Facebook is tweaking its development platform to allow third-party applications to communicate directly with their users by sending notifications to their profiles, according to Facebook official Bo Zhang. A new Notifications API ...
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Anticipating greater usage of Ubuntu within the enterprise, Canonical has released a significant update to its Landscape Ubuntu system management tool. “We have really been cranking up the level of effort with Landscape over the ...
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Enterprise software rivals Red Hat and Oracle, along with a number of other software and online services providers, have collaborated on a standard that they hope will ease the use of PaaS (platform as a service) among customers, an Oracle ...
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Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cyber criminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from security consultancy ...
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From Google Maps,the U.S.National Security Agency's parking lot has a larger footprint than the building itself.And for the high secrecy surrounding what goes on inside,there is plenty of information flowing just outside. In a ...
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Google has announced four new features for its mapping services, including 3D cityscapes in Google Earth mobile apps. The announcements are widely seen as a pre-emptive strike against Apple, which is expected to announce next week that ...
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Actionable transaction analytics now more accessible for IT Operations and OEM integration partners VANCOUVER,BC,November 16,2012/24-7PressRelease/--INETCO Systems Ltd.,a leading provider of application performance monitoring ...
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Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
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Cross-platform development frameworks such as Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch and Xamarin.Mobile are all compatible with Windows Phone 8, making it easier to create apps for the new OS while at the same time developing apps for other ...
Tags: Windows Phone, apps, Cross-Platform Development Tools, Microsoft
The Philips Lighting Hue SSL retrofit lamp can provide 16-million colors and tunable white light with ZigBee-based control via smartphones and tablets. Philips Lighting has introduced a new solid-state lighting (SSL) retrofit lamp called ...
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IDG News Service-Yammer said it has simplified and expanded the ways in which its enterprise social networking(ESN)software can be integrated with third-party business applications. Components from Yammer's ESN software that can be more ...
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Mozilla last week released the first public preview of a Firefox browser that runs in Windows 8's touch-first"Modern"or"Metro"user interface(UI). The Firefox app for Modern--the UI dubbed"Metro"until Microsoft ditched the term over ...
Any organisations that have not yet replaced outdated security certificates will have to act quickly to meet the Microsoft deadline. From 9 October, Microsoft systems will require all public key infrastructure (PKI) digital certificates ...
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IDG News Service-Box announced on Tuesday a set of new and improved enterprise security and IT management features for its cloud-based file sharing and storage service. The enhancements focus on areas including data loss ...
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IDG News Service-Alfresco on Tuesday unveiled an application programming interface that will allow developers to integrate applications with the company's cloud-based content management service. There are a growing number of options for ...
Tags: application programming interface, Cloud Service, Mobile, Alfresco API