Salesforce.com has decided to withdraw its applications to trademark the term “social enterprise” following objections from social organisations who held that the term was understood to describe businesses with a social purpose, ...
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Salesforce.com has decided to withdraw its applications to trademark the term “social enterprise” following objections from social organisations who held that the term was understood to describe businesses with a social purpose, ...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, Salesforce, social organisation, trademark
Google on Tuesday is releasing an SDK (software development kit) for its one-year-old Dart programming language. Google has pitched Dart as an alternative to JavaScript, but Dart has not had the kind of browser support that JavaScript ...
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About 200 Android applications currently hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices they are installed on, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. This technique can theoretically be used ...
Microsoft yesterday warned Windows users of possible "man-in-the-middle" attacks able to steal passwords for some wireless networks and VPNs, or virtual private networks. It won't issue a security update for the problem, however. The ...
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A U.K. analytics firm that warned earlier this week of an information leak in Internet Explorer (IE) today rebuked Microsoft for downplaying the bug. Microsoft, however, has announced it is working on a fix, although the nature of the ...
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Starbucks is investing $25 million in mobile payment venture Square, and will allow customers to use a Pay with Square smartphone application to buy coffee at its retail stores starting this fall, the companies announced Wednesday. As ...
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Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Message Service) were found on Google Play by researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky ...
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When malware infects a machine it usually goes after the system software. But in a rare case worked on by SpiderLabs, researchers found a Trojan that had been infected by a virus, leaving both still functioning as normal. The two pieces ...
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Attachments.me, which lets Gmail users send attachments to and access files on several cloud storage services, now also works with Microsoft’s SkyDrive. To add support for SkyDrive, Attachments.me is taking advantage of some recent ...
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Google has started publicly testing an initial set of enterprise social networking (ESN) features for Google+, adding a key collaboration component for Google Apps customers. Google first indicated last year that it planned to release an ...
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IDG News Service - Google is letting more App Engine users choose to run their applications in a European data center, in order to improve performance for local users or to meet compliance demands. App Engine is Google's cloud-based ...
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Google on Thursday made accommodations for Java and Python developers by offering a Java-to-Objective-C translator and advancing its Python client library for Google APIs. With the open source release of J2ObjC, Google has authored a ...
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Just a day before Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone, Google today released its first iOS YouTube app. The move, if not the timing, was anticipated: Last month Apple confirmed that its YouTube license had ended, and that its own app ...
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If Apple uses a new, thinner display in its next iPhone, the battery could pack as much as 40% more capacity than the current 4S, an analyst said yesterday. The new device, dubbed "iPhone 5" by most, is expected to be unveiled by Apple in ...
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