LinkedIn has redesigned the Profile page of its members' accounts, tweaking the layout and adding features in order to simplify viewing and editing as well as increase engagement among users. LinkedIn, whose site is used by about 175 ...
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Paul Coby faces his second Christmas as IT director at department store chain John Lewis. Since joining the retailer in March 2011, after many years as CIO at British Airways, he has embraced what he calls the "retail revolution" brought ...
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Google on Tuesday is releasing an SDK (software development kit) for its one-year-old Dart programming language. Google has pitched Dart as an alternative to JavaScript, but Dart has not had the kind of browser support that JavaScript ...
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Unilever has agreed a five-year HR BPO contract with Accenture to expand the manufacturer's recruitment activity into social networking. The contract extension will see outcome-based targets as well as the traditional service level ...
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SceneChat , a social video advertising startup addressing the needs of brand marketers, researchers and educators, with an innovative interactive video and social sharing solution, today announced the immediate availability of a free trial ...
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Instagram has denied that it will start selling its users' photos, and tried to explain its updated privacy policy as it aims to put its disillusioned user base at ease. The website, which has about 100 million users, with roughly a third ...
New Zealand's High Court ruled on Wednesday that Megaupload can take out a $4.8 million loan to pay its legal bills and rent for founder Kim Dotcom. The advance will be secured against $10 million in New Zealand government bonds held by ...
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The Japanese government on Wednesday hosted a panel in Tokyo on allowing emergency "911" calls to be placed through social networks such as Twitter during natural disasters. The national Fire and Disaster Management Agency held the event ...
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Ericsson has unveiled a Wi-Fi access point and controller for offloading cellular traffic in densely populated areas such as stadiums. Its goal is to allow users to switch seamlessly from the cellular network to a local Wi-Fi network to ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer appointed another former Google employee as her chief operations officer on Monday, her first day back at work since the birth of her baby. Henrique De Castro, formerly an vice president global media and ...
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Google has started publicly testing an initial set of enterprise social networking (ESN) features for Google+, adding a key collaboration component for Google Apps customers. Google first indicated last year that it planned to release an ...
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The 'CRIME' attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure) traffic, one of the attack's creators ...
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Google on Thursday made accommodations for Java and Python developers by offering a Java-to-Objective-C translator and advancing its Python client library for Google APIs. With the open source release of J2ObjC, Google has authored a ...
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Today marks the official release of VMware's vSphere 5.1, and despite the point release, there's much more to this version than minor updates and bug fixes. In fact, this is a release that would have been comfortable wearing the number 6. ...
Tags: VMware, vSphere 5.1, bug fixes, minor updates
Just a day before Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone, Google today released its first iOS YouTube app. The move, if not the timing, was anticipated: Last month Apple confirmed that its YouTube license had ended, and that its own app ...
Tags: Google, iOS Youtube app, Computer Products