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Google Closes Deal to Acquire Waze for $1B 10 Jun 2013 | 09:47 pm
Google is close to a deal to acquire Waze, maker of the eponymous crowdsourced mapping app, for at least $1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal and others. The potential deal was first repor...
Windows 8 Users Launch Fewer Than One App a Day 28 May 2013 | 09:45 pm
A majority of consumer and small business Windows 8 PC users launch fewer than one “Metro” app a day, signaling that they’re spending most of their time on the classic Windows 7-style Desktop, accordi...
Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion 21 May 2013 | 09:44 pm
Yahoo has confirmed widespread reports that it will acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr, and also promised not to “screw it up.” The deal is worth about $1.1 billion, nearly all in cash. “Per ...
Are You The Next Bing Developer? 17 May 2013 | 10:01 pm
Visitors to the Bing homepage are currently greeted with a weird blue environment of some sort as the background to the search bar. But rich rewards are on offer for the searcher who looks beyond the ...
Outlook.com Webmail Service Upgrade 14 May 2013 | 09:43 pm
Microsoft is upgrading its new Outlook.com webmail service so that its users can communicate with Gmail users via instant messaging. Outlook.com, which replaced Hotmail and offers a similar feature fo...
Microsoft: Zero-day Vulnerability Exists in IE8 8 May 2013 | 10:16 pm
Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a “zero-day,” or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the company’s most popular browser. According to multiple security firms, the vulner...
International ‘Hackers’ Arrested 1 May 2013 | 09:31 pm
Seven alleged hackers based in the US, UK and Republic of Ireland have been charged with crimes related to computer attacks said to have affected “over one million victims”. The FBI said that five of ...
Google Rolls Back Its Chrome’s New Tab Page 29 Apr 2013 | 09:33 pm
Google has apparently rethought a change to its Chrome browser that had users up in arms and has restored an older design of its popular New Tab Page in the newest beta of Chrome 27. Users were overwh...
Microsoft’s Office Dominates with Its 4% Revenue 22 Apr 2013 | 08:57 pm
Microsoft’s Business division, which manages the company’s Office cash cow, recorded a 5% revenue bump in the first quarter over the same period in 2012, an increase driven by a surge in enterprises s...
New IT Admin Feature for Chrome Browser 17 Apr 2013 | 08:20 pm
Google has beefed up the administration and management controls that IT staff have over their users’ Chrome browsers. Google has added the ability for IT departments to apply the workplace configurati...
