Google has added a new notification to its Cloud Storage service, allowing applications to automatically take action when new content is uploaded by users. Normally, applications would have to poll for changes, which can be a resource ...
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Microsoft's head of Windows development on Tuesday came close to promising that the iconic Start button would return to the Windows 8 desktop, but never made a guarantee. In a 25-minute interview at the Wired Business Conference, Julie ...
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As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch. "It's our hope that an open, disaggregated switch will enable a faster pace of innovation in ...
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Google Maps is reportedly getting an overhaul that may be shown off at the annual Google I/O conference next week. According to the Google Operating System blog, an independent site that tracks the Internet firm, the launching of a new ...
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Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier on Wednesday. The Syrian government earlier today blamed the?Internet blackout, which had gone into its second ...
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A year before Google's futuristic-looking, computerized eyeglasses are expected to hit the market, they have been banned -- again. A Caesars Palace casino spokesman today told Computerworld that people wearing the Google Glass technology ...
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Microsoft today announced it had sold 100 million copies of Windows 8, its first statement on sales milestones since January. In a blog post and interviews with several influential bloggers and media outlets such as the New York Times and ...
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Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.? At around 18:45 GMT Tuesday, "OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection, it seems Syria has ...
Microsoft plans to release a preview version of Windows 8′s update, code-named Windows Blue, at the end of June, according to Julie Larson-Green, a corporate vice president in charge of the OS's development. Larson-Green didn't say ...
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Skype's Web-based management tool Manager for businesses is now available in over 170 countries and for all subscriptions, allowing companies to centrally control their usage of the service. Using Skype Manager, administrators can create ...
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AutoIt, a scripting language for automating Windows interface interactions, is increasingly being used by malware developers thanks to its flexibility and low learning curve, according to security researchers from Trend Micro and ...
Google has started rolling out a new feature in Gmail that lets users create Google Calendar entries from their email messages. Gmail now detects dates and times in the text of email messages and highlights them. Users can click on the ...
Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a "zero-day," or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the company's most popular browser. According to multiple security firms, the vulnerability has been used in active ...
Many tech companies have called for Congress to ease restrictions on high-skill immigration because they can't find qualified tech workers to fill open positions. Yet, many veteran IT tech workers say they can't find jobs. More than a ...
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Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran IT workers question their motives for wanting to increase the number of visas under the ...
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