Computerworld - AT&T Tuesday unveiled a personalized video service to help explain each new customer's wireless bill in some detail. The video service, to be rolled out nationwide in early 2013, uses computer animation and voice narration ...
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IDG News Service - Attackers are exploiting a new and unpatched vulnerability that affects the latest version of Java -- Java 7 Update 6 -- in order to infect computers with malware, according to researchers from security vendor FireEye. ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve an agreement that will bring an end to a 15-year fight over interference concerns over mobile broadband service in the 2.3GHz band of spectrum. The FCC's vote Wednesday will ...
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PC World - It's been less than a year since I first wrote about Bodhi Linux 1.2.0, but already the popular, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has reached its second major milestone. During the intervening time Bodhi has crept upward from ...
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Google has acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing company, aiming to creating new opportunities for its clients to engage with people across all social services, it said Tuesday. Started four years ago, Wildfire in ...
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Microsoft feels that it has the upper hand in its patent battle with Google-owned Motorola Mobility and wants to put an end to the fight, but only as long as a broad agreement is signed, the company said ina blog post on Tuesday. A ...
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Computerworld - Google is upgrading its Search Appliance for the enterprise in an effort to help workers find information stored anywhere in their organizations. Google Search Appliance 7.0 was unveiled today and will be available Oct. 16 ...
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Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and ...
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IDG News Service - Cybercriminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. ...
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IDG News Service - One of the world's most active spam botnets -- Grum -- was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. ...
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Amazon Web Services has made it possible to roll out Python-based applications using Elastic Beanstalk, which aims to make it easier to deploy and manage applications in its cloud, the company said on Sunday. Elastic Beanstalk, which is ...
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Pinterest, a social pinboard site, has thrown open its doors to anyone who wants to join. "We're thrilled to announce open registration," Pinterest said in a blog post Wednesday. "For those of you who haven't joined Pinterest yet, this ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle may soon fully transition away from the much-maligned, Flash-based version of its support portal over to a new HTML edition next week, according to an official blog post on Thursday. Next Friday, July 13, the ...
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IDG News Service - Google on Thursday dismissed the possibility that a new wave of pharmacy, penny stock and e-card spam emails are being sent by Android spam botnets. "Our analysis suggests that spammers are using infected computers and ...
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