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How Japan's Olympics will revolutionize tech

Posted October 3, 2013 - 1:17 am

Last month's awarding of the 2020 Olympic Games to Tokyo could be great news for technology.
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US demanded access to encryption keys of email provider Lavabit

Posted October 2, 2013 - 11:27 pm

The U.S. government demanded from email service provider Lavabit access to all user communications and a copy of the encryption keys used to secure web, instant message and email traffic for its investigation into several Lavabit user accounts, according to a post on the Facebook page of founder Ladar Levison.
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Mocana unwraps protection for iOS 7 apps

Posted October 2, 2013 - 10:00 pm

Mocana will soon allow companies to wrap iOS 7 apps in a layer of security software designed to insulate enterprise data from hackers who are becoming increasingly interested in smartphones.
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Faded satellite star LightSquared headed for auction block in November

Posted October 2, 2013 - 9:42 pm

The long saga of satellite operator LightSquared's quest to become a cellular carrier may come to an end soon with an auction for the company's assets scheduled for late November.
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Google buys Flutter, a gesture recognition startup

Posted October 2, 2013 - 8:37 pm

Google has acquired Flutter, a gesture recognition company whose technology lets people control music and movies on their desktop by waving their hands.
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Facebook offers 'free' Wi-Fi in exchange for check-ins

Posted October 2, 2013 - 8:27 pm

More hotels, shops and other businesses will soon be offering free Wi-Fi to customers if they agree in return to "check-in" at the business from their Facebook account.
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Senator vows fierce defense of NSA data collection, surveillance programs

Posted October 2, 2013 - 3:16 pm

Massive data collection and surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency are necessary to keep the nation safe from terrorism, several senators said Wednesday.
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Best Practice Guide to Addressing Web 2.0 Risks

Posted October 2, 2013 - 11:00 am

Organizations need to find the proper balance of risk vs. productivity through improved policy, controls and education of users.
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NSA encryption-defeating efforts will backfire, privacy advocates say

Posted October 1, 2013 - 3:57 pm

The U.S. National Security Agency's efforts to defeat encryption will backfire by eroding trust in U.S.-based Internet services and in the agency's own efforts to aid U.S. companies with cybersecurity, a group of privacy advocates said Tuesday.
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Virtualization will let operators develop new services faster, says Alcatel-Lucent

Posted October 1, 2013 - 1:32 pm

To help operators virtualize their infrastructures, Alcatel-Lucent has opened up to third party vendors an internal cloud platform that will run features such as DNS and firewalls.
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French ISP Free offers fiber customers 1Gbps upgrade for no cost

Posted October 1, 2013 - 11:36 am

Customers of French ISP Free will soon see their fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connections upgraded from 100Mbps to 1Gbps, with no change to the monthly fee of €36 (US$50) including tax.
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Facebook widens Graph Search to include posts, status updates

Posted September 30, 2013 - 7:00 pm

Facebook has started to include more types of content in Graph Search, a tool for searching what others have been posting about on the social network
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Posted September 30, 2013 - 4:53 pm

According to recent research, 51% of those currently using or planning to use UC technology expect to increase their spending.
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Tech firms push for NSA surveillance transparency bills

Posted September 30, 2013 - 3:23 pm

The U.S. Congress must act quickly on legislation that would make electronic data collection efforts by the U.S. National Security Agency more public, a group of tech firms, civil liberties groups and other organizations said Monday.
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What kind of ads would you 'like'? Facebook wants to know

Posted September 27, 2013 - 4:08 pm

Facebook wants to make its ads less annoying to users by only showing them what they want to see, even if it means a dip in ad exposure for some marketers.
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France sanctions Google for European privacy law violations

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:56 pm

Google faces financial sanctions in France after failing to comply with an order to alter how it stores and shares user data to conform to the nation's privacy laws.
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iOS 7.0.2 fixes passcode bypass bugs

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:40 pm

Another week, another iOS update: Apple's pushed out iOS 7.0.2, which it recommends for all users. The update fixes a few security vulnerabilities and a bug. (iOS 7.0.1 came out last week, but it specifically fixed issues with the iPhone 5c and 5s.)
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German court rules Apple photo-management patent invalid because of Steve Jobs keynote

Posted September 27, 2013 - 11:23 am

Germany's Federal Patent Court invalidated an Apple photo-management patent because Steve Jobs showed how the technology worked during a keynote months before the company applied for the patent in Europe.
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Google's Gmail scanning unclear to users, judge finds

Posted September 26, 2013 - 9:35 pm

A U.S. federal judge allowed a class-action suit against Google to proceed, saying the company's terms of service are unclear when describing how it scans Gmail content in order to deliver advertisements.
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Verizon and AT&T should face a bigger mobile rival, Sprint CFO says

Posted September 26, 2013 - 7:50 pm

The U.S. mobile industry would be more competitive with one less carrier, Sprint's CFO said on Thursday.
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FCC wants to make carriers report cell outages in disasters

Posted September 26, 2013 - 7:14 pm

Mobile operators would have to tell the public what percentage of their cell sites were working during and after major disasters if the FCC adopts a rule it is proposing in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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Facebook allows edits for typos and botched auto-corrects

Posted September 26, 2013 - 7:09 pm

The first draft of anything is terrible, Ernest Hemingway once said (though in slightly more colorful language). Facebook is applying some similar thinking and allowing users to edit their posts.
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Google turns 15 and celebrates by smartening up search

Posted September 26, 2013 - 5:50 pm

Google is now 15 years old, and the company is celebrating by smartening up its bread-and-butter technology, search, and adding new features such as comparisons and filters.
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Measuring social media ROI takes off for Virgin America

Posted September 26, 2013 - 1:36 pm

The airline, using Sprinklr and other tools, is seeking hard-dollar returns from conversations on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, among other social networks.
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A Google Talk bug sent IMs to wrong recipients

Posted September 26, 2013 - 10:54 am

A glitch in Google Talk routed instant messages incorrectly on Thursday morning, exposing private text chats to unintended recipients.
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