Gartner is giving the thumbs up to Windows 8.1, crediting the operating system refresh with overcoming the major downsides of Windows 8. Improvements to Windows 8 that will become available next week should prompt businesses to ...
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Google is hoping to appease developers that want better portability for their hosted apps by working with Red Hat on running App Engine in private clouds. The Google Cloud Platform team has been working with Red Hat’s JBoss ...
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Facebook said the problem was tied to its Download Your Information tool. Source: AFP Facebook says a bug in its system caused six million users' contact information to be inadvertently exposed. The social media company said the bug led ...
Tags: Facebook, Contact Information, Social Media
MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. The companies have collaborated to certify for VMware's vSphere platform the ...
Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). The Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty will start June 26, the day ...
Microsoft has posted bounties of up to $US100,000 ($106,000) for "truly novel" ways to hack the latest version of its Windows software for powering computers. "For the first time ever, Microsoft is offering direct cash payouts in exchange ...
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Java continues to be Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to computer and network security. Oracle released a huge update for the virtually ubiquitous software, but attackers aren’t done exploiting Java as the weakest link in the security ...
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Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them. Spindle screenshot The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, could help ...
Tags: Twitter, Spindle, Location Discovery Tools
Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, ...
Tags: Yahoo, User Data, Law Enforcement Agencies
Google's Chromebook laptop will be carried by more than 6,600 stores around the world, as the company signs on more retailers. Starting Monday, Walmart is offering an Acer Chromebook, which has a 16GB Solid State Drive, in about 2,800 ...
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The shift toward smaller tablets will accelerate in the second half of the year when a slew of tablet makers, including Apple, introduce new models with screens 8-in. or smaller, said Richard Shim, an analyst with DisplaySearch. Although ...
Tags: Smaller Tablets, 2013
Microsoft is upping the stakes in the growing market for cloud-based ERP, with its Dynamics GP 2013 and NAV 2013 products now available for deployment on its Azure service. The launch, announced Tuesday, gives customers another option for ...
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Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday. Some of those investigations might have ...
Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the second CEP-related deal this week. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were ...
Tags: Software AG, CEP, Progress Software
Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers. Microsoft released the Microsoft Office Mobile suite for iPhones Friday. The software is compatible with iPhone 4, ...
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