Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. “We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company’s most successful products,” said Tami Reller, Microsoft’s chief ...
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Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after its launch. The support lifecycle for the Surface with Windows RT tablet is less than half the ...
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Cisco CEO John Chambers received a $4 million cash bonus in fiscal 2012, but it wasn’t enough to offset a 41% decline in stock awards. His total compensation, valued at $11.7 million, is down 9% compared to 2011, when his pay package ...
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Dell has introduced new software solutions aimed at helping organisations simplify IT, mitigate risks, and accelerate business results, in response to customer needs. In line with the company’s customer-inspired, end-to-end ...
Negotiations on the future governance of international telecommunications will continue through the night at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai. The international conference is attempting to revise ...
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Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to block a recently disclosed method of harvesting phone numbers. “The ability to search for a person by phone number ...
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Cyber attackers who disrupted the websites of U.S. banks over the last two weeks used a highly sophisticated toolkit — a finding that points to a well-funded operation, a security vendor has said. Prolexic Technologies said the ...
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Microsoft has set the ambitious goal for Windows 8 of 400 million devices in customer hands by next July and more than 100,000 applications stocked in the Windows Store by the end of January, according to a top Microsoft sales exec. Keith ...
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Despite vowing that fighting cybercrime is high on its agenda, the European Commission increased its planned cyber security budget by just 14 percent through 2020, an amount one security expert referred to as “paltry.” For the ...
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A team of researchers from two German universities has released a study asserting that many of the most popular free apps available through the Google Play store may be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks — seriously threatening ...
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Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems from businesses in 40 countries in the past few months and stole the data of tens of ...
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While there is a lot of talk about mobile computing, there is a significant difference to the way people are using tablets, smartphones and PCs, according to StollzNow Research Director, Neil Stollznow. Compuware commissioned the research ...
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A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama. The malware, nicknamed “Dockster,” is a backdoor that allows an attacker to control the victim’s ...
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During the next eight years, the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes, which is the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man, woman and child on Earth, according to an updated Digital Universe study released today. ...
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Emerging chip technologies that Arm Holdings announced this week, could help to power mobile networks that are being asked to handle more traffic with more fine-tuned controls. The provider of the dominant architecture for mobile devices ...
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