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Financial Times hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
— The Financial Times website and two Twitter accounts belonging to the news organisation appear to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army today. — The breach, which took place just before 1pm BST, is just the latest in a spate …
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Say goodbye to the pin: voice recognition takes over at Barclays Wealth
— Barclays Wealth customers will no longer need to answer security questions and remember pin codes to use telephone banking. — Barclays Wealth customers will be able to use voice recognition rather than security pins
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Bitcoin passes $200 mark for the first time
— Bitcoin, the controversial electronic currency, has passed the $200-mark for the first time, setting new records despite talk of a bubble. — The virtual currency, which allows users to circumvent the banks, last week burst into the mainstream …
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Tesco gears up for online fight with Amazon
— Tesco has hired one of Facebook's most senior European executives and is launching a slew of online entertainment stores as it gears up for battle with Amazon. — Blinkbox's sales model allows it to offer recent box office hits, such as Skyfall, much earlier than its rivals
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Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites
— Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. — If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark …
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Mike Lynch raises $1bn for technology investment
— Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch has raised $1bn through his Invoke Capital fund to invest in fledgling British technology companies. — Mike Lynch founded Autonomy and sold it to Hewlett Packard for $10bn in 2011.
| Devorah Lauter / Telegraph: |
Apple's Paris store hit by New Year's Eve raid
— The Apple shop in Paris's Opera district was robbed by armed, masked men on New Year's Eve, under the noses of riot police patrolling the nearby Champs Elysées. — The Apple store in Paris — Reports claimed the thieves …
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Dell founder ‘turned down Autonomy’
— Billionaire entrepreneur Michael Dell has revealed that Autonomy was offered to him before it was bought by Hewlett-Packard, but that he rejected the British software firm because it was “overwhelmingly obvious” that it was overpriced.
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Arab proposal prompts ‘impasse’ at UN net regulation talks
— A UN meeting has set Britain, the United States and other Western countries against Arab States and Russia in a diplomatic battle over whether the internet should be more regulated. — The UN's WCIT conference in Dubai
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Regulators in crunch meeting over Google competition probes
— Google could face a costly and damaging battle with competition regulators on both sides of the Atlantic after a crunch meeting tomorrow. — Joaquin Alumnia has openly threatened formal antitrust proceedings against Google
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).