LinkedIn has shut off its API access to "Bang With Professionals," a Web service that was intended to facilitate more, say, intimate connections among users of the business-oriented social networking site. The service was designed to ...
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OTG Management, which runs restaurants and other concessions in airports, is investing heavily in automation -- but it isn't using that as a rationale to reduce its workforce. The company has deployed iPads in its restaurants in airport ...
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Opera's announcement yesterday that it would ditch its own browser and JavaScript engines in favor of the open-source WebKit and V8 engines will let it compete in the lucrative iOS market. But Opera's CTO maintained that that was just one ...
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Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) ...
Tela Innovations has filed patent infringement complaints against key mobile handset vendors, including LG, HTC, Nokia and Motorola Mobility, before the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court for the District of ...
BlackBerry is getting closer to shipping a red, limited edition version of the Z10 to selected developers who have created applications for its new BlackBerry 10 OS. The company is planning to distribute 12,000 units of the device as a ...
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Owners and developers looking to build or upgrade self-storage facilities are deluged with details, decisions, permits and many other concerns. To be successful they are rethinking their operation and overall facility design, and looking ...
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International specialist insurer Hiscox has introduced Hiscox Professional Liability Portfolio to offer tailor made policy forms for its customers. The newly launched product provides customised policy forms for certain client segments ...
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A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large number of applications and systems to remote code execution attacks. CURL is a ...
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Dropbox today announced a new synchronization API for iOS and Android-powered devices that it said will offer developers a new code library to help them better focus on creating mobile apps. The new API is available today on Dropbox's ...
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Africa has become a battleground for low-to-mid-range smartphones following high-profile launches of products from leading manufacturers in the last two months. In Kenya last month, Safaricom, the region's largest mobile carrier, launched ...
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The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, such as browser authentication cookies, from encrypted communications. The patching ...
Creating some consternation in the Web development community, Opera Software is switching from a home-built rendering engine to the more widely used open-source WebKit, now employed in the Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers. "It ...
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According to research firm Gartner, Big Data is currently still a solution looking for a problem, despite it being forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013 and create 4.4 million IT jobs by 2015. While businesses are keen to ...
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Using a smartphone to pay for purchases in lieu of a physical debit or credit card may become a US$1 trillion business by 2015, and some ancillary technologies for consumer engagement could help to make that happen. Shopping for products ...
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