Intel, the largest chip manufacturer in the world, has named Brian Krzanich, a 30-year veteran of the firm, as its new CEO. The Intel board of directors unanimously elected Krzanich, who has held the role of Intel COO since January 2012, ...
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Ninety per cent of passwords are vulnerable to hacking because even supposedly secure passwords typically share common characteristics. Because people are required to generate so many passwords with particular characteristics - at least ...
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Consumers' home PCs were no safer than they were last year, our annual State of the Net survey found. Heavy spam afflicted 43 percent of those surveyed. We've used our survey to extrapolate the number of consumers affected nationally. ...
Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share of Windows 8 or depressing the share of Windows XP, data published today showed. According to Internet analytics company Net ...
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today. IE10, which Microsoft launched last October for Windows 8 and in ...
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Bring-your-own-device strategies are the single most radical change to the economics and culture of client computing in a decade, according to a new study by Gartner. One radical change BYOD is expected to spawn: By 2017, half of all ...
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LIVERMORE, Calif. & TOKYO -- Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, and Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), a world-leading electric manufacturer, today announced that they have ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company's reentry into the consumer tablet market after the TouchPad imploded in 2011. The tablet became available first in the ...
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have invented a way for different wireless networks crammed into the same space to say "excuse me" to one another. Wi-Fi shares a frequency band with the popular Bluetooth and ZigBee systems, and ...
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Dell has pulled together products it gained from recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance. The offerings are aimed at ...
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Hewlett-Packard in the next few days will ship the $169 Slate 7, the company's first product for the consumer tablet market since the spectacular failure of the WebOS-based TouchPad in 2011. Buyers will be able to order Slate 7 by the end ...
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Microsoft today re-released a security update that had crashed customers' PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots, saying that the revised patch is now safe to install. The revamped MS13-036 update -- first issued April 9, but ...
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Samsung is making an aggressive sales push in the U.S. market by expanding into thousands of third-party retail outlets where dedicated staff will sell and provide advice on the company's smartphones, tablets and entertainment products. ...
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Sony Electronics introduced its 2013 Home Audio product lineup today, highlighting the STR-DN1040 Audio/Video Receiver and the HT-CT660 Soundbar. Available in June, both products boast of Sony's legendary commitment to quality sound, and ...
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Soluto's PC troubleshooting Web service has saved many a forehead from banging against a desk. By scanning computers for installed software and crowdsourcing problems, Soluto's consumer service helps with everything from boot times and ...
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