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Apple Is Reportedly Paying The Public to Help Improve Apple Maps
Jun 5, 2017Apple is reportedly paying freelancers to help improve its homegrown Maps app. According to French blog iGeneration (via 9to5Mac), Apple is paying people 54 (about 40p) every time they accurately confirm or correct a place location within ...
Tags: Apple, Apple Maps
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Tumblr Is Where The Internet's Cool Kids Hang out
Dec 4, 2013Tumblr is where the Internet's cool kids hang out. That's why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one of this year's most buzzed-about deals. Now, Tumblr is flaunting its hipster credentials with a first-ever breakdown of ...
Tags: Tumblr, Hipster Twist
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Google and Microsoft Have Introduced Software That Make Searching Child Abuse Hard
Nov 22, 2013Google and Microsoft have introduced software that makes it harder for users to search for child abuse material online, the companies said in a joint announcement Monday. Writing ahead of a British summit on Internet safety, Google's ...
Tags: Google, Microsoft, child abuse material
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Microsoft Bills Its Bing Search Engine as a Social One
Nov 5, 2013Microsoft bills its Bing search engine as a social one, and to keep it that way it’s renewing a partnership with Twitter to keep tweets appearing in Bing search results, the companies said Friday. Tweets have been featured ...
Tags: Bing, Twitter, search engine
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Searching Through Twitter's Archive of Tweets Can Be Frustrating
Sep 6, 2013Searching through Twitter’s archive of tweets can be frustrating – they are sorted on the site by Twitter’s own algorithms, and older tweets tend to get buried. Google Forget it. Topsy, an analytics company, wants to do ...
Tags: Topsy, Twitter Search
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Microsoft Wants to Build a Better Mobile Phone
Sep 5, 2013Microsoft wants to build a better mobile phone through its acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. One way it hopes to do that? By improving its maps applications to better compete against Google's. "An effective alternative to ...
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Microsoft Is to Buy Nokia's Mobile Phone Business and License Its Patents
Sep 4, 2013Microsoft is to buy Nokia's mobile phone business and license its patents in a deal worth $7.2bn (£4.6bn). Further reading Nokia whacked by another downgrade – Moody's rates Nokia four notches below investment grade Microsoft ...
Tags: Microsoft, Nokia, Mobile Business
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Microsoft Has Launched an Ad-Free,No Cost Version of Its Bing Search Engine
Aug 21, 2013Microsoft has launched an ad-free, no cost version of its Bing search engine that can be used in public and private schools across the U.S. Activating ad-free search also activates an automatic filter that blocks adult content and ...
Tags: Microsoft, AD-Free Bing, Computer Products
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Microsoft Today Took Another Shot at Rival Google
Apr 1, 2013Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google, the target of its "Scroggled" campaign, with an April Fools' Day prank that turned its Bing search engine into a Google look-alike. (See our slideshow of how some sites are marking April ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Microsoft
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A Site That Published The Private Information and Credit Reports Last Week Went Offline
Mar 20, 2013A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The last person to have his alleged private information exposed on the site was CIA director ...
Tags: site, Social Security, pages
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Microsoft Begun Switching Hotmail Accounts to Outlook as It Launches Revamped Service
Feb 21, 2013Microsoft says it has begun switching Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com as it officially launches its revamped email service. Microsoft's move follows a test phase in which it adapted the service to try and better serve lifestyles that ...
Tags: Microsoft, Hotmail Accounts, Outlook
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Google's Gmail and Yahoo Mail Suddenly Have a Serious New Rival
Feb 21, 2013With Microsoft making a big push with its free email service Outlook.com, Google's Gmail and Yahoo Mail suddenly have a serious new rival. Microsoft plans to begin moving Hotmail users to Outlook.com, which reportedly already has 60 ...
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Bill Gates Has Spoken out About Dissatisfaction with The Pace of Innovation
Feb 20, 2013Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has spoken out about his dissatisfaction with the pace of innovation at the company he founded in the 1970s. Gates handed over the role of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000 and has been blamed for a number ...
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Microsoft and Symantec Dismantled a Botnet That Took Computers for Criminal Activities
Feb 18, 2013Microsoft 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 ...
Tags: Microsoft, Symantec, botnet, click fraud
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A Major Botnet Take-Down Has Included Direct Victim Notification
Feb 17, 2013For 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 ...
Tags: PC, victim notification, Bamital botnet