Both sets of technologies recognize the growing use of the browser for richer interactions between users and services, over and above the viewing of static Web pages. “We still use the browser language, although most of what people ...
Facebook turned on a key security feature by default on Wednesday that scrambles data sent by users to the company's servers, following similar moves in recent years by Web services such as Google and Twitter. Two years ago, the social ...
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In the ongoing quest for faster access to data, Diablo Technologies has taken what could be a significant next step. Diablo’s Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture, expected to show up in servers shipping later this year, allows ...
China's largest search engine Baidu is planning to acquire two leading app stores in the country for $1.9 billion, as the company seeks to expand its presence in the mobile Internet space. Baidu on Monday said it signed an agreement to ...
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Design Museum is collaborating with the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to deliver a major new exhibition about the sweeping changes in manufacturing that are transforming our world. New manufacturing ...
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Computerworld - Samsung's three latest Wi-Fi-ready tablets in the Galaxy Tab 3 portfolio have started popping up at national retailers, continuing Samsung's commitment to offering a diverse product line in the fast-growing tablet market. ...
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Over 31 percent of mobile developers today are supporting Near Field Communications (NFC) in their mobile apps, but an additional 45 percent plan to support this technology in the next 12 months, according to Evans Data Corp's newly ...
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IDG News Service - In yet another mobile acquisition, Yahoo has acquired Qwiki, a New York City company that makes an app for turning photos and videos into short, edited movies. The Qwiki app takes pictures and videos that people already ...
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If Pinterest is looking over its shoulder, it's probably keeping an eye on We Heart It, an image-based social networking site that has quietly amassed a user base of 20 million. We Heart It is a social site focused on photos, much like ...
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Upcoming integration points between Yammer and Microsoft products will include email interoperability, document collaboration and enterprise search, as Microsoft pursues its plan to make Yammer a common enterprise social collaboration layer ...
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Each time any one of the billion Facebook users visits the social networking site,the company's servers must assemble data--user posts,likes,shares,images--from hundreds or even thousands of different servers around the globe.The page must ...
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The working world is undergoing"disaggregation"from physical location,time and information availability constraints,says Jim Henrys,an enterprise strategist at semiconductor giant Intel,in a process that is driving a revolutionary change in ...
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Oracle's recent upgrade to its online forums has divided the portal's many users, with some saying the update brings welcome changes but others claiming it is bug-riddled and inferior to its predecessor. After the revamped Oracle ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has discussed potential partnerships with Samsung Electronics in its bid to boost mobile advertising sales, according to the head of Samsung's handset division, Shin Jong Kyun. Zuckerberg launched Facebook in ...
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THE rarely heard underwater sounds of the Great Barrier Reef are now being captured by a cutting-edge acoustic recorder. The JASCO Applied Sciences Autonomous Multichannel Acoustic Recorder Generation 3 (AMAR G3), which is moored at a ...
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