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Microsoft launches its own social network
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Redmond content for new so.cl service to to co-exist with Facebook, Google On the off chance that you have spare moment left in your life after checking Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, your email and your SMS inbox, Microsoft has launched its very own social network, so.cl. The site's name is pronounced "social".…
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6 Votes
Ten... Qwerty mobiles
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Pushy types Product round-up As the speedy texter generation grows longer in the Bluetooth and touchscreen technologies improve, the range of Qwerty phones on offer gets smaller by the day. But for many, they wouldn't use anything else. Indeed, for RIM, Qwerty keys have been the hallmark of it BlackBerry handsets.…
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13 Votes
SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second
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Computer said no: New attempt expected on Tuesday The Falcon 9 rocket from private space company SpaceX, intended to launch this morning and send a Dragon capsule loaded with supplies to the International Space Station, has failed to take off. The rocket's computer aborted the launch automatically at almost the final possible moment, when its engines had already ignited but the vehicle had not ye
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18 Votes
Apache OpenOffice security fixes emerge
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Under new management: First revamp passes one million downloads Details have emerged about the security fixes that came bundled with Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, the latest version of the open-source productivity suite.…
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7 Votes
Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code
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Unofficial APIs are the new fruit of temptation Microsoft has urged developers to only use approved Windows 8 software interfaces to avoid spoiling the launch of its new operating system with dodgy code.…
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15 Votes
Symantec releases software as Amazon Machine Image
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Getting cloudy with managed services Symantec has made its new O3 cloud identity and access control suite available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMIs), the company's first foray into selling software as a hosted virtual machine.…
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6 Votes
Hybrid computing just like FLESH-EATING bacteria
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A scholarly comparison HPC blog Hybrid computing (using CPUs plus GPUs to accelerate processing speed/throughput) and necrotizing faciitis (a flesh-eating bacterial* infection) have more in common than is typically thought. Both exhibit high growth rates, and both are incredibly difficult to stop once they get started.…
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14 Votes
Roman roads get the web maps treatment
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M-III traffic means Londinium to Venta (Winchester) takes 3.7 days Classical scholars at Stanford University have created a “Geospatial network model of the Roman world” which offers the chance to calculate journey times along Roman roads in much the same way as is possible on Google Maps and other online mapping services.…
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