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Washington state sues Florida company over unwanted text-message spam
— A lawsuit filed by Attorney General Rob McKenna's office against Orlando-based Dinav Holding and its owners is one of the first lawsuits by a state attorney general targeting spamming via text messages.
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Internet, phones cut in parts of Syrian capital
— Syrian activists say authorities have blocked Internet and cell phone signals in parts of the nation's capital, where rebels and government troops are engaged in fierce clashes. — BEIRUT — Syrian activists say authorities …
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Microsoft, Motorola set to square off in court over patent payments
— Microsoft and Motorola will be battling it out in a federal courtroom in Seattle starting Tuesday. The trial is being closely watched for its ramifications on the larger patent — and market — battles being fought between huge tech companies.
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Microsoft offers $100 giveaway to line up for Surface
— There's plenty of interest in Microsoft's new Surface tablets and Windows 8 so it's a little surprising that the company is making a lucrative offer to get people to line up at stores on their big launch day.
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Q&A: Nintendo boss on Wii U vs. AppleTV, Google, Xbox 720 ...
Here are edited excerpts of my interview with Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America. (photo by Mark Harrison, Times staff photographer) — The conversation in his Redmond aerie led to today's column on the upcoming Wii U …
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Ballmer trumpets Microsoft's ‘epic year’
— Q and A: Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer discusses new products and services, the state of the company and its future. — This fall, Microsoft is embarking on one of its biggest series of launches ever, with new versions or updates …
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 …
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).