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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechmemeSarah Frier / Bloomberg : Facebook stock surges to record high of $76 in early trading, doubling its IPO price — Facebook Shares Surge to Record as Mobile Ads Fuel Gains — Mark Zuckerberg is staring d...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechCrunchYou would think that combining a health and fitness app with social networking features had kinda been done for a while. Strava has a sort of network where I can follow my friends’ runs. And other apps have similar features. ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comWhile Google Glass is only available to purchase in the US and the UK, video eyewear specialist Vuzix is hoping to gain a foothold in China with a similar head-mounted wearable. The company is partnering with Lenovo to launch its M100 sm...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThere is a lot of excitement around the current trend to get more people to be into computer programming. Whether or not they end up becoming coders, we can all at least can gain a bit from “computational thinking.” Perhaps w...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechmemeTimothy J. Seppala / Engadget : Google Voice offers web-based calls through Hangouts, no G+ profile needed — The rumor is that eventually we're going to see Google Voice merged completely into Hangouts, and that's gett...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comThat supposed Henry Ford quote about “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” leads the Vooza team into an amazing new field of innovation. Bear witness to this entrepreneurial brilliance… Every week, ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EngadgetThe relay radios on two Mars science orbiters are making it possible to communicate with NASA's robots, rovers and landers on the red planet. But these spacecraft might be out of commission soon, and NASA believes one possible solution i...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandThe startup recently canceled its crowdfunding campaign and shifted from consumer to enterprise customers. It will focus on industrial and medical applications before returning to working on a device for the general population. Atheer pl...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechNewsWorld
A patent awarded to Apple may be a tip-off of what it's planning for the smartwatch widely expected this fall. The patent for something Apple referenced in its application as "iTime" is for an electronic wristband that contains a recesse...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandThe flaw could de-anonymize many users, but it's not a vulnerability in Tails itself, as I2P isn't used by default in the live operating system. Researchers find serious flaw in I2P, an anonymizing layer used in “amnesic” OS ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsThe London Metal Exchange (LME) is working with telecoms firm Colt on a new trading network in a bid to provide market participants with a better connection to the Exchange.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandThere's nothing like a Star Trek reference to help explain complex stuff like quantum computing. Still confused about quantum computing? This may help originally published by Gigaom , © copyright 2014. Continue reading… .
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechmemeNick Summers / The Next Web : Duolingo launches Test Center, a $20 alternative to standardized language exams — Duolingo today launched Test Center, its own English language certification exam that can be taken on the ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThe new Luc Besson movie Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson, opens in theatres countrywide tomorrow. It’s based on the immortal myth that we use only 10 percent of our brains. Johansson’s character is injected with drugs ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital TrendsAmazon added hundreds of thousands of songs to Prime Music and hundreds of new playlists. Amazon's growing song selection includes tracks from many popular artists old and new. The post Amazon Prime Music adds hundreds of thousands of so...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Slashdotjfruh (300774) writes Dutch law makes it illegal for the Dutch intelligence services to conduct mass data interception programs. But, according to a court in the Hague, it's perfectly all right for the Dutch government to request that da...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GizmodoGoogle Voice is going to die and become a part of Hangouts. It's going to be great . And it might actually be happening soon because you can now make Hangouts calls from the Google Voice homepage . Read more...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EngadgetWatson supercomputer has a new and very important job, one that's a lot different from beating Jeopardy champions or whipping up BBQ sauce recipes: helping vets return to normal life. IBM has recently formed a partnership with the USAA (...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechCrunchIf you’re interested in virtual reality, then a new report from CNET that maintains Samsung is working directly with Facebook-owned Oculus on a headset that uses mobile devices to generate VR environments and experiences shou...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from VentureBeat
Security firm Avast just acquired Czech-based mobile app company Inmite. The company has developed apps for mobile banking, mobile television, some applications for Google Glass, and a car buying app for škoda. Inmite has also teamed up ... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from CNET NewsThe company will settle a class-action lawsuit over the PlayStation Network breach in 2011 by giving gamers $15 million worth of goods and services.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsMicrosoft’s Internet Explorer experienced a record number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2014, far above any other popular program, a Bromium analysis of US National Vulnerability Database (NVD) figures has shown.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from VentureBeat
