Several online businesses have clarified terms and conditions that could mislead consumers about their rights following action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Last September, the ACCC joined international consumer ...
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Microsoft today confirmed what many analysts suspected, that it has cut prices of Windows 8 and Windows RT licenses to hardware partners building smaller-sized tablets as a way to drop device prices and juice sales. Analysts questioned ...
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Booths, the 160-year-old North-West-based supermarket chain, is abolishing paper receipts for holders of its new Booths Card and instead will store them in their personal accounts online. The receipts can be accessed online and via web ...
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A hacker has apparently taken down the Virgin Radio Dubai website. The hacker, who goes by the username @OxAlien on Twitter, posted up a picture of his screen as he was apparently removing the link to the website on Monday night. The ...
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The Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) on Tuesday signed an agreement to start using the same patent classification system as adopted by the E.U. and U.S. patent authorities in January, the European Patent Office (EPO) ...
Smartphone owners who also have a tablet spend three times as much on apps as those who only own smartphones, according to a survey by research and consulting firm Analysys Mason. The finding is an argument for wireless carriers and app ...
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Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) with Windows 8.1 later this year, but on Monday the company passed on saying whether the same browser would also be available to Windows 7 users. "We aren't sharing anything around which ...
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could be related have in the past few days slammed the DNS servers of at least three providers of domain name management and DNS hosting services. DNSimple, easyDNS and TPP Wholesale all ...
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US-based automobile manufacturer Ford Motor has recalled 465,000 vehicles due to the problem of fuel leakage along with two other recalls. The first recall affects 2013 models of Ford including Explorer, Taurus, Flex, Fusion and Police ...
Long considered old-school tools with no place in shiny corporate social collaboration suites, to-do software is making a comeback with a new air of cool about it and renewed appreciation from enterprise IT. The reason? It's now clear ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce Tuesday measures directed against patent-holding companies, often referred to as patent trolls, according to a newspaper report. Obama is expected to announce five executive actions and ...
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Gmail users, your inboxes are about to be rearranged. Google announced a new kind of inbox for Gmail that automatically sorts messages into categories, or "tabs." For example, updates from Google+ and other networks go into a "Social" ...
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Norfolk County Council is seeking bidders for an IT framework that could be worth up to £100m. The council is seeking an agreement with a single operator for a duration that "exceeds four years". In the Official Journal of the ...
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Norfolk County Council is seeking bidders for an IT framework that could be worth up to £100m. The council is seeking an agreement with a single operator for a duration that "exceeds four years". Further reading Wolverhampton ...
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Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has once again warned the government against "knee-jerk" efforts to revive the Communications Data Bill in the wake of the murder of drummer Lee Rigby. Dubbed by critics the "snooper's charter", the ...
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