Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) said today that they have found a way to use high-frequency sound waves to improve magnetic data storage techniques. The breakthrough could allow greater amounts of data to be stored on both ...
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LinkedIn has shut off its API access to "Bang With Professionals," a Web service that was intended to facilitate more, say, intimate connections among users of the business-oriented social networking site. The service was designed to ...
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Microsoft will support its Surface Pro tablet until July 2017, or almost four-and-a-half years after its launch last weekend, the company's website confirmed. Like its predecessor the Surface RT, the Windows 8-powered Surface Pro sports a ...
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Nokia and LG Electronics have both launched new phones that can handle two SIM cards, as they aim to attract more buyers in developing countries. Offering dual-SIM products has become increasingly important in the last couple of years . ...
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UK - Lighting designer Peter Mumford has used ETC's latest generation of LED fixtures - the Source Four LED Lustr+ profile - to light Old Times at The Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly the Comedy Theatre) in London's West End. Locked away ...
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Six years after its long-delayed but well-publicized release, Windows Vista now accounts for less than 6% of all Windows machines, a metrics company said earlier this month. According to Net Applications, Vista's usage share of all ...
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When there's a blizzard approaching, people flock to grocery stores for bread and milk, test their generators...and nowadays take to Twitter and Facebook. Social networks have lit up with activity as a blizzard of of potentially historic ...
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Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing techniques, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan ...
Applications for domestic drone licenses are increasing steadily, even as privacy concerns related to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the U.S. continue to mount. Government documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier ...
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The VCE partnership involving EMC, its subsidiary VMware and Cisco will not change, even after Cisco last month expanded its partnership with EMC rival NetApp to sell preconfigured cloud architectures. "I feel the partnership is ...
Where would the world be without awnings? Folks would get soaked trying to get into their homes in a rain storm. Front rooms would get hot due to the unforgiving sun pouring right in. Some building facades would look ...
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The mathematician who found the largest known prime number said the discovery last month was like climbing Mount Everest or landing on the moon. Curtis Cooper, a mathematician and professor at the University of Central Missouri, stands ...
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For the first time, a major botnet take-down has included direct victim notification that warns users their PCs are infected and shows them how to scrub clean their machines. Yesterday's take-down of the Bamital botnet by Microsoft and ...
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Computerworld - Amid a flurry of news surrounding the Watson supercomputer, IBM this week released major upgrades to three enterprise storage products, including a self-service software portal for end users. The Log in screen for the ...
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Game-like computer programmes dumb down the usefulness of interactive IT-based education, according to veteran television presenter Johnny Ball. Speaking to Computing at last week's BETT show in London, Ball said the use of gaming ...
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