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Posted in E-Week on February 4th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon's Kindle Fire remains a popular Android tablet in early 2012, according to ChangeWave Research. The firm said 54 percent of Fire owners said they were "very satisfied" with the slate. - Amazon
(NASDAQ:AMZN) may have missed its analyst estimates for the fourth quarter, but
the company's Kindle Fire tablet remains a hot ticket item.
Some 6 percent
of 2,607 North American consumers surveyed in January claimed to own a Kindle
Fire, double the percentage of a month ago, according ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 4th, 2012 by E-Week
Despite public concerns from members of Congress and European data-protection authorities, Google isn't going to slow or stop its march to whittle its product privacy policies down into one big umbrella policy. -
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) plans to move forward with its
planned privacy policy changes despite resistance from a handful of U.S. congressmen and a European data-protection group.
The search-engine provider, battling Facebook for
supremacy of user engagement and advertising on the Web, said it pla...
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Posted in E-Week on February 4th, 2012 by E-Week
Scammers are using automated techniques to generate tons of fake profiles to trick users into joining scams and clicking on malicious links, Barracuda Networks found. - CANCUN, MEXICO Cyber-crooks on Facebook are creating fake
profiles on the social networking site to launch their scams, according to data
released by Barracuda Networks.
The fake profiles are overwhelmingly women. About 97 percent
of the fake profiles collected by Barracuda Networks turned out...
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Posted in E-Week on February 3rd, 2012 by E-Week
At its GoingNative 2012 event, Microsoft announced a new, open specification to help C++ developers tap into the compute power of graphics processing units (GPUs). - Microsoft is making it easier for C++ programmers to take advantage of the computing power in graphics processing units (GPUs) with a new, open specification called C++ AMP.
The software giant announced the new specification at its GoingNative 2012 event on Feb. 3, which focused on C++ development....
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Posted in E-Week on February 3rd, 2012 by E-Week
Micron CEO Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash in Boise. The Idaho-based semiconductor company is a significant player in the hardware space. - Micron
Technology chairman and CEO Steve Appleton apparently died in a plane crash at
the Boise airport Feb. 3. He was 51 years old, and had served as CEO of the
company for more than 20 years.
According to
the Associated Press, he was the only one in the fixed-wing plane, which an
airport sp...
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Posted in E-Week on February 3rd, 2012 by E-Week
Companies need to think about educating users about security, the threats and the risks alongside traditional data-leak protection. - CANCUN, MEXICO Companies
invest in security to protect their networks and data. But sometimes, they are
not thinking about the human side of the security equation, Kaspersky Lab
researchers told attendees at the company's security conference.
The “Humans are the weakest
link” presentation on ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 3rd, 2012 by E-Week
At the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas, telehealth vendor Consult A Doctor will introduce new cloud-based virtual exam models that hospitals and clinics can implement and customize to suit their requirements. - Telehealth provider Consult A Doctor plans to debut two new
additions to its remote-care platform at the HIMSS12 health care IT
conference from Feb. 20-24 in Las Vegas to allow hospitals and clinics to
customize subscriptions for cloud-based virtual visits.
Consult A Doctor is a
cloud-based pl...
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Posted in E-Week on February 3rd, 2012 by E-Week
Granite, the latest acceleration technology from Riverbed Technology, is designed to speed up storage across the WAN and drive the consolidation of data centers. - Well-known for its
application acceleration products, Riverbed Technology delves into the next
logical phase of speeding up traffic across WANs with its new accelerator
technology, called Granite. Simply put, Riverbed's Granite does for WAN
storage, what Riverbed's Steelhead does for application...
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Posted in E-Week on February 3rd, 2012 by E-Week
Verizon's deal with three cable companies will turn competitors into partners, which could hurt consumers, according to U.S. Sen. Al Franken. The FCC has agreed to hold a hearing. - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has once again
been asked to protect the rights of smartphone-toting consumers from
big-business spectrum deals. Following AT amp;T's nine-month process of trying
to convince the FCC that allowing it to purchase T-Mobile would benefit
Americans, it's n...
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Posted in E-Week on February 3rd, 2012 by E-Week
Google takes the covers off Bouncer, an automated scanning service that checks new and existing apps on Android Market for malware. - Malicious
hackers trying to circulate malware-tainted applications on Android Market are
going to find Google's Bouncer at the door, preventing undesirable apps from
getting in and kicking out troublemakers.
Bouncer has
been monitoring the Android Market for several months already, and Google
...
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