A home improvement retail chain can use an app running on an iPad to help design a customer's home, check inventory for the products, give a cost estimate to the customer, and take orders. Yet another app called iPeople allows human ...
Tags: iPad, SAP, Apple, Enterprise Mobility
An upgrade of Microsoft's Office Web Apps has been finalized, and a combination of enhancements makes this Web-hosted Office version work much better on iPads than previous iterations. As a result, Microsoft, which has been reticent to ...
Tags: Microsoft, Office Web Apps, Office version, iPads
wo monolithic buildings in lower Manhattan that serve as major network hubs for the U.S. are operating on generator power, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. The buildings, known as carrier hotels, are a 2.9 million square foot structure at 111 ...
Tags: U.S., network hubs, generator power, Hurricane Sandy
Microsoft today said that a free Windows 8 and Windows RT Skype app will be ready for downloading from the Windows Store on Friday, Oct. 26. The long-rumored app -- bloggers have been posting leaked screenshots of Skype for Windows 8 for ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, Windows RT, Skype app
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved social network Facebook's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram. The approval comes a week after the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) cleared the deal, giving ...
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, social network, acquisition, Facebook
When it comes to consumers' rights to control their own browsers, everybody wants to sound like they're pro-choice. But with many millions of advertising dollars on the line, the definition of pro-choice tends to align with the financial ...
The last member of a US cybercrime trio that netted up to $3m in a Wi-Fi and malware hacking spree has been sentenced. Joshuah Allen Witt, 35, John Earl Griffin, 36, and Brad Eugene Lowe, 39, have all now been given stiff prison terms. ...
Tags: Hacker, Hacking Spree, Computer Products
Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from Symantec have detected a new email spam ...
Tags: Spammers, URL shortener service, U.S.government, social media activities
In its latest attempt to boost advertising revenue as uses move to mobile devices, Facebook is trialling ads for apps in the social network's mobile news feed. The ads will appear in a limited number of beta users' feeds during the trial ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products, App Ads, Mobile
Google yesterday made good on a promise from earlier this year and shipped Chrome 23 with the "Do Not Track" privacy feature. In September, Google added a Do Not Track (DNT) option to Chrome's precursor, the open-source Chromium, and ...
Tags: Google, Chrome 23, privacy feature, DNT option
The Information Commissioner's Office is to investigate claims that Tesco's website does not offer sufficient privacy protections to customers. The UK privacy watchdog's probe comes after security experts raised a number of privacy ...
Tags: watchdog, Tesco Website, privacy protections, security problems
IT infrastructure company SCC has become the first supplier on the government’s CloudStore to win pan-government security accreditation. The firm has gained accreditation for its multi-tenanted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
Tags: SCC, Computer Products, G-Cloud
Advanced analysis of the Morcut Mac OS X malware that targets computers running Apple’s Mac operating system (OS) or Microsoft’s Windows OS has revealed that it also targets virtual machines and Windows mobiles. The malware, ...
Tags: Morcut Malware, Virtual Machines, Symantec, Computer Products
Hey, Siri, you better look behind you. Google on Tuesday upgraded its Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad, giving the feature a voice search functionality that poses a challenge to Apple's Siri. The app, which is available for free ...
Tags: iPhone, iPad, Google, Google Search app, voice search, Apple, Siri
Microsoft's free Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool is now available for download. The tool is used to convert virtual machines that run on VMware products into a format compatible with Microsoft's own virtualization environment, ...
Tags: Microsoft, MVMC tool, virtual machines, VMware products