US-based Modern Plastics has announced that a spinal implant device using Evonik's VESTAKEEP PEEK (polyetheretherketone) has obtained 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The implant device, which exhibits ...
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Google is hanging onto its dominant share of the search market, while its competitors inch up and down. Google edged a bit further ahead in January, going from 66.7% of the search market in December to 67%, industry tracker comScore said. ...
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Social networks are expected to light up tonight as users react to the president's State of the Union address. President Obama will give the first State of the Union address of his second term at 9 p.m ET. With Obama expected to touch on ...
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Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the US$12.7 billion online advertising industry by ...
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For the first time, a major botnet take-down has included direct victim notification that warns users their PCs are infected and shows them how to scrub clean their machines. Yesterday's take-down of the Bamital botnet by Microsoft and ...
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Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates recently took part in a question-and-answer session on popular message board site Reddit. Gates’ Ask Me Anything (AMA) session garnering more than 18,000 comments shortly after it ended. ...
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Microsoft and Symantec on Wednesday announced that they have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the $12.7 billion online ...
Office 365 Home Premium for Windows 8 brings with it massive change, possibly the biggest since Office 2003. But the change is not so much about adding Windows 8 touchscreen capability to Office. Sure, it's there, but Office 365HP is ...
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Office 365 Home Premium for Windows 8 brings with it massive change, possibly the biggest since Office 2003. But the change is not so much about adding Windows 8 touchscreen capability to Office. Sure, it's there, but Office 365HP is ...
Intellectual property company I/P Engine has sued Microsoft for infringing two search patents it acquired from Lycos. Microsoft allegedly infringes two patents that cover a relevance filtering technology that is mainly used to place high ...
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Microsoft has released five free apps for the new Office 365 Home Premium suite. The vendor said that the new apps make it easier to insert images and information from Bing into documents. Office 365 is the subscription version of Office ...
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As German government officials prepared to meet to discuss a controversial online copyright bill on Wednesday, Yahoo, Facebook and German online startups slammed the proposal that would allow publishers to charge search engines such as ...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says the company plans on a big comeback in the Internet search business, which means directly taking on industry giant Google. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last ...
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The ATIV Odyssey, Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 device ($50 on Verizon with a two-year contract) is a basic model, with a 4-inch Super AMOLED touch-screen display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera, and a ...
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Microsoft reported a drop in profit for the second quarter of its fiscal year, though revenue increased, thanks partly to a 24 percent jump in sales from its Windows division. Microsoft's revenue increased 2.7 percent to US$21.46 billion ...
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