Windows has announced that the mysterious Windows 8 update known previously as "Windows Blue" is to be known in the wild as Windows 8.1. Microsoft's chief financial officer for Windows, Tami Reller, announced the free patch yesterday, ...
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In this third and final part of Computing's ICT in education roundtable, the panel discusses the pros and cons of the Bring Your Own Device trend in schools; a movement which is growing in popularity due to the increasing consumerisation of ...
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Java, the popular OS-independent platform and programming language, runs on just about every kind of electronic device imaginable, including computers, cell phones, printers, TVs, DVDs, home security systems, automated teller machines, ...
EE has hit back at claims by the Sunday Times that it and market research firm Ipsos MORI have been working on a deal that would feed data on EE's 27 million customers to the research firm, and even, allegedly, to the police. An EE ...
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Just 11 days after issuing an advisory, Microsoft has released a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer 8 that bedeviled the U.S. Department of Labor earlier this month. Microsoft's speedy release of this patch "is an outstanding example of ...
Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based start-up with a data visualisation engine that helps to discover patterns in live data streams. Lucky Sort's chief executive officer, Noah Pepper, announced the news on the ...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began debate on more than 300 amendments to the comprehensive immigration bill, including a number of changes to sections on H-1B visas. The debate put focus on sharp divisions that appear to pit ...
updates for its Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player and ColdFusion products on Tuesday to fix many critical vulnerabilities, including one that is already actively exploited by attackers. The Adobe Reader and Acrobat updates include fixes for ...
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The U.S. tech industry added 67,400 jobs in 2012, a 1.1% increase from a year earlier, according to a report from the TechAmerica Foundation. The tech industry's growth slightly outpaced the overall private sector in the U.S., which grew ...
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A local council in regional NSW has emerged as the supposed target of alleged computer hacker Matthew Flannery, the self-proclaimed leader of the international cyber-crime syndicate Lulzsec, police say. Mr Flannery, 24, known by the ...
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The tie-up will enable companies in the travel trade to reach users of Lenovo PCs, smartphones and tablets globally. Technology firm Lenovo and 3rd Planet, an interactive 3D travel online media, have signed a deal that will see them ...
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Add-ons, Keeper Sharing and Keeper Extensions, develop a robust functionality Online consumer data security software, Keeper, has been bolstered with two major features to help better protect consumers' critical data, with Keeper Sharing ...
IBM has been appointed as the Technology and Innovation Partner in the Thames Water AMP6 Alliance. IBM will join forces with Thames Water to create innovative strategies by analysing big data and social media with the aim of improving ...
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Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how to best place advertisements on its site Lucky Sort's technology is designed to "make ...
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The U.S. Senate has, by a wide margin, supported a bill allowing an Internet sales tax, but the legislation appears to be a tougher sell to the public. Sixty-one percent of U.S. residents surveyed by online postage vendor Endicia said ...
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