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Blackberry Inventor Says His Company is Just Getting Started
Since Mike Lazaridis cofounded the Canada-based Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the Blackberry, his devices have spawned an entire industry
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Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Now Target Private Trackers
Mass lawsuits against alleged file-sharers, such as those from the US Copyright Group and lawyers ACS:Law and Gallant MacMillan in the UK, are generally accepted to have been generated from evidence gathered from big public BitTorrent sites.
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Automated Stock Trading Could Speed Up Your ISP
In a never-ending race to react to minute fluctuations in stock prices faster than anyone else in the world, financial firms have gone to extraordinary lengths to build the fastest possible networks, processors and software.
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Only 0.3% of files on BitTorrent confirmed to be legal
Nearly all of the files available on BitTorrent are of the illegal variety, according to researchers from the University of Ballarat in Australia. On top of that, the top four percent of files were responsible for 80 percent of seeds - all of which were illegal.
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Analyzing The Facebook Contract: Is Mark Zuckerberg Screwed?
Unless this document is a forgery, the guy who says he owns 84% of Facebook will soon be a very rich man.
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For all its might, Google is no 'product-killer'
Google has invested billions of dollars building dozens of different products across a wide swath of the technology industry, from productivity tools to mobile phones to e-commerce.
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Facebook Apologizes for Censoring Doll's Nipples
Jewelry designer is stunned when Facebook removes a picture of a porcelain doll sitting next to her jewelry, because the doll's nipples are visible. After a week, Facebook finally apologizes.
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How Foursquare Will Become the Google of Local
On the web, small, seemingly insignificant things can have incredibly wide-reaching effects. A small ad placed next to a search result might be the start of a massive new enterprise. A service that lets you share your status, photos and links with others might become the largest social network on earth. Small changes. Big results.
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YouTube adds support for 4096p (not a typo!)
For more than half a year now YouTube has supported 1080p videos but today they raised the bar even more by supporting native resolution videos up to 4096p (1096
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Amazon Wins e-Reader Patent, How Will This Affect the nook?
A new ruling grants Amazon the patent ability to have an e-ink display and an LCD display on the same e-reader.
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