Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Microsoft's radical overhaul of Windows has been cited by some to explain plummeting PC shipments, but the very ...
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Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn. Microsoft recently implemented a feature in Office 365 called Connect ...
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Yahoo has acquired Astrid, a to-do list and personal assistant mobile app, and the developers behind it for an undisclosed sum. The Internet company has acquired both the talent and the technology in the deal, a spokeswoman said in an ...
Ivo Opstelten, Dutch minister of Safety and Justice The Dutch government on Thursday presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems — including those located in foreign countries ...
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Facebook has begun letting people locked out of their profiles get back in with the help of "friends". A new Trusted Contacts account recovery feature lets Facebook users set up lists of friends who can provide codes to unlock accounts. ...
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Facebook is acquiring Parse, a cloud service company that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps by providing them with a hosted back-end infrastructure, the companies announced Thursday. The deal appears to put Facebook in ...
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The average Facebook user has 342 friends and teenage girls and boys tend to misreport their relationship status as married, according to an analysis of Facebook data by Wolfram Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram analyzed Facebook ...
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McAfee said it has found a vulnerability in Adobe Systems' Reader program that reveals when and where a PDF document is opened. The issue is not a serious problem and does not allow for remote code execution,?wrote?McAfee's?Haifei Li in a ...
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The number of government requests that Google has received to remove certain types of content, often politically charged, reached its highest level ever during the second half of 2012, the company reported Thursday. For the period between ...
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GOOGLE has released data showing that requests by governments to censor the internet giant's content have hit new heights, with Brazil and the United States leading the way. Google received 2285 government requests to remove content from ...
Dell has pulled together products it gained from recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance. The offerings are aimed at ...
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The BlackBerry Q10 with its physical keyboard is expected to be available from major U.S. carriers in late May at a suggested price of $249 with a contract, a BlackBerry spokeswoman said late Tuesday. Pricing for the BlackBerry Z10, ...
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A recently patched Java remote code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scareware, security researchers warn. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2013-2423, was ...
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Microsoft has inked an agreement that adds China-based ZTE to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program. Financial details of deal were not disclosed. But the agreement gives ZTE access to Microsoft patents covering phones, ...
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In a testament to the issues surrounding the appropriate use of social media during a tragedy, Reddit is publicly apologizing for the role that it played last week in fueling an online witch hunt that led to identifying an innocent Brown ...
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