Yahoo has redesigned its Sports, Movies, Music, TV, omg, Games and Weather sites with a more consistent look and some personalized tools, the company said Tuesday.
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UAE CIOs rank cloud as a top investment priority
With 85 percent of UAE CIOs ranking cloud as their top investment priority to 2020, managing multiple clouds will be the foundation for business success, industry experts revealed recently.0 3584
Canonical looking to tap Dell to promote Chinese version of Ubuntu OS
Canonical is in talks with Dell on making a version of Ubuntu supported by the Chinese government available as a pre-installed OS on the PC maker’s upcoming products destined for the Chinese market.
Intel to ship new low-power Atom server chip Avaton next week
Intel is expected to announce availability next week of a low-power Atom server chip code-named Avoton, which is likely to appear soon in systems such as Hewlett-Packard’s Moonshot.
US regulators explore rules for Bitcoin
A Bitcoin trade group met with representatives of several U.S government agencies Monday as regulators debate whether the on-line currency should comply …
Facebook does Prism damage control with first government request report
Facebook received more than 25,000 requests from governments about its users during the first half of 2013, with nearly half of those requests coming from U.S. law enforcement and related agencies, the company said.
Bitcoin offers privacy – as long as you don't cash out or spend it
On the surface, Bitcoin seems to be a great way to hide cash. Actually, it’s a terrible way to launder money.
New York Times site outage caused by attack on domain registrar, company says
The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company’s Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT.
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Twitter, New York Times, others by modifying DNS records
Twitter, The New York Times and other prominent websites were struck by a powerful cyberattack that continued affecting other websites into Tuesday evening, directing visitors to a site purportedly controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).
MIT develops 110-core processor for more power-efficient computing
A 110-core chip has been developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology as it looks for power-efficient ways to boost performance in mobile devices, PCs and servers.
Oracle software will run faster with new SPARC M6 chip
Oracle’s database and high-performance workloads will run faster with the company’s latest SPARC M6 chip, which has been tuned specially for the company’s applications.