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A legitimate feature for finding friends on Snapchat lacks rate limiting and can be abused, a security research group claims A security hole in popular photo messaging service Snapchat could allow attackers to find the phone numbers of many users in a short period of time, according to Gibson Security, […]
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Crashes are the top complaint from iPad Air, Fire HDX owners, No. 2 annoyance on iPad Mini, says Fixya Browser problems are the most common complaints of iPad Air and Fire HDX tablet owners, an online community of troubleshooters said Friday. San Mateo, Calif.-based Fixya mined 10,000 user-generated reports related […]
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Linux is gaining ground today, but a cloud OS or some other new technology may become more important in time LAS VEGAS – Gartner says that its clients have started planning to migrate from Unix. For some of them, it may take two or three years, and for others, five […]
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The Healthcare.gov rollout leads a pack of painful projects Trends come and go in the technology industry but some things, such as IT system failures, bloom eternal. “Nothing has changed,” said analyst Michael Krigsman of consulting firm Asuret, an expert on why IT projects go off the rails. “Not a […]
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Considering all that’s being patched this month, it seems as if Redmond forgot to include the kitchen sink… Tripwire’s Tyler Reguly says that considering all that’s being patched this month, it seems as if Redmond forgot to include the kitchen sink. Next week, Microsoft ends 2013 with 11 bulletins, offering […]
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Also: Next Windows 8 release rumored to be closer to Windows Phone; report says Windows 8.1 uptake slow China says it wants Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP because that will help it in its fight to stop proliferation of pirated Microsoft software. A report from TechWeb written in […]
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The company reported higher-than-expected revenue and a return to growth in its enterprise business Hewlett-Packard reported results for the last quarter of its fiscal year on Tuesday, and although sales were down from a year earlier there were some much-needed signs of improvement. HP’s enterprise division, which sells servers, storage […]
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PayPal’s contest challenged teams from around the world to create best app to help community A group of Russian software developers dubbed “Team Moscow” has won PayPal’s $100,000 Battle Hack 2013 awarded for the best socially worthy use of PayPal’s API. A team of Israel finished second and one from […]
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Windows 1.0 came out 28 years ago this week laying the groundwork for Microsoft’s signature operating system Many say Windows turned 30 this year, but it was actually 28 years ago this week that the first commercial version of Microsoft’s signature operating system shipped. The justification for calling it the […]