The maker of the Path social networking app will pay a $800,000 civil penalty to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected personal information from children without parental consent, the agency said Friday. ...
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Windows 8 fell further behind the pace of Windows Vista's uptake last month, a metric company said today, even as usage share of the new operating system continued to slowly climb. Statistics from Net Applications showed that Windows 8's ...
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The European Union's Clean IT Project has become the subject of online ridicule following a recommendation in its latest report that a "Report this site for terrorism" button should be integrated into every web browser. The report, which ...
Atmel says it is shipping production quantities of the its SAMA5D3 series microprocessor, which is based on the ARM Cortex-A5 core with an on-chip floating point unit. The SAMA5D3 microprocessors are fabbed on a 65nm process technology ...
Net Application’s January desktop usage data was released last week, showing that Windows 8 adoption has been worse than Vista’s was after just three months of it being released. However, Microsoft found a silver lining in the ...
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The operator of the Path social networking app has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent. The ...
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As the east and west coast prepare to battle it out on the grid iron this Sunday, sports fans across the nation are readying their TVs, smartphones and tablets for live game day streams to keep up with the action. MobiTV will be giving fans ...
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Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the beta release of version 6.50 of Panda Cloud Office Protection Advanced, the first cloud-based endpoint security solution with protection for Exchange Server. Main new ...
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Apple software hackers unveiled a website late Wednesday where the latest untethered jailbreak is expected to be released soon. An elite team of hackers has been working for months to develop an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6, Apple's ...
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The scary stories from the Web are getting worse.First there were a few stolen credit card numbers.Then there were a few thousand.Now we hear about millions of financial records being exposed by security breaches,and we grow numb to the ...
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Microsoft's low-end Surface Pro tablet, slated to start shipping Feb. 9, sports just 23GB of free storage space out of the box, Microsoft confirmed today. The 64GB Surface Pro, which will sell for $899, uses more than 60% of its flash ...
Today is the last day customers can purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for the discounted price of $39.99. Starting tomorrow, Feb. 1, Microsoft will quintuple the price of the upgrade to $199.99. An upgrade to Windows 8, a less-capable ...
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Apple and Samsung Electronics led the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2012, but new entrant Microsoft did not make it to the top five with its Surface tablet. The market share of Apple also continued to drop in the quarter, IDC ...
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Microsoft shipped an estimated 900,000 Surface RT tablets last quarter, barely missing the top five device makers, but illustrating that demand was "muted at best," IDC said today. "There is no question that Microsoft is in this tablet ...
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Michael Dell will launch his private-equity-backed plan to take Dell, the company he started in 1984, private as early as next week. The founder and CEO of the PC vendor is expected to offer $24bn (£15.3bn) or more with the backing ...
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