Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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Microsoft has made a preview version of Skype for Windows Phone 8 available for download, which promises better integration with the operating system's user interface and more features. The preview includes all of the Skype basics ...
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Don't expect HP to have a change of heart about building Windows RT devices anytime soon. Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President of HP's Personal Systems Group, said he's "not a big Windows RT fan" in an interview with CITEworld. ...
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Businesses and consumers can now download Windows 8 Release Preview from the Microsoft site. Microsoft said the February release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview was downloaded more than 1 million times in the first 24 hours. Microsoft ...
The amount of mobile Android malware has surged this year, from a count of 30,000 malware specimens in June to almost 175,000 last month, according to Trend Micro’s Security Roundup report for the third quarter of this year. ...
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Samsung’s latest smartphone – the Samsung Galaxy S III – has taken over from the iPhone 4S as the UK’s most popular mobile, according to a new study. The mobile tracker from uSwitch.com showed the phone topping its ...
Microsoft Windows 8 support for TPM Tipping point for TPM TPM gathers momentum The end of the password? TPM in action across all devices Since 2006, many new computing devices have been sold with a built-in trusted platform module ...
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Working out how to make infrastructure on demand work for your company is a challenge. In this 10-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at assessing the needs of your business, assess how a lack of standards is hindering progress, and ...
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Microsoft has now updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago. More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late ...
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There's no doubt that demand for IT professionals with Linux skills is growing rapidly,and earlier this year I wrote about a brand-new certification program targeting newcomers to the open-source operating system. At the time,the Linux ...
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Hackers have compromised two servers used by the FreeBSD Project to build third-party software packages.Anyone who has installed such packages since Sept.19 should completely reinstall their machines,the project's security team warned. ...
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About 100 people waited outside Boston’s Microsoft Store Friday to buy the company’s new Surface tablet, which runs a new version of Windows. Unlike previous versions of the operating system, Windows RT runs on an ARM ...
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Apple®today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone®5 in China,just three days after its launch on December 14.iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December,making it the fastest ...
Microsoft may face a huge fine for failing to offer millions of Windows users a choice of web browser, despite apologising to the European Commission (EC). A 2009 EU antitrust settlement required Microsoft to offer PC owners the ...
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Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8, with the hope of reclaiming a portion of the fast-growing smartphone market. The tech giant has been largely absent from the smartphone market during its most-recent years of explosive growth, but ...
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