Facebook has admitted that laptops belonging to its employees were recently infected by malware, blaming a zero-day Java exploit for the incident. Users of the social network will be concerned that their private data may have been ...
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Toys R Us' Jerry Storch will step down as CEO after seven years at the helm, but will remain Chairman of the Board. He will also remain CEO while the retailer looks for his successor. Storch, 56, joined the company in February 2006 ...
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A new Barbie Digital Makeover Mirror has dazzled visitors to the 2013 US Toy Fair. Girls can use attach an iPad to the vanity frame to "try on" virtual eye shadow, lipstick and glitter, reports Mashable. Users can hold a wand, dip ...
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Members of the GMB union are staging a number of demonstrations across nine Amazon UK depots today (Wednesday, February 13th). The dispute concerns staff wages, which are £6.20 an hour - one penny above the UK minimum wage, ...
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Aurora World is producing a new Garfield plush range. The Garfield cartoon was first introduced in 1978 and is now featured in over 2,100 newspapers across the globe, holding the Guinness World Record for the most syndicated cartoon ...
Kids, parents and members of the toy industry are being urged to "Do something funny with Jelly" for charity. The In Thing has teamed up Izziwizzi kids to donate Gelli Baff and launch the campaign in aid of Comic relief. This will ...
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Playmobil has responded to campaigners who said its 'Bank with Safe' play-set sends out the wrong message to children. Danny Bryan, chairman of Communities Against Gun and Knife Crime, said the toy was "horrendous" as it includes a ...
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A report released National Audit Office revealed that the UK IT skills shortage means that Britain could have trouble defending itself from cyber attacks over the next 20 years. The UK was hit by over 40 million cyber attacks in 2011 ...
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PicSlinger, an addictive new iPhone application, combines pictures with a word game for friends to play together. Players give it their best shot by choosing a word from three choices and snapping a photo to represent that word. Player A ...
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The Nimbuzz messaging app for the BlackBerry 10 is the only messaging platform to integrate GTalk, Yahoo and Facebook Messenger into a single BlackBerry application, enabling BlackBerry users to send unlimited chat messages and share ...
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Mobidia Technology, Inc., a provider of mobile analytics, today released new insight into mobile usage of messaging and VOIP applications. Mobidia's data highlights the continued and growing importance of these applications to smartphone ...
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Five years and 40 million users later, MoMinis is making some big changes. The company is completely rebranding with a new name and logo, and releasing a suite of 100 original games. Beginning today, MoMinis will be referred to as ...
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PaySimple, the cloud-based platform for managing and growing small businesses, announced the findings in its 2013 Pulse Survey of Small Businesses today. Thousands of PaySimple users surveyed articulated a plan to adopt more technology ...
Broadcast live on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards opened with the Taittinger Moment Champagne red carpet toast. Vitalie Taittinger, Global Ambassador and Artistic Director of the historic Champagne house, ...
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LeapFrog is the fastest-growing top ten toy manufacturer in the UK, according to full-year 2012 NPD data. The company says it grew by 26 per cent last year, when it became the eighth biggest toy manufacturer in the UK. The LeapPad kids' ...
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