After dumping Facebook a little less than a year ago, General Motors is back, running an advertising test on the social network. GM, one of the country's largest advertisers, said in an email to Computerworld today that it is testing paid ...
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When some of Iraq's most historic sites were destroyed by war, Ben Kacyra decided to sell his civil engineering company and start a nonprofit in 2003 with the mission of digitally preserving cultural heritage sites throughout the world with ...
Viking Technology is shipping a memory board that combines DRAM and NAND flash memory to create a non-volatile standard DIMM card that can be used in servers and storage arrays. Viking's ArxCis-NV DIMM board has several purposes. With ...
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The federal government begins accepting new H-1B visa petitions today, with demand expected to be heavy. And the initial rush is going to be followed by much fury. Industry proponents of the H-1B visa will argue -- at megaphone strength ...
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Microsoft earlier this week quietly issued its first security update for one of its Windows 8 apps, patching a link-spoofing vulnerability in Mail. Two weeks ago, Microsoft spelled out plans for updating its own "Modern" apps, the flat UI ...
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Computerworld - AT&T and Sprint Tuesday separately announced plans to start selling 32GB HTC One smartphones on April 19 for $199.99 with a two-year contract. AT&T said it will be only U.S. carrier to launch a 64 GB version of the HTC ...
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Windows 8 last month fell even further behind the historical adoption pace of Windows Vista, Microsoft's 2007 flop, new statistics showed today. The bright spot for Windows 8 in the data from Web analytics company Net Applications: Its ...
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Early models of Google's wearable computer, Glass, may be manufactured in the U.S., according to a report. The Glass eyewear, which is still in development, is expected to be built in Silicon Valley, the Financial Times reported, citing ...
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Samsung's Galaxy S4 requires an accessory case in order to charge wirelessly. Computerworld - When Samsung's new Galaxy S4 smartphone went on sale this month, lost among the fourth-generation phone's new features was its ability to charge ...
Two weeks ago, Microsoft backpedaled from a sweeping change on how it licensed retail copies of Office 2013, deciding that it would, after all, let customers move the software from one machine to another. That reversal mooted the original ...
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T-Mobile USA hopes to rock the wireless industry today with detailed plans to sell the iPhone and other phones on an unsubsidized basis with no-contract, unlimited data plans The iPhone doesn't yet appear on T-Mobile's Web site, but a new ...
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Mobile-based browsing has tripled in the last two years, and is making significant inroads on traditional Internet access from personal computers, according to statistics from a Web metrics company. Mobile's gains are in part a side ...
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IBM's decision to base its cloud services on OpenStack may prove to be a key to establishing the fledgling open-source platform as the enterprise standard. The announcement earlier this month follows similar moves by rival enterprise IT ...
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Microsoft today announced it would start pushing updated versions of several long-criticized Windows 8 apps, including Mail, Calendar and People, the "Modern"-style program for keeping track of contacts, to the Windows Store tomorrow. ...
Feedly, a free Web-based RSS service that also offers iOS and Android apps, has added half a million new users since Google announced it would pull the plug on its Reader RSS feed this summer. "More than 500,000 Google Reader users have ...
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