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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 11:20pm CET by Digg
Yang, who started Yahoo in 1995, is leaving the company's board of directors as well as all other positions within the company effective Tuesday...
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 11:19pm CET by Digg
In a statement issued today, Chris Dodd, the chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America--and a former U.S. Senator--railed against the blackouts planned for tomorrow of sites like Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, and others. SOPA is a favorite of Hollywood. Read this blog post by Daniel Terdiman on Geek Gestalt.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 10:38pm CET by Digg
This year’s Consumer Electronics Show revealed some exciting technologies and devices whose release is just around the corner.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 6:55pm CET by Digg
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, everybody wanted to talk. And when they talked on their mobile phones, they put a great deal of stress on the mobile phone carriers. We tried to figure out who handled the load the best.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 6:06pm CET by Digg
The search giant will post an anti-SOPA link on home page tomorrow as part of a unified protest planned by the tech sector.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 5:48pm CET by Digg
Google+ now has a meme text generator for images, allowing the Internet to parody itself until it's no longer funny. The Google+ stream, already jammed with animated GIFs, full-width images and videos, Google Music players (theoretically) and 1,000-word rants, is now a full-fledged competitor to I Can Has Cheezburger. Google engineer Colin McMillen announced the feature this morning. The Google+ Creative Kit for editing images already had a text tool with lots of fonts to choose from, but this "funny text" tool is more brutal.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 5:41pm CET by Digg
What do you do with tech leftovers? Combat rising e-waste by using old PCs and electronics in different ways or recycling them conscientiously.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 3:37pm CET by Digg
Sometimes, you need to see what a technology can do before you can fully appreciate it. Take, for instance, CSS 3D and Three.js. It's one thing to hear ...
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 3:32pm CET by Digg
(Reuters) - Online shoe retailer Zappos told customers this weekend that it has been the victim of a cyber attack affecting more than 24 million customer accounts in its database.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 1:47pm CET by Digg
Supporters of the pending PIPA/SOPA anti-piracy bills often use The Pirate Bay as a prime example of a website that can be taken out under the new legislation. But is that really the case? The Pirate Bay team has been silent on the issue, until now. As it turns out, the people behind the popular torrent site don't believe the laws will do much to stop them, but they do fear for the future of the Internet.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 10:05am CET by Digg
The Koobface gang, a Russian-based group, has grown wealthy by apparently spreading a computer worm on Facebook and other social networks and cashing in on various schemes.
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Posted: January 17th, 2012, 1:40am CET by Digg
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak still loves his iPhone, but he's a big fan of smartphones running Google's mobile OS . . . and finds Android voice commands and GPS superior to mobile phones running iOS.