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Facebook gets some hashtag action
SOCIAL networking site Facebook has announced plans to introduce clickable hashtags for users.
news.com.au (6 days ago)
Clearwire's board backs Dish offer, dealing blow to Sprint
Clearwire's board of directors has unanimously recommended its shareholders reject the takeover bid by Sprint Nextel, which owns roughly half of Clearwire, and instead accept a buyout offer from Dish Network. Sprint has been planning to buy out the remainder of Clearwire in conjunction with its possible acquisition...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Celebrities as cartoon characters: Pictures of David Beckham, Cheryl Cole, Kim Kardashian and...
Charles and Camilla are the latest additions to a whole gallery of celebrities who have been turned into comic characters...
mirror.co.uk (6 days ago)
US charges eight with multimillion-dollar cybercrime
U.S. federal prosecutors charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud that siphoned money from hacked accounts at banks and financial institutions, laundered it and sent it overseas. Four of the eight have been arrested by authorities, one as he arrived at New York's John F....
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
On site at a Sprint cell: Gear shrinks while coverage grows
On the roof of a medical building in San Francisco, Sprint Nextel has a cell site that's far above the cramped canyons of the city's streets, but despite the wide-open views, space is limited. Sprint shares the roof with other mobile operators also taking advantage of its high vantage point, and each needs backup...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Gliffy goes HTML5, adds Visio support
Gliffy, the web-based diagram creation and editing utility, has been rewritten in HTML5, allowing its developer to add a slew of new features, including support for Microsoft Visio as well as Google Drive cloud storage. Chris Kohlhardt, chief executive of Gliffy, said the shift from Flash to HTML5 was "highly...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Ultrabook: Designed for Optimal Experience
The way we use and interact with technology has changed dramatically in recent years. The days of working 9-to-5 tethered to a desktop PC in an office are virtually extinct. Now, we live in an increasingly wireless, mobile, connected world, where people get things done virtually anywhere, and everywhere....
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Smartphones are Smarter with an All-In-One Processor
The performance of your smartphone is influenced by many factors, including the operating system, manufacturer, and wireless carrier. But there’s one essential and often-overlooked element that’s largely responsible for the speed, efficiency, and battery life of your smartphone-the processor. Here’s a simple guide...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems
On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be obtained by purchasing HP systems. HP Cloud OS "will provide the foundation for...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Facebook adds 'hashtag' feature, taking a page from Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, the world's No. 1 social network, is adopting the "hashtag," one of the most recognizable features of its younger rival Twitter, in a move to position its Web service as an important complement to television, sporting events and breaking news.
reuters.com (6 days ago)
What a #copycat: Facebook apes Twitter with hashtags
Hashtags, the popular tool used on Twitter and in an array of other social sites to surface content around specific topics #likeso, are coming to Facebook.(techhive.com)
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
SAP wins key ruling in long-running patent battle with Versata
SAP has received a ruling that sets a legal landmark in patent law and could also prove favorable to its defense in a long-running intellectual-property dispute with Versata. In September, SAP filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal board, arguing that five patent claims...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Apple sees chance to compete with Office on the Web
Apple on Monday, almost as an afterthought, announced it was working on browser-based versions of its iWork productivity applications, a move one analyst said challenged Microsoft’s Office behemoth. For a few minutes during Monday’s keynote of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Roger Rosner, who heads iWork...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Smartphone chips to power prototype supercomputer
Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has built a prototype supercomputer running on ARM processors that...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Google taps HP to sell Google Apps, hardware bundle
On Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard and Google debuted an IT solution for small- and medium-size businesses that are looking to eliminate complexity and cut costs. The new offering bundles HP's PC hardware with Google's Google Apps services. It's so simple, the companies said, that HP is calling it "HP SMB IT in a Box,"...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Dunkin' Donuts flap proves the power of social media and a cool head
