Apple has quietly hired Kristin Paget, a former Microsoft security expert who worked as a hacker for the company to resolve Windows Vista vulnerabilities, to work on its Mac OS X security team. According to her LinkedIn profile, Paget ...
Disney rocked the world this week by announcing it will acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion – AND release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015. The entertainment giant has come a very long way since its 1928 black and white Mickey Mouse film ...
On Wednesday, Nokia and Microsoft are once again taking the stage together to launch Nokia's second-generation Windows Phones. Based on Windows Phone 8, they will have a new start screen, dual-core processors and improved cameras. For ...
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The Card Editor from MCookie has become a recent topic of conversation. We now have the Card Editor from MCookie to satisfy those smartphone users who want to express themselves by creating their own unique identity. In line with this ...
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After pencilling in birthday celebrations, extensive press trips, events and launches and other shenanigans my diary for the coming weeks looks do-able (apart from two jam-packed days at BLE next week). But recently, Toyology has been ...
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Without a doubt the biggest talking point on ToyNews Online and our Twitter feed this week has been the mooted Gangnam Style toy. The Psy action figure can recreate all the dance moves from the video, which has scored over 420 million ...
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Access to Google services in China appeared to return after they were blocked briefly as the country prepares to appoint new leadership. The blocking appeared to last for about 12 hours, with Internet traffic resuming to the sites after 6 ...
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AOL offered a limited preview Thursday of a new cloud-based email service that sorts content automatically to help combat "inbox fatigue" and doesn't force users to get a new address. Getting users to change email provider is no mean ...
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Even as the dog at the center of a global animal rights battle was put to death on Wednesday, social networks proved to be a massive weapon for protestors. Lennox, a seven-year-old black dog who lived with his family in Belfast, Ireland, ...
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(Image Caption: Stay.com offers guides to 120 cities, but its list view emphasizes your particular destinations.) If its summertime, its vacation time. And these days, iOS users have little excuse for getting lost, or not knowing what their ...
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The changes Twitter is making to its API policies triggered a wave of protest among its developers, but they might be necessary for the strategy Twitter has laid out for itself to make money and keep growing its service. The stricter ...
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Panorama Consulting Solutions, the world's leading independent enterprise resource planning (ERP) consulting firm, has launched four benchmark surveys to gather implementation and deployment data specific to SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics ...
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The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google’s search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported that ...
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E-mail security vendors are trying to lure Postini customers now that Google has announced plans to shut down the unit and migrate its customers to Google Apps. Competitors announcing special offers for Postini customers include Barracuda ...
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Ventana Research has announced that the firm will share key findings from its yet to be published Business Technology Innovation Benchmark Research, as well as present facts from other new and recently released research on big data, cloud ...
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