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Mozilla's Cross-platform App Store Submissions Start Next Week
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The Mozilla Foundation has announced that during Mobile World Congress next week, it will open the doors for developers to begin submitting applications to its cross-platform app store. The call to arms came just a few hours ago,...
Nvidia Debuts Geforce R295 Driver
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Nvidia has released the GeForce 295.73 driver into the wild, bringing with it some big performance gains in specific titles and new SLI profiles. Fans of the incredibly popular Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be pleased to know...
Noon News: Google Latitude Receives Foursquare like Feature, HP Digital Printing Presses, Apple Motorola Patent Dispute
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The latest update of Google Maps for Android now comes with a new feature called "points for Latitude checkins". However, when the update was launched on Wednesday, the company did not mention anything about it. But, once the...
Future Computers "Will Learn Through Interacting with Us": David Ferrucci
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The brains behind IBM Watson supercomputer has predicted that the future machines will keep on constantly improving their understanding of the data that they work with. This will eventually help the devices to provide its users...
Google Launches Test Version of Chromium Browser with Dart Virtual Machine
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Google has launched a test version of the Chrome browser that can run various programs written in Dart - the language Google designed for improving upon limitations of JavaScript. Dart was developed by Google for improving web...
Mac OS X Mountain Lion Gatekeeper to Keep Malware at Bay
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Mac OS X v10.8 Mountain Lion from Apple will be equipped with a new Gatekeeper feature that will prohibit execution of malware thus ensuring better system protection. Apple stated, "While malware is one of the biggest security...
Microsoft Aims to Speed up Internet Explorer, Taking 5.7 Million Measurements a Day
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Microsoft, in a bid to revive the ailing and declining status of internet explorer and to make it the fastest browser on the web, is reputedly currently taking more than 5 million measurements a day. The Windows 8 maker has...
AMD Releases Pre-certified Catalyst 12.2 Graphics Driver
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AMD has released the pre-certified catalyst 12.2 driver, adding Windows Vista/7 support for 7700 and 7900 graphics cards, as well as enabling super sampling anti-aliasing. This is exactly the same driver that will be released as...
Sony Releases Move.Me SDK in EU and UK
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Playing catchup with Microsoft and its Kinect for Windows release, Sony has made available the Move.Me Software Development Kit (SDK) in Europe and the UK after a successful trial in the US. When it was initially unveiled, Sony's...
US Congress Asks Apple to Answer iPhone App Privacy Concerns
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Apple is apparently in hot water following the recent scandal exposing iPhone apps' ability to access contact lists and copy address book details without users knowing it. Two members of the US Congress wrote a letter to...
Researchers use Computer Program to Identify Teens at Risk of Mental Illness
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According to a group of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh the day is not too far when computer programs will be deployed in order to identify teenagers who are vulnerable to mental disorders such as depression and...
Oracle R Programming Language Now Inside 11g Database
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Oracle has recently embedded its R programming language, naming it R-acle 11g Quant Edition. The R programming language has been used by above 2 million statisticians, and the company has decided to provide it to the world via...
Apple-Approved iPhone, iPad Apps Leak More Private Data
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Apple's reputation for building a highly protective environment for its apps, fiercely filtering third party applications available for iDevices, has been called into question in a recent report. Apparently,...
Apple to Introduce Retina Display Macs for iPad 3 Developers?
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An intriguing report suggests that Apple could not only give the Retina Display to its third generation tablet but also to its Mac line-up later this year. The 'developmental' Macs would be specifically aimed at developers who...
Best Practices for Tackling Security Early in Software Development
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According to a 2009 survey from Software Productivity Research LLC, poor software quality costs more than US$500 billion per year globally in financial, competitive, and brand equity losses. Not surprising, given that software...