If You Can Company has a monthly subscription game that it hopes parents and kids will like. -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechCrunchIntigua, a company that specializes in giving enterprises an easier way to manage their IT operations in private and public clouds, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B round led by Intel Capital. Existing inve...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comPayments processor Square has announced that it now supports IFTTT integrations, allowing sellers to set-up triggers that can help to streamline their business operations when taking or sending payments. For example, sellers can create I...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EngadgetConsumers have been automating apps with IFTTT (If This Then That) for awhile by, say, backing up Instagram photos to Dropbox whenever they snap a photo. Now, businesses will be able to take advantage of IFTTT directly from the Square mo...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Countable is a political app that allows you to track important and trending legislation on your iPhone. The app is designed to make government accessible to the average citizen by explaining legislation in understandable terms. There's ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GizmodoFor better or worse, the world is overrun with some truly abysmal, positively ludicrous smartphone cases. And you, dear readers, have seen a lot of them . Here are the biggest offenders. Read more...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Like many music lovers on the move, OwnPhones founder and CEO Itamar Jobani became frustrated when his off-the-shelf earphones kept falling out during sporty activity. He gathered a team of expert programmers, electronics engineers, 3D m... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandIn this Gigaom webinar, the panelists will examine the current state of enterprise-mobility programs and the reasons behind them, discuss the untapped potential of a properly executed mobility strategy, and outline concrete steps and exa...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechmemeExodus Intelligence : Security firm finds de-anonymizing zero-day vulnerability in Tails OS popularized by Snowden — Silver Bullets and Fairy Tails — Introduction — This week we made...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from CNET NewsThe iPhone maker has long been expected to jump into mobile payments. Now a new report says that Apple's talks with payment industry players have "heated up."
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from VentureBeat
Oyster today launched its Netflix-for-books subscription service on the Web, striking back at Amazon less than a week after the debut of Kindle Unlimited. Now available in desktop and mobile Web browsers, Oyster’s $10 per month sub... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes The FCC issued a notice on Wednesday reminding ISPs that, according to the still-intact transparency rule of the 2010 Open Internet Order, they are required to be transparent about their services. "The FCC's tr...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GizmodoThe limits of real-life technology mean that the giant robots that made Pacific Rim so awesome are hundreds of decades away. Sad, for sure, but with the technology we do have at our disposal we can at least simulate the experience of pil...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from CNET NewsThis coded, QR-tagged band can help emergency responders quickly retrieve your medical profile, emergency-contact info, and more.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandAnother day, another Hadoop investment. This time, it's Hewlett-Packard bankrolling Hortonworks to the tune of $50 million. Your move, Cloudera. HP joins the Hadoop backers club, pours $50M into Hortonworks originally published by Gigaom...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from GizmodoEbook subscription service Oyster is expanding its services to mobile and web browsers. Read more...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsWe're fully expecting Apple to release two different iPhone 6 handsets, with rumours consistently pointing to both a 4.7 inch and 5.5 inch model. But now there's a suggestion that there could be as many as four different models. GSMArena...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsMany European consumers are frustrated by frequently being denied access to online services outside of their home countries and are calling on the European Commission to implement a 'common copyright' in Europe. This pits them against pu...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from TechCrunchDisrupt alum Trello has pulled in a $10.3 million funding round. The startup launched its visual project management system back in September 2011, on TC’s startup battlefield stage. Read More
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EngadgetIt may sound blindingly obvious to avoid flying a UAV around America's foremost military academy. But not all drone no-fly zones are as obvious as West Point, which is why Mapbox has just issued an interactive US map showing where all of...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from DailyTech Main News FeedThe smartphone will slot between the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S5 mini
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from ExtremeTechWhile you didn't see it, feel it, or even read about it in the newspapers, Earth was almost knocked back to the Stone Age on July 23, 2012. It wasn't some crazed dictator with his finger on the thermonuclear button or a giant asteroid th...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Digital TrendsWilhelm is the noob-friendly, bullet-spitting soldier of 2K Australia's Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. All three of his skill trees favor big damage and cybernetic support. The post Preview: Wilhelm lets noobs bring the pain in Borderlands...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from AppleInsiderSwiss watchmaker Swatch has moved to quickly extinguish rumors that claimed it is working with Apple on the company's hotly anticipated "iWatch."
