Yahoo received more than 30,000 requests from seventeen different countries around the world for user data in the first half of this year, resulting in more than 25,000 instances of data disclosure, it said Friday in its first transparency ...
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Reports suggest that BlackBerry is looking at spinning off its BlackBerry Messenger service as a standalone business, positioned to compete with such consumer stalwarts as WhatsApp and Viber. While BlackBerry has so far refused to comment ...
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INVISTA’s CORDURA brand expands its durable line of fabrics in its head-to-toe product portfolio with CORDURA Lite Plus and CORDURA Air Flow Technology (AFT) fabrics—debuting them at this year’s 2013 Outdoor Retailer ...
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Hologic, a developer of medical imaging systems and surgical products, has received approval for its Aptima HPV assay for use on its fully-automated Panther system from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The assay is a nucleic ...
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A cycling team from Global Monitoring, supplier of industrial remote monitoring and control systems, was doing more than contributing to a good cause by participating in the 65 mile American Cancer Society 41st Bikeathon?in Philadelphia on ...
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A team of six recent college graduates has come up with an innovative way to prevent functional finish chemistries from entering the environment by using tons of US Army textiles destined for landfills to make high end bags. Led by the ...
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BlackBerry continues to expand its support for Android and iOS with Secure Work Space, which separates work and personal apps and data, as the company tries to hold on to enterprise users by becoming more platform neutral. Remaining ...
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BlackBerry Messenger, a free messaging and social networking application for BlackBerry devices, will be coming to iOS and Android app stores at some point, but not June 27 as tweeted by T-Mobile UK early Thursday. T-Mobile did send out a ...
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Google is feeling the heat over its decision to build its new Hangouts IM and audio/video chat product with proprietary technology that doesn't support server federation via the XMPP industry standard, but the company is defending its move. ...
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Pressure sensors from American Sensor Technologies (AST) are serving as components in a remote monitoring system that ensures optimal operations of safety trailers used on remote sites as emergency first aid stations. Mining, ...
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Apps, Google's flagship product for enterprise IT, had a minor presence at this week's I/O developer conference, but some announcements at the show and in prior weeks deserve attention from customers of the cloud email and collaboration ...
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The annual BlackBerry Live conference was kicked off Tuesday with the launch of a new 3.1-in. qwerty smartphone, the BlackBerry Q5, that's slated to go on sale this summer in emerging markets, but not in the U.S. Blackberry's qwerty Q5 ...
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BlackBerry's free Messenger service is being expanded to work with iOS and Android devices. Analysts regarded the move -- announced today at BlackBerry Live -- as mostly positive, since it could help an improving BlackBerry expand its ...
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Smartphone maker BlackBerry is to port its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) tool to Android and iOS. It will be available on all three platforms by the summer, claims the company, and crucially will be free. Further reading Analysis: ...
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Research In Motion has unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry aimed at consumers in emerging markets, and said it will offer its once-popular BlackBerry Messenger service on iPhones and devices running Google's Android software. CEO Thorsten ...
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