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29 Votes
Facebook jumps then slumps in first few minutes day's trade
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Round and round she goes, where she stops.... Facebook's shares debuted on the Nasdaq today at $42 and immediately skidded downwards to the original IPO price of $38.…
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41 Votes
Governments may hit social networks with cyber attacks
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Arab Spring alerted governments to power of Facebook, Twitter et al Social networking operators like Facebook and Twitter need to consider themselves much more vulnerable to attacks – not because they are more vulnerable or more attractive to criminals than previously, but because states are now actors in security threats.…
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32 Votes
28 Votes
Gates' Corbis busted again for fraud
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Infoflows wins US$12m in damages, Gates still mad Corbis, the digital stock photo company founded by Bill Gates in 1989, remains embroiled in a protracted fraud case instigated by Seattle based Infoflows.…
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35 Votes
Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable
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Father of BIND fears ISP crisis in July Ridding the world of the DNS Changer is proving a long, slow process that won’t be accomplished by July 9, when the court orders granted to the FBI expire and infected users suffer their inevitable blackout.…
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37 Votes
Baidu touts mobe with 100GB web drive
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$158 cloud-backed smartphone from 'China's Google' Baidu, the company which dominates China's search business as Google dominates elsewhere, has launched a smartphone using the company's cloud platform to reduce the price and keep the users loyal.…
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26 Votes
Button batteries BURN KIDS FROM INSIDE
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Where’s that dead CMOS battery you replaced last week? The next time you replace a button battery, do take care to dispose of it thoughtfully lest your kids swallow it and end up subjecting their innards to a damaging electrical current.…
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25 Votes
Solving traffic jams with maths
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Make the traffic control the lights, instead of the other way around A Swiss traffic management and transport economics expert believes a combination of queue management and computing can help solve the gridlock that plagues the modern city.…
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