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Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?

eldavojohn writes "Gizmodo's got an interesting scoop on a list of IPs acquired from Peer Block revealing who is downloading the Facebook user data torrented this week: Apple, the Church of Scientology, Disney, Intel, IBM and several major government
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Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?

eldavojohn writes "Gizmodo's got an interesting scoop on a list of IPs acquired from Peer Block revealing who is downloading the Facebook user data torrented this week: Apple, the Church of Scientology, Disney, Intel, IBM and several major government
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The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet

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UK largely missing from state of the internet reports

The UK barely rates on content distributor Akamai's "state of the internet" report, despite successive governments' pledges to "digitise" Britain. The UK was sixth in terms of internet penetration, with 20.1 million unique IP addresses, but behind
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Google extends functionality of location aware mobile ads

Google has announced extended functionality of location aware mobile ads. The firm is extending its click-to-call function to enable advertisers to push ads based on the location to mobile users that have agreed to share their location data. The service
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The Technology newsbucket: Google leaves SEOs going beserk, Microsoft gives interns free phones and RIM may have news

...all this and more in today's technology newsbucket. A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Photo by Route79 on Flickr. Some rights reserved ? Yell goes online to alleviate revenue pressure >> Financial
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Microsoft to challenge Google-Yahoo Japan deal

So guess what Microsoft thinks of Yahoo Japan's decision to swap it out for Google as main search partner? Yeah, not too happy about it. And it's going to do all that it can to thwart the deal. "We plan to present evidence to the Japanese FTC explaining
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A Hands-On Tour: Google Goggles Visual Search

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AOL exec: 'We have a big f-ing problem!'

PHILADELPHIA--Right off the bat: The headline of this post is easily taken out of context. Be it known that it was uttered not in a context of panic, but in a sort of Silicon Valley disruptor-maverick bravado, by former Yahoo executive and current AOL
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Microsoft to challenge to Google-Yahoo Japan deal

So guess what Microsoft thinks of Yahoo Japan's decision to swap it out for Google as main search partner? Yeah, not too happy about it. And it's going to do all that it can to thwart the deal. "We plan to present evidence to the Japanese FTC explaining
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Microsoft to challenge to Google-Yahoo Japan deal

So guess what Microsoft thinks of Yahoo Japan's decision to swap it out for Google as main search partner? Yeah, not too happy about it. And it's going to do all that it can to thwart the deal. "We plan to present evidence to the Japanese FTC explaining
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StayFocusd fights the battle: Facebook versus work...and wins

Time-budgeting throughout the work day is difficult when the Internet's distractions are at your fingertips. StayFocusd is a Google Chrome extension that limits these addicting Web binges to a time span of your choosing so you can be more productive.
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Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market

eldavojohn writes "According to AfterDawn, Google has given app makers the option to use a license server as DRM to ensure the user has paid for an app before they can download it. Reportedly, the Market app will communicate with a Google license server
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StayFocusd fights the battle: Facebook versus work...and wins.

Time-budgeting throughout the work day is difficult when the Internet's distractions are at your fingertips. StayFocusd is a Google Chrome extension that limits these addicting Web binges to a time span of your choosing so you can be more productive.
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Microsoft cries foul on Yahoo!-Google Japan deal

Microsoft will try to stop Yahoo! from hooking up with Google in Japan. Bing daddy Microsoft told The Reg it will object to Yahoo! Japan's alliance with Google, announced this week, in a presentation to Japan's Fair Trade Commission. A Microsoft
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Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support

Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he
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Report: Google, CIA fund predictive analytics firm

Google Ventures and CIA's investment arm fund Recorded Future, a start-up that monitors Web and connects dots between people, places, events, Wired says.
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Anonymous Sources Delay Speculated Facebook IPO Again, to 2012

Facebook ?will probably? put off until 2012 the IPO it hasn?t even acknowledged thinking about much yet, three people tell Bloomberg News . That adds about a year to the latest idle speculation of when Facebook might let its 500 million members (or
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Privacy group criticises ICO Google Wi-Fi response

Campaign group Privacy International has said that the Information Commissioner's Office was premature in giving Google the all-clear over its collection of Wi-Fi data. Simon Davis, the director of Privacy International, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that
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UK.gov drops £6m on Google

Four Whitehall departments gave Google and similar search engines more than £6m in two years to encourage web users to do more exercise, emit less CO2 and stop smoking, among other initiatives. Figures released this week show the Department of Health
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China's Firewall Stymies Google; Users Confused

eldavojohn writes "Massive confusion occurred last night for Google's Chineseengine and ad services when Google's automated reporting system claimed that everything was blocked in China. The problem was that most users experienced no outage despite
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China Blocks Google Again, Despite Compromise ? UPDATE

The great and inscrutable Chinese firewall has blocked Chinese net users from using Google?s web search Thursday, the company reported on its monitoring page. UPDATE: Chinese users are a bit confused by the news stories saying they are blocked
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Facebook, Nannying, and Objectives

Gibbs ponders the problems with employees and social networking and suggests that nannying won't cut it. Newsletter Sign-Up » Receive the latest news test, reviews and trends on your favorite technology topics Network World? Over the last few months
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False alarm: Google services reported down in China

Several of Google's Web services in mainland China were reported as fully blocked on Thursday including Web search, YouTube, Ads, and Blogger. Those reports turned out to be incorrect due to misinformation from Google's Mainland China . Other services,
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Photos: Amazon updates its Kindle ebook reader

Amazon's latest version of the Kindle ebook reader, available to UK customers from 27 August, features a number of improvements over previous versions. The new Kindle model is more compact than its predecessor (21 per cent smaller size and 15 per cent
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Facebook's IPO stalling: Are we even still surprised?

Must be a slow summer Friday: . This follows up on somebody else's story last year about the company definitely not going public this year, and another report the previous year about Facebook not going public last year, and so forth. Basically, every so
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How I almost got scammed selling my old iPod Touch on eBay

After reading a recent article , I decided to look through my semi-vintage gear for items to recycle for some spare cash. I located my original 16GB first-generation iPod Touch, purchased via Apple's Web site the week it was announced in 2007. Having
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Photos: New Amazon Kindle for just £109

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Magic: The Gathering Goes Twitter This Weekend

Are you ready to celebrate the Summer of Multiplayer with a whole new twist on Magic? Wizards of the Coast is excited to announce a new way to experience Magic ? TweetMTG ! On July 31-August 1, log in for a fun, social exploration into gaming. Simply
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Google is top malware distributor among search engines, report reveals

Google turns out more than twice as much malware as Bing, Twitter and Yahoo combined, according to the Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report. Barracuda analysed more than 25,000 trending topics and 5.5 million search results on the four search
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