Changes to Twitter's upcoming API release are aimed at restricting consumer-focused client applications in favor of business-oriented ones, according to the company's blog on Thursday. Version 1.1 of Twitter's API (application programming ...
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A long list of Web sites went dark for one minute at 9:30 a.m.ET today to mark a moment of silence for the 26 women and children who were murdered a week ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,Conn. Earlier this week,Connecticut ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Camera, introduced at this week's IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, takes clear, colorful images but is buggy and slow. Samsung said that the Galaxy Camera is designed to combine the best features of a ...
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More than 3 million copies of OS X Mountain Lion have been downloaded since its debut last week, Apple said today. "Downloads of Mountain Lion have exceeded three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in Apple's ...
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Today, search engine Metro5 has announced the launch of it's open BETA program. The idea behind Metro5 is to deliver a set of up to 50 relevant results for each web search query, while taking social influence into account when ranking these ...
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Twitter will allow advertisers to target users based on their interests following a successful test of a new advertising feature, the company said on Thursday. The feature adds to Twitter's other advertising offerings, including Promoted ...
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Lately, I've heard a lot about a new website that shows what percentage of someone's Twitter followers are "fake," "inactive" and "good." If the Fake Follower Check site is accurate, some of the biggest Twitter users, including President ...
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Twitter proven to stimulate sales,new study shows. Twitter users who see Tweets from retailers are more likely to make an online purchase,according to results from Twitter's'Tweets in Action:Retail'study. 27 per cent of general ...
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Microsoft SharePoint technology is increasingly used as a business collaboration platform on-premise or in the cloud, to connect and empower people. SharePoint additionally cuts costs with a unified infrastructure. Organizations can rapidly ...
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Actian Corporation today announced that Vectorwise 2.5, the latest update of the record-breaking performance database, is generally available for download. Now even more well-equipped to tackle Big Data challenges, Vectorwise 2.5 delivers ...
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cc today announced that its mobile device management (MDM) tool now supports the new OS X Mountain Lion operating system for Macs, released on Wednesday. The company cited fast adoption of Macs in business as the reason it moved out of its ...
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INSTAGRAM has promised not to sell users' photos as a storm of outrage continues with celebrities among those dumping the photo-sharing service. Changes to the privacy policy and terms of service at Facebook-owned Instagram taking effect ...
Just in time for the holiday season, Recess Creative, a Cleveland based digital advertising and marketing agency, has launched HolidayGram a new social photo sharing app for iPhone and iPod touch. "HolidayGram is the first app that's ...
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Once a high-flying web property, Digg was sold Thursday for a paltry $500,000. The sale to Betaworks, maker of an iOS news aggregator app and an URL clipper, Bit.ly, was a fraction of the $45 million lavished on the venture by Silicon ...
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