China's plan to create a substantial outsourcing industry was hit with another blow last month with the release of a report that laid bare, in ways never seen before, the extent of the security risks of working in the country. Ten years ...
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The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is running again after engineers put it to sleep for a day this week to protect it from a powerful solar storm. On Tuesday, the sun unleashed what appeared to be a major blast of radiation and solar wind, ...
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Social network Google+ is launching some tweaks and updates to users' profile pages, as well as enabling local reviews. "We spend lots of time listening to your feedback, and today we're launching some profile and page updates that you've ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is out of safe mode and back on active status after computer trouble had sidelined the vehicle for nearly a week. The space agency reported that Curiosity is now running on its backup computer system, known as ...
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Part of what Microsoft hopes customers will understand about Windows Phone 8 smartphones is that they are linked to an ecosystem that includes Excel, PowerPoint and Word. That ecosystem concept should intrigue IT managers, even though ...
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Apple on Monday patched Java 6 for OS X, following Oracle's lead and quashing a browser plug-in vulnerability that hackers have been exploiting. Oracle issued the "out-of-band," or emergency, update for Java 6 and Java 7 to patch two ...
A computer problem onboard the Mars rover Curiosity has forced NASA scientists to put the rover into safe mode while they try to bring a backup system online and try to figure out what is wrong with the main computer. "We are doing ...
Computerworld's Premier 100 conference kicked off Monday with a keynote topic that was close to the hearts of many of the 500 IT professionals in attendance: an acronym called VUCA. VUCA first emerged in the 1990s, mainly in military ...
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Microsoft today backpedaled from a sweeping change in its licensing for retail copies of Office 2013, saying that customers now have the right to move the software from one machine to another. "We received customer feedback that they ...
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Windows 8's uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows 8's February usage share -- including what the firm labeled as "touch" for Windows 8 and ...
Windows 8′s uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows 8′s February usage share — including what the firm labelled as ...
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The emergence of the Firefox OS is just one more reason that Microsoft and BlackBerry will need to sharpen their marketing savvy to sell more smartphones in 2013. Microsoft officials at Mobile World Congress (MWC) here conceded that the ...
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ARM creates the intellectual property used in the designs of more than 95% of the smartphones in the world, but the company had only a small booth at the edge of Hall 6 at Mobile World Congress here this week. ARM, based in Cambridge, ...
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After creating a ruckus for calling all of its telecommuters back into the office, Yahoo is trying to quell some of the furor. Yahoo last week issued a memo informing employees that the company was ending work-at-home arrangements. As of ...
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Software engineers at Intel are exploring new ways people can use the human voice, gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers. Intel's Barry Solomon uses hand gestures in a demonstration of a perceptual computing toolkit ...
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