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes Bromium Labs analyzed public vulnerabilities and exploits from the first six months of 2014. The research determined that Internet Explorer vulnerabilities have increased more than 100 percent since 2013 , surp...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from VentureBeat
Sponsored Post: GetFeedback.com, the customer feedback company, today unveiled GetFeedback for Salesforce Desk.com, an integrated customer feedback system that provides the insight companies need to deliver world-class customer service a... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from VentureBeat
LeoNovus can render video mosaics in 18 hours instead of 36 hours. -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Geek.comIt’s hard to miss the reports on the news every day about the ongoing conflict between Gaza and Israel. Typically we only see the aftermath of the rockets that have destroyed buildings and […]
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Technology News(Reuters) - Shares of Facebook Inc hit a record high on Thursday after a surge in mobile advertising revenue helped the world's No. 1 social network trounce analysts' expectations for quarterly profit and revenue.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsAxeda's core product is its Machine Cloud Service, which addresses security in M2M and IoT connectivity.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comSometimes we see Pride in the most unlikely places. What is reported as the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) gaming guild, Rough Trade Gaming Community, recently came together in an awesome display of queer pride in ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyThe firm is the latest in the tech industry to admit it has problems with gender representation among its workforce.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comBYOB, OMG, and FYI are just soooo yesterday. New acronyms pop up on social media every second, so it's normal to feel lost and confused about the origin and correct usage of letters like “JIC” (just in case). So we’re here to help you le...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsThe tech giant plans to offer restitution for those affected by the 2011 PSN hack in free games, subsidies and cash payouts.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsJust as the iPod became a gateway drug for the iPhone, which itself became the gateway drug for the iPad, iOS is set to become the platform that tempts people into the OS X ecosystem.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comYou know the ballerina twins. You know the smiley poop. You know the mustachioed stranger. But do you know an astronaut looking at Earth from space, thinking about his ex-wife? Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of "Rejected Emojis ,...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukTory MP Mike Weatherley wants those who swipe valuable items in video games to get the same sentences as burglars Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyUS chipmaker Qualcomm claims some Chinese companies are misrepresenting sales to minimise their payments.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukA team of inventors have produced Flone a simple H-frame for smartphones, bringing drone technology to the masses Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsWe could not live without our mobile phones and texting, according to Ofcom's latest survey of consumer habits.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyNasa is asking for help to get data back from future science missions orbiting Mars or roaming its surface.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsVuzix's M100 smart glasses will be co-branded with Lenovo and pushed across China's industrial and manufacturing sectors.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsThe two companies will integrate engineering strategies, collaborate on sales and make it easier for HP customers to adopt Hortonworks.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsMiracast is a signature feature of Windows 8.1 and newer Android versions. In theory, it allows you to project a presentation or HD video wirelessly from your mobile device to a large screen. How well does it work in the real world?
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BetaNews
Summer is the vacation season for many people, and that means maps and travel apps become a priority. After all, when you're in an unfamiliar location, you're fending for yourself finding virtually anything, from museums to restaurants a... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsGoogle, Microsoft, and Yahoo are meeting data protection officials in Brussels to discuss how best to handle right to be forgotten requests.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsThe 5000 Series is comprised of a new chassis, the FortiGate 5144C, controller networking blades (5903C/5913C) and security blades.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsThe overall goal of Salesforce1 Sales Reach is to enable companies and sales teams to target the "notion of the one click buyer."
