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- 16 May 2013
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News: Spiceworks' free management software gets integrated MDM
Spiceworks has teamed up with Fiberlink to add mobile device management functionality to the next version of its free network and IT management software.
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News: Booming mobile industry spawning global criminal marketplace
In an alarming 'post-PC' era alert, working group says criminal infrastructure created much faster than it was for PC fraud
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News: Technology Strategy Board to invest £47m in digital economy this year
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has been allocated a record £440 million budget this year to support innovative businesses and drive growth across the UK.
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News: Comparethemarket.com improves customer experience with MongoDB
Insurance comparison website Comparethemarket.com is using open source NoSQL database MongoDB to improve the customer experience of its home insurance offering.
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News: Hands on with Hangouts, Google's swipe at Facebook
Let's cut to the chase: Google's new Hangouts app is an over-the-top mobile messaging service in the vein of Whatsapp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger. Google is not reinventing the wheel here. But unlike its competitors, Hangouts offers group video chats. Therein lies the appeal.
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News: Internode extends mobile handset range
Internet service provider (ISP), Internode, has extended its range of mobile handsets offered with its NodeMobile call plans, by adding the new Samsung Galaxy S4 to its line-up.
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News: Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost
Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables.
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News: SAP attracts new customers with Suite on HANA – but not Oracle's
SAP's announcement earlier this year that it is making its widely used Business Suite applications available on its in-memory database technology, HANA, has led to new customers signing up to the solution – but it is yet to draw Oracle's application customer base into the fold.
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News: Halfords pushes PC lifecycle management strategy
Car maintenance and cycling retailer Halfords has deployed a new PC lifecycle management system to cover over 700 devices across two central offices.
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News: Sheffield Hallam University improves SSO and application delivery
Sheffield Hallam University is saving up to £20,000 a year and eliminating "tens of hours of downtime every month" with an improved single sign-on system and application delivery controller.
- 15 May 2013
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News: Google to boost speed, cut data use on mobile devices
Google has shown off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from capabilities already supported in the Chrome desktop OS.
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News: Location-based and notification APIs highlight new Google Play services
Google I/O is a developer-centric conference, so it's perhaps no surprise that one of the leading topics at Wednesday's keynote event was new application programming interfaces, or APIs.
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News: Google tells Microsoft to shut down its YouTube app for Windows Phone
Google on Wednesday demanded that Microsoft yank its YouTube app for Windows Phone from the market and disable any downloaded copies of the app, according to Wired.com, which received a copy of Google's cease and desist letter.
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News: Researchers develop industrial systems that watch for security breaches
With the new networking method, devices are able spot a problem unit and then isolate it from the network before it can do any damage
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News: Google CEO on innovation: 'We're at 1% of what's possible'
Google CEO Larry Page took the stage today to wrap up a nearly four-hour long keynote that kicked off the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco.
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News: Windows 8 isn't New Coke, says top Microsoft exec; it's Diet Coke
Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's head of corporate communications, defended his company's Windows information disclosure strategy, denying that Microsoft has adopted Apple's "cone of silence" approach to imparting news.
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News: Windows 8 Update: Scarcity of touchscreens is hurting Windows 8
Along with whatever other problems Windows 8 faces, Microsoft partners interested in making machines that show the operating system off to best advantage are handicapped by a short supply of touchscreens, the top Windows executive says.
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News: Testing firm: Internet Explorer tops browsers for malware protection
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what browser blocks malware best of all? The answer to that question is Microsoft Internet Explorer 10, at least according to the latest test results released by NSS Labs.
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News: EA bringing Frostbite 3 gaming engine to mobile
You may not be able to run next-gen games and graphics from Electronic Arts on your Wii U, but it looks like you'll get them on your iPhone. Electronic Arts has put up a new site for the company's Frostbite 3 gaming engine where it confirms that Frostbite is coming to mobile.
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News: Creative Cloud and iPhoto improvements
This week we offer you a double-header--one where we start with Jackie Dove speaking with Adobe's Senior Marketing Director, Scott Morris, about the company's recent announcement that it was ending perpetual licenses for upcoming versions of Adobe Creative Suite applications. Chris Breen then talks with Jeff Carlson about ways Jeff believes iPhoto could be improved.
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New Xbox One release date, specs, features and price in UK
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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Galaxy S4 vs BlackBerry Z10 comparison review - which is best, the Samsung or the BlackBerry?
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Best cases and covers for the new iPad: protect your tablet in style
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What’s the best mobile OS: iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 or BlackBerry 10?
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Apple iPhone 5 comparison review
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Galaxy S4 vs BlackBerry Z10 comparison review - which is best, the Samsung or the BlackBerry?
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Microsoft Windows 8 review
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Surface Pro review - Microsoft tablet offers true power computing on the move
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Nexus 4 smartphone comparison review: what's the best Android?
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