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Court Finds Social Network Add-On Violated Spam, Hacking Laws
In a potentially troublesome decision, a federal district court has found that a start-up violated anti-spam and computer crime laws by creating and marketing a browser to let users view their social networking accounts in one place. The case demonstrates the difficulties facing those who seek to empower users to interact with closed services like Facebook in new and innovative ways.
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Why connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot is about to get easier
In the near future, getting your smartphone, tablet or laptop connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot won't be an exercise in frustration. The Wi-Fi Alliance will begin to certify wireless devices for its industry-wide Passpoint initiative this July. Goodbye to splash-screens and network-specific log-ins!
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Watch Steve Jobs' Life In a Facebook Timeline
Someone built a Facebook timeline with the life of Steve Jobs. It's quite nice to go through it and look at his life in this format, rather than having to suffer through Isaacson's rushed out prose.
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Will You Be Twitter's 500 Millionth User?
Reports state Twitter may reach 500 million users on Wednesday.
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Apple Battles to Avoid iPad Ban in China
The latest stage of Apple’s battle to use the “iPad” trademark in China saw heated exchanges in a Shanghai court, as the technology giant fought to avoid disruption to global supplies of its best-selling tablet.
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Pirate Bay vows to go underground over blocking threat
File-sharing site Pirate Bay vows to carry on after the High Court lays the foundations for its closure.
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D-Wave Defies World of Critics With ‘First Quantum Cloud’
Geordie Rose has a Ph.D. in quantum physics, but he's also a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a Canadian national champion wrestler...
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The Pirate Bay to defy international crackdown on filesharing websites
Site says it will bypass attempts to shut it down with a more covert system for illicitly downloading films and music. By Josh Halliday
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MegaUpload founder released on bail after new evidence surfaces.
In a surprise move, court releases Kim DotCom today.
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An E-Mail App Arrives for the BlackBerry Tablet
Research in Motion on Tuesday finally brought e-mail to its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, which initially could send or receive e-mails only by being connected to a BlackBerry phone.
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Google+ iOS app updated with Instant Upload
Google updated its Google+ app for iOS-based devices. The main new thing is Instant Upload, which once enabled will automatically upload all your photos and videos to a private album on Google+ from where you can easily share them with your circles, or the world.
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Comcast Is Launching a Netflix Competitor
Comcast Corp. is taking aim at Netflix Inc., unveiling its own streaming-video service that will give existing Comcast video customers a similar selection of old TV shows and movies over the Web.
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Privacy Spat: Microsoft vs. Google vs. the truth
According to one expert, who played a role in creating the privacy standard at issue here, says they're all partially right ... but ultimately wrong.
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Photos show alleged front panel display for iPad 3
Photos from the Chinese-language website Weibo appear to depict the front panel display and digitizer assembly for an iPad 3, notes Apple.pro. The hardware is said to be similar to that for the iPad 3, but with the distinction of a ribbon cable exte
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Do Students Understand the Material? A New App Helps Teachers Know For Sure
GoSoapBox allows students to ask questions, vote up questions posed by their classmates, participate in discussions, or express confusion.
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What Is Anonymous?
The National Security Agency director has privately warned that Anonymous could knock out power grids in the U.S. within two years.
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Will iPads Replace TV Screens in NYC Taxis?
New York City residents and visitors could be in for a major tech upgrade soon ? those televisions in the back of taxi cabs might soon be replaced with new embedded tablet devices.
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Sci-fi ad can scan your face, deliver gender-biased messages
In a straight-out-of-science-fiction move, a new ad campaign can scan you face, determine your gender, and deliver a specific message if you are a women. It's hard to not make a reference to Minority Report, the 2002 Tom Cruise movie, when describing this technology.
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"Thinking Cities" - Ericsson’s vision of a networked society expands with
When we first covered Ericsson’s Networked Society Project, we called it beautiful and terrifying. Their latest video shows that beauty can prevail when technology inserts itself into our lives with positive motives in mind.
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iPad 3: What to expect, a feature drill down
Apple seems to have kicked up the notches by exploring the possibility of having a newer version of the existing Retina Display, thus pushing the screen resolution to a whopping 2048 x 1536 pixels. There are also some rumors about iPad 3 having an integrated 3D feature in its display, though up till now it is based on pure conjecture on the part of analysts.
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