Microsoft has launched an ad-free, no cost version of its Bing search engine that can be used in public and private schools across the U.S. Activating ad-free search also activates an automatic filter that blocks adult content and ...
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A widely used Bitcoin wallet service plans to issue refunds to people who saw their bitcoins stolen as a result of a weakness in its application. Blockchain.info, which has a Web-based service called My Wallet, has also upgraded its ...
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Google on Tuesday shipped Chrome 29, patching 25 vulnerabilities and rolling out under-the-hood changes the company said would offer more relevant suggestions when users typed in URLs or search strings. The upgrade also sported a new ...
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After a Palestinian researcher was denied a bug bounty by Facebook, Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust, kicked off a crowd-sourced fund yesterday to come up with a reward. The researcher, Khalil Shreateh, expressed his gratitude today to ...
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Facebook and six other tech companies have launched a joint project called Internet.org which aims to connect the two-thirds of the global population that is not currently linked to the Internet. The other founding members of the project ...
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Google has reduced the time buyers have to wait to receive the US$35 Chromecast TV device, saying it will ship orders in two weeks or less. The Chromecast order page on Google's Play Store states that units will ship by Sept. 3. Earlier, ...
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An advertisement circulating on Facebook and Twitter for a desktop version of the photo-sharing application Instagram is a scam, according to security vendor Symantec. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, is only available for mobile ...
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As Windows 8 struggles to take off, Microsoft has decided to hire a new ad agency to handle the digital promotion of both the operating system and Microsoft Surface tablets. The company has awarded the contract to Razorfish, according to ...
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Vine, the video service introduced by Twitter in January, now has 40 million registered users, it said Tuesday. The mobile service, which lets users capture and share looping videos, had over 13 million users in June. The new figure for ...
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When Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Apple didn't really have a solution for identity management or for linking Macs to an enterprise network. The company was just beginning the transition from its classic Mac OS ...
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TECSYS, a leading supply chain management software company, announced today that it has partnered with WERC (Warehousing Education and Research Council) to leverage the metrics of high performers in WERC's DC Measure's industry study, and ...
With an update to its Foglight for Virtualisation software package, Dell can now help organizations rid their systems of resource-sucking zombie virtual machines.? "It's so easy to create VMs. We have customers creating thousands and ...
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Earlier this month,?Lavabit?and?Silent Circle?-?two privacy-minded email providers – decided to shut up shop rather than give the US government the chance to access their customer data. Shortly thereafter, Lavabit owner Ladar ...
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Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service. The server-side encryption is now active for all new data written to Cloud Storage, and older data will be encrypted in the coming months, wrote ...
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IBM has been awarded a contract worth up to $1 billion to transform the US Department of the Interior's IT as part of a major cloud computing initiative. The DOI is aiming to move its data and applications into the cloud as part of a ...
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