Microsoft is modifying its Office 365 sales agreement with partners to motivate them to push the product more aggressively, the company announced on Monday. Microsoft wants to make Office 365 easier to sell and more profitable for its ...
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Students at a military graduate school in California are mining social media with new methods that may change the way the armed forces collect intelligence overseas. Students and researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have tackled ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. is facing a dramatically increasing threat from cyber attacks and a future attack on the country's critical infrastructure could have an effect similar to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. ...
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The number of countries where a controversial movie trailer on YouTube has been blocked increased to five by Monday, as Google ran into legal threats in some of these countries. Malaysia is the latest country in which Google has blocked ...
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Google took down on Friday in Indonesia the controversial movie trailer that has sparked protests worldwide, adding the country to the short list of nations where the video can't be seen on YouTube. The company received a valid request ...
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Illinois has become the third state in the country to pass a law prohibiting companies from asking employees and job candidates for usernames and passwords to their social media accounts. Illinois Gov.Patrick Quinn signed the bill ...
IDG News Service - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company's next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, saying they constitute a more modern approach to cloud-based ...
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IDG News Service - IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a staggered affair that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a ...
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The four largest mobile carriers in the U.S. -- AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile -- have agreed to accelerate the availability of emergency texting, or text-to-911. The four carriers have committed to major deployments of ...
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Computerworld - Arab-Israeli lawmakers and religious leaders Wednesday asked the Jerusalem District Court to force Google to take a controversial video off of YouTube. The petition also asks that all access to the video be blocked in ...
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The government is providing funds for a new project for the University of Surrey to develop the next generation of mobile broadband systems. Money for the research will be part of the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund,which ...
GOLDEN VALLEY, MN, August 23, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Graybow Communications has agreed upon a strategic alliance with Lencore Acoustics Corporation of Woodbury, NY as its new sound masking partner. Lencore Acoustics Corporation is the ...
MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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Raspberry Pi Foundation co-founder Eben Upton has called on students and engineers to take responsibility for creating more open technology. Eben Upton painted the picture of a world where technology is accessible for all and highlighted ...
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