Ninety per cent of passwords are vulnerable to hacking because even supposedly secure passwords typically share common characteristics. Because people are required to generate so many passwords with particular characteristics - at least ...
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Tablet shipments soared by 142% in the first quarter of 2013 year-over-year as all Android tablets, including low-budget white box versions, dominated the market over Apple iOS tablets, IDC said. Apple outpaced IDC's original forecast for ...
Tags: Think Tablets, Computer Products
In an effort to help enterprises get a handle on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, Novell has released enterprise file sharing software that it claims is as easy to use as commercial cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Microsoft ...
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Global sales of tablet computers surged in the first quarter of 2013, led by Android-powered devices that outpaced gains by Apple's iPads, a research firm says. IDC said the worldwide tablet market saw sizzling growth of 142.4 per cent ...
Tags: Android, Global Tablet, Apple iPad Gains
With Google's voice assistant now available on iPhones and iPads, The Associated Press used an iPad Mini to throw five test questions at Google Now and Siri on Monday afternoon in New York. Here's what the two digital assistants had to say ...
Google will offer its personal assistant app Google Now to users of Apple devices, stepping up its challenge to its rival's Siri program. "Google Now is about giving you just the right information at just the right time," Google's Andrea ...
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Apple will challenge a November 2012 jury verdict that awarded $368 million in damages to Nevada patent-holding company VirnetX, a filing with U.S. regulators showed. In a Form 10-Q filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...
Apple's net profit dropped during the second quarter of 2013 as the company's iPhone shipment growth slowed down, based on year-over-year comparisons. Apple recorded a profit of US$9.5 billion for the second quarter ending on March 30, ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday defended the company's iconic Mac line, which saw a second consecutive decline in sales last quarter, and promised that Apple would continue to crank out personal computers. "I don't think this [personal ...
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Microsoft is expected to unveil a successor to Xbox 360 videogame consoles next month. Microsoft sent out invitations yesterday to the May 21 event at its main campus in Redmond, Washington at which its Xbox team will reveal a "new ...
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APPLE has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place in San Francisco in June. The cost is $US1600 per ticket. In an unusual move, Apple gave a one-day notice that tickets would go on sale for what is ...
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Home office vendors are having success at the High Point Market this week as they continue to design the category for various areas of the home, from the living room and den to the bedroom. The strategy is resulting in strong order ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Home Office
Apple announced its fiscal 2013 second quarter results yesterday, which saw a net profit of $9.5bn (£6.2bn), a fall from the $11.6bn (£7.5bn) net profit in the same quarter last year. But while profits have fallen for the ...
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Microsoft's Surface Pro will finally be available in the UK next month, with the announcement that the tablet will be shipped to 19 countries, mostly across Europe and Oceania before the end of May. It will also launch in Korea, Malaysia, ...
This year’s National Manufacturing Week (NMW 2013) comes complete with a mobile app to help visitors get more from the event. The app provides a detailed guide to NMW 2013, including ‘What’s on’ listing, event ...