Microsoft today urged Windows 7 users to uninstall a patch shipped earlier this week that has crashed customer's PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots. The patch, which was originally issued Tuesday, has been pulled from ...
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Microsoft amended a security update containing a patch that reportedly caused errors in some third-party software. The update, number 2823324, was distributed on Tuesday as part of MS13-036, a batch of patches that fix three Windows ...
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HP can stake a bigger claim in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market by creating an enterprise-friendly rival to Amazon's 'consumer' cloud, according to the head of the firm's Converged Cloud unit, Saar Gillai. HP is in the ...
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Apple's iOS has had its "revolutionary" moment, and now faces only "evolution" as carrying legacy and expectations decreases the opportunity to innovate. So says Richard Kinder (pictured), technology VP of mobile software management firm ...
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Android head Andy Rubin is stepping aside, and that could mean big changes for Google's mobile platform and for its Chrome operating system. Google CEO Larry Page announced the move in a blog post on Wednesday, saying Rubin will remain ...
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As part of its monthly issue of software patches, Microsoft has fixed a Windows vulnerability that would have allowed someone to subvert a computer's security using only a USB thumb drive and some attack code. The vulnerability, MS13-027, ...
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Google’s head of Android, Andy Rubin, is reportedly stepping aside, which could mean big changes for the mobile platform as well as for the Chrome operating system. Google CEO Larry Page announced the move in a blog post ...
Starting Out Right From the time we start preparing a room for a new baby, we are making choices about the child's environment. Many people get ready for a new child by painting, papering, and carpeting a baby's room with conventional ...
IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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Oracle has ported one of its most coveted Solaris tools to the Linux platform, a real-time debugging tool called DTrace, though the company has made it officially available only for its own Oracle Linux distribution. With the release of ...
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General Dynamics is looking to bring U.S. government-level security to consumer smartphones, allowing organizations to benefit from the type of strong data protection only available on expensive and clunky mobile terminals. The company is ...
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The emergence of the Firefox OS is just one more reason that Microsoft and BlackBerry will need to sharpen their marketing savvy to sell more smartphones in 2013. Microsoft officials at Mobile World Congress (MWC) here conceded that the ...
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CHS, a US-based agribusiness company owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives, has formed CHS AGRO, a sunflower marketing joint venture with Adecoagro. CHS AGRO, located in Pehuajo in the Buenos Aires province in Argentina, will work ...
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Wind River has joined the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) in a moves designed to support embedded Linux applications. The OSADL's remit is to encourage development of open source projects in the areas of embedded systems ...
Hoping to extend Linux's reach to ARM-based networking equipment, the not-for-profit engineering group Linaro has launched an initiative to develop code to run routers, switches and other networking equipment. "As companies use ARM more ...
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