Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate in developing high-performance supercomputer technology. Scientists from the five countries urged their governments to put aside their ...
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Cybercriminals no longer control one of the world's largest spam botnets, Grum, because all of the servers the botnet relied on for receiving commands were shut down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. The last Grum ...
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Intel today introduced two new network-attached storage (NAS) controllers for home and small business users. The NAS platforms can support from two to six drives and can be used to share content in a home or be accessed remotely by mobile ...
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Just having logged its one billionth user, Facebook now is looking forward to its biggest money-making strategy: mobile. However, that won't be an easy task for the social networking company. While figuring out how to make money off of ...
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A buggy update released Friday by security vendor McAfee for its consumer and enterprise antivirus products, left the computers of its customers unprotected and, in some cases, unable to access the Internet. The incident affected both ...
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AN investor group has offered $US2.3 billion ($2.18bn) in a takeover bid for business software firm Compuware, saying it has quality assets but has underperformed. Elliott Management Corp, which holds an eight per cent stake in Compuware, ...
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X2 Computing, the leading provider of mobile computing solutions, has achieved Gold Partner accreditation from Intel WARWICKSHIRE, UK, August 26, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- X2 Computing has achieved Gold Partner status with Intel, a world ...
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IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on wafers ...
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Psion announced that global athletic and lifestyle leader New Balance has selected the Psion Omnii XT15 as the mobile handheld for its distributon centers. New Balance has purchased hundreds of Psion Omnii XT15’s to streamline order ...
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The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images, Windows Mobile devices and removable USB drives, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. Crisis ...
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A U.S. judge has imposed a judgment of $163.2 million against a defendant accused by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission of being part of an operation that sold software to people it tricked into thinking their computers were infected with ...
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PRIVATE WiFi, an innovative company in the security software market, now offers site seals so that websites can let their users know that they are concerned with data privacy and online security. PRIVATE WiFi's site seals add a badge of ...
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IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using existing fabrication techniques, which could set the stage for radically faster and lower-cost computer communications. Silicon ...
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University researchers are studying the brains of honey bees in an attempt to build an autonomous flying robot. By creating models of the systems in a bee's brain that control vision and sense of smell, scientists are hoping to build a ...
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The New York Court of Appeals carved out a rather large exception when it ruled that a man could not be accused of certain child pornography charges because he did not "possess" the images - he'd viewed them online. And in early 2011, the ...
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