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- 23 May 2012
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Video: Video: Sony shows off new digital media hub for Vaio, Xperia, Vita, tablets
The "nasne" has a 500 GB and streams recorded content wirelessly to Sony devices. It will go on sale in Japan from June 19 for about US$215.
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Video: Video: The Byte - Google investigated, Facebook marriage, Windows Aero gone, Twitter privacy changes
Google has a matter of weeks to address four antitrust issues identified by EU antitrust regulators. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg married longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan. Microsoft will ditch the Aero user interface in Windows 8. Twitter alerted users in an email Sunday about changes to its privacy policy and service usage.
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News: Beyond Templates: Building a Better Business Website
This probably seems obvious, but it's worth stating: These days, it's crucial to have a website for your business. From brochure-based sites that provide your contact details and store hours to full-fledged ecommerce carts and customer self-service, your website is important--it tells customers what to expect from you. This article offers several tips for building a better business website that will engage existing customers and help you find new ones.
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News: Tesco speeds release of new online applications
Tesco is speeding the way it prepares and releases new applications across its online business.
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News: Pwnium hacking contest winners exploited 16 Chrome zero-days
Google yesterday revealed that the two researchers who cracked Chrome in March at the company's inaugural "Pwnium" hacking contest used a total of 16 zero-day vulnerabilities to win $60,000 each.
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News: 7 Tech IPOs That Investors 'Unfriended'
For the past week, it has been impossible to search for the word "IPO" in Google and not be inundated with stories on the Facebook's debut on the stock market. However, over the course of the week, there has been a visible shift in the tone of the stories. From wondering whether Facebook's IPO would open the floodgates for other social media companies, analysts are now left wondering why the Facebook IPO flopped and failed to provide the so called post-listing "pop."
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News: The expert's guide to Instapaper
They arrive by Twitter, by RSS, and by email. They're passed around on social networks. They’re embedded in online articles and blog posts. I’m talking about all of those links to things you'd like to read but can’t. Making time to read everything you find on the Web the moment you find it is hard, so you probably don’t read it at all—unless you use a read-it-later service like Instapaper.
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News: 'Clueless' boards risk lawsuits, threaten national security
Energy/utilities sector ranks last on four of the best practices for cybersecurity, report exposes
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News: Intel launches cloud-based single sign-on service
Listed on AppExchange, Cloud SSO has been tightly integrated with Salesforce.com applications
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News: Windows Phone Marketplace Goes Mango Only
If you're having trouble downloading apps from the Windows Phone Marketplace, you just might be a pre-Mango Windows Phone 7 user. Microsoft is now enforcing a rule that only users of Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed Mango, can use the Marketplace in any meaningful way. Without the Mango update you can still browse the Marketplace, but you will start getting error messages if you attempt to download, buy, update, or review an app.
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News: Apple gains $31 a share as Facebook investors return?
If you’d have bought Apple shares last Friday you’d be happy. The share price rocketed from $530 on Friday 18 May to close at $561 last night. Not bad for a days work. If you pulled your Apple shares to buy Facebook, and then sold them and went back to Apple you might not be the only one.
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News: President Obama joins famous faces in Webby Awards tribute to Steve Jobs (video)
President Obama was among the well-known figures that paid tribute to Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs at the 16th annual Webby Awards show on Monday.
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News: Apple is 'most valuable' global brand despite Jobs' death
Apple's increasing its brand value despite the death of its visionary founder Steve Jobs in the past year was extraordinary, according to report agency.
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News: Apple TV apps will revolutionise telly
Cable providers will be big losers in this revolution. “They failed to innovate and they'll pay the consequences,” according to report.
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News: FujiFilm camera design to withstand water, shock, dust, freezing temperatures
FujiFilm said Wednesday it will begin sales of a digital camera in June that is waterproof, shockproof, sealed against dust and sand, and works at temperatures below freezing.
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News: Foxconn to build new Apple production line in China
Apple supplier Foxconn is investing $210 million (£133m) to build a new factory in China, which will house an Apple production line.
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News: Everything Everywhere accuses rivals of focusing on cost instead of 4G
Everything Everywhere claims it is a step ahead of its rivals in its 4G plans because other mobile operators are too busy focusing on cost efficiencies, instead of innovation.
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News: Government publishes Open Data Institute plans
The government has today published its plans to establish an Open Data Institute (ODI) in East London.
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News: Awesome Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of Robert Moog with Playable Synthesizer
Google honors the legacy of Robert Moog Wednesday, the father of the modern electronic synthesizer, with what quite possibly is its most elaborate doodle yet -- a working Moog synthesizer. Wednesday marks the late music pioneer's 78th birthday. You can play Google's virtual Moog synthesizer now in countries where it is already May 23.
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News: iPhone 5's iOS 6 firmware to be revealed in June
Groundwork for the iPhone 5 is being set at WWDC in the form of the new iOS 6 firmware that will be revealed to the world in June.
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Video: Sony shows off new digital media hub for Vaio, Xperia, Vita, tablets
The "nasne" has a 500 GB and streams recorded content wirelessly to Sony devices. It will go on sale in Japan from June 19 for about US$215.
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