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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...

Article | 16/05/2013 Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass

While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking...

Article | 16/05/2013 Now you see it: How Apple's Retina display is a boon to accessibility

iOS's accessibility features are great, particularly on the iPad--as I've written elsewhere--but for disabled users, accessibility is more than just a...

Article | 16/05/2013 Google eases Android app development with a new IDE

Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps.

Article | 16/05/2013 Windows 8 won't hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says

Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft's operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in the company's histo...

Article | 16/05/2013 Intel's Krzanich pledges stronger mobile push in his first speech as CEO

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to imp...

Article | 16/05/2013 SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's...

Article | 16/05/2013 Retina iPad mini 'will feature new processor chip'

A 'tipster' claims that the new iPad mini will get the A6X chip to power its Retina display

Article | 16/05/2013 Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK

Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the grou...

Article | 16/05/2013 NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet

E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems wo...

Article | 16/05/2013 Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition to launch with stock Android

At its Google I/O 2013 developer conference, Google announced it will sell a version of the Galaxy S4 running stock Android.

Article | 16/05/2013 Swedish domain admin comes out against Piratebay.se seizure

Swedish top-level domain administrator .SE has to its surprise become directly involved in the local Prosecution Authority's court case to seize thepi...

Article | 16/05/2013 Pushdo botnet is evolving, becomes more resilient to takedown attempts

Security researchers from Damballa have found a new variant of the Pushdo malware that's better at hiding its malicious network traffic and is more re...

Article | 16/05/2013 German case on embedding YouTube videos referred to EU court

Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice ...