During the holiday gift exchange and paper shredding frenzy,you may have received an electronic traveling companion.Before tossing the packaging,consider if that portable GPS navigator the best one for your needs.Or should you trade it in ...
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The suspension of bidding for the Thameslink rail franchise acted as a proof of concept for operator Go-Ahead's decision to move to a cloud-based collaboration platform. The incompetent handling of the bidding for the West Coast rail ...
An exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) has been incorporated into Blackhole, one of the most widely used Web attack toolkits, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Sophos. The ...
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Was it only six years ago that Windows Mobile was a big part of the cellphone business? That was a time when only programmers thought of a mobile phone as a computer. Now we're heading into the second or third generation of the smartphone, ...
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Computerworld - Apple today launched OS X Mountain Lion, the ninth version of the 11-year-old Mac operating system. As promised yesterday by the company's chief financial officer, Mac OS X 10.8, aka Mountain Lion, was released to the Mac ...
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IDG News Service - Java vulnerabilities are increasingly exploited by attackers to infect computers, and the problem could become worse if Oracle doesn't do more to secure the product and keep its installation base up to date, according to ...
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Hoping to raise awareness about the importance of keeping software up to date, several major software companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, participated in an initiative called International Technology Upgrade Week earlier this ...
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Computerworld - Two security organizations have released online tools that let Windows users check for possible infections by Gauss, the newly-revealed cyber surveillance malware thought to have been built by one or more governments. ...
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There are all kinds of Linux servers. The most complicated of these require you to be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). Many of them require you to do more than download a distro, burn a CD, and install and boot up your new bare-bones ...
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PC World - Is your browser up to date? According to the results of a new survey from security software vendor Kaspersky, nearly a quarter of the browsers currently in use are out of date. Surfing the Web with a vulnerable browser is a ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will probably tie Office apps for the iPhone and iPad to its Office 365 "rental" subscription plans to prevent the mobile apps from cannibalizing sales and to skirt the "Apple tax," analysts said today. "I do see ...
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Computerworld - Symantec said Windows 8 "doesn't move the needle much" on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus software and promised to provide users with several so-called "Modern" apps for the new operating system. On ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft's Windows 8 is vulnerable to attack by exploits that hackers have been aiming at PCs for several weeks, Adobe confirmed Friday. Microsoft said it will not patch the bug in Flash Player until what it called "GA," ...
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ORLANDO, FL, December 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- TeamTreehouse.com, used by thousands of people to learn web design, coding, mobile app development, how to start a business and more, has partnered with AffiliateManager.com,a premier ...
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Lextar, a LED subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO), has announced its merger with Wellypower, another AUO subsidiary. Lextar noted that demand for high-power chip-on-board (COB) products has been growing, hence 2012 COB packaging product ...
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