Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Late Monday, a group of senators and ...
Microsoft will issue security fixes for its Windows Store apps on the fly, not just on the familiar monthly Patch Tuesday, the company said this week. At the same time, Microsoft spelled out how it will alert customers of security ...
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BlackBerry today announced technology designed to securely separate work and personal data on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as its Balance software does for new BlackBerry 10 devices. The new Secure Work Space for iOS and ...
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Google's decision to bring its Android and Chrome divisions together under Sundar Pichai should result in greater work between the two platforms, but Pichai first needs to rein in the fast expanding operating system and bring some order to ...
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BlackBerry faces a herculean task marketing the new Z10 smartphone to U.S. consumers. In interviews, analysts and CIOs told Computerworld that employees at companies with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies have been switching from ...
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Twitter has released an app for Windows 8, with several features designed specifically for the new operating system from Microsoft. The company said the app features two Windows charms for searching and making posts on Twitter. The search ...
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Microsoft has fixed a problem that caused an outage for many users of Hotmail and the service that is replacing it, Outlook.com. Maintenance work continued to affect the calendaring component of Hotmail, however. Microsoft acknowledged ...
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At 2:46 Monday afternoon, Japan went quiet. In memory of the lives lost two years ago in the earthquake that struck at that hour and the tsunamis that followed, a moment of silence was held across the country. From government buildings to ...
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By Christian Gregor Dieseldorff, director, SEMI Industry Research & Statistics, San Jose, CA USA Despite difficult times, growing demand for mobile devices (such as tablets and phones) inspires an improved outlook for chip sales in ...
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Light emitting diodes (LEDs) comprise an LED chip, package frame, phosphor for light modulation, and encapsulants, which protect the LED from external environment moisture and other elements. The functional properties of these LED packaging ...
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ams AG (SIX: AMS), a designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for consumer and communications, industrial and medical and automotive applications, today introduced a new intelligent LED driver for mobile phone cameras that ...
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IT spending remained broadly strong throughout a difficult end to 2012, as business confidence waned in the shadow of the "fiscal cliff," economic growth declined in much of Europe, and economies in Asia/Pacific struggled to cope with ...
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There’s a lot to be said for open plan offices. They’re cheaper to plan, easy to scale, and encourage collaboration. One thing they don’t provide, however, is a lot of quiet. Depending on what your employees do all day ...
Monster Watts, an innovator of power accessories for Apple and Samsung phones, is introducing three wireless chargers for the Samsung Galaxy S3. Monster Watts is introducing not one, but three different options to add wireless charging to ...
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As Google aims to expand search's ability to answer increasingly difficult questions based on contextual information, several key obstacles still stand in its way. Knowledge Graph, a feature designed to put users' searches in context and ...