Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today. But it's ...
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Improving users' experiences is no justification for using consumer information in big data projects, according to Europe's top data protection officials. The Article 29 Working Group, which includes the data protection supervisors from ...
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After dumping Facebook a little less than a year ago, General Motors is back, running an advertising test on the social network. GM, one of the country's largest advertisers, said in an email to Computerworld today that it is testing paid ...
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Eyeing the sometimes considerable data roaming bills that companies receive, a startup called Wandera launched a service Wednesday that promises to cut down on roaming data use. The company is based in both London and San Francisco and ...
Java and its linchpin JVM (Java Virtual Machine) still have much room to get better even after debuting 18 years ago, say experts who would like improvements in such areas as locality, application isolation, and parallel operations. The ...
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To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers. The architecture, announced on Tuesday, calls for decoupling ...
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Intel's upcoming "Bay Trail" Atom processor is aimed at the low-end market, and promises to deliver convertible PCs and notebooks with all-day battery life at budget prices, the company said on Wednesday. "We think this is going to ...
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T-Mobile USA is trying to boost the number of iPhone users on its network by offering the iPhone 5 without down payment to people who bring in their iPhone 4 and 4S smartphones for a trade-in which could also earn them up to $120 in ...
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Intel announced new server chips on Tuesday, including the latest Xeon E3, which is the first server processor based on the company's latest Haswell microarchitecture. Intel's Xeon E3 chips are targeted at low-end servers and ...
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Shares of PC-related companies have slumped as IDC said PC sales fell 14% in Q1 compared to Q12012. IDC called the magnitude of the decline "surprising and worrisome." "The Windows 8 launch not only didn't provide a positive boost to ...
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Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French ...
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More than six out of 10 companies allow or mandate the use of employee-owned mobile devices for work in order to increase productivity, according to a survey released Tuesday. While the BYOD (bring your own device) push has received a lot ...
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System administrators and IT security pros can take bit of a breather: Microsoft issued a comparatively light set of patches for this edition of its monthly release of software vulnerability fixes. "It's a boring Patch Tuesday this month, ...
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Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers. It also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime. Red Hat hopes ...
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Rural telecom and broadband providers in the U.S. face big challenges in connecting their most remote customers, as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission transitions away from old telephone subsidies, a group of providers told ...
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