Google will now be able to assure its customers that their data is hosted in European datacentres after announcing upgrades to its Google Cloud platform. According to the technology giant it is increasing its European datacentre support, ...
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Security vendor Symantec,the firm behind the Norton Antivirus product among others,has warned of a new type of malware that is able to modify corporate databases. The threat,which Symantec has named W32.Narilam,has the functionality to ...
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Microsoft's decision to put two user interfaces (UIs) inside Windows 8 was a strategic mistake that fails novice and experienced computer users alike on both tablets and traditional PCs, a usability expert said Monday. "That was the true ...
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Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud,and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the.Net framework. AWS isn't the only provider whose cloud can run Microsoft's new ...
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Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)to its entire global user base. For the past several ...
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Computerworld-Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7,an analyst said today. Employees,however,have a higher-than-expected ...
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IDG News Service-SharePoint's new application development model has piqued the interest of ISVs and enterprise developers who create applications for Microsoft's enterprise collaboration server. The new platform,consistent with Web ...
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Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
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When woodworking professionals need to cut, shape, or trim wood, they use a machine called a moulder. A moulder is a machine that shapes wood using a set of blades called profiled cutters. For added precision, many woodworking professionals ...
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IDG News Service - Adobe has shut down Connectusers.com, a community forum site for users of its Adobe Connect Web conferencing platform, because the site's user database was compromised. On Tuesday, a hacker named "ViruS_HimA" claimed ...
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Google has released its latest transparency report in which it details the extent to which public bodies have requested the removal of content and the amount of requests it has received for access to its users' private information. ...
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IDG News Service-Oracle has taken a minority stake in Engine Yard,maker of a PaaS(platform as a service)for Ruby,PHP and Node.js applications,the company announced Tuesday.Financial terms were not disclosed. Oracle and Engine Yard"are ...
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Twitter has apologised after telling members their accounts had been hacked and forcing them to reset their passwords. Twitter sent out a"large number"of emails telling members to change their log-in details,but gave no indication of the ...
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Computerworld-Have you noticed a change in the look of Google's search results page? You might not have.Google tweaked the design of the page a few days ago,giving it a cleaner,simpler appearance.But it's not a change that will jump out ...
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VMware has confirmed that the source code for its enterprise-level virtualisation platform – ESX hypervisor – has been leaked online and is urging users to apply security patches. This is the second time the ESX source code ...
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