In a somewhat ironic turn of events, a telecom company based in China, a country famous for Internet censorship, has become the primary means of Internet access for people looking to get information out of war-torn Syria. An analysis of ...
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As mobile network and device makers explore many paths to using wireless spectrum more efficiently, one possible solution is still hard to achieve: Sending and receiving data on the same frequency at the same time, in the same space. ...
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Paul Coby faces his second Christmas as IT director at department store chain John Lewis. Since joining the retailer in March 2011, after many years as CIO at British Airways, he has embraced what he calls the "retail revolution" brought ...
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In late October, Hubshout added another resource to its SEO reseller program--a new video tutorial series for SEO resellers. HubShout CEO, Chad Hill and President, Adam Stetzer Ph.D. produce the Google Hangout videos to summarize SEO trends ...
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TomTom plans to launch a navigation app for Android smartphones in October, the company said Wednesday at the IFA trade show in Berlin. The app will put the Dutch company into direct competition for the first time with Google Navigation ...
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YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code, they are using Google's programming language ...
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Just a day before Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone, Google today released its first iOS YouTube app. The move, if not the timing, was anticipated: Last month Apple confirmed that its YouTube license had ended, and that its own app ...
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Google has blocked access in India to a YouTube film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, claiming it was meeting a valid legal process, the company said on Friday. Earlier a source at the Internet Service Providers Association of ...
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IDG News Service - Some of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that targeted the websites of U.S. financial institutions this week have peaked at 60 Gbps, according to researchers from DDoS mitigation provider Arbor Networks. ...
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Sony will launch a flat-panel television globally later this year that has more than four times the number of pixels than today's high-definition TVs. The television is based on a format called "4K," which represents the horizontal ...
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Pope Benedict XVI will extend his online presence to Twitter and start answering questions put to him via the social network in English and seven other languages. The official Papal handle is @pontifex, the Vatican announced on Monday, ...
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Corrupted router tables, not malicious protesters, were the culprits behind Monday's widespread outage of GoDaddy's Internet registrar and hosting services, the company reported. "The service outage was not caused by external influences," ...
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The battery life of ultrabooks will nearly double with Intel's upcoming processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture, which will succeed processors code-named Ivy Bridge, Intel executives said on Tuesday. The new Haswell chips will ...
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China has started blocking SlideShare, a document sharing service recently acquired by LinkedIn, making the site inaccessible to users in the country. "It appears that Internet users in China are not currently able to access SlideShare. ...
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Cyber criminals are using compromised Twitter accounts to distribute messages disguised as coming from friends who suggest recipients click on a link to see themselves on a Facebook video. Sophos reported the trick after receiving a ...
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