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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now   —  Everyone = Silicon Valley [ad platforms] tech companies  —  Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr?  —  If so, you'll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight.
Apr 29, 2013, 11:05 AMIn context
Jasper Hamill / The Register:
P2P badboys The Pirate Bay kicked out of Greenland: Took under 48 hours   —  Arrrrr... But we only just got here  —  The Pirate Bay has been torpedoed after telecoms companies from two countries blocked the website's dual domains.  —  The world's largest file-sharing site moved …
Apr 11, 2013, 12:05 PMIn context
Neil McAllister / The Register:
WebKit devs on Blink fork: ‘Two can play that game’   —  Purge of Chrome-related code planned  —  Now that Google has announced that it will migrate its Chrome browser from the WebKit rendering engine to a homegrown fork called Blink, WebKit developers have already begun discussing how to remove Chrome-specific code from the project.
Apr 5, 2013, 4:10 AMIn context
Jack Clark / The Register:
Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system   —  Canonical to help government add “Chinese specific” features to OS  —  Ubuntu is going to become the reference architecture for a Linux distribution, backed and developed by the Chinese government.  —  The news means Ubuntu-stewards Canonical …
Mar 22, 2013, 11:30 AMIn context
Jack Clark / The Register:
US national vulnerability database hacked   —  Malware infection forces government vuln catalog offline  —  The US government's online catalog of cyber-vulnerabilities has been taken offline - ironically, due to a software vulnerability.  —  The National Institute of Standards …
Mar 14, 2013, 7:35 AMIn context
John Leyden / The Register:
Ad-titan Google blocks Adblock Plus in Android security tweak   —  We're being singled out, claims app maker  —  The maker of Adblock Plus is upset its users must jump through hoops to get its advert-banishing app working on devices running Android - the mobile OS made by advertising giant Google.
Feb 21, 2013, 7:05 AMIn context
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Facebook in futile attempt to block perverts from Graph Searching for teens   —  Flawed system relies on kids - and adults - being honest about their age  —  Facebook has attempted to flatten fears about perverts using the company's Graph Search function to prey on teenagers on the network …
Feb 15, 2013, 3:20 PMIn context
Neil McAllister / The Register:
Kernel hacker Alan Cox quits Linux, Intel   —  Former Linus lieutenant leaving for ‘family reasons’  —  Top Linux kernel contributor Alan Cox has announced that he is stepping down from his position at Intel and will no longer be involved with Linux development, citing family reasons.
Jan 25, 2013, 5:05 PMIn context
The Register:
Orange boasts: We made Google PAY US for traffic   —  Some packets are more neutral than others ...  France Telecom-Orange is making a wad of cash from Google, the company's CEO boasted in an interview with French media yesterday.  —  Talking to BFM Business TV, CEO Stephane Richard didn't give …
Jan 19, 2013, 6:20 AMIn context
Neil McAllister / The Register:
Long-delayed Fedora Linux 18 arrives at last   —  ‘Spherical Cow’ brings updates for desktop, cloud, and more  —  The latest version of the popular Fedora Linux distribution has finally been released, just one week later than the already-delayed ship date that was announced in November.
Jan 16, 2013, 12:45 AMIn context

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Microsoft BizSpark:
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 …
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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 …
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
Unison's blog:
“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).