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China’s Tencent To Restructure Into Six Groups, Here’s Why

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:58:43 +0000

China’s Internet juggernaut Tencent announced today that it would undergo a restructuring of its business units into six groups.

Windows 8 ARM tablets suffering pricing problems due to Microsoft fees, report claims

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:53:40 +0000

According to Digitimes, original equipment manufacturers are having a hard time meeting price targets for tablets that will run Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8 RT operating system, which is coded for touch input.

British hackers get jail terms

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:47:37 +0000

Two separate and very different cases in the UK saw hackers receive jail terms of twelve and eighteen months.

Avast and ahoy: Google’s student doodle contest winner named!

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:51:33 +0000

A 7-year-old Wisconsin boy's drawing of his dream visit to the time of pirates, ships and treasure has won him the annual Doodle 4 Google competition.

Verizon fumbles on “kill unlimited data plans” damage control

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:43:21 +0000

Yesterday, at the J.P. Morgan 40th Annual Technology, Verizon EVP and CFO Frank Shammo mentioned that his company would be forcing customers away from their grandfathered unlimited data plans.

Want Facebook Shares? HK’s 8 Securities Offers $200 Worth If You Join Its Trading Platform

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:19:27 +0000

With Facebook announcing its ballsy stock price of $38 yesterday and all eyes now on what will happen with the social network when it finally goes public today.

European Activists Could Force Facebook’s New Privacy Changes To A Worldwide Vote

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:14:05 +0000

The European activists “europe-v-facebook.org”, led by a group of Austrian students, say that they have reached the 7,000-comment threshold on a Facebook privacy proposal, first raised last week.

Mozilla product director says Firefox on Window RT ‘probably not worth it’

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:54:00 +0000

A Mozilla product director yesterday said that unless Microsoft allows other browser makers to call important APIs in Windows RT, it is "probably not worth it to even bother" building a version of Firefox.

Apple no longer censoring the word ‘jailbreak’ in U.S. iTunes Store

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:49:24 +0000

Yesterday a bit of a hullabaloo was started when it was discovered that Apple was censoring the word ‘jailbreak’ in the U.S. App Store.

Wake up to the sound of tweets in the morning with The Listening Machine

vica — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:33:17 +0000

If you fancy waking up to the sound of the world in 140 characters? Then you will be delighted to know that there’s a way to translate tweets into sound for your own dawn chorus.

Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:41:38 +0000

About two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyze vast amounts of data from multiple repositories.

VMware puts on new vFabric suite, takes your database on a date

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:34:54 +0000

VMware pretty much owns the virtualization layer on X86 iron inside of enterprises, but it has a long way to go to get the same kind of uptake for its vFabric application framework.

Cisco bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:29:46 +0000

Cisco announced yesterday three pre-tested bundles of products and services designed to cut through the confusing complexity of enterprise mobility.

Apache details OpenOffice 3.4 security fixes

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:24:05 +0000

Following the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 last week, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has now detailed the security fixes included in the new version of the open source productivity suite.

Why it’s unlikely we’ll see multiple Nexus devices this year

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:17:44 +0000

Since the early days of Android, the loyalists in the Google ecosystem have hoped that one day Andy Rubin would descend from the Googleplex with a series of devices that were stock Android.

As Facebook grows, millions say, ‘no, thanks’

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:40:52 +0000

Don't try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won't find her there.

Weotta Go: An iPhone App That Suggests Activities For Right Now

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:13:35 +0000

Here’s an iPhone app for those moments when you’re wondering, “Okay, I’ve got some free time right now — what should I do?”

Microsoft anti-bloatware service to apply to Windows 8 PCs, too

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:53:55 +0000

A Microsoft in-store program that scrubs "bloatware" from Windows PCs will also be offered when Windows 8 machines reach the market later this year, a company representative said Wednesday.

Russia’s Twitter rival Futubra unleashes mobile apps

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:49:57 +0000

The Russian answer to Twitter, Futubra, just stepped up its game with the release of apps for iOS, Windows Phone and Android.

TNW Pick of the Day: PowerSketch transforms your iPhone snaps and videos into artwork

vica — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:40:09 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I’ve just about had my fill of so-called Instagram alternatives, though I do still occasionally bust out Instagram itself if I’m looking to taint some snaps with a pseudo 1960s feel.