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10 Apps To Help You Survive The Flu Season

By Mellisa Tolentino Jan 4, 2013

The dreaded flu season unfortunately had a huge headstart this year. According to Sickweather, a social media-public health startup, Twitter and Facebook users helped them identify the early start of flu season, six weeks…

French ISP Free Says “Au Revoir” To Online Ads

By Mike Wheatley Jan 4, 2013

There’s a bit of a storm brewing in France this morning after it was revealed that one of the country’s leading ISPs quietly released a firmware update this week, throwing in an ad-blocking option…

Google-FTC Settle, Agrees To Be More Fair

By Mellisa Tolentino Jan 4, 2013

In today’s mobile news roundup: Google agrees to be more fair; Facebook launches voice for iOS and Android apps; Nokia plans aluminum body for next Lumia phones; and Gorilla Glass 3 tougher and stronger.…

Fake Big Data: Deceiving Hackers With Tons of Crap

By Mike Wheatley Jan 4, 2013

We’ve seen some interesting ideas to thwart cybercrime in our time – for example Kaspersky’s supposedly ‘unhackable’ operating system comes to mind – and most of them inevitably involve the use of super-complex algorithms,…

This Week in the Cloud: PaaS, Datacenters & Xbox

By Maria Deutscher Jan 4, 2013

This past week Dell announced that it’s jumping on the OpenStack bandwagon, Heroku expanded support for Python and Google announced new data centers in Asia. Finally, Microsoft acquired a home automation startup and revealed…

Google’s Great Escape: FTC Rules It “Isn’t Biased”

By Mike Wheatley Jan 4, 2013

For months there was speculation that the government would come down on Google like a ton of bricks over its alleged anti-competitive practices, but instead the search engine giant scored an impressive victory, with…

With Warrantless NSA Wiretapping Renewed by Congress Internet Users Rethink Privacy

By Kyt Dotson Jan 3, 2013

Recently, the United States Congress renewed the warrantless wiretapping powers of the NSA in the FISA Amendments Act by a 73 to 23 vote. The law had been set to expire shortly, but it…

It’s Official: Dell Committing to OpenStack This Year, Will Beat HP Cloud Services

By Maria Deutscher Jan 3, 2013

Nnamdi Orakwue, Dell’s vice president of cloud, is cautious about jumping on the OpenStack bandwagon. But he says that an open-source public service is already on the drawing board for his company, which has…

Microsoft Pushes Xbox Goals with R2 Acquisition, (Possible) Countdown to 720

By Maria Deutscher Jan 3, 2013

Microsoft’s plan of expanding beyond the realm of personal computers relies heavily on the Xbox 360, once an old-fashioned gaming console that is now poised to become a full-blown home entertainment system. It just…

Apple Maps Needs Waze, But Would They Know What to Do with It?

By Mellisa Tolentino Jan 3, 2013

News broke yesterday of Apple’s rumored intention to acquire crowd-sourcing GPS navigation app, Waze. It was reported that Waze is asking $750 million, but Apple is said to be bargaining at $400 million with…

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10 Apps To Help You Survive The Flu Season

French ISP Free Says “Au Revoir” To Online Ads

Google-FTC Settle, Agrees To Be More Fair

Fake Big Data: Deceiving Hackers With Tons of Crap

Google’s Great Escape: FTC Rules It “Isn’t Biased”

Microsoft Pushes Xbox Goals with R2 Acquisition, (Possible) Countdown to 720

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