LeaseWeb, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn't warned. "This is the largest data massacre in the history of ...
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Viacom Inc. and Twitter today announced a partnership to deliver social video advertising campaigns around the most popular shows and biggest events throughout Viacom's network portfolio, which includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Nickelodeon, COMEDY ...
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Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, ...
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Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos. Though analysts say Facebook offered no pre-briefings about the announcement, those interviewed for this ...
Could Samsung's "next big thing" come from the heart of the Big Apple or Silicon Valley? The smartphone and consumer electronics maker is close to launching an incubator space for startups that are developing software and services for ...
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As part of Apple's iOS 7 preview, Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue showed off some new Siri features coming to iOS. As part of the?iOS 7 overhaul, Siri has a brand-new interface, voice monitoring, and a ...
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When?OS X Mavericks?arrives later this year, a new version of Safari will come along for the ride. Apple's latest Web browser boasts smoother scrolling, a new Top Sites implementation, and several under-the-hood improvements.? These ...
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Consumer Reports is hosting an event today for academia, government, industry, and media to explore the state of fuel economy today and look to the future. And you're invited to join the event via live streaming video, or catch the replay ...
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Net Nanny today announced the availability of Net Nanny with support forMicrosoft Windows 8, providing safe web browsing in real time and related parental controls for all Microsoft Windows users. Available immediately, the new release ...
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Heeding Pope Francis' call to a more action-oriented evangelization through technology, the new We Parent More app will be officially unveiled at the Catholic Press Association's annual gathering, this year in Denver. The app combines ...
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The US spot ethylene market was at a standstill Thursday on news of an explosion and fire at Williams' olefins complex in Louisiana that killed one person earlier in the day, market sources said. Sellers pulled all material Thursday ...
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Just Born Inc., makers of MIKE AND IKE, PEEPS, HOT TAMALES and GOLDENBERG'S PEANUT CHEWS candies, confirms rumors that the legendary candy duo, Mike and Ike, have re-united. The candy duo cited irreconcilable creative differences a year ...
Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon this month. "Tweet" is listed as both a noun and a verb that's used in social networking. The addition of stands ...
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Apple today unveiled its upcoming iOS 7 mobile operating system, which includes a more-elegant-looking interface and a unique poison-pill approach to thwarting device theft. In the fine tradition of platforms pilfering features from one ...
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Last week's attack on the Virgin Radio Dubai website could have provided cyber-criminals with a springboard from which to launch targeted attacks, according to a researcher from Kaspersky Lab. The popular music station's website was taken ...
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