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submitted by Robby for team staff news 33 weeks 2 days 6 hours 51 minutes ago
Smart phone giant HTC is investigating claims that a security flaw is leaving users' personal data, including location information, open to exposure.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 33 weeks 2 days 11 hours 51 minutes ago
"We want to take I.B.M. on in their strongest suit, microprocessors," says Larry Ellison, chief executive of Oracle. A tight coupling of hardware and software will lead to better performance handling data, he says.
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submitted by MikeK 239 weeks 6 days ago
PC World - Much of the attention for Apple has been on the iPhone lately, but the company's hardware business is showing strength too. Apple's hardware shipments for the third-quarter surged 15.9 percent over the same quarter last year, according to a report released Wednesday by...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 105 weeks 3 days 38 minutes ago
Want to know if the blouse you're trying on at Bloomingdale's can be snagged on the cheap at Ross? Curious whether that painting is a genuine Jackson Pollock or the inspired effort of a kindergartener? Wondering how much the restaurant gouged you on that bottle of...(more)
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So now it's day four in the life of "public Facebook" (FB), and setting aside for a moment some gyrations in the stock price, it's safe to say things are still going to pretty much suck for the social media titan—at least for the foreseeable future....(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Obama Watch 69 weeks 2 days 17 hours 46 minutes ago
Several polls note a rise in public approval for Obama. The bump comes after his Tucson shooting speech and a productive lame-duck congressional session.President Obama is enjoying a surge in public approval as he marks the midpoint of his first term, an uptick that follows a...(more)
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LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline said it would not proceed with its $2.6 billion offer for Human Genome Sciences unless the U.S. biotechnology company dropped a "poison pill" shareholder rights plan imposed to block the deal. Human Genome adopted the stockholder rights plan earlier this month in...(more)
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Ever want to video chat with a few of your closest friends? How about 11 of them at the same time? That's what video chat service ooVoo offers free through Facebook and a new iPad app.
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Mitt Romney's campaign is out with a new video suggesting President Obama is trying to deflect attention away from his economic record by attacking Romney's history at Bain Capital.
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submitted by AB 223 weeks 21 hours 4 minutes ago
NewsFactor - The Microsft-Yahoo battle continued Monday with some unexpected twists. Microsoft indicated it will keep fighting even as Yahoo's board raised the price and reports suggested Yahoo is trying to restart merger talks with AOL.
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submitted by pbl 188 weeks 3 days 49 minutes ago
European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according to U.S. intelligence officials and other people familiar with the case.
Specialists say the theft technology is the most advanced they have...(more)
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submitted by JKM 239 weeks 1 day 16 hours 15 minutes ago
Apple just stated in their earnings call that out of 1.4 million iPhones sold since launch, 250,000 are unlocked. They know this from subtracting the number of iPhones activated on AT&T from the number of iPhones sold total—which is 250k. That's a farmhouse load of unlocked...(more)
