Open graphic design contest to registered Glassfiles.com users gathered dozens of potential entries and the design competition jury’s final decision was a result of intense discussions and closed votes. The result is an entry that ...
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VODAFONE Australia boss Bill Morrow will flick the on switch to the telco's 4G mobile network in June, boasting that the recovering telecoms company will have the fastest 4G services in Australia. Speaking at a strategy update in North ...
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Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have identified a spam message campaign on Skype that spreads a piece of malware with Bitcoin mining capabilities. Bitcoin (BTC) is a decentralised digital currency that has seen a surge in ...
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Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for ...
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Individuals' personal data needs to be monetised if web service business models are to be sustained, otherwise we risk coming against an industry-wide "brick wall", computer scientist and Microsoft Research "scholar at large" Jaron Lanier ...
After spending the past six months talking about prioritizing its business around mobile platforms, Facebook says it's time to get down to business. "Everybody is thinking about mobile, everybody is thinking about Android," said Mike ...
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Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser. In an update Monday for the Windows ...
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Direct Textbook, a college textbook buy-sell-rent search engine, today announced the launch of Flipsy.com, a free web service that helps consumers sell used iPhones, iPads, video game consoles and books for the highest possible prices. ...
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LinkedIn has shut off its API access to "Bang With Professionals," a Web service that was intended to facilitate more, say, intimate connections among users of the business-oriented social networking site. The service was designed to ...
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Responding to a growing user base of online service providers, VoltDB has outfitted its namesake in-memory database management system with additional tools to communicate with other technologies usually found in a Web applications stack. ...
Kim Dotcom, the man behind the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new service called Mega. Like Megaupload, which was shut down following polie raids on Dotcom's New Zealand mansion in January 2012, Mega is a web ...
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Anglia Components has made is biggest move into the online component distribution market with the launch of a website for design engineers. The website, called Anglia Live, will give visibility of the volume availability of ...
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The weekend saw Dropbox users frustrated by issues with syncing and uploading files, as well as creating shareable links. The issues became so severe that the stability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) was called into question. According to a ...
Less than a month after a 12-hour-plus outage on Christmas Eve, Amazon Web Service's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service in its US-East availability zone experienced elevated error rates for about 45 minutes yesterday. On January 9 at ...
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IDG News Service-Boundary has added analytics features to its cloud monitoring service to give enterprises a better idea of how applications running on public clouds are performing and warn them when something starts to go wrong. Boundary ...
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