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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Think your Skype messages get end-to-end encryption? Think again
— If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end-to-end encryption, think again. The Microsoft-owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely, Ars has confirmed.
May 20, 2013, 6:50 PM–
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
How Google updated Android without releasing version 4.3
— Google I/O didn't give us the Android update we were expecting—or did it?? — Google covered a lot of ground in its three-and-a-half-hour opening keynote at Google I/O yesterday, but one thing it didn't announce was the oft-rumored next version of Android.
May 17, 2013, 5:20 AM–
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Newegg nukes “corporate troll” Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year
— Bell Labs shut down in 2006. Today, Alcatel-Lucent uses patents that originated at the labs to file lawsuits. — Lawrence Aberle / Wikipedia — In 2011, Alcatel-Lucent had American e-commerce on the ropes.
May 17, 2013, 12:25 AM–
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Feds reveal the search warrant used to seize Mt. Gox account
— The Department of Homeland Security is investigating Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, for violating laws on US money exchange and money transfers—and it's grabbing the exchange's money in the process.
May 15, 2013, 1:55 PM–
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
On key software decision, top patent court grinds to a stalemate
— Over the course of the past year a case about four financial software patents has taken on great significance. In 2007, Alice Corp accused CLS Bank of infringing its patents on a type of computerized trading platform that used “shadow accounts.”
May 13, 2013, 5:15 PM–
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Facebook Home flagship phone, HTC First, may be discontinued
— Facebook's HTC First, the smartphone herald of Facebook Home, will be discontinued by carrier partner AT&T, according a report from BGR Monday. The phones, released just over a month ago, will be returned as unsold inventory to HTC …
May 13, 2013, 2:55 PM–
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
DRM in HTML5 is a victory for the open Web, not a defeat
— The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that orchestrates the development of Web standards, has today published a Working Draft for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), a framework that will allow the delivery of DRM-protected media through …
May 12, 2013, 12:15 PM–
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform
— The Library of Congress sparked a firestorm late last year when it issued new rules that made it effectively illegal to unlock a cell phone to switch to a new wireless carrier. An online petition on the issue attracted …
May 9, 2013, 9:55 PM–
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default
— Alpha.data.gov, an experimental data portal created under the White House's Open Data Initiative. — Data.gov — President Barack Obama issued an executive order today that aims to make “open and machine-readable” …
May 9, 2013, 5:15 PM–
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware
— Facebook's Open Compute Project to give the world an “open” top-of-rack switch. — Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco. — Facebook
May 8, 2013, 3:30 PM–
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
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).