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Google's Services Went Down for Just Five Minutes Over The Weekend
Aug 26, 2013Google's services, including its search service used by nine out of 10 people in the UK, went down for just five minutes over the weekend - but web activity plunged by 40 per cent as a result. The rare outage in Google's services, which ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, software
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Samsung's Army of Android Mobile Devices Have Finally Overtaken Apple's IOS
Jul 12, 2013Samsung's army of Android mobile devices have finally overtaken Apple's iOS in terms of global mobile web usage, according to a survey carried out by web analytics firm StarCounter. In June 2013, claims the survey, Samsung bounded ahead ...
Tags: Mobile Device, Web Use, Samsung
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Copyright Alert System-a Warning System Intended to Curb Illegal Downloads
Mar 5, 2013Last week the content-creating industry launched a new effort aimed at preventing copyright infringement: the Copyright Alert System—CAS, also called "six strikes." It's a warning system intended to curb illegal downloads of music, ...
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Oracle Is Updating Its Widely Used Open Source MySQL Database
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service - Oracle is updating its widely used open source MySQL database, and a range of associated products, in order to meet the increasing demands of Web users. In the past decade, "The Web has transitioned from just serving ...
Tags: Oracle, MySQL database, serving Web, release candidate, Web Usage
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UHB NHS Foundation Trust Was Overloaded with Case Notes and Referrals in Paper Form
Dec 24, 2012The University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust was overloaded with case notes and referrals in paper form, resulting in misplacements of documents and unnecessary retesting of patients due to lost results. It decided to ...
Tags: paper form, EMC, case notes, content management system
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Samsung's Galaxy S III Won Stellar Reviews and Reportedly Sold More Than 10 Million Units
Dec 21, 2012Samsung's Galaxy S III has won stellar reviews and reportedly sold more than 10 million units in early sales. Now the smartphone is also climbing fast in its share of Web traffic, according to a report issued Wednesday by Chitika, which ...
Tags: Samsung, Galaxy S III, share of web traffic, smartphone
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Google Has Begun Testing a Search Feature
Dec 19, 2012Google has begun testing a search feature that mines relevant emails from users' Gmail accounts and displays links to them in the results page. To use the feature, users would need to be logged in to their Google account and the Gmail ...
Tags: Google, search feature, relevant emails, Gmail accounts
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Olympic Games in London Have Been Touted as The Most Connected in History
Dec 17, 2012This year’s Olympic Games in London have been touted as the most connected in history. With an estimated one billion people set to watch the events and millions more expected to log on to keep track of all the action, all aspects ...
Tags: Olympic Games, Mobile Data Deluge, London
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Blackberrys Accounts for Just One Per Cent of Mobile Traffic Data
Dec 17, 2012Web usage on Research In Motion(RIM)BlackBerrys accounts for just one per cent of mobile traffic data,representing a 25 per cent drop since September 2011.The figures come from online ad network Chitika following research into mobile market ...
Tags: Blackberry, IBM, smartphone, touch-screen phones
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Sales of The Microsoft Surface RT Tablet Are Difficult to Measure
Dec 12, 2012Sales of the Microsoft Surface RT tablet are difficult to measure, but one study indicates it's only generating a tiny portion of Web traffic -- less than 1%. In fact, according to Chitika Insights, Surface RT tablets accounted for ...
Tags: Microsoft, tablet, iPad, Nexus tablets
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Blackberry Is Being Dropped in Favour of The Apple iPhone by Yet Another US
Nov 21, 2012Research In Motion's(RIM)BlackBerry is being dropped in favour of the Apple iPhone by yet another US government agency,with reliability being cited as the key reason. The National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB),a body that investigates ...
Tags: US, Agency, Blackberrys
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Nearly Two-Thirds of These Are Using The Previous Version of a Browser
Nov 12, 2012Nearly a quarter of worldwide internet users are still running outdated browsers, creating huge gaps in online security, a study has revealed. Out of a random sample of 10 million customers, security firm Kaspersky found 23% were using ...
Tags: browsers, outdated browsers, online security, Kaspersky, security threats
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BB10 Will Help Turn The Company Around
Nov 8, 2012After a year in which some people called into question Research in Motion's future,the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is hoping that the much-delayed BlackBerry 10(BB10)operating system will help turn the company around. Further ...
Tags: BlackBerry 10, BYOD, US government agency, BB10, Holleran
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Communications Data Bill Represents a Huge Invasion of Privacy
Nov 1, 2012MPs have told Home Secretary Theresa May that the Communications Data Bill represents a huge invasion of privacy that could be exploited by criminals. May appeared in front of the Commons Select Committee scrutinising the controversial ...
Tags: MPs, Home Secretary, Communications Data Bill, Data security
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Now Clothes Outlet Benetton Embraces The Trend&Brought Public Wi-Fi Access to Customers
Oct 12, 2012Wi-Fi for Benetton staff and customers Easy Wi-Fi roll-out for Benetton Cloud-based management control cuts costs Benetton strikes a balance with Wi-Fi marketing The future for Wi-Fi at Benetton The High Street has always been a hub of ...
