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Judge orders woman to CHANGE negative Yelp review after contractor sues her for $750,000
— Jane Perez accused Dietz Development of damaging her home, stealing jewelry and trespassing after she hired the company to work on her house — Dietz Development owner Christopher Dietz …
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PM steps in to curb menace of online porn
: Cameron to ensure parents are led through a filter process on all new computers — David Cameron is to toughen up controls on internet pornography to protect children. — In future, anyone buying a new computer or signing up with a new internet service provider …
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Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online
if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include ‘pork’, ‘cloud’ and 'Mexico') — Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent
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Apple ‘made £6bn’ in UK... but paid only £10m in tax
— Apple paid a paltry £10million in UK corporation tax in the last financial year, despite earning an estimated £6billion in the country over the period. — It is the latest technology firm to be accused of avoiding UK tax, following Amazon and Google.
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Traffic plunges for Google+ as 60% of users log off
— Google has tried a number of different approaches, but none seem to get enough people to ‘like’ their social networking program, Google+. — By keeping it's new social networking invite-only, Google was hoping to amp up anticipation of Google+.
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Steve Jobs's secret legacy: Dying Apple boss left plans for four years of new products
— Despite knowing he was dying, Steve Jobs worked for more than a year on the products that he believed would safeguard the company's future. — It was also revealed today that Jobs fought hard …
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This is not the way I'd imagined Bill Gates... A rare and remarkable interview with the world's second richest man
— Rocking gently in his chair, he begins to sing: ‘I wanna be a billionaire so freakin’ bad. Buy all the things I never had. I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine.
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How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200billion Apple?
— Rob Waugh reports on the rise to near-mythical status of Jonathan Ive, the remarkable man from Chingford — Jonathan Ive (left) has helped turn Apple into the second biggest company in the world …
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Cancer-stricken Apple boss Steve Jobs ‘may have just six weeks to live’
— Apple founder Steve Jobs has lost an alarming amount of weight and is reportedly sicker than has been previously admitted. The computer genius announced in late January that 'at my request, the board of directors …
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Twins who accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing idea for Facebook launch ANOTHER lawsuit against him
— The twins who have accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the world-conquering website from them have re-started their bitter legal battle against him.
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 …
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 …
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
“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).