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Developers catch on to Cassandras database dexterity
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NSA can access data without court approval leaker says
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Analysts at the U.S. National Security Agency can gain access to the content of U.S. targets` phone calls and email messages without court orders, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said, contradicting denials from U.S. government sources.
Microsoft kills linked accounts in Outlookcom
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Microsoft said Monday that it is eliminating the ability to link accounts within Outlook.com, replacing them with aliases instead. Currently, Outlook users can link their account with others from within Outlook.com. Outlook allows users to not only read email from within the Outlook.com context, but also send emails as if they were in those other domains.
Bloomberg disses Silicon Valley in bid to lure techies to New York
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg smattered his commencement address to Stanford`s graduating class this past weekend with a little trash talk about Silicon Valley, part of his and other influential New Yorkers` ongoing effort to foster the Big Apple`s evolution into a major tech mecca.
The Canadian privacy commissioner and 36 other data protection authorities on Tuesday raised privacy concerns about Google Glass in an open letter to CEO Larry Page. Jennifer Stoddart, Canada`s privacy commissioner, signed the letter. Co-signers include Europe`s privacy watchdog the Article 29 Working Party and as well as the privacy commissioners of New Zealand and Australia and their counterpart
Why Googles Project Loon is Smart Business
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Google is once again proving that it`s much more than a search engine or even a mobile-device company, with Project Loon. The initiative aims to bring "balloon-powered Internet" to isolated areas of the world.
With a tagline "Loon for all," Project Loon deploys balloons that float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather. As Google explains it, they are carried around the
Netflix To Run Original TV Series from Dreamworks
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Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Netflix Inc. says the multi-year agreement is its biggest deal ever for original first-run content and includes more than 300 hours of new programming. It expands on an existing relationship between the companies.
For Dreamworks, the transaction announced Monday is part of
US Judge in Microsoft Antitrust Case Dies at 76
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Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died.
Jackson died at his home in Compton, Md., his wife Patricia told The Associated Press on Sunday. He was 76 and had cancer.
Jackson, who retired from the bench in 2004, handled a variety of cases in more than two deca
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