Infoworld - Thinking about the bits of data you leave behind is a one-way ticket to paranoia. Your browser? Full of cookies. Your cellphone? A beacon broadcasting your location at every moment. Search engines track your every curiosity. ...
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Driven by millions of upgrades,Windows 8's global usage share climbed by a third last month,but the new OS's adoption pace remained lethargic compared to that of its predecessor three years ago. According to data released Thursday by ...
Tags: Windows 8, Windows 7, OS, Net Applications, computer
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts the personalization features of Windows Phone 8 in a new 46-second ad. The ad,now accessible on YouTube,was first shown at the formal launch of Windows Phone 8 on Monday,where Ballmer appeared onstage ...
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Computerworld-Yahoo plans to ignore"Do Not Track"privacy requests sent by Microsoft's Internet Explorer(IE10)browser,calling its ally's unilateral decision"signal abuse"and pointing to a possible rift between the search partners. One Do ...
IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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IDG News Service-Facebook,under pressure to cheer up its disappointed investors,posted revenue growth of more than 30 percent on Tuesday,beating Wall Street expectations,but it also recorded a loss. Facebook's revenue for the third ...
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IDG News Service-Google CEO Larry Page tried to put a positive spin on his company's poor third-quarter financial results,which were released prematurely Thursday and triggered a panicked stock sell-off before trading was abruptly halted. ...
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The Fast Retailing Group releases results summary for the year ended on August 2012. FY2012 Highlights: Fast Retailing Generates Growth in Sales and Income Group Performance: The Fast Retailing Group generated significant gains in ...
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CERN,home of the Large Hadron Collider(LHC),has seen a tenfold surge in candidates applying for hard-to-fill vacancies,after turning to social media. CERN,based in Geneva,says it has seen the number of applicants for typical jobs grow ...
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At the turnover of the model year, car dealers of all stripes roll out ads for cut-rate leases as they try to clear out old inventory. As tempting as these low lease rates may sound, even the best lease deals don't save money, according to ...
Tags: car dealers, car, leases, ads, lease rates, Toyota RAV4, Subaru Outback
There are some tempting car lease ads right now, but are they truly good deals? Perhaps they are useful in the short-term, but our analysis of recent newspaper ads reveal that traditional buying leads to long-term savings. We looked at ...
Tags: car lease, ads, good deals, traditional buying, Toyota RAV4, Subaru Outback
Computerworld - Four purported Microsoft TV advertisements for Windows 8 have leaked to the Web, and strut the operating system's new "Modern" user interface (UI). The ads, which each run 54 seconds, were first revealed by the Israeli ...
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Most US citizens do not want any information collected about which websites they visit, according to a survey by the University of California. But nearly 90% of those polled said they had never heard of the do not track (DNT) mechanism, ...
Tags: US, personalised advertising, proposed mechanism, DNT function
Abacast,a leading provider of digital radio streaming and monetization software and services,announced today the allowance by the US Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO)of a patent pertaining to ad and song insertion in online radio ...
Tags: Abacast, digital radio streaming and monetization software, patents
Nokia and Oracle have joined forces on mapping,allowing enterprises to integrate Nokia's location technology with their Oracle applications. To differentiate its smartphones from the competition,Nokia is betting big on location as well as ...
Tags: Nokia, Oracle, mapping, smartphone