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Hackers Attacked Microsoft Computers Using An Exploit A Google Engineer Made...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said hackers have attacked some computers by exploiting a bug in Windows first disclosed two months ago by a Google Inc researcher, who came under fire at the time for...
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Zynga's Got Real-Money Gambling Apps, And They're Going To Facebook
Zynga is taking the wraps off its real-money gambling games today at an event in Barcelona, Spain.The San Francisco company says that social gaming remains its heart and soul, but the gambling games...
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Microsoft Has Been Hacked, And It May Be A Googler's Fault
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said hackers have attacked some computers by exploiting a bug in Windows first disclosed two months ago by a GoogleInc researcher, who came under fire at the time for...
View ArticleRunning The Table (continued)
I wrote a bit of a rant a couple months ago about companies that want to run the table on a market. There was only one link in that rant and it was to Benedict Evans who is increasinly becoming my...
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Judge Says Apple Violated Antitrust Law In Its Ebooks Pricing (AAPL)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Apple Inc <AAPL.O> conspired to raise the retail prices of e-books, and said a trial for damages will follow.The decision by U.S....
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Samsung Surpasses Apple In Mobile Web Use
Samsung has notched up another milestone in its battle for mobile supremacy with Apple and Nokia after it leapfrogged both its arch-rivals in terms of mobile web use for the first time.Web analytics...
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From VHS To Google Glass, Porn Drives The Tech Market
In wartime, technology is driven by our shared weakness for violence. In 1939, the RAF was still sending biplanes into battle.By 1945 we had jets. Spitfires and stealth bombers are beautiful things...
View ArticleLet The Games Begin
That was my partner John's email response when the news came across our internal email list that the SEC had finally lifted the General Solicitation Ban as they were asked to do by Congress in Title II...
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US Tech Firms Are Using A Sneaky Provision In The Immigration Bill To Screw...
House Republicans aren't the only people rooting for the death of the Senate immigration bill. Ten thousand miles away, almost the entire Indian subcontinent is cheering on the bill's demise.That’s...
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5 Unexpected Benefits Of A 30-Day Exile From Facebook
Righteous anger flared because I’d been blocked for something I simply did not do. In fact, I was in the Facebook slammer for an image posted by a manager on elephant Journal’s 120K fan FB page where I...
View ArticleFeature Friday: Buying Bitcoins Instantly
Our portfolio company Coinbase introduced a new feature yesterday, the ability to buy Bitcoins instantly. I've always thought speed was the single most important feature of any app. And in the case of...
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This Ping Pong Table Maps Your Every Move And Turns Games Into Crazy Light Shows
It seems that the implementation of new gaming technologies revolve around playing table tennis.Nearly forty years ago when the rise of computer screen display technology was in its infancy the world...
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Nokia's Latest Move Shows How Hard It's Trying To Make The Windows Phone Cool
When Nokia unveiled its brand new hero device yesterday, it was very easy to look at the Lumia 1020 as kind of a freak joke of a smartphone.Sporting a 41-megapixel camera that gives the device a...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Talk with Dave Morgan, John Battelle & Me
During the OpenCo event/week in NYC a month or so ago, I sat down at cocktail hour at Simulmedia with Dave Morgan and John Battelle. We had a great chat and the folks at Simulmedia edited it down to...
View ArticleStartup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster
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View ArticleThe Sharing Economy
There's a piece in the NY Times this weekend about Lyft and Sidecar changing the dynamics in the Los Angeles taxi market. Get ready to read lots more pieces like this in the coming years.The internet,...
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AND NOW: Robots Are About To Take All The Farm Jobs
SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — On a windy morning in California's Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley...
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Researchers Hack Verizon Device, Turn It Into Mobile Spy Station For Less...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two security experts said they have figured out how to spy on Verizon Wireless mobile phone customers by hacking into devices the U.S. carrier sells to boost wireless signals...
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Edward Snowden Still Hasn't Applied For Temporary Asylum In Russia
Edward Snowden, the fugitive intelligence leaker wanted by the United States, has still not applied for temporary asylum in Russia despite vowing to do so last week, officials said Monday.Snowden made...
View ArticleThe Joys Of Business Travel
I took the overnight flight from JFK to CDG Paris. We arrived an hour late and even though we rushed through the maze of terminals that is CDG, we got to the gate a minute or two before the departure...
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