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Syrian government responds to reports of widespread Internet outage
— Syrian civil war in photos — (CNN) — The Syrian government said it's working to repair a widespread Internet outage in the country — something opposition activists suspected could be an ominous sign.
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Saudi Arabia may block Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, others
— (CNN) — Saudi Arabia may block access to popular Internet messaging applications like Skype, Viber and WhatsApp if telecommunication providers there don't comply with rules and regulatory conditions, according to the country's official news agency, SPA.
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U.S., European officials to launch global effort against online child sexual abuse
— Washington (CNN) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom will launch a new effort to fight child sexual abuse at a ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday.
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CNN Exclusive: McAfee comes out of hiding to talk about life on the run
— (CNN) — The journey to interview Internet security guru John McAfee began with a secret phrase, a mysterious driver and a circuitous route full of left turns, right turns and U-turns.
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Internet, phone services back online for much of Syria
— (CNN) — Internet and cell phone coverage were restored Saturday to most Syrian provinces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, two days after a blackout shut down virtually all Internet service in the country.
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Facebook raises fears with ad tracking
— (Financial Times) — Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores. Amid growing pressure for the social networking site …
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Tech companies make progress on ‘blood phones’ and ‘conflict minerals’
— (CNN) — They've been called “blood phones.” — It's a reference to the fact that some metals used to make smartphones and other electronic gadgets are sourced from war-torn areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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New La. law: Sex offenders must list status on Facebook, other social media
— (CNN) — A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.
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Should we fear mind-reading future tech?
— Editor's note: Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and professional skeptic. He is the author of “The Cult of the Amateur,” and “Digital Vertigo.” Follow @ajkeen on Twitter. — (CNN) — I know where to find the future.
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Should 11-year-olds join Facebook?
— (CNN) — Should young children be able to use Facebook? — And if so, under what conditions? — Those are the questions bloggers and Twitter users are batting around the Internet on Monday following a news report saying Facebook is looking into ways …
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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 …
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.
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
“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).