Google has announced that it will alert users if they are being targeted by suspected state-sponsored attacks. The US-based internet firm says it will bring up a banner highlighting the danger when users are logged into their Google ...
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20,000 PCs in the UK could be cut off from the web on Monday 9 July 2012, as a consequence of the DNS Changer virus. Infected machines will no longer be able to access websites, e-mail, chat or social networking sites such as Facebook, ...
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Mozilla Tuesday released Firefox 17, which debuts technology that lets developers integrate social networks -- for now, Facebook -- with the browser. The company also patched 29 security vulnerabilities, two-thirds of them marked ...
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The Internet Society today sends the message around the world that it is time to embrace IPv6. A number of high-profile technology companies will turn on the protocol and make the permanent transition from IPv4. "Major internet ...
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Google has submitted a revised set of proposals to address the concerns of Europe's competition authorities. The move comes after competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia asked Google to clarify some elements of the proposals submitted at ...
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Google has confirmed the purchase of productivity firm QuickOffice and instant messaging business Meebo. QuickOffice has become a well-known name in the mobile space, offering a word processor, spreadsheet and other productivity tools for ...
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More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls - and thousands of years after they were written - Israel has put 5000 images of the ancient biblical artifacts online in a partnership with Google. The digital library ...
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IT experts from the Royal Signals were rewarded for their support and commitment to the service yesterday, during an event for "unsung heroes" at Mansion House. The soldiers were recognised for designing IT infrastructure for the field to ...
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Microsoft has announced plans to acquire enterprise social networking firm Yammer for$1.2bn in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office division,led by division president Kurt DelBene,and the team will continue to report to current ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission said it had updated rules requiring online services to obtain consent from parents if they are aimed at children under 13 or know that they are collecting personal information from young children. But FTC ...
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US photography giant Eastman Kodak has agreed sell its digital imaging patents for $US525 million ($501m) to help it emerge from bankruptcy protection. Kodak said 12 intellectual property licensees, led by Intellectual Ventures and RPX ...
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Samsung is set to become the biggest cell phone maker in the world this year eclipsing Nokia, which has held the title for 14 straight years. Samsung will end the year with a 29 percent share of global shipments, up from 24 percent in ...
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The company told Instagram fans it has no intention of selling photos after its new terms and conditions sparked outrage among users yesterday. The photo-sharing service saw many of its users threaten to delete their accounts after it ...
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Microsoft yesterday pitched its Outlook.com email service to users of Gmail dismayed by Google's decision to abandon a popular enterprise synchronization service next month for new customers. Last week, Google announced it would phase out ...
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Google on Monday said that iOS users had downloaded more than 10 million copies of its revamped Maps app in the first two days of availability. Google launched Maps late last Wednesday, returning the app to the iPhone after a three-month ...