Google has released what it calls a "fresh look" for Google Play, with a goal of making a purchase quick and easy. The company said that, over a period of several weeks, it will be rolling out a mobile user interface that features larger ...
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Google Fiber with gigabit speeds will be coming to homes in Austin, Texas, by mid-2014, Google announced today. And in what could become a fierce competition over connectivity, AT&T also announced today that it is prepared to build its ...
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The war on smartphones at concerts and other live events seems unending. In the latest salvo, the art-punk trio called the Yeah Yeah Yeahs tried to keep smartphone-using fans at bay at a recent New York City Webster Hall concert, ...
IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The new transistors would be made from strongly correlated materials, such as metal oxides, which researchers ...
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Microsoft today kicked off a new promotion aimed at Windows XP customers, who have just one year to ditch the 12-year-old OS before it's retired from support. Small- and medium-sized businesses still running Windows XP and Office 2003 -- ...
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The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Microsoft plans to retire Windows XP from all support, ...
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Two decades ago, Novell's network operating system software was almost ubiquitous in the enterprise. Now, its current president wants to restore Novell to a similar level of prominence. "The Novell Corporation was at one time one of the ...
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Virtual currency Bitcoin,which last month was trading on the order of roughly$30,is now valued at over$230. On Tokyo-based?Mt.Gox,the most popular place online for people to buy and sell Bitcoins with others around the world in their own ...
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Foreign secretary William Hague has announced the devotion of £500,000 a year to the opening and running of a global cyber research centre to be sited at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The Global Centre for ...
Tata Consultancy Services is to acquire French IT services company Alti in a bid to increase its presence in the European market. India's largest outsourcer said in a filing Tuesday to the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has signed ...
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Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals at a rate of 20Gbps. This is the first big speed boost for the interconnect, which has ...
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Oracle has revised two of its business intelligence products, giving users the ability to wrest intelligence from a wider range of data sources, including spreadsheets, social media sites and Hadoop deployments. "Organizations want to use ...
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Microsoft on Monday released a public beta of Office 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2), the first major update to the suite in almost two years. The preview of Office 2010 SP2 can be downloaded from Microsoft's Connect website, the company said. ...
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's federal budget, released Wednesday, calls for increases in federal research and development spending. The overall spending increase, though shows a decline when adjusted for inflation. The White House ...
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Dropbox, whose cloud storage and file-sharing application has been adopted by millions of consumers, will add single sign-on (SSO), its latest feature for businesses as it seeks to penetrate the workplace market. The company announced on ...
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