As predicted last month, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a record fine on Google of $22.5m (£14.4m) to settle charges that the company wrongly assured users of Apple's Safari browser that its tracking cookies were ...
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Furniture Insights Monthly Results New Furniture Orders As we expected in last month's issue of Furniture Insights, new orders in May improved significantly over April orders according to our recent survey of residential furniture ...
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Microsoft has opened Windows Phone Dev Center,a new portal for smartphone developers that promises better performance and ease of use along with more markets and support for PayPal,the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Windows ...
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Apple considered developing a car or a camera after seeing the iPod's success, and in early 2011 one of its top executives recommended making a 7-inch iPad, Friday's testimony and documents revealed in the company's patent suit against ...
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Television viewers will be aware of a new marketing push by Officeworks, which has adopted the tagline 'Big ideas. Lowest prices.' Explaining the new strategy, Officeworks managing director Mark Ward told an advertising trade magazine ...
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Samsung has rejected Apple's claim that it copied the iPhone during opening arguments in the first court clash between the two technology companies before a US jury in San Jose, California. The technology firms have each accused the other ...
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In what has been billed as the biggest patent battle ever, lawyers representing Apple and Samsung traded verbal blows in the opening round of the legal battle. The four-week trial began in San Jose, California yesterday. Apple is looking ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Microsoft also expects that Outlook.com will draw people away from competing ...
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IDG News Service-Mobile malware is rising fast,infecting nearly 13 million phones in the world during the year first half of 2012,up 177%from the same period a year ago,according to Beijing-based security vendor NetQin. In a report ...
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IDG News Service - , which Microsoft is positioning as a reinvention of its Hotmail and of competing consumer webmail services, appears at first glance more evolutionary than groundbreaking, according to several industry analysts. "This ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft's rebranding of Hotmail as Outlook.com is a move by the company to hold its first-place position in free email while pushing the domain as more of a consumer destination,an analyst said today. Earlier ...
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Twitter is teaming with NBC to make it easier for users to take in all the tweets about the upcoming Olympic Games. NBC Olympics , an arm of the NBC Sports Group, announced this week that Twitter will gather tweets about the London 2012 ...
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Product announcements during the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada in late June highlighted how military applications will continue to grow and drive the fundamental development of semiconductor ...
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Over the last several years Ive had the opportunity to look at a multitude of personal financial applications, all of which offer useful collections of tools for managing your money matters. Of all these apps, none comes close to offering ...
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Computerworld-Smartphone owners plan to vote for President Barack Obama by a wide margin over those favoring GOP rival Mitt Romney for president,according to a recent Harris Interactive survey of 776 smartphone owners. If the election ...
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