Nokia and Oracle have joined forces on mapping,allowing enterprises to integrate Nokia's location technology with their Oracle applications. To differentiate its smartphones from the competition,Nokia is betting big on location as well as ...
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Samsung is facing calls to issue a security update for the Galaxy S3 smartphone after it was discovered that the device can be reset by code hidden in a web page. German security researchers have demonstrated how an 11-character code can ...
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Many signs suggest that Oracle is about to introduce a next-generation version of the Exadata database machine,the first and apparently most successful of its"engineered systems"that combine Oracle software with servers,networking and ...
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Recognizing that developers are working with an increasing number of browser technologies to build their Web applications,Google engineers,along with contributors from other companies,have posted a new test suite for browsers. ...
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Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-cycle patch for the latest zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects versions IE6 to IE9. The security update also addresses four other unrelated vulnerabilities,which were ...
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IDG News Service - IBM has combined a number of its online marketing software programs into a unified service, called the IBM Marketing Center. IBM has designed the service, an IBM Smarter Commerce offering, for organizations to outsource ...
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Here on the final day of our LED exploration, I get down to brass tacks: the economic and ecological arguments for switching from incandescent to LED. And beware: I use math and logic. LED Economics I get it. An incandescent bulb cost ...
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If you've ever curiously browsed for LED bulbs, you may have noticed a whole new nomenclature and jargon - none of it recognizable, none of it helping you figure out how bright the damn the bulb is. I'll explain how to decipher packaging ...
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Security researchers have spotted a new Java vulnerability in the wild for which there is no security patch as yet. The Java vulnerability, which is being used forC, allows attackers to use a custom web page to force systems to download ...
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Tesco.com,one of the biggest retail websites in the UK,is to be asked to explain the alleged poor security practices of its website to the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). The inquiry follows investigations by security ...
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Web usage by iPhone and iPad owners has grown by 35%in North American over the past year,while browsing with BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet has dropped by 25%. Those Web usage statistics,gathered by mobile ad network ...
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The Olympic Games on home soil will be the final instalment of the most operationally challenging period in the BBC's history, and the broadcaster's chief technology officer (CTO) John Linwood told Computer Weekly's CW500 Club about the ...
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SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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Oracle is going after users of Microsoft's SQL Server with a new tool for migrating data from SQL Server to its own MySQL database, the vendor announced Wednesday. The tool has been built into Oracle's MySQL Workbench administration ...
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When he joined Great Ormond Street Hospital as IT director three-and-a-half years ago,Mark Large was faced with immediate issues as the result of an ageing IT infrastructure. Staff were tied to their desks because there was not a viable ...
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