Microsoft has issued a detailed mea culpa about the lengthy and ill-timed outage that affected its webmail services on Tuesday and Wednesday, an incident that undermines the company's push for its new Outlook.com as a better alternative to ...
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Americans took to the Internet Thursday as tens of thousands signed petitions on sites pleading for Google Reader's life. One of several on the Change.org online petition website had collected more than 63,000 signatures by 1:30 p.m. ET, ...
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Google is shutting down its Google Reader and seven other products and services, taking the total number of features or services shut since its "spring cleaning" began in 2011 to 70. The company said it needed to focus to take advantage ...
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A pair of MIT professors and security researchers whose work paved the way for modern cryptography have been named winners of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize in Computing." Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA professor of ...
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TapInfluence (formerly BlogFrog) today announced that its software platform for automating all aspects of an influencer marketing program is now available as a cloud-based offering. The software automates the time-consuming process of ...
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Character Options is teaming up with Entertainment One for a special nationwide Peppa Pig Twitter party. The event will take place on March 26th, and will be hosted live from UKMums.tv, with a second party hub on-site at Peppa Pig World ...
Lovers of the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader have vented anger over the decision to pull the plug on the RSS service and are petitioning to keep it alive. A "Keep Google Reader Running" petition at change.org had racked up more than ...
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Seabridge Technology Partners, LLC, a provider of technology for the mobile classroom and workplace, today announced the availability of Moodle Educloud Native App. Developed byNetherlands-based Smart Learning Apps?, Moodle Educloud allows ...
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Firespotter Labs today announced that UberConference is one of the four startups chosen to present by Enterprise Connect at its Innovation Showcase. Enterprise Connect is a conference and exposition on enterprise communications and ...
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Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese philosophical principle focuses on the flow of natural energies present in indoor environments and how they affect our lives. The energy, also known as 'Chi' in Chinese, 'ki' in Japanese and 'prana' in India, ...
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Are we getting lazy - lazy enough to spur an entire industry dedicated to eliminating cables for transferring photos from cameras to our desktops? The work involved in plugging in a USB cable to a camera port, and the other end into a PC, ...
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Facebook reportedly is taking a page from social networking rival Twitter and may start using the hashtag Facebook is getting ready to use the hashtag to group conversations, photos and videos, but the move doesn't appear to be imminent, ...
A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). ...
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As 115 Roman Catholic cardinals meet behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel to choose a new pope, the historic tradition has focused a lot of attention on modern technology. During the papal conclave, which lasts until two thirds, or ...
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South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty ...
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