More bumps in the road are probably in store for Bitcoin. The virtual currency has seen some massive swings in value over the last several weeks, but that volatility is not likely to end soon, its lead developer suggested on Saturday. ...
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Google has updated its Go programming language, making it faster and more suitable for multicore processors. "The most significant improvements are performance-related," wrote Google engineer Andrew Gerrand, in a post announcing the new ...
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The major U.S. mobile operators are all putting their weight behind a campaign against texting while driving that will include a blitz of advertising and a driving simulator touring the country this summer. On Tuesday, Verizon, Sprint ...
Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of e-books, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying e-book releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an e-book ...
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Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 21, adding more social media connections, tweaking the Do Not Track privacy setting and rolling out a new tool that long term, aims to create a self-healing browser. The open-source developer also ...
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An investigation by at800, the organisation tasked with ensuring viewers continue to receive Freeview when 4G at 800 MHz is rolled out across the UK, has found that the roll out is unlikely to have any negative impact. The announcement ...
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Google is adding a new level of personalization and a cleaner interface to its popular Maps product. The next version of Google Maps, which will begin a limited rollout this week, will automatically add a layer of personalized landmarks ...
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The role of IT in setting strategic priorities and achieving business success is growing for companies throughout the world, according to new research published by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry. The International ...
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Google showed off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from capabilities already supported in the Chrome desktop OS. The improvements include new file ...
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The Android threat landscape is growing in both size and complexity with cybercriminals adopting new distribution methods and building Android-focused malware services, according to a report from Finnish security vendor F-Secure. The ...
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Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe. Cisco is aiming to become ...
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Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance Wednesday at the Google I/O conference, where he overcame problems with his throat to take questions from developers in the audience for almost an hour. Page hadn't been expected to speak ...
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NASA's Kepler space telescope is in trouble. The telescope, launched in 2009 in search of Earth-like planets, has lost the use of one of the four wheels that control its orientation in space. Kepler, for the second time this month, has ...
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The U.S. government's effort to close 1,253 of its data centers is falling short of its goal, and agencies haven't been able to track projected cost savings for the initiative, a government auditor told lawmakers. The White House Office ...
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Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to ...
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