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iPhone apps usage shifts into high gear at night, on weekends
Maybe iPhone users aren’t wasting countless hours at work fiddling with their smartphone apps after all.
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MySpace Extends Social Network to Microsoft Outlook
Now under new management, MySpace is looking to reinvent itself and rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. The once dominant social networking site fell from nearly 70 percent of the social networking market, to only 30 percent in less than a year, and was plummeting on the verge of extinction.
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Salesforce.com outage has customers tweeting
Salesforce.com customers were abuzz on Twitter Thursday morning as the result of what they described as a North American outage.
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Banish Seven Bad Tech Habits
You floss daily, rotate your tires regularly, file your taxes on time, and exercise at least twice a week. In other words, you have lots of good habits. But when it comes to technology, well, we need to talk. You know all the icons cluttering your desktop, and the passwords you keep in Notepad, and the half-baked backup you make once a month? Those are the results of bad habits--and they're not the only ones.
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Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk
Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealths online driving exam scheduling system.
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Tighter security coming for .org names
The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the .org domain in June -- a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache poisoning.
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IE zero-day exploit code goes public
An Israeli researcher has published exploit code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that Microsoft had just disclosed on Tuesday.
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After takedown, botnet-linked ISP Troyak resurfaces
Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he meant.
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NASA, cosmos community turn up volume on International Space Station
While detractors say the ISS is a costly lab that may never see a great return on investment, building the ISS has cost NASA $48.5 billion, the leaders of the ISS agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan recently to reaffirm its value.
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Poor Bill Gates: Mexican telecom tycoon grabs Richest Man title
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list released Tuesday, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.
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CA buying Nimsoft to further cloud computing ambitions
CA inks a deal to acquire for $350 million Nimsoft, an IT service management player with customers in the managed service provider market.
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Ex-Sun chief dishes dirt on Gates, Jobs
Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly.
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Cisco, Microsoft certifications increase high-tech salaries
IT professionals with certain IT certifications could make bank compared to counterparts, according to a study of 17,000 high-tech workers conducted by Dice Learning.
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