Picture this: You own a small retail shop. Maybe a restaurant. An angry woman comes into your store and begins complaining-loudly and profanely-about bad service she says she received the prior day. She demands satisfaction-free stuff, mainly-and she's filming all of this on her cell phone. Compounding the problem,...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Gmail access disrupted in Iran ahead of election
Access to Google's Gmail service appears to be disrupted in Iran just days before the country's presidential election. Google said it has noticed a drop in connectivity to Gmail from the country. The connectivity drop appears to fall short of a complete block of Gmail services, but there may be significant...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Supermarket workers find 220lbs of cocaine hidden inside crate of bananas
Staff at the Coop got a big surprise when they opened crates from Colombia and found the drugs
mirror.co.uk (6 days ago)
Review: AllDup is a free and flexible way get rid of duplicate files
Duplicate file finders can strip your hard drive of unnecessary clutter. In recent months, I've tested several duplicate file finders, including the free Auslogics Duplicate File Finder, the $30 Ashisoft Duplicate Finder, and the $40 Webminds Easy Duplicate File Finder. The free AllDup is yet another way to get...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
France Télécom CEO charged with conspiracy to defraud
France Télécom's CEO Stéphane Richard has been charged with conspiracy to defraud, a Paris court announced Wednesday. The charge relates to alleged activities before he joined the company. The Financial Brigade of the French police arrested Richard Monday in order to question him about his alleged role in a...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
How to create a bootable Windows 8 recovery tool
Reader Larry wrote me regarding his new Asus machine, which came without any kind of recovery disks (which would be used to restore Windows in the event of a major system meltdown). That's not uncommon these days. Even on systems that have optical drives (which are increasingly rare), computer vendors opt to save...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Review: Glipho makes blogging social
If you took a dash of WordPress, added a sprinkle of Twitter and a tablespoon of Facebook, you just might end up with Glipho…or, at least, what Glipho hopes to become. Billed as "the social publishing engine," Glipho is a cloud-based service that aims to build a social community of writers and help those writers...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
New Mac Pro turns design on its head
APPLE'S most powerful computer ever looks like a chunky thermos flash and turns desktop device design on its head.
news.com.au (7 days ago)
Telstra faces new asbestos claims
UNION leaders are demanding investigations into the presence of asbestos in Telstra's exchange buildings.
news.com.au (7 days ago)
Oracle releases Java EE 7 with eye on HTML5 development
Oracle has announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7, a release that brings new capabilities for HTML5-based application development to the framework. HTML5 applications are easier to build with Java EE 7 through features such as "low-latency, bi-directional communication with WebSockets,"...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
European commissioner demands Prism answers from US attorney general
Europe's justice commissioner has given the U.S. attorney general until Friday to explain how far the so-called Prism program went in collecting European citizens' data. In a strongly-worded letter Commissioner Viviane Reding demanded to know what U.S. authorities are doing with Europeans' personal information...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Berlin won't migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead
The German city-state of Berlin won't migrate to open source software. Instead, its parliament decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on open standards. Berlin's Green party had proposed to have 25 percent of its standardized IT workplaces running open source software by 2018, according to the proposal...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
UK banks fear cyber attack more than euro crisis: BoE's Haldane
LONDON (Reuters) - Worries over hacking and other cyber attacks has pushed aside the euro zone crisis as the top risk for Britain's banks and they must do more to protect themselves, a senior Bank of England official said on Wednesday.
reuters.com (7 days ago)
Eyes-on: Oculus Rift VR headset ramps up the resolution
At first glance, the tiny conference room tucked away in a back corner of the L.A. Convention Center’s West Hall seemed like any other: cramped, with white walls and gray carpeting, under the unrelenting glow of fluorescent lighting. Then I slipped the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset over my eyes, and the...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Touring Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls Online
It was a productive afternoon: I rescued a pig, solved a murder, and foiled a regicide-not bad for a sell-sword who's 90 years-young. At this year's E3 I scored some time with a beta build of Bethesda's new MMORPG, The Elder Scrolls Online. I explored the lands of Tamriel as a decrepit mercenary, bent on stealing...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
