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HP To Adopt Android For Upcoming Mobile Devices — Having failed to carve out a place for itself in the post-PC era, Hewlett-Packard is now taking drastic measures — by adopting Google's Android operating system to run a series of upcoming mobile devices. — It's a bit of a Hail Mary pass for HP …
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Executive Order — Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Repeated cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure demonstrate …
| Mark M. Jaycox / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
CISPA, the Privacy-Invading Cybersecurity Spying Bill, is Back in Congress — It's official: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act was reintroduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. CISPA is the contentious bill civil liberties advocates fought last year …
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Web world bemoans loss of Opera independence — Opera is ditching its own Presto browser engine and embracing WebKit, leading critics to fret about a browser monoculture — especially on mobile devices. — It might have been a smart strategic move for Opera Software to move …
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My Opera, Bruce Lawson, Well, I'm Back, VentureBeat, Computerworld, QuirksBlog, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, ExtremeTech, Mashable!, Inquirer, Google Operating System, Webmonkey, Daring Fireball, ArabCrunch, ReadWrite, ArcticStartup and OStatic blogs
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| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
No “Plan B” for Microsoft's mobile ambitions: CFO — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc's and Google Inc's domination of mobile computing, but a top executive hinted on Wednesday that it will not stop trying and does not have an alternative strategy.
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| Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Blog: |
I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora. — I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, you do it too, don't front.) — A link to an interesting Q&A on Quora came along, so I clicked. — And got this. — Wow. This is bold, even for Quora.
Tweets: @tuhin, @random_walker, @jonnaro and @jonrussell
| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Google is getting its own film: Trailer for The Internship Movie released today — Google is getting two wacky interns. — Fox released the trailer for its comedy The Internship Movie following two “salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world.”
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| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Apple fires back at Einhorn, reveals high-level meeting details — David Einhorn tried to dissuade Apple Inc last week from eliminating its ability to issue preferred shares at will, saying the need to first obtain shareholder approval would be an unnecessary roadblock to any such future plans …
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Jeff Weiner Just Gave Every LinkedIn Employee An iPad Mini — Darain Faraz, a communications manager at LinkedIn in the UK, just tweeted that CEO Jeff Weiner just gave an iPad Mini to every one of LinkedIn's 3,500 employees. — A spokesperson confirmed the gift:
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex — The U.S. government is developing new computer weapons and driving a black market in “zero-day” bugs. The result could be a more dangerous Web for everyone. — Why It Matters — Governments, contractors, and researchers are developing cyber-weapons … | Reuters: |
Google files patent lawsuits against BT — (Reuters) - Google Inc and its Motorola Mobility unit filed patent lawsuits on Wednesday against BT Group plc in the United States and in the U.K., a Google spokeswoman said, more than a year after the British telecoms group launched its own lawsuit against Google.
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CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, Reuters, Softpedia News, FOSS Patents and PhoneArena. Tweets: @fosspatents
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Google engineers found over half the bugs in Microsoft's latest security update — 32 of 57 vulnerabilities identified in this month's massive update were reported by researchers at the rival company — Microsoft is having one of its biggest “Patch Tuesday” monthly security updates ever …
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Tim Cook's comments on Apple Stores, illustrated — Yesterday Tim Cook spoke at the the 2013 Goldman Sachs conference:
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit — Finnish anti-piracy group CIAPC, known worldwide for tracking down a 9 year-old “pirate girl” and having her Winnie The Pooh laptop confiscated, launched a controversial campaign yesterday. — The group copied The Pirate Bay's design …
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Instragram asks court to throw out lawsuit over service terms — (Reuters) - Facebook's Instagram photo sharing service asked a federal court on Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit filed against the popular app over changes to its terms of service. — The proposed class action lawsuit was filed …
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VatorNews, CNET, memeburn, TechCrunch, PhoneArena and The Next Web
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Spanish scientists develop more accurate sat-nav system — Toyota is one of several car manufacturers working on automated vehicles — Researchers in Spain have developed a system they say can greatly improve the accuracy of car sat-navs. — It combines a conventional global positioning system …
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| Cristina Fuentes-Cantillana / Reuters: |
Europol breaks up multi-million euro Internet fraud gang — MADRID (Reuters) - A network of online fraudsters who masqueraded as European crime-fighting agency Europol and collected millions of euros in fake fines has been broken up - by Europol. — The group, which worked across 30 countries … | Tej Sapru / Reuters: |
Barnes & Noble sees Nook unit loss increasing in 2013 — (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Wednesday it expects its Nook business to post an increased full-year loss in fiscal 2013, as the top U.S. bookstore chain struggles with slower sales of e-readers and e-books and rising costs.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Adobe taking 10 percent of earnings from iOS apps published using Director 12 — As noted by Mac4Ever, Adobe has recently updated its end-user license agreement for Adobe Director 12 and requested that developers publishing paid iOS apps provide Adobe with 10 percent of earnings above $20,000.
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Neowin, TUAW, MacNN, forums.adobe.com and NEWS.com.au
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google Search for Android updated with Google Now widget, Fandango movie passes, and more — The existence of a Google Now widget was leaked on the official Nexus support pages just days ago, and now a new version of Google Search has been released that adds the feature and quite a bit more.
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Official Android Blog, Engadget, CNET, AllThingsD, BGR, Marketing Pilgrim, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and Electronista. Thanks:@sidharthdassani
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Ad Campaign Manager Marin Software Files for $75M IPO — The marketing analytics and campaign management company Marin Software, known for being a resource for gaining insight into Google's search business, has filed for a public offering. — Marin, which was founded in 2006 by CEO Christopher Lien …
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Cylance, A Cyber Security Data Company Founded By Former McAfee CTO, Raises $15M From Khosla, Fairhaven Capital — Cylance,a cyber security company founded by former Global McAfee CTO Stuart McClure, has raised $15 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital.
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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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 …
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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
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University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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