Amazon has completed a deal worth $26m (£17m) to acquire Cambridge-based start-up Evi, developer of the voice-activated virtual intelligence applications of the same name. The deal has been rumoured for some time and according to ...
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Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team. Along with the privacy change, Mozilla also revamped Firefox's download ...
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Citrix Systems has upgraded its Podio applications for Android and iOS, as well as the ShareFile app for the latter, which can now be used to edit Microsoft Office documents. Podio is a cloud-based collaboration platform, while ShareFile ...
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Citrix Systems has upgraded its Podio applications for Android and iOS, as well as the ShareFile app for the latter, which can now be used to edit Microsoft Office documents. Podio is a cloud-based collaboration platform, while ShareFile ...
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Andy Rubin, the head of Android at Google - officially, senior vice president of mobile and digital content - is stepping down to be replaced by Sundar Pichai, who currently runs the company's Chrome web browser and Apps division. Rubin ...
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Recent reports from antivirus companies seem to suggest that the number of Android malware threats is growing. However, there are still many skeptics who say the extent of the problem is exaggerated. The security industry has an ...
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LifeProof, a maker of cases for smartphones and tablets, today announced it will preview the Samsung Galaxy SIII, the company's first case for Android phones, at the 2013 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference. New accessories for ...
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Trader Media Group (TMG), which owns Auto Trader, could replace its iPhone estate with Windows Phones, while Android will not be considered as it "has too many security vulnerabilities". In an exclusive interview with Computing, TMG CIO ...
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The idea that the technology behind search is a done deal is far from the truth, according to Google, as the company appears to still have plenty of tricks up its sleeve to improve it. "Everybody's mindset is that search is a solved ...
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Banjo, the most versatile cross platform content discovery app introduces the latest addition to its real time roster. Google has partnered with Banjo to rollout and showcase them as one of their first mobile integrations of Google+ ...
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Trend Micro is adding the often confusing world of Facebook privacy settings to a new version of its flagship security software. Version 3 of the company's Trend Micro Mobile Security, available for Android users this week, will check a ...
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Sheena Allen Apps has announced that is has officially released its popular double image/cloning app, Dubblen, for Android. The app allows users to take two photos that will result as one photo, but give the look of a clone or twin. ...
Oxford University has revealed it suspended use of Google Docs on 14 February following a sustained influx of phishing attacks on the network. The attacks, designed to acquire login details for university systems in order to send spam ...
A larger percentage of iPhone users in the Arbitron Mobile U.S. smartphone panel—85.7 percent—played mobile gaming apps in December 2012 compared to Android -using panelists—76 percent. iPhone mobile gamers in the panel ...
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PaySimple, the cloud-based platform for managing and growing small businesses, announced the findings in its 2013 Pulse Survey of Small Businesses today. Thousands of PaySimple users surveyed articulated a plan to adopt more technology ...