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Kim Dotcom allowed to sue New Zealand spy agency

Posted March 7, 2013 - 12:46 am

Megaupload's Kim Dotcom will be allowed to pursue damages against New Zealand's spy agency for illegally spying on him, the country's Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.
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Bitcoin processor links web shopping carts to Amazon.com's shipping

Posted March 6, 2013 - 10:04 pm

Amazon.com and bitcoin now have an interesting link: A popular e-commerce shopping cart for merchants can now accept bitcoin payments and move orders to Amazon for shipping.
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Facebook's new News Feed wish list includes mobile and highlighted friends

Posted March 6, 2013 - 5:07 pm

Facebook is set to unveil an updated News Feed on Thursday and analysts have a wish list of changes that users might welcome.
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Google+ launches updates to profile, local pages

Posted March 6, 2013 - 3:32 pm

Social network Google+ is launching some tweaks and updates to users' profile pages, as well as enabling local reviews.
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Rackspace enhances private cloud offering

Posted March 6, 2013 - 12:47 pm

Rackspace, the major public cloud provider, is not ignoring private clouds.
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Taking programmers for a test drive

Posted March 6, 2013 - 12:22 pm

37signals is one company that eschews the traditional interview quiz for programmers in favor of a job tryout
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Google same-day shipping service may be difficult for search giant to pull off

Posted March 6, 2013 - 12:13 pm

If Google truly plans to get into same-day shipping, it'll head down a path that has felled other major e-tailers.
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LinkedIn wins dismissal of lawsuit seeking damages for massive password breach

Posted March 6, 2013 - 12:11 pm

Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company's servers last year.
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Microsoft's $731 million fine could have been higher

Posted March 6, 2013 - 9:31 am

Europe's antitrust chief on Wednesday announced a substantial €561 million fine on Microsoft, but it could have been even higher he said.
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Microsoft fined $731 million by European Commission

Posted March 6, 2013 - 7:55 am

Europe's antitrust chief on Wednesday announced a €561 million (US$731 million) fine on Microsoft for its failure to include a browser choice page in its upgrade to Windows 7 in 2011.
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Google's Maps iOS app gains more search tools in update

Posted March 5, 2013 - 8:46 pm

Google on Tuesday pushed out an update for its Maps iPhone app designed to make it easier for users to search for local businesses and contacts in their address book.
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FBI data requests to Google outlined in report

Posted March 5, 2013 - 5:47 pm

Some thousand-plus Google users have been subject to FBI security information requests since 2009, the company said Tuesday. The data build on Google's already existing tally of government data requests.
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US lawmakers want Internet freedom task force

Posted March 5, 2013 - 4:35 pm

New legislation in the U.S. Congress would establish a government task force to monitor domestic and overseas policy proposals that could threaten Internet freedom.
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Microsoft to keep Scroogling

Posted March 5, 2013 - 4:18 pm

Microsoft today denied reports that it has halted its anti-Google "Scroogled" campaign, and trumpeted the number of signatures its online petition has accumulated.
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Squee alert: Second trailer for Iron Man 3

Posted March 5, 2013 - 3:08 pm

Watch some more footage of Tony Stark fighting bad guys - but after this point, stop.
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Gartner: CRM software top priority for IT spending in 2013-14

Posted March 5, 2013 - 3:04 pm

CRM (customer relationship management) software will be the top priority for additional spending on enterprise applications around the world this year and next, according to newly released data from analyst firm Gartner.
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Religion, politics and coding indentation style: the three great debates

Posted March 5, 2013 - 1:15 pm

Forget abortion and gun control; if you want to get programmers arguing at your next party, bring up tabs versus spaces when indenting code
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Microsoft issues free tool it says will cut Azure costs

Posted March 5, 2013 - 1:14 pm

If it works, a new free tool called MetricsHub can help cut costs of using Microsoft's Azure cloud services by automatically making the service run more efficiently and by increasing and decreasing Azure resources as customer need fluctuates.
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EU to quiz German government over online copyright bill

Posted March 5, 2013 - 12:38 pm

The European Commission will ask the German government to explain more about a draft bill that aims to protect publishers against systematic access to copyright content by search engine providers such as Google.
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5 boring domain names: Where are they now?

Posted March 5, 2013 - 9:00 am

The curious histories of some of the Web's most generic domain names
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SAP pins future hopes on growth of Ariba business network

Posted March 5, 2013 - 8:56 am

After 12 successive quarters of double-digit growth at SAP, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe is now pinning his future hopes on the company's recently acquired Ariba e-commerce network.
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Pew: Twitter not an accurate measure of public opinion

Posted March 5, 2013 - 1:24 am

Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the Internet service are demographically very different from the public, according to a study by Pew Research Center.
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Microsoft acquires cloud monitoring startup MetricsHub

Posted March 4, 2013 - 11:11 pm

Microsoft has acquired MetricsHub, a startup focused on technology for automating cloud performance management.
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Twitter pulls plug on TweetDeck for Android, iPhone

Posted March 4, 2013 - 10:03 pm

Twitter will end support for TweetDeck on the iPhone and Android in order to focus solely on browser-based versions for those platforms. And it is also apparently dumping Facebook.
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IBM says OpenStack will be central to its future cloud strategy

Posted March 4, 2013 - 9:44 pm

Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be the foundation of the company's cloud strategy moving forward, including a new product it announced today.
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