Software giant Microsoft has drawn up a shortlist of five people to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft - and the shortlist includes former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Ford Motor Company's highly rated CEO Alan Mulally, according to ...
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Microsoft today said that attackers are exploiting a critical and unpatched vulnerability in Office 2007 using malformed documents to hijack Windows PCs, and that Office 2003 and Office 2010 are also vulnerable. The bug can be triggered ...
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Microsoft might stop updating Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus software on systems running Windows XP after next April's support cut-off, the company has suggested. So far this is little more than?a statement?sent to a news ...
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Acer CEO J.T. Wang is resigning from his post at the Taiwanese PC maker and will be replaced by president Jim Wong as part of a corporate restructuring that will try to revitalize the company's lagging fortunes. Citing the company's ...
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Microsoft announced that the first fiscal quarter report in 2013. In the first quarter, Microsoft's revenue reached $18.53 billion, compared with last year's $16 billion the increase is 16%; net profit is $5.24 billion, compared with $4.47 ...
BlackBerry will change its CEO and accept a US$1 billion loan from a consortium involving shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings as it struggles with inventory and strategy problems. The company has abandoned plans to sell itself. CEO ...
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BlackBerry's dramatic fall in the enterprise has left CIOs scrambling to pick a new mobile platform provider. Will it be Apple? Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or it will be all of the above. "The entire landscape has shifted in a very short ...
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The cyber-extortionists behind the Cryptolocker "ransomware", which encrypts users' files and refuses to decrypt them without payment, have extended their deadline for affect PC users. Cryptolocker uses 256-bit Advanced Encryption ...
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Microsoft bills its Bing search engine as a social one, and to keep it that way it’s renewing a partnership with Twitter to keep tweets appearing in Bing search results, the companies said Friday. Tweets have been featured ...
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When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise cloud computing. Seven years later, ...
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Windows 8′s user share in October climbed past the 10% milestone for the first time since the launch of the radically-overhauled OS a year ago, an analytics company said Friday. The operating system’s share of all computing ...
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Google is set to invest an extra €450m (£385m) into its Finnish data centre, the web giant has revealed. Based in a mill formerly owned by paper company Stora Enso, the Hamina data centre in Southern Finland has already seen ...
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Rockstar, the group that bought Nortel's patents in 2011 following the company's bankruptcy, has taken aim at Google, HTC, Samsung and Huawi for alleged patent infringement. Google itself is accused of seven different counts of patent ...
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Sony has slashed its profit forecast for 2013 by 40 per cent, meaning the technology giant now expects to make only £190m. The company had originally estimated it would make a profit of 50bn yen (£372.4m), but after its Q3 ...
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Ericsson has completed the acquisition of Microsoft's Mediaroom business and TV solution. Together with Ericsson's existing capability, the acquisition places the firm as the world's largest, by market share, and the most experienced ...
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