VTech announces the InnoTab 2 Baby and InnoTab 2S Wi-Fi Learning App Tablet. Currently on display at the 2013 American International Toy Fair, VTech's InnoTab range offers children a tablet that opens up a world of educational content ...
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Five years and 40 million users later, MoMinis is making some big changes. The company is completely rebranding with a new name and logo, and releasing a suite of 100 original games. Beginning today, MoMinis will be referred to as ...
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Excel Software announced Safe Activation was integrated with over a dozen online shopping cart and payment services. Safe Activation is an online activation server that automates the activation and licensing process for protected software, ...
A recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and is probably part of an important cyberespionage operation, the head of the malware analysis team at ...
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Dropbox today announced a new synchronization API for iOS and Android-powered devices that it said will offer developers a new code library to help them better focus on creating mobile apps. The new API is available today on Dropbox's ...
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The head of the malware analysis team at antivirus vendor Kaspersky said last week that a recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and probably part of ...
A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware over the Web, security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro reported Wednesday. ...
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Software vendors Microsoft and Symantec have "taken down" the Bamital botnet following a joint investigation lasting more than three years. The operation involved shutting down servers that were being used to control hundreds of thousands ...
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The second draft of the controversial Communications Data Bill, which aims to allow unparalleled interception of data about UK citizens' online communications and voice calls, is to be released next month. Government publishes draft ...
Monday saw the release of a program to jailbreak Apple devices running iOS 6, sparking over 100,000 downloads in the first 10 minutes of availability. The jailbreak modifies Apple’s mobile firmware, letting users load applications ...
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Global internet retail sales topped $US1 trillion ($962bn) for the first time in 2012 with the United States holding the top spot but China rising fast, a market research firm has said. The report by eMarketer said ecommerce consumer ...
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Today is the last day customers can purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for the discounted price of $39.99. Starting tomorrow, Feb. 1, Microsoft will quintuple the price of the upgrade to $199.99. An upgrade to Windows 8, a less-capable ...
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On Jan. 13, local developer Wang Jun found that downloads for his app had suddenly skyrocketed, totaling 58,000 in a single day. "Usually, it only gets between 1,000 and 2,000 daily downloads", he said on Thursday. But the spike in ...
Tags: Beijing, pollution, China Air Pollution Index, apps
Microsoft this week launched the first two of its new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for Office. The company's rarely-shy CEO Steve Ballmer called the sales approach "an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience," and ...
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As expected, Microsoft today updated Office for Mac 2011 to work with the new Office 365 Home Premium software-by-subscription plan the company debuted Tuesday. The update, dubbed both 14.3 and Service Pack 3 (SP3), includes several fixes ...
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