Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is putting yet more effort behind Mozilla's Firefox OS, and plans to hire up to 3,000 people in Taiwan with expertise in HTML5 and cloud computing. On Thursday, Foxconn said it was looking ...
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Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or ...
Microsoft has posted bounties of up to $US100,000 ($106,000) for "truly novel" ways to hack the latest version of its Windows software for powering computers. "For the first time ever, Microsoft is offering direct cash payouts in exchange ...
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Windows 8 is a ‘disappointing' operating system and Microsoft has six months to convince doubters otherwise, or risk being frozen out of the enterprise IT environment. That is the view of Jean-Christophe Lalanne, CIO of Air France ...
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Aio Wireless announced today the launch of 4G LTE service covering more than 200 million people, further enriching the wireless experience it provides to wireless users who don't want to commit to an annual contract. Aio has made the ...
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Samsung today announced the 20-megapixel Samsung Galaxy NX, which is the first mirrorless (a.k.a. SLR-like) camera with 3G/4G connectivity, the same wireless networking system found on smart phones. It allows you the versatility of an ...
More than 30 computer scientists signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and make technology more expensive. The amicus brief was filed by the ...
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With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
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Fresh from yesterday's revelations about BlackBerry security holes discovered by GCHQ at 2009's G20 meetings, BlackBerry is fighting similar claims against its newest BlackBerry 10 platform. BlackBerry posted an advisory on its Knowledge ...
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The first customers in the world to get their hands on the upcoming BlackBerry Q5 will be those residing in the UAE, BlackBerry announced on Wednesday. The latest smartphone to sport the BlackBerry 10 operating system will be unveiled on ...
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Apple on Tuesday patched Java 6 for OS X Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, fixing 34 flaws that Oracle addressed the same day for Windows. The update reiterated Apple's intent to keep patching Snow Leopard, the five-year-old operating ...
Tags: Apple, Oracle, OS X Snow Leopard, Java 6
The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to ...
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“It’s now essential for businesses to tap into the vast potential of data if they want to compete,” says Kevin Dallas, general manager for Windows Embedded at Microsoft. “With Windows Embedded powering industry ...
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Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
The new OS X Mavericks will run on the same set of Mac desktops and notebooks able to handle the current OS X Mountain Lion, but iOS 7 dropped support for iPhone 3GS, the 2009 smartphone supported by the current iOS 6. OS X 10.9, aka ...
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