Microsoft yesterday took a swipe at long-time partner Adobe for the latter's wholesale shift to rent-not-buy software subscriptions, and along the way seemed to promise it would continue to offer Office as old-school perpetual licenses for ...
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Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a "zero-day," or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the company's most popular browser. According to multiple security firms, the vulnerability has been used in active ...
IDG News Service - Researchers at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an insect-like robot that achieves flight by flapping a pair of tiny wings. The robot is small enough to sit on the tip of a ...
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Microsoft's failure thus far to significantly spark PC and tablet sales with Windows 8 has put high expectations on an expected 2013 refresh of the OS, dubbed "Blue." But changes to the operating system's feature set, tweaks to its user ...
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Apple on Tuesday patched Java for the aged OS X Snow Leopard and tweaked Safari to give users more control over what websites they let run the vulnerability plagued Oracle software. Oracle on Tuesday shipped an update for Java 6 and Java ...
System administrators and IT security pros can take bit of a breather: Microsoft issued a comparatively light set of patches for this edition of its monthly release of software vulnerability fixes. "It's a boring Patch Tuesday this month, ...
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Hopkins Manufacturing Corp., an Emporia-based company that makes squeegees, bug removers and defoggers for cleaning auto glass, is teaming up with a company that makes automotive glass-care solutions. The Emporia Gazette reports Hopkins ...
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The more information that leaks about Windows 8's expected summer upgrade, dubbed "Blue" by Microsoft, the more questions that pop up, analysts said today. And with very few exceptions, customers don't have answers. The latest tidbit ...
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Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team. Along with the privacy change, Mozilla also revamped Firefox's download ...
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Vine's branching out. Videos made with the trendy Twitter-owned mobile app can now be posted anywhere on the Web. Previously, Vine posts could only be shared within users' networks on Vine itself as well as on Twitter and Facebook. But ...
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A Facebook tool that allowed users to view and delete their search history on the site disappeared, and some people were keen to get it back. The absence of the tool, which Facebook rolled out last September, was noticed by users last ...
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A flaw in the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers and affect the operation of other programs running on the same machines. The flaw stems from the way regular ...
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Google Drive, the cloud storage and applications suite used by millions at home and at work, has suffered three service interruptions this week, making it impossible at times for affected users to access their files and applications. As ...
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The new Sonax Xtreme windshield washer fluid is scheduled to become available for the coming spring and summer seasons. For now, the eye-catching 3-liter bottle will be distributed in Germany, Austria and in the Netherlands. This ...
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Microsoft today said it will start automatically pushing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to customers as a last-ditch move before it drops the original 2009 edition of Windows 7 from support next month. Windows 7 RTM -- the latter stands ...