U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is a proposal to create a database that may shed new light on H-1B hiring. The intent of the database is to help improve the odds that a U.S. worker may get hired over a foreign ...
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Google has pushed out an update to Glass, its upcoming glasseslike wearable computer. A few thousand developers are working with an early version of Glass. When they fire up the devices today, they'll find about a dozen tweaks and ...
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A year before Google's futuristic-looking, computerized eyeglasses are expected to hit the market, they have been banned -- again. A Caesars Palace casino spokesman today told Computerworld that people wearing the Google Glass technology ...
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For a few months earlier this year, the personal data of customers of the Schnucks supermarket chain was exposed to hackers whose work went undetected until after a card processing company issued an alert about fraudulent activity on a ...
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As you pore over the technical features built into Ford's latest vehicles, one spec you'll notice in those that include a SYNC entertainment system is the 10GB hard drive for storing music. No, they didn't drop a zero. That's a 10. Ford ...
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A Qualcomm executive Friday defended Windows RT tablets despite poor initial sales, saying the mobile device chip maker is "very optimistic with the future of Win RT." Qualcomm currently supplies ARM-based Snapdragon processors for ...
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NASA engineers have brought a long-running Mars rover out of stand-by mode after the robot ran into trouble last month. The Mars rover Opportunity is back up and running, according to Guy Webster, a spokesman for NASA. "Confirmation has ...
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