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsWi-Fi, especially public Wi-Fi, is still fraught with security problems. A solution has been in the works for some time but is still not ready for most.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Infoworld NewsHaving a ton of data at your disposal isn't much good if you can't make sense of it, so users of big data analytics systems like Hadoop are also making use of data visualization tools.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsBEIJING (Reuters) - The mobile industry has long held that Samsung's broad range of mobile devices makes it nimble in changing markets, while Apple loses out by rigidly sticking to its high-end gadgets.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukA new survey suggests that interest in the troubled console has surged after a successful E3. But Nintendo must capitalise on the momentum Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from CNNmoney.com - TechnologyFacebook posted another strong quarter driven by its success in mobile advertising revenue.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukFirm linked with world's largest watchmaker for smartwatch line, but experts are sceptical Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group has denied a media report saying it was working with technology company Apple on a smartwatch, a wearable device with interactive functions.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsIt sounds unlikely, but the Homeland Security Agency is now providing an online, open-source code-testing suite with the unlikely name of SWAMP.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Infoworld NewsFacebook reported Wednesday that it now handles an average of more than 1 billion searches a day, but it still has work to do to provide a comprehensive search tool.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Technology on HuffingtonPost.comLONDON (AP) — A former British tabloid reporter has been given a 10-month suspended prison sentence for hacking the phones of celebrities including model Kate Moss and James Bond star Daniel Craig. Dan Evans was sentenced Thursday at Lon...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsFRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank said on Thursday its website had been hacked and some email addresses and other contact information stolen but insisted no market-sensitive data were affected.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukVoting is in decline and politics is an arrogant, complacent industry. A threshold-style action system could change everything Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Infoworld NewsThe truth, when it comes to computer employment data, is almost always ugly. For instance, among those with college degrees in computer-related occupations, men are paid more than women ($90,354 vs. $78,859 on average), and African Ameri...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsVeeam believes that Microsoft System Center users want the same view into a Hyper-V virtual machine environment that VMware's vCenter users enjoy. The company's new Management Pack v7 for System Center's support for Hyper-V directly addr...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsSEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc signalled further improvement in its mobile business after record smartphone sales propelled the South Korean manufacturer to its highest quarterly profit in more than three years.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Infoworld NewsA vulnerability broker published a video demonstrating one of several flaws it has found in the privacy-focused Tails operating system, which is used by those seeking to make their Web browser harder to trace.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google's handling of "right to be forgotten" requests from European citizens will come under fire from the continent's privacy watchdogs on Thursday, after the search engine restricted the removal of Internet links t...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsThere is no doubt that millennials will change corporate cultures. Smart companies should act now to leverage the impact that young professionals will have on software interfaces, service delivery, and work style.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyThe Information Commissioner's Office is to receive more funding so it can monitor the implications of the controversial new "emergency" data law.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsThe race to get iPads in the office has become a focus for Apple with the alliance with IBM. What makes this interesting is how well the iPad Air performs in a work environment.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BetaNews
Traditional authentication methods like passwords are vulnerable to data breaches as well as being difficult to remember and manage. But although tokens and physical smart cards provide better protection they're expensive to implement an... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BetaNews
It has never been harder for businesses to build and preserve a relationship of trust with their customers. The rise of increasingly sophisticated, and targeted, cyber-attacks means there are more threats to watch out for than ever befor... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Infoworld NewsMicrosoft seems on the brink of announcing a major enhancement to its operating system lines, namely merging them into a single OS that could bring big benefits for corporate users.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsHELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia surprised investors with strong quarterly earnings and raised its full-year profit margin forecast as network operators install more powerful systems to cope with surging mobile data traffic.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Infoworld NewsSprint on Wednesday announced a partnership with Google to offer the Google Apps for Business cloud service, adding that customers of the service won't be required to use Sprint's wireless network or Android devices. The partnership help...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyA model drone has helped locate an elderly man in Wisconsin who had been missing for three days.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest NewsThe European Central Bank's website has been hacked and personal information has been stolen by a cybercriminal.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukAnd a few why it might not, despite rumours that internet giant is in the frame for $10bn acquisition Continue reading...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyPop duo the Pet Shop Boys unveil their latest work, a tribute to wartime code-breaker Alan Turing, at the first of this year's Late Night BBC Proms.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukSearch giant faces backlash over its handling of the European Court of Justice ruling forcing link removals Continue reading...
