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Will Do Not Track kill the “free” Internet?

Posted February 12, 2012 - 12:42 pm

Some folks say Do Not Track will kill off Internet advertising and cause some Web sites to die off or be forced to charge for content. I'm not buying it.
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Netflix pays $9M to settle user-data misuse charges; aims to misuse more data with Facebook

Posted February 12, 2012 - 11:24 am

Netflix has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a suit over its illegally long retention of customer rental records. It is now redoubling efforts to get law changed that keeps it from posting to Facebook lists of the things its customers are renting right now.
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HP creates 150 high-tech jobs in Ireland

Posted February 11, 2012 - 9:24 pm

HP has announced the creation of 150 research and development jobs to expand its Irish operations, with funding from regional development agency IDA Ireland.
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Apple files another US patent suit against Samsung

Posted February 11, 2012 - 6:04 pm

Apple has filed another U.S. patent lawsuit against Samsung Electronics and is seeking a preliminary injunction asking a federal judge to halt sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone while the case makes its way through the court.
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Web-based counseling -- Telepsychiatry -- is taking off

Posted February 11, 2012 - 7:41 am

Telemedicine has been around since the 1990s, but psychiatrists say it's increasingly used to treat remote patients as technology and security improves, and prices drop.
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Top Solutions and Tools to Prevent Devastating Malware

Posted February 10, 2012 - 5:00 pm

Custom malware frequently goes undetected. According to Forrester Research, the best way to reduce risk of breach is to deploy file integrity monitoring (FIM) tools that provide immediate alerts. This white paper has been brought to you by NetIQ, the leader in solving complex IT challenges.
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Anonymous takes down CIA.gov

Posted February 10, 2012 - 4:01 pm

Members of Anonymous are claiming credit for a DDOS attack that took down CIA.gov about 3:10 p.m. ,Eastern time. Few other details are available, but it's likely the attack is related to the massive retaliatory strike Anonymous launched in the wake of the MegaUpload raids.
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FDA defends its monitoring of whistleblowers' email

Posted February 10, 2012 - 3:41 pm

The FDA Friday said it monitored the private email accounts of nine agency whistleblowers starting in 2010 to determine whether any of them leaked confidential information to the public.
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Career advice: The value of IT certifications

Posted February 10, 2012 - 3:33 pm

Are IT certifications worth your investment of time and money, or should you pursue another course?
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Wall Street Beat: Earnings, spending forecasts highlight tech sector strength

Posted February 10, 2012 - 3:21 pm

Recent market research reports and earnings this week from tech bellwethers including Lenovo and Cisco Systems underscore underlying strength in IT even as the global economy continues to experience significant turbulence.
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FCC map: Large areas not covered by mobile broadband

Posted February 10, 2012 - 2:56 pm

Large portions of the western half of the U.S. do not have access to 3G or faster mobile broadband service, according to a new map released by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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Study: Movie studios can fix their own box-office losses to piracy without SOPA

Posted February 10, 2012 - 1:37 pm

Box office losses in U.S. are negligible and would be overseas if movie studios were quicker about shipping out copies of new movies. Like the music industry, movie execs wanted new laws that reduce the rights of others when they had the tools to fix the problem themselves.
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IT is victim of own success, says Wellcome Trust CIO

Posted February 10, 2012 - 12:41 pm

IT is becoming a victim of its own success, according to the Wellcome Trust's head of IT Mark Bramwell.
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How to get the IRS' attention: Forge nearly $8 million in tax returns, steal identities

Posted February 10, 2012 - 12:28 pm

A former Internal Revenue Service employee this week got 105 months in prison for pleading guilty to theft of government property and aggravated identity theft in a case where the guy tried to get away with nearly $8 million in fraudulent tax returns.
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Motorola Mobility fails to make patent case against Apple in German court

Posted February 10, 2012 - 11:31 am

A German court has thrown out a Motorola Mobility patent lawsuit against Apple, breaking a recent run of courtroom successes for the company.
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Eolas patents quickly ruled invalid by jury

Posted February 10, 2012 - 10:32 am

Patent troll Eolas stumbles in first case as Texas jury rules patent invalid.
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Ubuntu, Debian top community poll

Posted February 10, 2012 - 8:00 am

The 2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards have been tabulated, and the results show some surprises.
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Chinese expected to brush off real name registration for Twitter-like sites

Posted February 10, 2012 - 7:17 am

By March 16, users of China's Twitter-like microblogging sites will be required to register with their real names in a government effort to stop harmful information from spreading on social media sites. But to Beijing resident Cao Hong, it's clear what authorities' real intentions are.
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Alcatel-Lucent reports rising profit on falling revenue

Posted February 10, 2012 - 5:21 am

Telecommunication equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent reported a profit for the fourth quarter, but revenue fell 12.9 percent year-on-year as the company continues to face a challenging market, it said on Friday.
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ARM CEO: Start-ups should focus on customers, not just finance

Posted February 10, 2012 - 3:12 am

Start-up companies should focus more on their customers than on raising finance, the CEO of British computer chip designer ARM has said.
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Eolas loses in Web patents claim against Google and others

Posted February 10, 2012 - 12:49 am

A jury in Texas gave the verdict that two patents of Eolas Technologies that enable Internet browsers to host embedded interactive applications were invalid, in a protracted legal battle which involved top Internet companies like Google and Amazon.com.
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Activists target Apple, deliver petitions to seek labor reform

Posted February 9, 2012 - 7:45 pm

Outraged by reports of harsh working conditions in overseas factories that produce iPhones, iPads and other popular Apple products, supporters of labor protections for supply chain partners deliver petitions to Apple stores around the world.
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Google, Microsoft and Apple letters aim to keep regulators at bay

Posted February 9, 2012 - 5:03 pm

As patent infringement lawsuits continue to pile up in the mobile industry, Google, Apple and Microsoft appear to be trying individually to reassure regulators and standards bodies that they won't use their patents to build a monopoly, experts said.
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New York attorney general settles case against Intel

Posted February 9, 2012 - 5:00 pm

The New York Attorney General settled an antitrust case it brought against Intel in 2009, the chip maker announced on Thursday.
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White Paper

Ten Steps to an Enterprise Mobility Strategy

Posted February 9, 2012 - 4:30 pm

Enterprise employees are more mobile, relishing the ability to work productively anywhere, at any time. They may use any means to get connected, often creating financial and security risks for your company. Discover how to get control of your enterprise mobility strategy and ensure mobile worker productivity with these ten steps.
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