Google is shutting down its Google Reader and seven other products and services, taking the total number of features or services shut since its "spring cleaning" began in 2011 to 70. The company said it needed to focus to take advantage ...
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Samsung on Thursday confirmed reports by German media that it will stop selling its Windows RT tablet, the Ativ Tab, in Germany. The sales of the tablet will also be halted in other European countries, according to the German tech news ...
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Microsoft has announced that seven patches will be released on Tuesday 12 March. The bulletins, as Microsoft calls them, comprise four "critical" and three "important" updates. The critical updates address vulnerabilities in Microsoft ...
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Software giant Microsoft has caved in to public pressure and will now allow buyers of Office 2013 to transfer their software licence to other PCs. The decision follows uproar over the draconian ratcheting up of software licensing terms by ...
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Microsoft has released a collection of tools that will help Visual Studio 2012 users more easily write add-on applications for Microsoft Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft’s Office 365 hosted service. The packages could be ...
Visual 2000 International Inc. is launching a new Visual SFA.net Tablet app for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Surface and other Windows-based tablets and smartphones. The powerful yet simple-to-use mobile sales force automation (SFA) solution ...
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FusionOps, the world’s only provider of a single, integrated cloud-based analytics application for supply chain business users, announced that it has expanded its application to support the SAP Apparel and Footwear (AFS) and Financial ...
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Google confirmed today that it has ported part of QuickOffice, a popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office, to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser. The search giant acquired QuickOffice in ...
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Microsoft Surface RT is expected to be sold to consumers in Japan, this version can run the Microsoft Office RT and IE10 desktop applications, but only for application in the Windows app store. The price of 32GB version of the Surface RT ...
Microsoft is losing out on up to $2.5bn (£1.6bn) of revenue by not rolling out its Microsoft Office suite to Apple tablets, a Morgan Stanley analyst has calculated. "Our conversations lead us to believe Microsoft will price for ...
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Chinese authorities may be exploiting a security hole in Microsoft Office for Mac to target the Uyghur people, an ethnic group of people who live in parts of Asia and are seeking independence from Chinese rule, according to Kaspersky and ...
Budget phones can be miserable affairs. Poor screen and camera resolution, terrible keyboards and hand-me-down technology can make a user feel like the character in Barbra Streisand's 60s hit Second Hand Rose. This isn't so with Nokia's ...
Adobe last week announced it would add a new security feature to Flash Player in an attempt to block some of the exploits hackers are hiding inside older Microsoft Office documents. The new feature -- a pop-up warning -- will be triggered ...
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When a relatively small high-tech company with some big aerospace and defense customers wanted to adopt cloud-based email for its employees, it faced the challenge that whatever choice of cloud service it adopted, it had to meet the ...
Private clouds are now a better option for secure and manageable data retention than in-house storage. That's according to Jayson Dudley, group insfrastructure manager at accountancy firm Mazars. "It seems a mismatch in someone's ...
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