The US Federal Reserve has confirmed its computer systems were accessed by hackers but said the incident did not affect the central bank's "critical operations". The acknowledgement came days after the hacker group known as Anonymous ...
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Google's social network, Google+, is getting attention from the likes of astronauts and the U.S. president. NASA announced that, for the first time, the space agency will host a Google+ hangout at 11 a.m. ET on Feb. 22 with astronauts ...
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Despite recent headlines about its security woes, Java has returned to the top spot in a monthly assessment of the popularity of programming languages, 10 months after being supplanted by the C language. The Tiobe Programming Community ...
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One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none of which met its highest severity classification. Since Mega was launched three weeks ...
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In what is turning out to be a repeat of last year, privacy rights groups launched an assault against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), barely a day after the controversial legislation was reintroduced in Congress ...
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Samsung Electronics has launched REX, a new series of "smart feature phones" that it will sell in emerging markets. Countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China will drive much of the volume growth in the global phone ...
LinkedIn has shut off its API access to "Bang With Professionals," a Web service that was intended to facilitate more, say, intimate connections among users of the business-oriented social networking site. The service was designed to ...
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Multiple users on Apple's iPhone support forum are reporting big drops in battery life after upgrading their handsets to version 6.1 of the iOS operating system. The messages, spread over several threads on the message board, all claim ...
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NewsGator is re-architecting its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) suite so that it can be installed independently of Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server. The decision isn't terribly surprising, given that Microsoft ...
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Tactic Games has expanded its sales team, with the appointment of Sabrina Green as sales administration manager. Green (pictured) previously managed the web fulfulment team at Links of London. "Sabrina will strengthen the sales team and ...
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American Express is rolling out a new service on Twitter that lets card holders make purchases on the social network through specialized tweets. Dubbed "Amex Sync," the technology integration will allow Amex users who sync their cards ...
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Web hosting provider and domain name registrar Go Daddy has acquired M.dot, the developer of a mobile app for website creation and management by small businesses. Compatible with Apple's iPhone and iPad, the app will help Go Daddy's ...
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Social networks are expected to light up tonight as users react to the president's State of the Union address. President Obama will give the first State of the Union address of his second term at 9 p.m ET. With Obama expected to touch on ...
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The UK's first Skylanders Giants window display will appear at Hamleys today. More to follow. Want to receive up to the minute toy industry news straight to your inbox? Click here to sign up for the free ToyNews Daily Digest and ...
Twitter is modifying its search engine to include tweets more than a week old, a move it said will help users uncover better content. Over the next few days, searches will return "a fairly small percentage of total tweets ever sent" but ...
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