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Gmail Windows Phone 7 Users Stranded on Feb 1
According to The Verge, Google notified Microsoft of its plans to discontinue support for ActiveSync on the Gmail platform last year, and has recently notified Microsoft that the cut-off is coming on Jan 30, despite Microsoft’s efforts to get a 6-month extension from Google. ActiveSync is widely used to sync calendar and contact data from
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If you want Windows 8, get it now!
Microsoft has announced that it will be raising the price of Windows 8 upgrades at the end of January to the full retail cost of $119 to $199 for the Pro version. The downloadable upgrade from Windows 7 to 8 is currently available for $39.99, and there is a boxed, retail version available for $69.99,
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BlackBerry Faithful: Your Day is Approaching
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the once-dominant BlackBerry platform, has announced the launch date of its BlackBerry 10 phones to be January 30 by all the major US carriers except Sprint, who has promised a BB10 phone later in the year. Many analysts believe that this launch is the last-ditch effort by RIM to
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Facebook Debuts New Search Functionality
Facebook has announced the arrival of a new feature dubbed “Graph Search” which will allow its users to create custom pages that are built from content derived from plain-language search phrases, such as “People who like the things I like.” Graph Search will store that query as a page that can be revisited, and as
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Java 7 Flaw Prompts Widespread Warnings
Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT and the Department of Homeland Security have issued a broad warning about using the latest version of the Java 7 plug-in for web browsers, and some browser manufacturers have already taken steps to disable Java application execution until the vulnerability can be fixed. The security flaw is already being exploited in
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Is Your Webserver a Double-agent?
Over the past four months, many of the Western world’s largest banking institution websites have been under attack by a well-organized and funded cyber “brigade” that is allegedly part of the US-branded terrorist group “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam” – the military arm of Hamas. Aside from the publicly-stated political agenda motivating the attacks, little else was
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