The asteroid that flew close to Earth Monday didn’t come alone.
IBM, #Apple roll out industry apps: A look at the buying moving parts
IBM is gunning for a 70 percent standard and 30 percent custom deployment approach for its MobileFirst apps for iOS. Your pricing and returns will vary.
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#Google releases #Android Lollipop 5.0.2 for the 2012 Nexus 7
Hot on the heels of Android 5.0.1 for most Nexus devices, Google has released what appears to be a special update for the 2012 Nexus 7 wifi model.
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#Google pushes to take #Oracle Java copyright case to Supreme Court
Can software code, and application programming interfaces in particular, be copyrighted? That is the question.
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Zenwalk Linux – A Walk on the Quirky Side
The developmental path and sketchy developer website may cast an unfavorable impression about Zenwalk’s trustworthiness as a serious computing platform. The ho-hum impression when first running the live edition does little to encourage users to take this Linux OS for a stroll. Zenwalk Linux becomes a bit more impressive once you get beyond the awkward first-time experience.
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You Can See Our Holiday Lights All the Way From Space
SAN FRANCISCO—People love the holidays so much you can see it from space. Data collected by a satellite with a special nighttime sensor found that the glow from our collective light displays brightens many major U.S. cities as much as 50 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. A team led by NASA scientist Miguel […]
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Free wi-fi? Mesh networking? Bins that talk? Porto project shows it’s a load of garbage
A clever experiment in Portugal is showing how adding new technology to the city’s vehicles – including garbage trucks – can be put to new uses.
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#Apple Maps Connect for businesses arrives in the UK
Small businesses in the UK can now build a profile of their operations on Apple Maps following a quiet product launch.
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#Apple’s iPhone 6, 6 Plus dominate U.S. high end, Samsung Galaxy Note places
Canaccord Genuity survey of U.S. carriers finds that Apple leading the pack for high-end smartphones with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 in third place.
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The beginning of the people’s Web: 20 years of Netscape
In 1994, only geeks, techies and nerds were using the Web, and then along came Netscape and nothing would be the same.
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