The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants health tech developers in Silicon Valley to make greater use of its data to help make advances in the field and aid entrepreneurs in the region. The effort is part of a larger ongoing ...
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Firefox for Windows 8's "Modern" user interface (UI) will likely wrap up development in November, Mozilla said on its website in a best case-worst case schedule. A new addition to a Mozilla wiki noted that the browser will be completed ...
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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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Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a ...
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Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already releasing teasers that talk about their performance. The Haswell laptop chip will deliver ...
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Salesforce.com's upcoming Summer '13 release of its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) software will feature a slew of enhancements to the Chatter social collaboration tool as well as many improvements that are the result of ...
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McAfee said it has found a vulnerability in Adobe Systems' Reader program that reveals when and where a PDF document is opened. The issue is not a serious problem and does not allow for remote code execution,?wrote?McAfee's?Haifei Li in a ...
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The German firm AV-TEST today stood by the results of its search engine investigation that claimed Microsoft's Bing shows five times the number of malware-hosting websites than Google in its results. On Friday, Microsoft called AV-TEST's ...
The largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, is in a continuing battle with miscreants trying to manipulate the price of the virtual currency. Early Monday, Mt. Gox wrote on its Facebook page that it was once again struggling with a very large ...
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Google's core product may always be search, but the company is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging technologies such as Google Now, self-driving cars and Glass, CEO Larry Page signaled on ...
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Microsoft won't back away from a radical overhaul of Windows and is determined to kill the decades-old, decades-rich desktop, analysts agreed today. The experts were reacting to a leak of a preliminary build of Windows "Blue," the code ...
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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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Third-party hardware and software developers can more easily design products that integrate with Philips' color-tunable Hue LED lamp using free tools. The Philips LED-based Hue lamp, launched late in 2012, has garnered an enthusiastic ...
Lync allows communicating through instant messaging, voice-over-Internet calling, and online meetings. AT&T has added Microsoft Lync to its unified communications portfolio which will allow its business customers to communicate through ...
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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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