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French police end missing persons searches, suggest using Facebook instead

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The latest victim of disruption by Internet technologies is a veteran of World War I: the missing persons search.

Despite stress, long hours, 81% of IT pros would recommend an IT career: survey
- Posted May 22, 2013 - 3:00 pm
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Most IT pros are satisfied with their demanding jobs, according to new survey data. Ninety-five percent are proud they chose IT as a career, and 81% would do it all over again given the chance, reports TEKsystems, which offers IT staffing and talent management services.
10 tech patents that should have been rejected
- Posted May 22, 2013 - 3:25 pm
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Patents are supposed to protect innovation, but some seem better designed to create confusion -- or lawsuits.
Android Studio First look: It eclipses Eclipse
- Posted May 22, 2013 - 2:47 pm
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Google's new Android development environment pairs rich layout and build capabilities with IntelliJ IDEA's famous ease.

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Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative
- Posted May 20, 2013 - 1:37 pm
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There's plenty of innovation happening in data centers. Here's a look at products on show at last week's Uptime Institute Symposium.
Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up'
- Posted May 20, 2013 - 8:51 am
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Yahoo has confirmed widespread reports that it will acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr, and also promised not to "screw it up." The deal is worth about $1.1 billion, nearly all in cash.
12 ways Windows 8 dominates the OS competition
- Posted May 20, 2013 - 7:00 am
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Don't let all the Live Tile bashing fool you. Windows 8 still dominates the OS competition in a dozen crucial aspects.
Has Intel finally landed that elusive Atom deal?
- Posted May 20, 2013 - 9:17 am
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After years of trying, Intel might finally have a major vendor win for its embedded processor. Rumor has it that Samsung will adopt an Atom processor for the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1.
40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids
- Posted May 20, 2013 - 8:02 am
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Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today.
Former Amazon cloud engineer tells all on Reddit
- Posted May 20, 2013 - 7:01 am
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Amazon is notoriously hush-hush about its internal operations.
Microsoft's $300M Nook investment hasn't paid off -- yet
- Posted May 20, 2013 - 6:14 am
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Microsoft has gotten next to nothing from its $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it may reap some rewards as it prepares to ship smaller tablets.

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