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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Facebook is planning a series of three events that will for the first time give mobile developers a chance to hear directly from the company and interact with its engineers and product managers. The events, which will take place in April ...
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Images purporting to reveal the all-new Range Rover Sport have leaked just days out from its world premiere in New York later this month. Published on the Facebook pages of VMax 200 and Sam Moores Photography, the images claim to show a ...
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Microsoft experienced disruptions for several hours to its online suite of mail, calendar and storage services, leaving many users unable to access their accounts. The problems occurred Tuesday evening in the U.S. Microsoft posted a ...
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Microsoft has fixed a problem that caused an outage for many users of Hotmail and the service that is replacing it, Outlook.com. Maintenance work continued to affect the calendaring component of Hotmail, however. Microsoft acknowledged ...
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At 2:46 Monday afternoon, Japan went quiet. In memory of the lives lost two years ago in the earthquake that struck at that hour and the tsunamis that followed, a moment of silence was held across the country. From government buildings to ...
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Until late January, Apple's App Store servers did not encrypt all communications with iOS clients, which exposed users to several potential attacks, according to a Google security researcher. "The Apple App Store and associated ...
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Before you "like" a friend's or company's post on Facebook, think twice. A new study shows that your Facebook "likes" may be far more revealing than you ever thought. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. announced on ...
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Cloud-based APIs offer the promise of seamless integration between services. All you need is the programming chops to make the most of them and the bandwidth to keep up with the rapid pace of change of today's most popular services. Enter ...
That hour of sleep that Americans gave up last weekend with the advent of Daylight Saving Time comes with a steep economic cost, according to a study commissioned by cushioning major Carpenter Co. The cost: $434 million. Carpenter Co. and ...
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Microsoft on Monday kicked off a two-month promotion that gives college students Office 365 for up to six months free of charge. The deal is the first trial offered for Office 365 University, a four-year subscription plan that lets ...
The Federal Court, last month, ruled in favour of the beverage company after it argued the Northern Territory government’s 10c deposit recycling scheme – introduced in January 2012 and similar to a scheme that has been running ...
The Bike Cooperative has a new platform that helps retailers create and share social media content. The cooperative will provide dealers with original content that can be fed automatically to a store's Facebook or Twitter account. The ...
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Weetabix, the leading cereal brand in the UK, has launched a new campaign to boost the sales of its new 'Weetabix with Chocolate' variant. Weetabix with Chocolate variant was formerly known as Chocolate Weetabix. The new name and ...
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In some funny places in the outside world, Switzerland is known as being a country full only of rich people with golden Swiss wristwatches eating Swiss (!) chocolate 24 hours a day. This by far is not true. However, in each rumor there is a ...
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