Bing is incorporating more information from outside social networks such as Facebook and Twitter into how it displays search results involving people. The changes are designed to give users at-a-glance answers to their search queries ...
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Two security vendors have released temporary fixes for a flaw in some Samsung Android phones that could allow an attacker to bypass a locked screen. The problem comes from Samsung's implementation of the emergency call feature, which ...
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Google envisions a future when your computerized glasses will turn on your coffee maker even before you roll out of bed. Google on Thursday filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for technology that enables ...
A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The last person to have his alleged private information exposed on the site was CIA director ...
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Samsung is planning to release a high-end smartphone running on the open-source Tizen operating system in August or September, the company confirmed Friday. Samsung makes half of the Android-based smartphones globally, and Android now has ...
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As PC sales remain sluggish, analysts expect Taiwanese vendors Acer and Asustek Computer to try to seize today's changing tech market with low-end Android tablets, for which consumer demand is high. Acer hopes to ship up to 10 million ...
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An industry coalition with backing from Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle has objected to Google's application for certain top-level domain strings. FairSearch.org said it has filed objections with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
Google is expanding its Google Fiber project, reaching out to offer the service in Olathe, Kansas, the fifth largest city in the state. "Olathe has become one of the fastest-growing cities in Kansas and has attracted an influx of new ...
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UK-based Appy Food & Drink is all set to launch a new range of kids juice drinks featuring Nickelodeon characters in Tetra Pak cartons with interactive digital technology. Consumers can use their smartphones to scan the back of the ...
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Google will invest about US$10 million to nurture 10,000 new businesses in five years in India, says a report. Eric E. Schmidt, chairman of Google, will launch this ambitious programme for technology entrepreneurs in this week in New ...
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IDG World Expo today announced the full agenda and lineup of speakers for its 2013 Game Marketing Summit (GMS) event. This year's speakers include top video game marketers, developers and technology providers. Featured speakers at the ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt is planning to visit Myanmar (Burma) weeks after a trip to North Korea. Schmidt will speak in Yangon (Rangoon) on March 22 as part of an Asian tour, the Internet giant said. He is aiming to boost web access ...
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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Google has fully implemented a security feature that ensures a person looking up a website isn't inadvertently directed to a fake one. The Internet company has run its own free public Domain Name System (DNS) lookup service, called Public ...
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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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