Animated GIFs, journal entries, cat photos, and now, more ads. Tumblr, in an effort to further boost its revenue, is rolling out ads into users' mobile feeds. The privately held social-networking and blogging site introduced sponsored ...
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The German firm AV-TEST today stood by the results of its search engine investigation that claimed Microsoft's Bing shows five times the number of malware-hosting websites than Google in its results. On Friday, Microsoft called AV-TEST's ...
Yahoo is giving itself a bit of a makeover. Earlier this week it launched two new mobile apps for email and weather; now it's ditching numerous longstanding products, including Deals and SMS Alerts, in an attempt to sharpen its focus, the ...
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Oracle is looking to delay until next year the planned release of Java 8, citing a renewed focus on security, Oracle's Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group, said in a blog post on Thursday. Java Development Kit 8, ...
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Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer's Master Boot Record (MBR) in order to achieve persistence. The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector that ...
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Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations company Groub-IB have recently identified a new piece of malware designed to steal login credentials from specialized software used to trade stocks and other securities online. ...
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Google is acquiring iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city of Provo, Utah, as part of a plan to introduce its high-speed broadband network called Google Fiber there. As part of the acquisition, Google will upgrade the network to ...
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Google is moving to keep up with its mobile users, updating search on devices this week. The company added two new features, both aimed at getting users on the run to the information they want more quickly. "When you're searching for ...
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Users on Twitter are now more likely to see ads based on what they tweet about. The new feature, which Twitter is calling "keyword targeting in timelines," is designed to give advertisers the option to place Promoted Tweets in users' ...
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Yahoo has released two new mobile apps, for weather and email, suggesting the company may be on track toward delivering on its promise of offering users a range of new mobile products over the next several months. The company, formerly ...
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Twitter has begun allowing ads to be targeted at users based on the words written in 'tweets' and messages forwarded to followers at the popular social network. Previously, contents of Twitter messages relied on algorithms that pool the ...
April is Autism Awareness Month and what a better way to express awareness than with light. In collaboration with Autism awareness the Empire State Building changed its exterior building lights colors blue on April 2nd in hopes to raise ...
Microsoft has discovered an unusually stealthy Trojan capable of deleting the files it downloads in order to keep them away from forensics investigators and researchers. The Trojan downloader,?called Win32/Nemim.gen!A, is the latest ...
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Google has beefed up the administration and management controls that IT staff have over their users' Chrome browsers. Google has added the ability for IT departments to apply the workplace configuration of Chrome browsers to Chrome ...
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Light painters come in all forms, including wheelchair based light painters. The late Alan Martin was a pioneer in the light painting community for wheelchair and AAC (Augmented Assisted Communication) users. Source Light Painting ...
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