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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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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Since going live in 2012, Preen.Me has quickly become one of the largest global beauty platforms, as well as a growing, influential and viral community of beauty users. Now, Preen.Me expands its reach and its peer-to-peer beauty authority ...
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The use of tools to detect malicious patterns in apps led Facebook to temporarily disable some legitimate third-party apps that integrate with the social networking website, it said Thursday. On Tuesday, a number of people complained that ...
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Google has bowed to concerns over unauthorised eavesdropping by announcing that it will start to automatically encrypt data stored in Google Cloud Storage. The company says that it will use 128-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) ...
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As the BlackBerry brand slowly dies, considerations are being made about what do do with its assets, including more than 5,000 US patents built up over a decade of innovation in the mobile marketplace, and more than 3,700 wireless ...
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The Park wall system, along with other items from new BrandSource vendor partner Legends Furniture, brings more youthful and modern looks to the buying group's lineup. The wall retails at $999. ? A colorful Bossa Nova top-of-bed set by ...
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Facebook has designed a system that would allow individuals and advertisers to make direct connections to those physically nearby that share similar interests or are open to receiving certain advertisements. The company's work was ...
Apple’s innovation problems were highlighted today when Forbes published its 2013 list of the world’s most innovative companies and ranked Apple at No. 79. Apple’s plummet has been dramatic. In 2011, the first year ...
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Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centres. The chip maker is pitching MXC as a ...
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The University of St Andrews, one of the oldest universities in the world, has slashed its power bills and carbon emissions with a radical process of server consolidation and virtualisation. The project, which is ongoing, involved ...
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In a bid to plug a "major skills gap" in the datacentre industry, the professional association Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has launched a bootcamp to lure unemployed graduates to work in the industry. The DCA claims that the data centre ...
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Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has revealed that it will sell the Mozilla Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open on auction site eBay, retailing at a price of £59.99 [$79.99]. The device, first revealed at Mobile World Congress earlier this ...
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Facebook doesn't want to be just a place for friends anymore. As part of its quest for mobile and global domination, the social network is adding restaurant reservations and movie show times to the Facebook app. Now Facebook's mobile ...
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