MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwire – April 10, 2012) - Geomega Resources Inc. ("GéoMégA" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:GMA) is pleased to announce that it has closed the second and final tranche (the "Second ...
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Microsoft today said it will patch at least 14 vulnerabilities next week, including four in Internet Explorer (IE), making it three months in a row that the company has plugged holes in its browser. Of the nine updates set for Aug. 14, ...
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IDG News Service - One of the most complicated missions ever attempted by NASA, the landing of the one-ton rover Curiosity inside a crater on Mars after a 500 million kilometer journey, has apparently gone without a hitch. Curiosity ...
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Office has been a wildly successful product for Microsoft, but its continued dominance is far from assured as software moves to the cloud and employees bring their own tablets and smartphones into work. On Monday, when Microsoft is ...
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Older customers are now Apple's biggest fans, said a brand perception measurement company Friday, citing shifting demographics that indicate the company's appeal to the young and technology-enamored has been slipping. The finding from ...
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Online dating site WhatsYourPrice.com has kissed Amazon Web Services goodbye after severe East Coast thunderstorms knocked out one of Amazon's data centers last weekend causing a services outage. The service interruption, which began last ...
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As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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Former Pirate Bay host PRQ.se went down in the middle of a police raid on Monday, affecting hundreds of hosted sites and thousands of users of PRQ's other services. But the raid and the outage are unlikely to be related, according to PRQ's ...
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Western Digital Thursday unveiled an upgraded line of 1TB to 4TB 3.5-in hard drives for data centers. WD had released another 4TB enterprise hard drive, the Ultrastar 7K4000 made by its Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) unit, in ...
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LONDON, ENGLAND, June 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Seeking advice from IT experts is always a good idea, as they are able to advise on the sort of IT environment your business needs not only at the current time but in the foreseeable ...
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IT Governance Ltd, the PCI and information security experts, have reported that organisations required to comply with the PCI DSS standard, are increasingly deploying PCI DSS Staff Awareness e-learning to meet requirement 12.6 of the ...
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A Twitter outage on Thursday that lasted as long as two hours for some users was caused by separate data centers failing at nearly the same time, the company said in an apologetic blog post. Twitter went down between about 8:20 a.m. and 9 ...
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"Indian providers have had to deal with these contingencies-international telecom cables being sliced, large union strikes that impact workers-so they are generally more prepared to deal with [them]," says Steve Hall, partner with ...
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The IT failure that struck Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will cost the bank more than expected as £50m is paid to customers in compensation. The IT problems that struck in June meant customers of the bank and subsidiary NatWest had ...
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to end debate on a comprehensive cybersecurity bill, pushing action on the bill into September and potentially killing it. The Senate voted 52-46 to end debate and move toward a final vote on the revised ...
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