A Black Hat volunteer mistakenly sent to 7,500 conference goers a password-reset email that was initially thought to be a phishing attempt. Organizers of the security conference that started Saturday in Las Vegas, quickly released a ...
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Virgin Media posted a steady increase in sales for its second quarter of 2012, with total revenue up 4.2% to £1.03bn and business revenue up 9.8% to £166m, compared to the same period in 2011. Neil Berkett, CEO of Virgin ...
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IDG News Service-Wi-Fi chip makers are lining up to add WiGig technology to their wireless LAN products,preparing the way for tri-band equipment that can deliver multi-gigabit speeds within a room. On Monday,Marvell Technology Group ...
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The 2012 Olympics begin this week,and some might be lucky enough to have tickets to one of the many sports being contested by the 205 participating nations.With London hosting the 2012 games,seeing the Olympics in person means a trek to the ...
The Wi-Fi Direct Services specification that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to finish next year should help to extend the use of Wi-Fi Direct beyond proprietary implementations,the organization says. The emerging specification,in the early ...
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ROG Maximus V Extreme includes five PCI Express 3.0 slots ASUS has introduced a new motherboard, ROG Maximus V Extreme which is based on Intel Z77 chipset and supports a range of 2nd and 3rd generation Intel Core processors. The ...
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Samsung is to pay$310m for CSR's wireless mobile unit which delivers 36%of CSR's revenues. The deal covers Cambridge-based CSR's products for handsets. It will leave the company focused on audio,imaging,automotive,indoor location and ...
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Samsung Electronics will buy CSR's mobile development division for $310m. The acquisition will see the transfer of 21 patents to Samsung from the UK chip manufacturer, which has been struggling with losses since a restructuring last year, ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung Electronics will buy the handset connectivity and location chip development operations of UK chip maker CSR for$310 million,the companies said Tuesday. Samsung aims to strengthen its application processor platform ...
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A teardown of the Nexus 7 tablet reveals Google is likely to break even on the $199 8GB version of its tablet while earning a modest profit on the 16GB version, which is priced at $249. IHS iSuppli said the 8GB version of the Nexus 7 has ...
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I think it's fair to say that most of us have too much paper in our lives, whether it's business documents, receipts, financial statements, or (my personal weakness) keepsake scraps like menus and ticket stubs. Flatbed scanners are ...
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Thales has been handed the ideal opportunity to show off its latest in-flight entertainment(IFE)and connectivity innovations at the show,thanks to the presence of Qatar Airways'Boeing 787. The widebody twinjet is the first 787 to ...
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Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled,but several major U.S.Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP ...
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Businesses are in danger of losing market share by failing to design more digitally inclusive websites,with four million disabled people having never been online,says charity for disabled digital inclusion Go ON Gold. Go ON Gold's ...
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Computerworld-Apple will launch OS X Mountain Lion July 25 if it repeats what it did last year when it announced the then-new Lion a day after its quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts. Monday,Apple scheduled its next earnings ...
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