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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 11:37pm CET by Digg
With the Internet up in arms about the most recent tweaks to Google's fine print on privacy, it's helpful to remember: It could be much, much worse. Another search engine called Skipity, created last June and registered to one Andrew Corley, offers a refreshingly honest example of the privacy policy most [...]
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 11:30pm CET by Digg
Symantec is telling pcAnywhere customers to disable the product because Anonymous stole source code...
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 10:21pm CET by Digg
For Christmas this year, I was finally able to shed the cash to pick up an Xbox 360 along with a Kinect. While I do enjoy playing the games, what I’m most enthralled by is using the Kinect when watching TV. People keep talking about a forthcoming Apple TV, and I welcome it with open arms, but right now Microsoft has the right tool to shake up the market.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 8:46pm CET by Digg
You may have the right to remain silent, but if the ruling of a federal judge in a recent Colorado case is anything to go by, your computer doesn't get any such protection -- even if the hard drive is encrypted to prevent people such as law enforcement officers from snooping around to find incriminating evidence.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 7:29pm CET by Digg
Apple Inc on Tuesday announced record-setting earnings for the fiscal fiscal quarter spanning the months of October through December 2011.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 6:08pm CET by Digg
Meet the 1920 radio enthusiast who had the foresight to invent the annoying habit of talking on the phone while in the car.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 5:34pm CET by Digg
We've seen kid-friendly tablets come and go in the past, but most recently the OLPC XO 3.0 looked like it could be the computing savior of third word children.
The new Kurio tablet, made by Inspiration Works, will come in three sizes: 7-inch; 8-inch and 10-inch, reports Pocket Lint. What's neat about it, though, is that it's desgined to be used by both adult and child alike, and it seems like the company have put some thought into how they make that happen.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 4:29pm CET by Digg
A common criticism lobbed at the various Pirate Parties is that they ‘just want stuff for free’ and don’t produce anything; that if it were their work, they wouldn’t be so quick to offer things to download. Today, the US Pirate Party took on that criticism, by releasing their own book.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 3:24pm CET by Digg
Google made some sweeping changes to its privacy policies yesterday. It will begin combining data from all of its services, from search to email to photos.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 3:21pm CET by Digg
ShopSavvy, maker of the popular mobile bar code scanning apps, is today announcing SavvyListings, a service that will let you offer anything for sale simply by scanning a bar code. ShopSavvy has offices in San Francisco.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 2:37pm CET by Digg
ShopSavvy, a mobile app known for arming shoppers with the ability to scan products to find the best prices, is now giving consumers the ability to scan products they own so they can quickly put them up for sale.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 9:42am CET by Digg
Here's something that'll blow your mind (sorry that it's an ad): stare at the colored dots on this girl's nose for 30 seconds, then quickly look at a white wall or ceiling (or anything pure white) and...
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 2:55am CET by Digg
This is Argus One, the Pentagon's newest unmanned aerial spy. It can carry 30 pounds of high-tech sensors and it just happens to be shaped like a sperm because this shape is better at handling turbulences at high altitudes.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:17am CET by Digg
In a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo! and ABC News, the former head of Microsoft talked about how Steve Jobs' death affected him, his fix for U.S. schools and his annual letter, which sets the priorities of the most generous charitable effort in history.
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Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:07am CET by Digg
Nokia has been fined by Australia's government for sending unsolicited SMS marketing to its customers without offering an opt-out.