Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website. "Reports of an @Netflix outage today are wrong: Streaming is fine. DVD delivery is fine," said ...
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Final online usage numbers for 2012 released Tuesday confirmed that Windows 8 failed to match Windows Vista's uptake pace during its first two months. Preliminary numbers from Net Applications last week indicated that Windows 8 would end ...
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With just a week left in the month, Windows 8's usage uptake has slipped behind Vista's at the same point in its release, data from a Web measurement company showed. According to Net Applications, Windows 8's online usage share through ...
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Netflix has restored its streaming video services, after Christmas outages related to problems with Amazon's online computing platform. Netflix users were unable to stream movies and TV shows from some devices on Monday, with many posting ...
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St. Nick and his reindeer have begun their Christmas Eve work delivering presents to children around the world and NORAD is tracking their progress today. As the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has been doing since 1958, ...
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AAP reported that Fortescue Metals Group says it has loaded 8.5 million tonnes of iron ore and achieved an annualized 100 million tonne production run rate in the last month of 2012. The iron ore focused company said the December run rate ...
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Research in Motion (RIM) has sold its cloud services company NewBay to Synchronoss Technologies at a considerable loss, just a little more than a year after purchasing it. RIM's purchase of Irish software company NewBay for $100m in ...
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Digital certificates issued by an authority in Turkey are being used for "man in the middle" attacks on Google properties, according to warnings issued by both Microsoft and Google. The security flaw was traced to a fraudulent digital ...
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When BBC One's The One Show was chosen to launch the BBC One Christmas line-up, they commissioned arts and technology collective seeper to produce a large scale projection on to the front of the BBC. The projection was used to map ...
Slovenia welcomed the 2012 Festive season in huge style at the Red XMas Party, the country's largest and hottest dance event, headlined by Armin Van Buuren, staged at the Arena Stoice, Ljubljana by Black Pony Entertainment and enjoyed by ...
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Danske Spritfabriker, which is now owned by France's Pernod Ricard, has succeeded in establishing a long-lasting Christmas tradition. For the past 31 years the Danish distiller has produced Aalborg Jule Akvavit, a Christmas aquavit ...
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According to the new set-up Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance, Taiwan's LED industry is expected to benefit from high growth in the global LED lighting business in 2013. Taiwan's LED industry to benefit from global LED lighting brisk ...
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The brief: Design agency Webb deVlam was tasked with finding an untapped technology to incorporate into the packaging for gin brand Bombay Sapphire. The firm needed to find something that had the ‘wow’ factor and settled on ...
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A few major retailers want to get a jump on Cyber Monday by launching their online sales over the Thanksgiving weekend. Both WalMart.com and Sears.com are trying to take the Monday out of Cyber Monday,the marketing name given to the first ...
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Coal traders returned to their posts on Wednesday, snapping the streak of low volume sessions in the US over-the-counter thermal coal market since the Christmas holiday. Central Appalachian barge and rail (CSX) contracts, as well as ...
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