Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) with Windows 8.1 later this year, but on Monday the company passed on saying whether the same browser would also be available to Windows 7 users. "We aren't sharing anything around which ...
WASHINGTON -- One of the computer scientists who turned on the Internet in 1983, Vinton Cerf, is concerned that much of the data created since then, and for years still to come, will be lost to time. Cerf warned that digital things ...
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Early Monday, a developer announced the release of the first porn app for Google Glass only to learn that Google had banned porn apps for its computerized eyeglasses. MiKandi, an adult app store, created a piece of Glassware that enables ...
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Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Chrome, including one of the few labeled "critical" that it has fixed in the five-year history of its browser. Tuesday's update to the "stable" build channel -- analogous to a production version ...
Europe will see no new companies with the power of Apple or Facebook for some while yet, Parallels virtualisation platform founder Serguei Beloussov (pictured) has said, amid a grim outlook for the existing crop of technology giants. ...
MOTOROLA's high-tech smart phones will publish Moto X to compete with Samsung and Apple. The main difference with the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S4 is the intelligent sensor. On Thursday (May 30), the subsidiary of Google, MOTOROLA director ...
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Gmail users, your inboxes are about to be rearranged. Google announced a new kind of inbox for Gmail that automatically sorts messages into categories, or "tabs." For example, updates from Google+ and other networks go into a "Social" ...
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Google has admitted it has its eyes on the money with Google Fiber, the company's 1Gbps fibre broadband business it's currently trialling in Kansas City. Speaking at the Fiber-to-the-Home Council meeting in Kansas City, vice president of ...
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Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has once again warned the government against "knee-jerk" efforts to revive the Communications Data Bill in the wake of the murder of drummer Lee Rigby. Dubbed by critics the "snooper's charter", the ...
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Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its software packages and services to help developers and IT managers modernize their applications so they will better fit into today's always connected environment. Enterprise software users now ...
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Google is kicking off its latest effort to help Gmail users manage their messages -- a redesigned inbox. The new inbox, which will roll out to all Gmail users over the coming weeks, sorts incoming messages into labeled buckets. The ...
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In a leaked letter to home secretary Theresa May, five US web giants have warned that they will not cooperate with the proposed Communications Data Bill, widely known as the "snooper's charter". In the letter, dated 18 April, which was ...
Company tried to register the brand as its own and sell it back to Kiddimoto for a five-figure sum. Balance bike supplier Kiddimoto has won an 18-month legal battle against a firm who tried to take the brand’s name as its own. The ...
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MICROSOFT is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It's making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar format designed for personal ...
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BT, one of Yahoo's biggest customers for its Yahoo Mail service, has decided to dump the service in favour of its own BT Mail platform, which will be run by US messaging specialist Critical Path. Yahoo Mail accounts have been given ...
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