Mobile app developers should provide real-time disclosures to users on the personal information they collect and get permission to collect sensitive information, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has recommended. Mobile app developers ...
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Nokia last week began rolling out a Windows Phone 7.8 updated for its Lumia smartphones. The mobile phone manufacturer is gradually releasing Windows Phone 7.8 for the Lumia 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900 over the course of February. Users ...
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Microsoft has released five free apps for the new Office 365 Home Premium suite. The vendor said that the new apps make it easier to insert images and information from Bing into documents. Office 365 is the subscription version of Office ...
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and New York-based designer Alexander Wang announced today a collaboration to create the industry's first co-created print inspired by crowd-sourced sketches and images using the GALAXY Note II. The print will ...
The operator of the Path social networking app has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent. The ...
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Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra scalable and interoperable cloud hosting platform for Java, today announced the launch of its highly anticipated PHP hosting service. Jelastic's PHP Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) runs applications ...
For anyone who says that heavy metal is dead, all you have to do is load up Spotify, the world's biggest music streaming service, and you'll see that couldn't be further from the truth. With over 20 million users around the world, Spotify ...
Microsoft's low-end Surface Pro tablet, slated to start shipping Feb. 9, sports just 23GB of free storage space out of the box, Microsoft confirmed today. The 64GB Surface Pro, which will sell for $899, uses more than 60% of its flash ...
On Jan. 13, local developer Wang Jun found that downloads for his app had suddenly skyrocketed, totaling 58,000 in a single day. "Usually, it only gets between 1,000 and 2,000 daily downloads", he said on Thursday. But the spike in ...
Tags: Beijing, pollution, China Air Pollution Index, apps
All-in-one printers can print, fax, and scan. And now, many new all-in-ones can also connect to the printing source in more ways than just using USB cables. We've just updated our printer Ratings, and some of the new models exemplify this ...
The wait was worthwhile: The long-delayed BlackBerry Z10 smart phone is sleek in design and brims with intriguing features, including arguably the smartest phone keyboard ever. Paired with the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, with its ...
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Microsoft this week launched the first two of its new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for Office. The company's rarely-shy CEO Steve Ballmer called the sales approach "an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience," and ...
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The new BlackBerry Z10 places communication: messaging, mailing and social networking, at the centre of its operation. During our first hands-on encounter with the touch screen-enabled Z10, it was clear BlackBerry has a different view ...
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Barclays Pingit has been named in the App Store Best of 2012 list in the UK by Apple. The ground-breaking mobile payments app was selected from thousands in the Apple store for recognition in the awards' 'Disruptive Services' section, ...
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Microsoft's new pay-as-you-go Office 365 subscription plans differ from traditional buy-once software in one important aspect: When customers stop paying, the applications stop working. Although that makes sense -- Office isn't freeware ...