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Google boss warns students against censorship of net and digital ethnic cleansing
Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen have warned London School of Economics students against censorship on the internet and the dangers that 'digital ethnic cleansing' pose. Sky News quoted Schmidt, as saying that people will omit data if they want to restrict communication and information. He, however, agreed that any piece of information cannot be ...
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News Corp. board approves company split $500-million stock buyback
News Corp. says its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies.News Corp. also said Friday that the target date for the split is June 28. The company holding its TV and movie properties will be 21st Century Fox. The new News Corp., a smaller entity, will be focused on newspapers and publishing. Both will be publicly ...
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Mageia 3 is a great way to banish Microsoft forever
Linux magazine when it came out. "All grown up and ready to go dancing" was the headline from the Mageia project, announcing the arrival of the Mageia 3. Mageia is a community-based Linux distribution forked from the commercial Mandriva Linux, with contributions from several former Mandriva employees," it noted. "The all-volunteer Mageia community has yet to reclaim the ...
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Atari to flog Rollercoaster Tycoon for $3.5m in July auctions
Atari has decided to split its library of games in the hope of raising more cash as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy. Atari filed for bankruptcy on 21 January and didn't waste much time before trying find a buyer for its vast library of game titles. However the firm failed to attract suitable bids and has ...
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Microsoft opens up on Xbox One second hand games and licences
Microsoft has commented on but not confirmed rumours that gamers will have to pay £35 for the right to play second hand games. The news that Microsoft has effectively blown the second hand market out the ...
Movie Review
The Break-Up
Star power is an interesting thing, especially when it goes wrong. Simply because of the presence of Vince Vaughn in The Break-Up, people have been entering the theater under the impression that they're in for an uproarious romantic comedy--When Harry Met Sally by way of ... ...
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Microsoft Surface Pro review
didn't sell well in the UK . However Microsoft is looking to change that with the Surface Pro, offering a portable tablet device with the full version of Windows 8 and a much more powerful system, which is bound to attract much more attention from potential ...
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Google and Facebook in $1bn bidding war over Waze app
Waze is considering expressions of interest from numerous parties and has put a $1bn price on its head, according to reports from news service Bloomberg.Waze uses information from online communities to improve driving directions and this reflects the growing importance of maps on mobiles and other devices.The California-based startup could also decide to remain independent and raise venture ...
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SAP shakes up development leadership
SAP has abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit. Sikka has been a champion of SAP's HANA in-memory database platform, which has been positioned as the future convergence point for all of SAP's ...
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Verizon Cloud adds online storage for iOS devices
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) iPhone and iPad owners can now use Verizon Cloud to back up key information from their devices. ...
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ATTs GoPhone prepaid service adds 4G support
(Credit: Screenshot by CNET) iPhone owners will finally be able to tap into all the benefits of AT&T's prepaid GoPhone plan. As of Friday, GoPhone customers ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
Hotel Review
Sheraton Abu Dhabi Resort & Towers
I have spent time at the Sheraton in Abu Dhabi previously, in the restaurants and the tavern pub, but hadn't ...
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