IDG News Service - In yet another mobile acquisition, Yahoo has acquired Qwiki, a New York City company that makes an app for turning photos and videos into short, edited movies. The Qwiki app takes pictures and videos that people already ...
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Official car sales figures released today suggest Volkswagen sales in Australia have been affected by recent negative media coverage that led to a recall. VW registered a drop of nearly 20 per cent compared with this time last year, ...
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Microsoft executive Don Mattrick as left the Seattle company to join social games firm Zynga as CEO, with Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer stepping in to fill the vacant position of head of interactive entertainment. It's a move that ...
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Microsoft is aiming to boost sales of its Surface tablet computers as it makes the devices available for business customers via the IT channel. In a blog post, director of Microsoft Surface, Cyril Belikoff, said that the software giant ...
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Some websites and mobile app developers are confused about how to comply with revised rules governing the online collection of personal information from children that took effect in the U.S. Monday, critics said. The U.S. Federal Trade ...
Apple has filed to trademark the phrase "iWatch" in Japan, amid rumors the company will soon launch a smart watch device globally. The trademark application was filed with the Japan Patent Office on June 3 for a wide range of product ...
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Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a trademark lawsuit over its SkyDrive cloud storage service it lost to the British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) Group. BSkyB sued Microsoft in order to prevent Microsoft from using "SkyDrive" as the ...
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TelefA3nica will be the first to offer a commercial smartphone based on Firefox OS. The Spanish operator will start selling the ZTE Open on Tuesday for a!69 (US$90) with a prepaid subscription. Firefox OS is built around applications ...
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Microsoft is launching a channel partner program on Monday to help drive sales of its Surface tablet to companies, schools and other organizations. The program is operational now in the U.S. with a small set of partners and will be ...
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Furniture, electronics and appliances buying group BrandSource has launched a program that encourages BrandSource store shoppers to post online reviews about their experiences on sites such as Yelp and Google. The new program "makes it ...
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Colonial Pipeline Tuesday said its product loss allocation charge for long-haul deliveries will increase to 18 cents/barrel from 16 cents/b on August 1 due to many factors, including Hurricane Sandy last fall. The Houston-to-New York ...
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A Microsoft insider has told Computing that the company is intentionally steering Android users towards its Outlook mail app by making synchronisation between the two platforms difficult. A Microsoft staff member told Computing, while ...
NetEase Inc. (Nasdaq: NTES) has become an exclusive partner for flights of Air China Limited (SHSE: 601111 and SEHK: 0753) offering on-board Internet surfing service through air-ground satellite systems so that passengers could browse news ...
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A new variant of the Citadel financial malware uses in-browser injection techniques combined with extensive content localization to steal log-in credentials and credit card information from users in different countries, according to ...
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Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference. According to the MetroStore ...
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