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UK Internet Filtering Bill Watered Down

superapecommando writes in with news that in the UK, Liberal Democratic peers will soften their filtering amendment to the Digital Economy Bill, to allow those wrongfully accused of illegal filesharing to sue the rightsholders in court. The previous
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Breakfast briefing: Facebook surges onwards as Apple watches iPad orders flood in

Just a few weeks ago we were talking about how Facebook had eclipsed Yahoo as America's second-largest website - now, according to Hitwise, it is now bigger than Google. Will the social networking monster ever stop growing? Some interesting data on early
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Golden Nanocages To Put the Heat On Cancer Cells

ElectricSteve writes 'Researchers have been searching for a highly targeted medical treatment that attacks cancer cells but leaves healthy tissue alone. The approach taken by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis is to use 'gold nanocages'
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IBM extends development and test to the cloud

IBM is expected to announce Tuesday its plans to go online with its commercial cloud service for software development and testing, allowing enterprise and government clients to access to IBM cloud services. Testing services are an excellent use-case for
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Windows Phone 7: What you need to know

Its been a day full of Windows Phone 7 content here at the Microsoft Mix 10 conference. Ive gone to a couple of sessions, a press conference and a one-on-one meeting with Charlie Kindel, whos spearheading the Windows Phone 7 development charge. Here are
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Ushahidi Crowd-Sources Crisis Response

We mentioned late last year how open source software called Ushahidi which means 'testimony' in Swahili developed for election monitoring in Kenya was being used to similar effect in Afghanistan. Now reader Peace Corps Online adds a report from the NY
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Microsoft Tells Windows Phone 7?s App Story

Microsoft on Monday announced details regarding Windows Phone 7 Series? application store, software development kit and user interface. As leaked documents hinted in February , the Silverlight and XNA programming environments will play major roles
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Google Exit Would Benefit Microsoft

BY GEOFFREY A. FOWLER AND LORETTA CHAO If Google Inc. decides to close the door on its search engine in China, it might open a door for Microsoft Corp. The software giant's Bing search engine is among the potential beneficiaries if Google goes ahead with
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Gartner: 60 percent of virtual servers less secure than physical machines

The analyst firm said the virtual security woes will likely continue until 2012 Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday. This state of affairs will
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XML Co-Founder Joins Google, Blasts iPhone

conner_bw writes 'XML co-founder Tim Bray has taken the job of 'Developer Advocate' at Google. Don't other companies call that position 'Evangelist?' Because he sure doesn't mince words against the iPhone in his first sermon: 'It's a sterile Disney-fied
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Google Exit Would Open a Door for Microsoft

If Google Inc. decides to close the door on its search engine in China, it might open a door for Microsoft Corp. The software giant's Bing search engine is among the potential beneficiaries if Google goes ahead with its threat to close its Google.cn site
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China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe

MikeChino sends in this excerpt from Inhabitat: 'China already has the most advanced and extensive high-speed rail lines in the world, and soon that network will be connected all the way to Europe and the UK. With initial negotiations and surveys already
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Should Microsoft employees openly use iPhones?

It's like Katie Holmes telling Tom Cruise she prefers Brad Pitt's movies. It's like Rupert Murdoch's wife googling a Wall Street Journal article to get past the paywall. It's like Reggie Bush telling Kim Kardashian that her sister Khloe is cuter than she
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Microsoft Lifts the Curtain on Windows Phone 7 Apps

Microsoft on Monday announced details regarding ? application store, software development kit and user interface. As leaked , the Silverlight and XNA programming environments will play major roles for third-party software developers. Microsoft previewed
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Intel ships solid-state drive for fast app start-up

Intel has starting shipping a solid-state drive that can speed Windows 7 and app load times. Intel says the drive is aimed at "dual-drive/boot drive desktop set-ups" as well as Netbooks. Solid-state drives typically offer better performance--in some
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Microsoft pushes temporary security fix to IE laggards

Microsoft has released automated workarounds designed to immunize users against a critical vulnerability in earlier versions of Internet Explorer, which criminals are already exploiting online. The "Fix It" updates were
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Facebook passes Google as most-viewed site in US in past week

There seems to be no stopping Mark Zuckerberg's wunderkind - perhaps because it's doing something that search cannot Is that Google in Facebook's rear-view mirror? Why, yes, it is, at least in the US, according to the latest figures from Hitwise . The
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Bethesda Unveils New Co-op Dungeon Crawler

Bethesda Softworks took advantage of the recent Game Developers Conference to take the wraps off a new game called Hunted: The Demon's Forge that they're partnering with development studio inXile to create. It's planned for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3,
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Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway

superapecommando writes 'Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said. The copyright holders, led by Norway's performing rights society TONO and
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Twitter goes anywhere - but keeps advertising plans under wraps

Scotching expectations that it would announce an advertising platform, Twitter has instead unveiled ways for other sites to integrate more easily with it For thousands of webheads gathered in Texas, the past few days have been a dizzying whirlwind of at
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Way of the Samurai 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3 | Game review

Xbox 360/PS3; £39.99; cert 16+: Gamebridge The year is 1560. Which ? as any fule, or Manga fan, kno ? is the Sengoku Era, when Feudal Japan was in a violent political mess. As that movie voiceover chap would have it, it was a time of war, and that
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Twitter to Offer Service That Ties Into Other Sites

AUSTIN, Tex. ? Twitter is aiming to expand its reach on the Web. On Monday at the interactive conference here, Evan Williams, the chief executive of Twitter, announced that the company planned to introduce a service called @anywhere. It will allow people
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South by Southwest's Location-Based Allure

Decoder is in Austin, Texas, at the interactive portion of South by Southwest, or SxSW as it is known to its adherents and sponsors. The broad sweep of the conference arrays over music, film, and interactive media for nine days, and right now, we are in
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Nokia Claims Apple Does "Legal Alchemy" To Mask IP Theft

CWmike writes 'Nokia asked a federal judge last week to toss out Apple's antitrust claims, saying the iPhone maker indulged in 'legal alchemy' when it tried to divert attention from its infringement of Nokia's intellectual property. The filing was the
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Android vs. iPhone: Google Hires Tim Bray

In the growing war of words between Apple and Google, Google just picked up a very sharp tongue with many followers. Even without writing a line of code, his impact will be felt through his blog and tweets. One month after resigning from Oracle and after
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Android vs. iPhone war just got some more personality

Tim Bray, who co-invented XML and is a well-known blogger, has joined Googles Android team and wasted no time taking on Apples iPhone. (Techmeme), Bray, also a former Sun Microsystems employee, said he joined Google for Android and likes the rapid
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Microsoft touts Windows Phone 7 Series and Silverlight 4

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday showed off application capabilities for its Windows Phone 7 Series platform and offered a release candidate for its upcoming Silverlight 4 rich Internet application plug-in technology. Windows Phone 7 Series
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Oracle loses XML co-inventor to Google

Ex-Sun XML evangelist Tim Bray starts with Google's Android team One ex-Sun Microsystems employee who will not be cashing an Oracle paycheck is XML co-inventor Tim Bray, who has opted instead to work for the Google. Bray will be working, beginning on
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How IBM's analytics software saves lives

Here?s the thing about brain aneurysms: They aren?t necessarily deadly, unless they pop. If that happens, there?s roughly a 50% chance that the patient will die?so it?s best to spot and treat them early. To help in their aneurysm hunt,
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How secure is your password? Let's explain it visually

Photo from Flickr. CC-BY licensed Those folks over at CXO have been playing with Google Mail's password strength meter. It turns out - as if you needed to be told - that simple dictionary words such as 'princess' or well-known phrases such as 'biteme'
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