GOOGLE has announced new features for online games, maps and search, a new music-streaming service and enhancements to its Google Plus social network, including tools for editing and sharing photos. The announcements were made at the ...
Two Chinese firms will debut on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong this month. They are China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd. and Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd. The former formally triggered the share sale on May 6 and the latter is ...
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LAST night's midnight premiere of Star Trek into Darkness confirms the cult of the USS Enterprise thrives 47 years after the first TV episodes aired. Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the crew have indeed managed to "live long and prosper" - ...
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DELL has acquired cloud software firm Enstratius as part of the computer maker's efforts to diversify and reduce its dependence on the slow-growing PC segment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The announcement comes with Dell ...
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GOOGLE co-founder Sergey Brin has outlined a vision for the future in which self-driving cars whisk care-free friends to verdant parks that were once paved lots. It's these kinds of ideas - which have the potential to transform lives and ...
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NOKIA has signalled it will lift the lid on future additions to its Microsoft Windows-based smartphone range in mid-May. The Finnish phonemaker will hold a May 14 press conference in London and issued invitations to journalists this ...
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GOOGLE has released data showing that requests by governments to censor the internet giant's content have hit new heights, with Brazil and the United States leading the way. Google received 2285 government requests to remove content from ...
GOOGLE co-founder Sergey Brin has outlined a vision for the future in which self-driving cars whisk care-free friends to verdant parks that were once paved lots. It's these kinds of ideas - which have the potential to transform lives ...
Microsoft is expected to unveil a successor to Xbox 360 videogame consoles next month. Microsoft sent out invitations yesterday to the May 21 event at its main campus in Redmond, Washington at which its Xbox team will reveal a "new ...
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APPLE has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place in San Francisco in June. The cost is $US1600 per ticket. In an unusual move, Apple gave a one-day notice that tickets would go on sale for what is ...
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THE cIn Motion is a successful marriage of the modern touch-screen smartphone and the iconic BlackBerry keyboard. On BlackBerrys, the keyboard has always been about more than filling in text fields, and the new operating system takes that ...
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A GLOBAL rights group has launched a campaign to ban Terminator-style "killer robots" amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans. Human Rights Watch said it ...
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Microsoft's profits for the third quarter jumped 19 per cent as its core Windows division reported higher sales, despite reports of tanking sales for personal computers. Microsoft's Q3 earnings report follows figures released by IT ...
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Twitter has begun allowing ads to be targeted at users based on the words written in 'tweets' and messages forwarded to followers at the popular social network. Previously, contents of Twitter messages relied on algorithms that pool the ...
GOOGLE suffered disruptions on several of its cloud-based services including Gmail for about two hours last night for reasons that were not disclosed. The apps status dashboard of the world's most popular search engine indicated "service ...
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