Google has blocked access in India to a YouTube film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, claiming it was meeting a valid legal process, the company said on Friday. Earlier a source at the Internet Service Providers Association of ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook has launched a new version of its app for Android smartphones that promises users speedier access to their messages, timeline and news. The app marks a rewrite of several major parts of the Facebook software to ...
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Voice interaction will be available in ultrabooks starting in the fourth quarter, an Intel executive said Tuesday. Ultrabooks will come with Nuance's Dragon Assistant Beta voice recognition software, which will enable direct interaction ...
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HTML5 tools vendor Sencha unveiled today Sencha Complete Team, which bundles existing tools with an Eclipse plug-in, a desktop application packager, and data connectors. Developers using the suite can build HTML5-based business ...
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Pope Benedict XVI will extend his online presence to Twitter and start answering questions put to him via the social network in English and seven other languages. The official Papal handle is @pontifex, the Vatican announced on Monday, ...
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Corrupted router tables, not malicious protesters, were the culprits behind Monday's widespread outage of GoDaddy's Internet registrar and hosting services, the company reported. "The service outage was not caused by external influences," ...
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HP's ElitePad 900 has a major flaw in the fact that its screen resolution isn't high enough to support Microsoft's Windows 8's 'Snap' feature. The 10-inch screen has a resolution of 1280 by 800 whereas most Windows 8 tablets have much ...
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China has started blocking SlideShare, a document sharing service recently acquired by LinkedIn, making the site inaccessible to users in the country. "It appears that Internet users in China are not currently able to access SlideShare. ...
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Google+ is hitting a major milestone this week as its fledgling social network reaches its first birthday. Google launched its own social network a year ago Thursday. While it's a distant competitor to the world's top social network, ...
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[Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If there's something you'd like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.] Most of the Ask the iTunes Guy columns so ...
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Cyber criminals are using compromised Twitter accounts to distribute messages disguised as coming from friends who suggest recipients click on a link to see themselves on a Facebook video. Sophos reported the trick after receiving a ...
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Twitter is getting a new look and it's looking a lot like Facebook. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo showed the site's redesign on the Today Show in the U.S. yesterday and talked about putting a new focus on user photos and profiles. ...
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As presidential election day unfolded on Tuesday, people spent time posting photos of long lines at polling places, tweeting about casting a vote and commenting on a viral video of a malfunctioning voting machine. This year marked the ...
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Popular online social networking site Tumblr was ravaged on Monday by an Internet worm that spewed racist and inflammatory messages across thousands of user accounts. The malicious hacking group known as GNAA claimed responsibility. The ...
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A new tool allows Mac OS X attackers with root OS access to easily steal the keychain password data of logged in users and reinforces the dangers of granting administrative privileges to applications without serious consideration. The ...
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