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Path iPhone app shown to be uploading iOS address books to its servers
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7 Feb 2012 at 3:13pm
Appolicious - One of the most popular social networking apps available for iOS and Android devices is in a bit of hot water.
Facebook may open source some of its back-end code this year
(Digital Tr...
7 Feb 2012 at 10:58am
Digital Trends - CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently described Facebook as embracing “the hacker way,” which is to say that the company has a sort of freedom and interest in constantly innovating, breaking, and creating without boundaries that limit other enterprise businesses. How much that applies to Facebook in practice has long been up for debate, but the company may be edging closer in that direction in the near future.
Cisco seen reporting solid second quarter
(Reuters)
6 Feb 2012 at 3:21pm
Reuters - A year after network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc unnerved investors with yet another weak quarterly outlook the company looks set to report a stable quarter buoyed in part by improving enterprise demand in the United States.
Group seeks to save data on Megaupload servers
(Reuters)
2 Feb 2012 at 1:15pm
Reuters - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material.
IBM planning major job cuts in Germany: union
(Reuters)
1 Feb 2012 at 1:13pm
Reuters - International Business Machines is sounding out plans to cut thousands of jobs in Germany and other countries to reduce costs and raise earnings, a German union official said.
Megaupload users: EFF wants to help you recover lost files
(Digital Trends)
31 Jan 2012 at 11:16am
Digital Trends - As of Monday, it seemed all but guaranteed that the files stored on the servers used by Megaupload, which was seized by the US government on January 19, were gone for good. This includes the data of people who used Megaupload for legitimate purposes, like distributing work documents, or their own photo and video creations. But thanks to a collaborative effort between the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Carpathia Hosting, which owns and operates many of the servers used by Mega in the US, users who lost their files may now have a way to get them back.
Romanian prosecutors probe man who hacked Pentagon
(AP)
31 Jan 2012 at 7:24am
AP - Organized crime prosecutors say they are investigating a 20-year-old Romanian suspected of hacking into several Pentagon and NASA servers.
Upload at your own risk: Most cloud storage services offer no data guarantee ...
30 Jan 2012 at 3:01pm
Digital Trends - It’s become increasingly clear that users who lost files due to the US government’s seizure of Megaupload will, most likely, never get their files back. First of all, Megaupload’s hosting company, Carpathia Hosting, will allegedly begin deleting files on Thursday due to non-payment by Megaupload. Second — and here’s the stickler — Megaupload never guaranteed that files stored on its servers would remain accessible to users in the first place.
Who's Winning? The Most-Shared Super Bowl Ads So Far
(Mashable)
30 Jan 2012 at 8:54am
Mashable - We've just entered the Year of the Dragon, but Super Bowl 2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Dog.
No less than five of the ads featured in Unruly's list of Super Bowl ads with the most traction star dogs, including the early favorite -- Volkswagen's "The Bark Side." It's not hard to figure out why: Just like no stockbroker ever got fired for buying IBM, no chief marketing officer is going to get canned for featuring a pooch in their Super Bowl ad.
Tech Companies Ramping Up the Green Jobs [INFOGRAPHIC]
(Mashable)
28 Jan 2012 at 6:40am
Mashable - If you're looking for a new job, but you're also a friend of the environment, there could be a perfect position for you in the tech sector. More than ever before, tech companies are committed to sustainability -- they're developing greener devices, increasing the life cycle of products and developing meaningful partnerships. In fact, seven of the top 10 green companies are in the tech sector, and IBM leads the way, with a greenscore of 82.5%.
This year, there will be more than 3 million green jobs in America, helping the "green economy" surge past the "regular economy." Another benefit of going green in the job hunt? It can also bring you more green -- wages are 13% higher for green jobs than for the average American job.
Ubuntu moves beyond the desktop with new TV interface, menu-killing navigatio...
27 Jan 2012 at 12:24pm
Digital Trends - Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on “tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the cloud.”
European Lawmakers Want "Right to Be Forgotten" on Facebook, Google
(Mas...
25 Jan 2012 at 12:30pm
Mashable - European Internet users may be getting better control over information posted online, thanks to some proposed sweeping reforms lawmakers proposed Wednesday designed to protect digital privacy.
The suggested law calls for a "right to be forgotten" and a "right to data portability." The former would require Internet companies such as Facebook and Google to completely wipe all of a user's info from their servers if such a request was made. The latter demands users be allowed to easily transfer data from one online service to another, a currently difficult task.
Mohegan Sun owners outline debt refinancing plan
(AP)
25 Jan 2012 at 8:52am
AP - The parent company of the Mohegan Sun casinos has announced a debt refinancing plan offering new terms to bond holders and reducing the loan amount.
Vt. power provider, IBM to help 'smart grid'
(AP)
24 Jan 2012 at 8:59am
AP - The Vermont company that runs much of the electric distribution system in the state is joining with IBM to build a fiber optic control system designed to make the system more efficient and reliable.
Chip Solar House is powered by the sun and controlled through Xbox Kinect
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23 Jan 2012 at 5:25pm
Digital Trends - There is a lot that goes into making a house green, and we don’t mean just slapping a coat of paint on it. Building an energy efficient home is hard enough, let alone maintaining a home that doesn’t harm the environment by wasting resources and over consuming energy. Little things like switching off the lights and adjusting the thermostat go a long way in conserving energy, but it isn’t always easy, and it can be difficult fiddling with all of that on a day to day basis. Enter the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arch) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their easy-to-use CHIP Solar House, a cutting-edge solar home you control with a wave of your hands and the help of Xbox Kinect.
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