Given Android and iOS together control 90% of the worldwide smartphone market, what chance does Mozilla have to find success with its new Firefox OS for smartphones? Will Firefox OS even matter, given the struggles Windows Phone, ...
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The Houses of Parliament want to move to Microsoft Office 365, and will mitigate the risk of the US Patriot Act by making contractual agreements to ensure sensitive data sits in Europe. At the Cloud World Forum in London Olympia today, ...
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As one of the hottest topics in global technology and with the first products starting to appear on the market, element14 is challenging engineers and developers to design and develop their own piece of wearable technology. The global ...
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BlackBerry continues to expand its support for Android and iOS with Secure Work Space, which separates work and personal apps and data, as the company tries to hold on to enterprise users by becoming more platform neutral. Remaining ...
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In spite of assertions by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and others that the age of privacy is over, new research commissioned by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch has revealed that over three quarters of consumers globally ...
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German publishers will disappear from Google News on Aug. 1 unless they opt in to the service as Google seeks to comply with a new German law. But the publishers said on Monday that this is not good enough, they want a share in Google's ...
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While important, Google's new policy of scanning apps for malware before making them available on the official Chrome Web Store falls short of providing maximum protection, one expert says. Google launched an automated process for malware ...
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It was only a matter of time before it happened and now it has – ransom malware has successfully made the jump from the PC world, where it torments millions of Windows users, to the mobile world, where it has similar designs on ...
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Companies who have been assessing Google's planned remedies to anti-competitive practices called on the European Commission on Tuesday to reject them and to consider regulating Internet search. Google has been under investigation by the ...
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Facebook is where many people go to get news about their friends'latest parties and vacations. Now,if reports are accurate,Facebook may soon be where smartphone and tablet users can get the latest news from around the world. Industry ...
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Google is revealing some new numbers around malware and phishing attempts in an effort to get more people thinking about online security and to make the Web safer. The data is being incorporated into the company's biannual transparency ...
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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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IDG News Service-Searching online for something like"diet plans,"or"Caribbean vacation,"or of course"iPhone,"is bound to present a slew of results,including ads.Now,the U.S.Federal Trade Commission wants search engines to display those ads ...
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THE highly anticipated crowd-funded Ouya Android videogame console yesterday hit the market in the US and almost instantly sold out. Ouya is a gaming console project on crowd-funding site Kickstarter that raised $US8.5 million and ...
LOOKING for a safe password? You can give HQbgbiZVu9AWcqoSZmChwgtMYTrM7HE3ObVWGepMeOsJf4iHMyNXMT1BrySA4d7 a try. Good luck memorising it. Sixty-three random alpha-numeric characters - in this case, generated by an online password ...
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