In the wake of a multi-faceted hack of a technology reporter that ended with his smartphone, tablet and notebook wiped of all data, Google's spam chief yesterday urged users to set two-factor authentication on their log-ins. "I ... advise ...
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Projectbook is a new note-taking and task management application for the iPad from Theory.io. (See Macworlds recent story on Projectbook for a thorough description of the app.) Ive been using the iPad offering since its recent release and, ...
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Recently selected as the top 10 start-ups at Asian technology summit, Echelon '12, Dropmyemail is an award-winning cloud email backup and migration solution. After a few whirlwind months since the launch of Dropmyemail at DEMO Asia '12, the ...
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China has blocking access to Google in what’s likely a move to squelch any controversial content on the nation’s Internet as its government prepares to change leadership. The blocking was reported by GreatFire.org, which ...
Gmail ran into technical difficulties again on Friday, the fourth such issue in a little over a week, and all happening after Google announced the elimination of its free Google Apps edition. The latest problem cropped up early Friday ...
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Attachments.me, which lets Gmail users send attachments to and access files on several cloud storage services, now also works with Microsoft’s SkyDrive. To add support for SkyDrive, Attachments.me is taking advantage of some recent ...
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The 'CRIME' attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure) traffic, one of the attack's creators ...
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Google has launched a dedicated search app for Windows 8 ahead of Friday’s official release of the OS. Google Search for Windows 8 is now available free in the Windows Store and will be an alternative to Bing, which is the default ...
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A U.S. judge has indicated she will accept the terms of a settlement deal between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in which Google will pay a $22.5 million fine for circumventing privacy protections in Apple's Safari browser. ...
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Google has begun testing a search feature that mines relevant emails from users' Gmail accounts and displays links to them in the results page. To use the feature, users would need to be logged in to their Google account and the Gmail ...
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Access to Google services in China appeared to return after they were blocked briefly as the country prepares to appoint new leadership. The blocking appeared to last for about 12 hours, with Internet traffic resuming to the sites after 6 ...
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AOL offered a limited preview Thursday of a new cloud-based email service that sorts content automatically to help combat "inbox fatigue" and doesn't force users to get a new address. Getting users to change email provider is no mean ...
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The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google’s search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported that ...
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A new approach to mobile Internet protocols could improve the usability and reliability of mobile applications. At the annual Usenix tech conference last month in Boston, two MIT researchers formally unveiled a new protocol, and a remote ...
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Google will drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for its online apps and services in mid-November, effectively ending support for many users of Windows XP. "Internet Explorer 10 launches on 10/26/2012, and as a result, ...
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