A NEW way for US families to stay close to independent elders that blends modern technology with old fashioned parcel post debuted on crowd-funding website Kickstarter. The system - the brainchild of a startup called Lively - uses ...
Access to several of Google's most popular web services, including Gmail, Drive and the main administrative console, was disrupted for around two hours Wednesday afternoon. The first to go down, according to Google's?Apps Status ...
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The CEO of archiving service Evernote this week said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices. "We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design together," ...
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The crisis at mobile phone maker Nokia is intensifying as sales of its once-bedrock feature phones fell by more than 21 per cent in the first quarter, according to the company's latest financial report. Feature phones have kept the ...
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Online payment service provider WorldPay has reduced the time it takes to perform analysis and management of firewalls from minutes to just 20 seconds, thanks to the tools provided by operational intelligence firm Splunk. That's what ...
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The White House wants more protection for the privacy of citizens in the latest redraft of the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). CISPA, which has been pushed forward by the House Permanent Select ...
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A number of local government administering authorities have created a framework for the provision of pension software solutions and issued a tender worth between £3m and £30m. The Official Journal of the European Union tender ...
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Nine out of 10 companies in the European Union are planning to expand their data centre operations in 2013 or 2014, despite the supposed shift to cloud computing. Some 88 per cent of respondents to a survey by data centre provider Digital ...
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The U.S. Congress should limit the ability of patent holders that don't make products to file infringement complaints at the U.S. International Trade Commission because of a huge increase in cases there, representatives of some companies ...
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Chat Heads, the buzzy messaging feature released as part of Facebook's Home software for Android-based smartphones, is now coming to the iPhone and iPad. The app, which is designed to let users chat with their friends even while they are ...
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American Airlines grounded all its flights across the U.S. on Tuesday after an unidentified computer problem hit its reservation system. "We are now in a system-wide ground delay until 4:00pm CT as we work to resolve this issue. We ...
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With federal and state investigators searching for clues about the person or organization behind the Boston Marathon bombing, social networks could hold a treasure trove of information. "I would imagine that the authorities are casting a ...
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The world's fastest supercomputer, Titan, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, is deploying a new storage system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to support its research into climate change impacts and alternative ...
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Following?similar initiatives?by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the log-on service for many of its online and desktop products.? "With this release, you can ...
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Microsoft has discovered an unusually stealthy Trojan capable of deleting the files it downloads in order to keep them away from forensics investigators and researchers. The Trojan downloader,?called Win32/Nemim.gen!A, is the latest ...
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