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Facebook's 'man in the middle' attack on our data

Eben Moglen. Photo courtesy of flickr/aigarius

Is Facebook secretly using your data for nefarious purposes? Privacy advocate Eben Moglen says yes.

Google to pay users to track their movements online

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Amid widespread concern about its new privacy policies, Google is now facing criticism over an offer to give users Amazon gift certificates if they open their Web movements to the company in a program called Screenwise.

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Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review
- Posted Feb 8, 2012 - 6:15 am
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MongoDB shines with broad programming language support, SQL-like queries, and out-of-the-box scaling
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President Obama shoots marshmallow at White House Science Fair
- Posted Feb 8, 2012 - 10:11 am
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Yahoo ousts half its board
- Posted Feb 7, 2012 - 6:04 pm
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As part of an ongoing effort to recover from a downward spiral, Yahoo said on Tuesday that four board members, including its chairman, will step down.
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Nokia will lay off 4,000 and move more manufacturing to Asia
- Posted Feb 8, 2012 - 5:23 am
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Nokia has decided to move more of its manufacturing to Asia, and will lay off approximately 4,000 workers at three factories in Europe and Mexico by the end of the year, the company said on Wednesday.
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Honeywell hits Nest thermostat with lawsuits
- Posted Feb 7, 2012 - 11:13 am
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Nest, the iPod of home thermostats, allegedly violates patents Honeywell filed and ignored 20 years ago.
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Symantec may have tried to bribe hackers, but definitely betrayed its own customers
- Posted Feb 7, 2012 - 1:02 pm
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Anonymous is laughing it up at Symantec's reputed attempt to bribe hackers to not release source code. Symantec calls it extortion. That question is trivial compared to the reality that Symnantec broke trust with its customers and left them at risk for six years following the hack.
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MegaUpload planned to launch legal music service when raided
- Posted Feb 7, 2012 - 11:00 am
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Conspiracy Alert! Was MegaUpload clobbered to stop upcoming legal service, or is founder Kim Dotcom blowing smoke?
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Canonical aligns Kubuntu as community flavor
- Posted Feb 6, 2012 - 8:28 pm
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The Kubuntu flavor of Ubuntu is being realigned to community-only status, as in-house Canonical developers are shifted away from the project.
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Java tops C in language popularity assessment -- but not by much
- Posted Feb 6, 2012 - 4:35 pm
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Java has been buoyed by Android's success, but C continues to close the popularity gap
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Google agrees to court order in India to remove content
- Posted Feb 6, 2012 - 8:37 am
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Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely to appeal the court's decision, plaintiff Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi said on Monday.
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by Keith Shaw

Original Star Tours Disneyland ride recreated in 3D

Posted Feb 08, 2012 - 07:16 pm

The re-release of Star Wars: Episode I is not the only thing going 3D this week in the Star Wars universe.
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Tech Business Today

by Chris Nerney

Groupon shares fall in extended trading after earnings miss

Posted Feb 08, 2012 - 07:14 pm

Daily-deals site Groupon reports its first quarterly results since going public in early November.
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CoreIT

by Kevin Fogarty

Studies show Facebook,Twitter more addictive than anything but sleep and sex, but do less good

Posted Feb 08, 2012 - 02:05 pm

A new study on what people desire, how often and how well they resist those desires shows the need to use social networks and other online services is harder to resist than anything but sleep and sex. Another shows, for some, negatives almost wipe out benefit of social networking.
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Mobilize!

by Kevin Purdy

New Android augmented reality rumors, a super-slim Galaxy S III, and free T-Mobile phones

Posted Feb 08, 2012 - 08:55 am

All the mobile rumors of the day, compiled, compressed, and given completely subjective ratings.
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The TechnoFile

by Peter Smith

Chrome for Android: What I love, what I don't.

Posted Feb 08, 2012 - 08:30 am

Google released a beta of Chrome for Android yesterday and it has some really nice features, but it still isn't perfect.
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Your IT Career

by Eric Bloom

5 great jobs and 6 great company startup ideas for people with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) skills

Posted Feb 07, 2012 - 06:09 pm

There are some technical specialties that not only provide great employment opportunities, but also create the possibility of using them to start your own business. The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of these skill sets.
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Thank You For Not Sharing

by Dan Tynan

Google’s personalized search results are way too personal

Posted Feb 07, 2012 - 11:04 am

Search Plus Your World brings your G+ friends' to the top of the Google hits parade -- often with embarrassing results.
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Open for Discussion

by Brian Proffitt

SUSE hits the big 2-0

Posted Feb 07, 2012 - 08:30 am

2012 will be the year of the lizard, as SUSE Linux steps up to celebrate two decades as the world's oldest commercial Linux entity.
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Data Center Diaries

by Beth Bacheldor

Sioux Falls, S.D., is tops for data centers

Posted Jan 31, 2012 - 09:33 pm

Is the Midwest the data center industry’s new frontier?
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Sounding Board

by CIO Executive Council

Encouraging users to embrace big business data

Posted Dec 12, 2011 - 08:00 am

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on encouraging users to embrace big business data. Add your opinion and advice.
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