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Article | 17/05/2013 Video: Google I/O First day keynote presents nearly overwhelming options and updates

The Google Play store has a new look and feel

Article | 17/05/2013 New iPhone: Sapphire crystal fingerprint scanner 'to be embedded in home button'

There have been plenty of rumours circulating that Apple is planning to incorporate fingerprint readers into the new iPhone, and now confirmation that...

Article | 17/05/2013 In Pictures: She's gonna blow! 10 Star Trek technologies that are almost here

Warp drives, teleporters, helpful holograms - the new frontier is a lot closer than you might think

Article | 17/05/2013 Android retains lead over Apple

Android has remained at the top of the leader board when it comes to smartphones, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report...

Article | 17/05/2013 Progress at Foxconn factories, but working hours still exceed Chinese laws

Employees at the Chinese factories of Apple supplier Foxconn continue to work beyond the country's legal limit of 49 hours a month, according to a rep...

Article | 17/05/2013 Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox

Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blockin...

Article | 17/05/2013 In a sea of malware, viruses make a small comeback

The computer virus seems to be making a subtle comeback.

Article | 17/05/2013 At Google I/O, Glass wearers say 'trust us'

Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording an...

Article | 17/05/2013 Yahoo wins appeal of $2.7 billion suit in Mexican court

An appeals court in Mexico has overturned an approximately US$2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico in a breach-of-contract suit concern...

Article | 16/05/2013 Lawmakers press Google on Glass privacy

Members of a U.S. congressional group on privacy wrote Thursday to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information on how the futuristic device handles p...

Article | 16/05/2013 Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs,...

Article | 16/05/2013 Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers

The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort...

Article | 16/05/2013 eBay's CIO Succeeds by Innovating and 'Connecting the Dots'

eBay CIO Scott Seese says he and his team are using technology and innovation to drive the company's mission of connected commerce. He explains how th...

Article | 16/05/2013 Microsoft responds to Larry Page remarks, but Oracle is quiet

Microsoft has responded to a high-profile put-down by Google CEO Larry Page, but Oracle, at least for now, won't be drawn into a public fight with the...

Article | 16/05/2013 Dell profit dives 79 per cent on falling PC sales

Dell reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue Thursday as CEO Michael Dell continues his fight to take the company private.

Article | 16/05/2013 Jive Software adds integration tool for its enterprise social platform

Jive Software has released an add-on to its enterprise social networking (ESN) software that automates and simplifies the process of integrating Jive'...

Article | 16/05/2013 Hands on: New Google Maps make maps interesting again

We may not have a new version of Android to drool over, but at least we've got more feature-filled, better-looking maps. At its Google I/O keynote, th...

Article | 16/05/2013 Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling

A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional ha...

Article | 16/05/2013 Windows Phone claims third place in the smartphone wars, but challenges await

Microsoft's Windows Phone may be struggling to gain a foothold in the US, but the software giant and Nokia are starting to see results on a global sca...

Article | 16/05/2013 Samsung Link to replace AllShare Play multimedia-sharing app

Samsung's AllShare Play application, which allows file sharing among the company's mobile devices, has been renamed Link, and it has a new user interf...