The kindergarten rules for living well -- like "share everything" and "play fair" -- aren't much use in the regulated corporate world. Those rules can even get you in trouble. Now, there is an app for business complications of the worst ...
Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit tried touchless gesturing systems and other technologies developed by Norwegian startups at a tech incubator in Palo Alto on Wednesday afternoon . The royal couple stopped at ...
Firefox for Windows 8's "Modern" user interface (UI) will likely wrap up development in November, Mozilla said on its website in a best case-worst case schedule. A new addition to a Mozilla wiki noted that the browser will be completed ...
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Facebook reportedly is in talks to buy a popular Israeli-based crowd-sourced mapping and traffic app. The social network is moving to pay up to $1 billion to beef up its mobile effort, according to Israeli business site Calcalist (The ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expanding open-access requirements from earlier in his administration. A new open data policy, ...
Shares in US book retailer Barnes & Noble closed more than 24 per cent higher in New York yesterday following a report that Microsoft is to buy the digital assets of Nook Media, its ebook and tablet business, for $1bn (£650m). ...
As the need for mobile apps developers increases and interest in computer science courses wanes, professional educator-programmers are reaching out to a younger generation of potential coders: students as young as 10. In Utah this week, ...
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Change is in the air for Microsoft in response to?ho-hum sales of Windows 8, and it sounds like PC makers couldn't be happier. Citing various PC industry executives in Asia, the?Wall Street Journal reports?that Microsoft is being more ...
The door lock designer and manufacturer Kwikset has a new toy out on the market. Jumping on the band wagon of digital controls Kwikset has stepped it up by allowing homeowners to control their security and door locks via their i-phone. ...
Taiwan and Hong Kong may be only the beginning of Xiaomi's expansion outside China. The popular Chinese vendor of low-priced handsets is aiming at getting into five more markets next year. "This year, we will only do Hong Kong and ...
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Microsoft's head of Windows development on Tuesday came close to promising that the iconic Start button would return to the Windows 8 desktop, but never made a guarantee. In a 25-minute interview at the Wired Business Conference, Julie ...
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A lawsuit against Google's customer service practices in Germany is looming after the company declined to sign a document promising German consumer organizations to start answering customer emails individually. Last month, Google received ...
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NetSuite is beefing up its cloud-based ERP software's order-processing features by acquiring OrderMotion, a move that could strengthen its appeal to customers in retailing. Terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, were not disclosed. ...
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Today organizers announced GlassDevCamp, the first community-led event for the emerging Google Glass development community. The event will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area during summer 2013. GlassDevCamp is a not-for-profit developer ...
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Novice or experienced photographers using Windows to manage their photo collection can now free up precious computer hard drive space with JPEGmini for Windows, a newly released version of the highly acclaimed JPEGmini photo optimization ...
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