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Digital doorkeys and more: Meet New York's latest start-ups
— Opening doors with the push of a button: Traditional doorkeys may be a thing of the past — That's a problem that the founders of Kisi hope they have solved, by coming up with a way of using your smartphone to open your front door.
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Dutch police may get right to hack in cyber crime fight
— The Dutch government has announced plans to give police far greater powers to fight cybercrime. — Under a new bill, investigators would be able to hack into computers, install spyware, read emails and destroy files.
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Facebook U-turn after charities criticise decapitation videos
— Charities warn that watching the video clips could cause long-lasting psychological damage — Facebook has said it will delete videos of people being decapitated which had been spread on its site.
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Cern re-creating first web page to revere early ideals
— A team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has launched a project to re-create the first web page.
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Google searches predict market moves
— Stock averages slumped when Google searches of financially relevant terms rose — The volume of Google searches for finance-related terms may predict moves in markets, research suggests. — As the search volume on generic terms such as “debt” …
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Google boss defends UK tax record to BBC
— Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has defended his company paying just £6m in UK corporation tax. — His comments came after a committee of MPs last year denounced multinationals - including Google - who pay little tax on their UK earnings, as “immoral”.
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Google Map Maker edit tools extended to cover the UK
— Users can add four different kinds of features to the firm's online maps — Google is expanding its Map Maker edit tools to the UK. — The browser-based software allows users to add details about buildings, hiking trails …
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Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary
— The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973. — Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from “a ‘real’ cellular telephone”.
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Apple denied iPad Mini US trademark
— The iPad and iPad Mini are two of Apple's bestselling products — Apple has been denied a trademark for the popular iPad Mini by the US Patent and Trademark Office. — The trademark application for the tablet was turned down because the name was …
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Global internet slows after ‘biggest attack in history’
— The row centres on the blocking of a web-hosting company alleged to be hosting spam websites — The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history.
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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 …
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.
“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).