Shipments of Windows laptops and desktops have hit new lows as tablet shipments continued to rise during the second quarter of this year, Canalys Research said in a study released on Tuesday. Combined shipments of tablets and PCs totaled ...
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A sophisticated cyber surveillance tool that monitors financial transactions with Middle Eastern banks was probably built by or under the auspices of a government, security researchers said today. Early Thursday, Moscow-based Kaspersky ...
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Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert. Facebook has released source code for scheduling workloads on the Apache Hadoop data processing platform. Engineers at the ...
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Japan's Finance Ministry has uncovered evidence of a major Trojan cyber-attack on its computer systems that lay undetected for almost two years, according to local sources. Ministry officials have admitted that the unspecified Trojan, ...
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JUPITER, FL, July 13, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- DMG Productions announced today that they will be releasing a three-part series of their hit show Business Update, to focus on the world of information technology. "IT, or information ...
Dojo North Software has released version 2.2.6.20 of WindowSMART 2012, a hard disk and solid state disk health monitoring, reporting and alerting utility for Windows, which promptly notifies you if unhealthy conditions are detected. ...
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to end debate on a comprehensive cybersecurity bill, pushing action on the bill into September and potentially killing it. The Senate voted 52-46 to end debate and move toward a final vote on the revised ...
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MILLINGTON, TN, July 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Unistar-Sparco Computers, Inc., has just begun plans to expand their headquarters in Millington. The IT Solutions Provider broke ground on Friday, June 29th, to mark the beginning of ...
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Gary McKinnon will not face prosecution in the UK for his alleged hacking of US government computer systems. The hacker, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, was accused of hacking into military and Nasa computers in 2002, leading to the ...
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Facebook has begun warning users whose computers are infected with the DNSChanger malware, a variant of the Zlob family of Trojans. The malware is designed to tell the infected computer to use a rogue Domain Name System (DNS) server, ...
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China's role in the global silver market has dramatically changed over the past decade. Once a small player in the global market, China today is the world's leading market for both physical investment and paper trading of silver futures and ...
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The US judge in the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung has reprimanded the South Korean firm for releasing evidence that had been ruled inadmissible in court. Last week, Samsung lawyer John Quinn defended the move, saying the ...
Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science. Cambridge University is using chips normally found in computer game consoles to drive cutting-edge ...
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The world continues to move faster and decisions are often made at the spur of the moment, but Lightning Labels of Denver, CO, identifies recent research that shows the significant impact of packaging decisions on consumer choices. ...
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ARM and Imagination Technologies have united to acquire semiconductor designer MIPS Technologies, with ARM paying the lion's share of the purchase price to snap up MIPS' patent portfolio, while Imagination will acquire MIPS' operational ...
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