Computerworld - Apple's suppliers had a banner July, providing yet another clue that the company has geared up production to release a new iPhone and a smaller iPad in four weeks, an analyst said. According to Brian White of Topeka ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft's Windows 8 is vulnerable to attack by exploits that hackers have been aiming at PCs for several weeks, Adobe confirmed Friday. Microsoft said it will not patch the bug in Flash Player until what it called "GA," ...
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Fortescue Metals Group has kicked off the federal government approval process for an ambitious multi billion dollar magnetite iron ore operation south of Port Hedland that it says can produce 15 million tonnes of product a year for 45 ...
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Many of the country's largest companies lashed out at Microsoft this week, claiming that its decision to turn on the "Do Not Track" privacy feature in Internet Explorer 10 would "harm consumers, hurt competition, and undermine American ...
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The Home Office is to decide by 16 October whether to block the extradition to the US of self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon on the grounds of poor health. The timetable has been set after the High Court intervened in July to end a ...
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BlueScope Steel Limited advises that it has completed its 1 for 6 share consolidation. The consolidation involved the conversion of every six fully paid ordinary shares into one fully paid ordinary share. It was approved by a resolution of ...
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Increased talk of a September launch of the next iPhone, as well as a new, smaller iPad -- if accurate -- would make it easier for Apple to erase the bad taste of the second quarter and beat its own lowered expectations this quarter, a Wall ...
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Apple's share price on Friday closed at an all-time high, climbing nearly $12 to just over $648 a share, a number that sets the value of the firm at more than $600 billion. Most experts attributed Apple's recent surge to investors' ...
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Microsoft has extended mainstream support for Windows Server 2008 by 18 months, and again reminded customers that the still-strong Windows XP will retire in April 2014. Windows watcher Mary Jo Foley, a blogger for ZDNet, first reported ...
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Germany's cybersecurity agency on Monday urged users to drop Internet Explorer (IE) and switch to a rival, like Chrome or Firefox, until Microsoft patches a new critical bug in its browser. In an alert released Monday, Germany's Federal ...
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BUS users in Sydney can track how far away their next bus is with the release of new real time bus smartphone apps. NSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian today said that customers wanted real time public transport information and the ...
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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 ...
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Microsoft today said it would update Flash on Windows 8 "shortly," although it declined to set a timetable. "In light of Adobe's recently released security updates for its Flash Player, Microsoft is working closely with Adobe to release ...
There will be no certified implementations of Adobe Systems' Flash Player for Android 4.1, and on Aug. 15 the player will take a bow and no longer be available for download from Google's app store Play, Adobe said in blog post Thursday. ...
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Apple followed through on past practice today and released iOS 6, the latest version of its mobile OS for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, today at 1 p.m. ET. Earlier in the day on Twitter, an Australian identified as James Edward Minaj ...