Microsoft is upping the security on Azure with Active Authentication, a new service now in preview which allows enterprises to secure access to hosted applications such as Office 365 with two-factor authentication. Active Authentication ...
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Sony's Open SmartWatch Project will make it possible for developers to create and install alternative software on the Sony SmartWatch. Smart watches have been in the spotlight recently, with reports that Apple, Google and Samsung are all ...
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Apple on Monday trumpeted OS X 10.9, or Mavericks, but made a U-turn from past practice and declined to name a price for the upgrade or tap a ship date as anything more specific than the fall. The departure from tradition lends credence ...
Apple has doubled down on getting faster Wi-Fi by including support for the emerging 802.11ac (also called 5G Wi-Fi) standard in its new AirPort Extreme base station, Time Capsule and MacBook Air laptops, all unveiled at its Worldwide ...
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Apple's mobile development chief Craig Federighi poked fun at Android when he announced AirDrop data sharing technology for iOS on Monday. "AirDrop is the easiest way to share [data] with people around you," Federighi said at the opening ...
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Nvidia's Shield is complementary to gaming consoles for now, but the company hopes that wide adoption of Android gaming ultimately could make the $349 handheld an alternative to Xbox and PlayStation. Nvidia Shield gaming handheld front ...
A series of blunders by Microsoft have paved the way for Sony's PlayStation 4 console to capture the top spot in year-end holiday sales. "In terms of the initial sales of Xbox One and the PS4 I think the $100 price difference will make a ...
Technology giant Apple has announced plans to further its iPhone and iPad operating system integration with vehicle infotainment systems from 2014. At the company’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) this morning, Apple ...
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Facebook is phasing out its Credits virtual payment system and will be transitioning all games integrated into the social network to a new local payments API by Sept. 12, the company announced Wednesday. The migration is part of a larger ...
SAP is at work on a new product called Sentinel that is supposed to be "nothing less than the Amazon for Stocks and the Facebook for Investors," according to a job posting associated with the project. "We take our metaphors seriously," ...
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Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer versions of languages such as Ruby and Python with support. For certain applications, a more recent version of a language than what's ...
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IBM and 10gen have announced that they joining forces to create a new open standard that will allow developers of web and mobile apps to access data held in NoSQL databases, such as 10gen's MongoDB, and also IBM's enterprise database DB2. ...
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US social game developer Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) will cut 520 jobs globally before this August. It said on June 4 that it would lay off about 520 staff globally before August this year and the staff accounted for about 18 percent of the ...
Global videogame publisher 505 Games today announced its product lineup for this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 11-13. PAYDAY 2, Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons and ...
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Square Enix today announced its broad spectrum of next-generation and current generation console, PC and mobile game products to be unveiled during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2013, June 11-13 at the Los Angeles Convention ...
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