The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has moved to agile development and is shifting to cloud platforms in an effort to improve its IT operations. At a hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday, a DHS IT ...
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The password encryption algorithm used in some recent versions of the Cisco IOS operating system is weaker than the algorithm it was designed to replace, Cisco revealed earlier this week. The new encryption algorithm is called Type 4 and ...
Apple's iPhone dominance in the U.S. is largely due to carriers suppressing market economics, an analyst said today. U.S. carriers artificially dampen demand for lower-cost smartphones by disconnecting calling and data plan prices from ...
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Facebook's News Feed is a popular landing page for photos and updates from friends, but now it can also function as a digital storefront of sorts, through a partnership with e-commerce startup Chirpify. People on the social network can ...
Apple quietly updated Safari on Snow Leopard last week, refreshing the browser to v. 5.1.8 and providing more proof that it intends to support OS X 10.6 much longer than usual. Computerworld - Apple last week silently updated the aged ...
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Microsoft offered more details on Tuesday about its plans to integrate SharePoint and Yammer, saying it'll give Office 365 customers the option of replacing SharePoint Online's activity-stream component with Yammer's. Without committing ...
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Would you believe it if you are told that e-commerce, particularly, the online apparel retail business could more so affect the environment? Well it can to a certain extent. An online apparel retailer ends up making around 132 ...
If U.S. law enforcement agencies agree to changes in electronic surveillance law to better protect the privacy of stored email and documents, they want several changes in return, including a requirement that email and cloud service ...
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Microsoft today said it restored full service to Hotmail and Outlook.com around 6 a.m. PT, about 15 hours after the online mail sites went partially dark. The problems, which surfaced Tuesday afternoon, affected not only Hotmail and ...
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Microsoft has issued a detailed mea culpa about the lengthy and ill-timed outage that affected its webmail services on Tuesday and Wednesday, an incident that undermines the company's push for its new Outlook.com as a better alternative to ...
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Amazon on Wednesday lowered the starting price of its large-screen 8.9-in. Kindle Fire HD tablet in the U.S. to $269 for the Wi-Fi version and $399 for the 4G version. The price cuts, from $299 for the Wi-Fi version and from $499 for the ...
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A U.S. government computer vulnerability database and several other websites at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been down for nearly a week after workers there found malware on two Web servers. NIST's National ...
Americans took to the Internet Thursday as tens of thousands signed petitions on sites pleading for Google Reader's life. One of several on the Change.org online petition website had collected more than 63,000 signatures by 1:30 p.m. ET, ...
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Google has removed some programs from its Play store that block web advertisements, contending the applications violate its rules by interfering with other services. One of the banned applications, Adblock Plus, said it received an email ...
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HTC's new One smartphone will arrive later than expected, and could lose any time-to-market advantage over Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S4 handset. The Taiwanese handset maker had originally planned to release its flagship smartphone ...
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