Apple CEO Tim Cook is “extremely sorry” to customers for inaccuracies in its new mapping software included in iOS 6, and has pointed users to competing services in an open letter to customers released Friday. With many users ...
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Google has moved a step closer to making good on its promise to support "Do Not Track" in Chrome by the end of this year. Chromium, Google's open-source project that feeds code into Chrome, released a build last week that includes the Do ...
Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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Dropbox is investigating reports that some European users are receiving spam to email addresses associated with their accounts, the company said Tuesday. Dropbox, whose cloud storage service is widely used, said in a statement that "we ...
A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, copy them down, and hope we had a foldable map to help us find our way. Then along came MapQuest, followed by Google Maps in 2005. Today, it seems ...
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The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed a standard for handling 2D barcodes that it hopes will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily. By standardizing the specification for encoding, decoding and resolution of 2D barcodes, ...
METAIRIE, LA, June 20, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Medical Website Creations is now offering chiropractic website design, allowing chiropractors to establish a strong foundation online by having a professional, well-designed, targeted and ...
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A European aeronautical supplier's website has been infected with a state-sponsored zero-day exploit, according to security firm, Sophos. Business IT administrators and other computer users should use caution in the light of the discovery ...
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Skype has been battling wily adversaries who are abusing the Internet calling application to direct people to scam websites, but the Microsoft-owned service says the sham calls are decreasing. The automated calls feature a ...
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The US has indicted UK suspected LulzSec member Ryan Cleary in connection with the hacking of the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony's film and TV studio. The move comes two months after LulzSec member Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty ...
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The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else. Security guru Bruce Schneier noted in a recent blog post, citing Evgeny ...
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Google has bought Wildfire Interactive,a social media marketing start-up that provides a platform for organisations to manage all of their social media output on one system. The software is used to help companies run and measure their ...
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Provider of benefits, insurance and wealth management services, National Financial Partners (NFP) has introduced an online, interactive tool, Benefits Compliance Portal to provide customizable benefits compliance reports for ...
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Farm & General Insurance Consultants, a specialist agricultural and horticultural insurance provider, has selected Transactor Global Solutions Ltd (TGSL) as its new software supplier. Products to be delivered include branded B2B & B2C ...
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Cloud storage provider Dropbox has confirmed that usernames and passwords stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of Dropbox accounts. "A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account ...