Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung, on Monday released the software development kit and source code for a new version of its operating system to software developers and device manufacturers. The Tizen 2.0 release ...
The Microsoft Surface Pro delivers on its promise to provide the most laptop-like performance yet from a tablet. But like most groundbreaking devices, it has flaws—including limited storage and hefty weight and size—that mean ...
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Microsoft last week reminded customers that the first edition of Windows 7, which was launched more than three years ago, will be dropped from support in early April. At that time, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will become the only ...
An iOS 6.1 hack has been published online allowing users to bypass the iPhone 5‘s pin code. A security hole in the latest version of Apple‘s iOS 6.1 mobile operating system allows anyone to access voice mail, calls, contacts, ...
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Smartphone maker BlackBerry says it has no immediate plans to sell its new handsets in Japan, but the company denied it was abandoning one of the world's most tech-savvy nations. Having fallen far behind Apple and lost ground to other ...
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In another illustration of the diminishing importance of the PC, a research firm today said that more than a third of surveyed consumers who once used personal computers to access content said they had switched to tablets and smartphones. ...
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1/3 of computers sold worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012 was a tablet, according to a survey. The research firm Canalys said that with PCs and tablets combined, the market grew 12 per cent year-on-year in the last three months of ...
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BlackBerry's Z10 went on sale today at the unsubsidized price of $999 for the first U.S. customers through wireless service provider Solavei and its retail partner GSM Nation. The online offer comes about five weeks before the expected ...
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Microsoft started selling its Surface Pro tablet on Saturday, and quickly exhausted its supply of the 128GB configuration. While the less expensive 64GB device was also listed as out of stock Saturday on Microsoft's online store, by ...
A recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and is probably part of an important cyberespionage operation, the head of the malware analysis team at ...
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Multiple users on Apple's iPhone support forum are reporting big drops in battery life after upgrading their handsets to version 6.1 of the iOS operating system. The messages, spread over several threads on the message board, all claim ...
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The company formerly known as RIM delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic BlackBerry product line, but BlackBerry devices still face an uphill battle against Apple's iPhone and myriad smartphones based on ...
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Microsoft will support its Surface Pro tablet until July 2017, or almost four-and-a-half years after its launch last weekend, the company's website confirmed. Like its predecessor the Surface RT, the Windows 8-powered Surface Pro sports a ...
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Groupon has acquired MashLogic, a company based in California that makes a simple tool called Britely to capture and collate bits of information from web pages. The announcement, posted on Britely's blog, did not disclose terms of the ...
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