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The Wikimedia Foundation this week rolled out a service designed to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles The Objective Revision Evaluation Service uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help Wikipedia editors identify damaging articles more quickly and assign quality scores to them more rapidly....

For individuals, social networking means sharing small moments and major events in life. For businesses, social media marketing can help build brands. For terrorist groups such as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, social networks increasingly are the tool of choice for delivering messages of hate and recruiting new members to their cause I...

There may be no better way to capture the state of the technology industry than to borrow Charles Dickens' famous opening from A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." It never has been a better time to launch new offerings via the cloud. However, the availability of low-cost computing power combined with open ...

Microsoft this week released Dynamics CRM 2016 in CRM Online and on-premises versions Built-in intelligence is a key feature of the package, which is available in 130 markets and 144 languages, the company said....

Nokia this week revealed its Ozo virtual reality camera system Priced at US$60,000, it will ship in the first quarter of 2016....

TheNetrunner Rolling 2015.11 version is a disappointing release. It seems sluggish and unimpressive right from the start Linux Picks and Pans last reviewed Netrunner in 2013 andgave it five stars. This was the standard Netrunner edition built upon Kubuntu, Ubuntu's KDE desktop version.

Up for discussion at Yahoo's next board of directors meeting is the sale of its Bing-powered search, longstanding mail service, aggregator-propped news platform, and the rest of the company's Internet business, according to reports that surfaced this week The possible spinoff of Yahoo's 15 percent stake in Alibaba also will be on the table, accordi...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Google has used personal student data mined from its school Chromebook distribution, and requesting an investigation and an injunction against the practice The EFF also on Tuesday launched its Spying on Students Campaign, an effort to ed...

Google on Monday announced an update to Data Saver mode in Chrome on Android designed to make loading Web pages on a slow wireless connection easier The update will remove most images when loading a page on a slow connection, reducing data consumption by up to 70 percent, Google claimed....

Just when the U.S. federal budget situation seemed about to settle down -- it didn't With tens of billions of dollars at stake, federal acquisition managers and the IT vendors who support government agencies were breathing a sigh of relief when Congress and the White House agreed to a two-year government spending program last month. The agreement w...

While visions of holiday shoppers dance in retailers' heads, those visions are also on the minds of online marauders Net predators are sticking to scams that have made them money throughout the year....

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan on Tuesday posted an open letter to their new baby daughter, Max, explaining why they plan to give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares -- worth about US$45 billion currently -- to philanthropic causes. The couple intend to make the donations gradually over the course of their lives "Technolo...

Lost somewhere in the pile of a current research project is an article on customer loyalty reporting that more than half of customers who recently exhibited loyal behavior toward a vendor said they'd switch to another vendor in an instant The question prompting this answer is whether these customers would switch for a better deal. It was a trick qu...

Apple intends to peel the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack from the next version of the iPhone, according to a Japanese blog post published last week. The jack will be dropped from the iPhone 7, according to a Google translation of the blog post, which was published at Macotakara. Labeled "Rumor," the post cited what it called a reliable source....

Open source is driving an ever-expanding market. The notion of community-driven development is a growing disruption to proprietary software controlled by commercial vendors, and the free open-source software concept has become a major disruption in industry and technology Open source is so pervasive that people tend to focus on big news items while...

High-tech honchos and venture capitalists from around the world -- and one university -- on Monday officially announced their participation in the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a new fund to support companies doing clean energy research The group includes Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Virgin G...

Not a day passes without mention of the Internet of Things in the media, as it appears to expand exponentially Roughly 6.4 billion things will be connected to the Internet in 2016, at a rate of 5.5 million new things per day, according to Gartner. More than 20 billion devices will be in use by 2020. ...

Calyx founder Nicholas Merrill -- who made history in 2004 when he sued to lift a nondisclosure order imposed on his company by an FBI National Security Letter -- has won his 11-year battle The ruling, handed down this summer by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, was stayed for 90 days to give the government tim...

Target's website traffic hit a wall when a record number of shoppers showed up in search of Cyber Monday bargains Having offered a 15 percent discount for any purchase made through the site, Target began to experience problems shortly after 10 a.m. It then placed customers in a virtual queue that effectively held their place in line so they would n...

Part 2: Channel Choosing: Where and How to Sell Online Once you've started your e-commerce business, one of the first steps toward success is to get the word out about your products. With all the different social media and other platforms available, however, effective marketing is more complex than ever. It's important, therefore, to have a balance...