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China unexpectedly lifts ban on IMDb website
— Movie site now available in Chinese- and English-language for the first time since 2010 — The Chinese government has apparently lifted its longtime ban on IMDb, making the encyclopedic movie website available to users in both Chinese- and English-language versions.
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Google Apps for Business Users Finally Get 24×7 Phone Support
— Until now, Google Apps for Business users who pay a monthly or annual per-user fee to use the business versions of Gmail, Google Docs and similar services under their own domain names had one problem: the only real support option was over email.
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PayPal Increases Receiving Limit In India To $3000 Per Transaction
— The grip is slowly loosening: after placing restrictions on PayPal in India, it appears that the Reserve Bank of India has allowed PayPal to increase the receiving limit to $3000 per transaction; In March, it had placed a limit of $500 on transactions.
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Can Google Get Its Mojo Back?
— A spectre is haunting Mountain View. No, not bed bugs: bit rot. Google is in serious decline. — I don't see how they can deny it. They have famously always been a data-driven organization, and the data is compelling.
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Arc Touch Mouse confirmed at USD$69.95 RRP
— Over the past several days, Microsoft Hardware's Twitter account has been teasing us with cropped thumbnails of an upcoming product leaving many to wonder what it might be, unless of course you've been reading my blog in which you know exactly what it is - the “Arc Touch Mouse”.
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iPad Peek: See How Your Website Looks on the iPad
— The iPad is finally available, and it's already residing in the hands of some 300,000 people who purchased it on launch day. In a couple of months, the iPad user base will become big enough for web developers to start paying attention to how their websites look on the iPad.
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Meet the iPad's best-selling apps
— Apple has already posted its “Top Charts” for a tablet computer that hasn't been released — Nobody knows yet what applications the people who buy iPads will want to load on their new machines — for that we'll have to wait until Saturday, when the device goes on sale.
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SleepingTime.org lets you stalk Tweeter addicts even more effectively
— “Twitter” and “privacy” are two terms which are as contradictory as they come. — When people post many times every day, the very act of posting reveals some interesting patterns. For example, if you know what timezone someone …
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.