Computerworld-Oracle researchers are winding down development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing,an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems. The Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
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IDG News Service-When assigning search result rankings,Google will now take reports of copyright violation into account. The goal is to give better placement to sites that publish content they either own or have legally licensed,and ...
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SMEs say they are concerned over the delay in the accreditation process for G-Cloud services. The pan-government accreditation process on G-Cloud services for information deemed sensitive is being carried out by IT security arm CESG. No ...
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Microsoft has opened Windows Phone Dev Center,a new portal for smartphone developers that promises better performance and ease of use along with more markets and support for PayPal,the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Windows ...
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Microsoft has unveiled an app store for MS Office 2013, to support the one billion users of its ubiquitous productivity suite. The app store is designed to provide utilities and add-ons that make working in Office easier. In a blog post ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.House of Representatives voted late Thursday to send a message to the United Nations'International Telecommunication Union that the Internet doesn't need new international regulations.The vote was unanimous:414-0. ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft has released Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0, a free tool that can help system administrators, IT security professionals or software developers understand how newly installed applications can affect the security of ...
Microsoft has rebranded the Hotmail service to become Outlook.com. Currently in preview, Outlook.com is being heralded as a re-imagined email service by Microsoft. Further reading Microsoft admits to angering partners with Surface ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today announced that it's wrapped up Windows 8 and declared that the operating system has met the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) milestone. "A short while ago we started releasing Windows 8 to PC OEM and ...
Microsoft has announced it is revamping and renaming its free webmail service,which analysts say may be aimed at winning over users of Google's rival Gmail service. The revamped service,to be known as Outlook.com,will automatically sort ...
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Computerworld-Google is adding the Google+Hangout feature to Gmail,the company's popular cloud-based email service. The Google+Hangout feature,which allows users to video chat with up to nine people,replaces Gmail's older peer-to-peer ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Microsoft also expects that Outlook.com will draw people away from competing ...
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Computerworld - If you want to know more about a new rock band or a new restaurant, you'll probably do a search. But then you'll realize a few of your friends might know something about that band or that restaurant and already have an ...
Researchers have confirmed the existence of new Mac malware just hours before the release of Mountain Lion, the latest version of Apple's OS X operating system. Within hours, researchers at security company Sophos also confirmed an iOS ...
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German engineering firm Siemens has issued a fix for the software vulnerabilities in its programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that were exploited by Stuxnet. The computer worm was discovered in 2010 when it caused malfunctions at ...
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