A new piece of custom malware sold on the underground Internet market is being used to siphon payment card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee. Dubbed vSkimmer, the ...
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Feedly, a free Web-based RSS service that also offers iOS and Android apps, has added half a million new users since Google announced it would pull the plug on its Reader RSS feed this summer. "More than 500,000 Google Reader users have ...
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Microsoft today said it would cooperate with federal regulators who are reportedly investigating claims that some of its business partners bribed officials in China, Romania and Italy to close deals. "We take all allegations brought to ...
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Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform. To simplify the roll out of big data applications, ...
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Social pinboard site interest began rolling out a redesign to its users today. Users should watch their email for an invitation from Pinterest to check out the changes, according to the company. The social pinboard site, which opened its ...
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Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is taking allegations that business partners engaged in bribery to gain government contracts in three countries outside the U.S. very seriously. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the U.S. ...
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Bing is incorporating more information from outside social networks such as Facebook and Twitter into how it displays search results involving people. The changes are designed to give users at-a-glance answers to their search queries ...
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Google is expanding its Google Fiber project, reaching out to offer the service in Olathe, Kansas, the fifth largest city in the state. "Olathe has become one of the fastest-growing cities in Kansas and has attracted an influx of new ...
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Apple's iPhone dominance in the U.S. is largely due to carriers suppressing market economics, an analyst said today. U.S. carriers artificially dampen demand for lower-cost smartphones by disconnecting calling and data plan prices from ...
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Microsoft today said it would cooperate with federal regulators who are reportedly investigating claims that some of its business partners bribed officials in China, Romania and Italy to close deals. "We take all allegations brought to ...
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The latest version of the Skype for Windows Phone 8 Preview has support for HD video calls on some phones and reinstated integration with the People hub. In the version 2.4 release, Microsoft focused on increasing quality and reliability ...
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Microsoft has issued a detailed mea culpa about the lengthy and ill-timed outage that affected its webmail services on Tuesday and Wednesday, an incident that undermines the company's push for its new Outlook.com as a better alternative to ...
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Americans took to the Internet Thursday as tens of thousands signed petitions on sites pleading for Google Reader's life. One of several on the Change.org online petition website had collected more than 63,000 signatures by 1:30 p.m. ET, ...
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Hoping to lure more Apache Hadoop users to its own data analysis services, Google has outfitted BigQuery with the ability to query multiple data tables. "Joining terabyte-sized tables has traditionally been a challenging task for data ...
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Google is shutting down its Google Reader and seven other products and services, taking the total number of features or services shut since its "spring cleaning" began in 2011 to 70. The company said it needed to focus to take advantage ...
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