Computerworld - U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is chair of the Senate's Immigration, Refugees and Border Security subcommittee, is introducing his own STEM visa bill to challenge a similar Republican bill in the House. Schumer's ...
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A Ukraine-based startup, Devellar, has launched an online plagiarism tool that checks online content to see whether it has been duplicated. The beta version of PlagSpotter features an algorithm that "enables bloggers, journalists, ...
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A former Motorola employee, charged with the theft of trade secrets from the company, was sentenced by a federal court in Illinois on Wednesday to four years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Hanjuan Jin, 41, a ...
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IDG News Service-Google has staked$8.1 million in the market for digital signatures on electronic documents with a venture capital investment in DocuSign,the companies announced Tuesday. DocuSign's technology is used by companies for ...
Stardock today released a beta version of its "Start8" utility that restores a Start button to the desktop of Windows 8. The beta follows a series of preview versions that kicked off in March from Plymouth, Mich.-based Stardock, best ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft on Friday said it has fully restored its Xbox Live service after problems prevented an undetermined number of users from logging into the online gaming service. At 4:28 p.m. Eastern Time, Microsoft's Xbox ...
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IDG News Service - A U.S. Federal Communications Commission cap on rural telephone subsidies will cost jobs in rural areas and lead to higher prices for customers in those areas, a group of rural carriers said. The FCC's cap on payments ...
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IDG News Service - By offering users of Windows 7, XP and Vista discounts to upgrade to Windows 8, Microsoft is putting itself in a position to reap both benefits and criticism in the consumer operating system market. Giving PC owners an ...
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Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
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In a package aimed to mobilize small-business employees, Verizon Wireless has packaged a version of the Microsoft Office 365 online office suite to run on its own cellular services, pricing the service at US$6 per user per month. Verizon ...
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Microsoft has blocked a popular work-around that let users boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop, a co-author of an upcoming book on the operating system confirmed today. "Microsoft made some changes to Windows that prevent the .scf hack ...
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Google and the European Commission could hammer out a search antitrust settlement within months, with both sides now working on the details of an agreement, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said Wednesday. Almunia, during a ...
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IDG News Service - Cisco Systems has warned customers about critical vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus engine included in its Cisco IronPort email and Web security appliances. "Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliances (ESA) and ...
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IDG News Service - With an eye toward updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer ...
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Computerworld-U.S.officials today struck at six long-running scams,freezing assets of 14 companies charged with bilking consumers by posing as tech support from Microsoft,Symantec and others. In a press conference,the Federal Trade ...
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