Remote working has been changing from a nice idea to part of the day job for many companies, especially in 2012. Be it the inspiration (or scaremongering) of the Olympic traffic situation or the influx of new devices hitting the shelves, ...
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An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S.banks,security firm RSA warned. In an advisory Thursday,RSA said it has ...
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A recent independent study of LTE coverage within four U.S.cities showed Sprint's networks lagging far behind those of both Verizon Wireless and AT&T. In comprehensive testing in Dallas,Fort Worth,Kansas City and Atlanta in mid-August and ...
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IDG News Service - HTC has upgraded its flagship smartphone, the One X, with a faster quad-core processor, twice the integrated storage capacity, a bigger battery and LTE in the U.S. The HTC One X+ smartphone. The new model is ...
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HARRISONBURG,Va.--Long lines formed for days outside of Apple stores in major cities to buy the iPhone 5 today,but smaller crowds also gathered in college towns like Harrisonburg,Va.,where the longest wait was overnight in front of the AT&T ...
Apple's iPhone 5 goes on sale Friday,and many buyers are hoping to take advantage of its faster LTE network speeds. AT&T said Wednesday it added LTE to five large markets this week,listing Seattle,Pittsburgh,metro ...
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Mobile malware has surged this year,with Android smartphones and tablets by far the most likely to be attacked.That's according to data released by security software provider McAfee in its second quarter threats report. The number of ...
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The Paralympic Games was the largest live broadcast undertaking for Channel 4, but also gave the IT team an equally complex project that presented a range of new challenges and had to be executed under very tight deadlines. To broadcast ...
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Computerworld - As promised, Microsoft today released the final version of Windows 8 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. But it also posted a 90-day evaluation copy of Windows 8 RTM (release to manufacturing) that anyone can download. At ...
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Microsoft has decided to stop publishing new apps for Windows Phone on Marketplace,while it addresses an issue that led to users experiencing problems with application downloads this week,the company said in blog post on Tuesday. The ...
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SAP has agreed to pay fierce rival Oracle a minimum of$306m(GBP196.6m)in partial damages over copyright infringement,but the total settlement could be as much as$426m(GBP273.8m). The amount includes the$120m(GBP77m)that Oracle said it had ...
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SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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Sustainability consultancy ERM has used a combination of 1E's Nomad Enterprise software and Microsoft's ConfigMgr platform to distribute Windows 7 in a matter of hours. The company is rolling out Windows 7 and has been using the 1E ...
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[Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If theres something youd like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.] Among the many questions weve received ...
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Barclays has launched a mobile banking app with similar functionality to its full online banking platform. It follows the mass adoption of its Pingit app, which allows users to make and receive payments with just a mobile number. The ...
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