Apple recently received approval to build a 20-megawatt solar farm across the street from its data center in North Carolina; the company disclosed that it is going greener with its data center electricity sourcing. Now, here this is which states how it goes: the company through its “go green” data center will produce an unprecedented 60 percent of the 20-megawatt...
We know Facebook is now a 901 million+ users entity but what if sometimes among those users, pretty many do think to deactivate or delete the account. To make a note here be cautious as cyber criminals are putting up malware to those who wants to end their Facebook accounts. The warning is if you ever receive an e-mail asking to confirm or deny that you wish to cancel...
Salesforce which recently announced its 1Q13 results with quarterly revenue of $695 million, the company on Tuesday will update its Chatter social enterprise tool to add instant messaging and screensharing, ZDNet reports. “The collaboration market has failed to deliver on connecting the enterprise,” said Dave King, director Chatter Product Marketing. Screensharing...
Fulfilling the earlier promise of bringing the global GSM networks by this year, The Verge reports that Verizon confirmed that Droid 4, HTC Rezound, Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx – all will get global GSM roaming this summer. The carrier says, “After the software update, customers will be able to take their smartphone overseas and use voice service in more than 220 countries and receive data in more than 205 countries.” ...
Seen at CES 2012, Lenovo has made the IdeaCentre A720 all-in-one out for sale. The IdeaCentre features a 10-point, 27-inch multi-touch display, Core I7-3610QM Ivy Bridge processor, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 1TB hard drive. The company priced it at $1,299 during CES but now it comes at a cost of $1,849 base price. ...
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Forbes, Jan-Eric Lauble, the creative director of ACONY Games says Bullet Run, which will be published by Sony Online Entertainment. Bullet Run is a free-to-play multiplayer shooter that its developer describes as “pro-wrestling meets Big Brother with guns”. The game will allow up to 20 players to customize characters...
Cult Of Mac – via Ars Technica – putting up that US carrier AT&T and 47 other carriers worldwide those having network vulnerability allows hackers to intercept cellular data and inject malicious content into the traffic that passes between smartphones and the websites they visit. The flaw then be used to transfer code to unencrypted pages which in turn results in user to perform unintended actions. Ars Technica explains: While intended to make the networks safer, these firewall middleboxes allow hackers to infer TCP sequence numbers...
In an urge to give end users a better experience, Gmail has announced that it has improved the autocomplete predictions you see when you search in Gmail. Giving by an example, when you type something into the Gmail search box, the autocomplete predictions will be tailored to the content in your email, so you can save time and get the information you want faster than ever before. The improved autocomplete in English will be rolling out over the next few days and will follow with more languages over the next few months. While initially...
The micro-blogging giant has released a UK Small Business Guide with advice for use and examples of past success. There is already an existing US guide for small businesses that appeared earlier this year and this new edition is more closely aligned with the UK audience. The guide will show you how to engage with your customers and put Twitter to work for your business. Get started Understand how Twitter works so your business can actively and effectively join the conversation. Engage your customers Learn how to tweet shareable information,...
Microsoft Research is winning a clear-cut “data sorting” victory in the MinuteSort test, posting a score that they say essentially triples the previous title-holder, a 2009 Yahoo team. A new approach to managing data over a network has enabled a Microsoft Research team to set a speed record for sifting through, or “sorting,” a huge amount of data in one minute. The team, led by Jeremy Elson in the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research Redmond, set the new sort benchmark by using a radically different approach to sorting...
