The Ministry of Defence awarded CSC a £303m contract after learning of allegations the supplier was involved in the illegal rendition and torture of German citizen Khaled El-Masri. The department dismissed the allegations as ...
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In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge for ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is set to begin a very busy weekend. The rover is slated to scoop up its first sample of Martian soil on Saturday, NASA reported. Curiosity on Wednesday came across a sandy area that NASA scientists decided ...
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Fewer than half of U.S. consumers have heard of Windows 8, hinting that Microsoft faces a tough task convincing buyers that they need to jump on the bandwagon. According to a telephone survey of almost 1,200 U.S. adults conducted by the ...
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Apple dominated the global tablet market last quarter on the back of record sales, a research firm said today, and reclaimed a massive lead over rivals. The Cupertino, Calif. company's share of all tablet sales jumped 44% in the second ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Monday's robotics maneuver had the rover checking its motors and joints by unstowing the arm, extending it using all five ...
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Apple has cut the shipping delay of iPad Mini tablets in half for U.S. and Canadian customers, now promising that the devices will ship in one week. Meanwhile, Apple has increased shipping times for its new iMac desktops, simply posting ...
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The UK Court of Appeal has ordered Apple to edit the statement acknowledging that Samsung did not infringe Apple's tablet design intellectual property and to publish it directly on its UK home page. It must, furthermore, publish the ...
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Quick: when I say Agile or Scrum, what's the first thing that comes to mind? If you said sprints, backlogs or user stories, then you're either a veteran software developer or ... a public radio employee. Wait, wait don't tell me that Carl ...
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Astellas Pharma and UCB have announced the marketing approval of Cimzia (certolizumab pegol) to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Japan. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has approved Cimzia as a 200mg syringe for ...
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Adobe will keep its Flash Player available on the Google Play store for mobile applications. Adobe reverse its decision to ditch the app after pressure from companies using the technology. Adobe announced two weeks ago it was going ...
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Apple's lower-priced iPad Mini will significantly cannibalize sales of the company's full-sized iPad, with up to half of customers opting for the smaller tablet, an analyst argued today. Most experts have estimated the iPad Mini's ...
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Vodafone and 3 have confirmed a deal to share physical infrastructure for their operations in Ireland. Computer Weekly first revealed the deal was on the table two weeks ago when a source close to the situation told us the talks were ...
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Google yesterday made good on a promise from earlier this year and shipped Chrome 23 with the "Do Not Track" privacy feature. In September, Google added a Do Not Track (DNT) option to Chrome's precursor, the open-source Chromium, and ...
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Two weeks after online orders of the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone reached some AT&T customers, the carrier said the new smartphone will finally be available in its stores on Friday for $199.99 and a two-year contract. "We did let ...
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