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Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm — Exclusive: Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a ‘Google for spies’, drawing ire from civil rights groups — A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements …
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Hold off updating your iPhone 4S to iOS 6.1, European carriers warn customers — Two mobile operators in Europe have told customers with an iPhone 4S to avoid updating the device to iOS 6.1, because of reports that the upgrade brings connectivity problems with it.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life — Early on Halloween morning, members of Facebook's Computer Emergency Response Team received an urgent e-mail from an FBI special agent who regularly briefs them on security matters.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The GoogleReaderpocalypse Is Upon Us - Google's Feed Reading Service Unusable Since Sunday — Google Reader, the RSS feed-reading service Google has long since benignly abandoned, has gone completely mad, and Google has yet to acknowledge the problem even as it heads into its second day of unusability.
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The Next Web, The Verge, Softpedia News and BerryReview
| Jake Smith / Pocket-lint: |
Google airs Nexus 4 commercial showing off Google Now during the Grammys — During the Grammys award show Sunday night, Google aired a new commercial highlighting the Nexus 4 and its Google Now found within Jelly Bean.? — Mountain View's Google Now voice-assistant has? …
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Facebook sued over ‘like’ button — The widow of a Dutch programmer is seeking damages from Facebook over its use of patented technology — Facebook is facing legal action over its use of the “like” button and other features of the social network. — It is being sued by a patent-holding …
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Ars Technica and Business Insider
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Yahoo! Pushing Java Version Released in 2008 — At a time when Apple, Mozilla and other tech giants are taking steps to prevent users from browsing the Web with outdated versions of Java, Yahoo! is pushing many of its users in the other direction: The free tool that it offers users …
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The H Security, Geek.com and Softpedia News
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google Says $80M French Publishers' Fund Won't Be Replicated Elsewhere In Europe — Google says it not currently looking to create funds to support digital publishers outside France. Google's comments follow calls last week by Francisco Pinto Balsemao, head of the European Publishers Council …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Solavei Brings BlackBerry Z10 to the U.S. Early — For Nearly a Thousand Bucks — Aspiring wireless carrier Solavei is looking to grab some attention by offering its customers first crack at the new BlackBerry — at least for customers willing to pony up nearly $1,000 for an unlocked model.
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Engadget, GeekWire, GigaOM, Electronista, FierceWireless, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Mashable! and WebProNews
| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
The man behind Google Docs is now trying to reinvent the web app at Box — When Sam Schillace first crossed paths with Box Founder and CEO Aaron Levie in 2006, it didn't exactly go how Levie expected. Box wanted to buy Schillace's document-collaboration startup called Writely …
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| Matthew Lynley / Digits: |
Why User-Recommendation Engine Sailthru Just Raised $19 Million — You'd be surprised how much work goes into deciding what kinds of links you'll see at the bottom of a news story on many major websites. — For sites like The Huffington Post and others hosted by AOL …
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, Business Insider, BetaKit, Venture Capital Dispatch and AdExchanger
| Barry Schwartz / Marketing Land: |
Flickr Privacy Bug Set Some Private Photos To Public — A bug at Flickr caused some people to have their private photos opened to public view over the past three weeks. Flickr said the bug only impacted a small number of users and only photos uploaded from April to December 2012.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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