Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thinks there are problems with checking email on a smartphone, but her company is working on a solution. "Mail isn't done. There are a lot of things about it that can be improved," she said Tuesday during Goldman ...
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Facebook is being sued by the family of a deceased Dutch programmer who held two patents dealing with sharing and updating social media content long before the social networking site launched. The suit, filed Feb. 4 in the U.S. District ...
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Toshiba has started shipping the first NAND flash chips to support Universal Flash Storage, a new standard that is 50% faster than current technology. The company said Friday that it began shipping samples in January of a 64GB chip that ...
System administrators overseeing Microsoft Exchange deployments should take a close look at Microsoft's latest round of security patches. In addition to covering Windows and Internet Explorer, Microsoft's latest monthly batch of patches ...
The head of IBM's mainframe group is looking to bring mobile and social workloads into the platform in another move that would help the mainframe stay relevant and fend off competition from lower-cost systems. The mainframe has confounded ...
A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft. Judge James Robart of U.S. District Court for the Western District of ...
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Former Oracle partner CedarCrestone is alleging the vendor has engaged in an "unlawful and systematic attack" against the third-party support market and has a monopoly on support revenue. Oracle terminated CedarCrestone's partner license ...
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Computerworld - Amid a flurry of news surrounding the Watson supercomputer, IBM this week released major upgrades to three enterprise storage products, including a self-service software portal for end users. The Log in screen for the ...
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A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware over the Web, security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro reported Wednesday. ...
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Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will start shipping in October, although it isn't clear if they will be available in the U.S., according to a report. Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO of Canonical Ltd., told CIO ...
Microsoft today said it will issue 12 security updates next week, including two for Internet Explorer (IE), that will patch a near-record 57 vulnerabilities in the browser, Windows, Office and the enterprise-critical Exchange Server email ...
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Facebook has deleted all European facial recognition data, the Irish data protection commissioner and a German data protection regulator confirmed independently Thursday after reviewing parts of the social network's source code. "We ...
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Microsoft has launched a campaign in the U.S. that targets Google's alleged practice of going through the contents of all Gmail messages to sell and target advertisements, raising again an old issue the software giant has with the free ...
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Alcatel-Lucent reported a fourth-quarter loss of $1.81 billion and revenue declined by 1.3%, and that it has started hunting for a new CEO. Current CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down as soon as a replacement is found, and will not seek ...
An executive at Taiwanese firm Polytron Technologies is confident that consumers this year will see the arrival of partially transparent c"It will happen near the end of 2013, Sam Yu, general manager of Polytron said Wednesday, as he showed ...
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