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December 21, 2012 (TSR) - Facebook announced Thursday it was testing a fee-based messaging service that guarantees messages from strangers will arrive in the inboxes of intended recipients. The test,…
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December 12, 2012 (TSR) - Google reportedly avoided another $2 billion in taxes thanks to outsourced banking, which has already dubbed “immoral” and an “embarrassment” in media as austerity budgets reshape…
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December 8, 2012 (TSR) - Here’s a post worth sharing: Unless 300 million Facebook users speak up before Monday, the social networking site says they will exclude the public from…
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November 23, 2012 (TSR) - A largish Pacific island that appears on Google and iOS Maps, Bing and other online services has been declared not to exist by team of…
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by Patricio Robles October 16, 2012 (TSR) - In 1998, the United States Department of Justice and 20 states filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging that the software giant abused…
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October 2, 2012 (TSR) - Prolexic Technologies, a Hollywood, Fla.-based cybersecurity firm specializing in distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services, today warned of an escalating threat from unusually large…
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September 25, 2012 (TSR) - Iran blocked access to Google’s and Gmail service on Monday in response to Google’s refusal to block access to an American anti-Islam film, Innocence of…
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September 23, 2012 (TSR) - Facebook has suspended the facial-recognition tool that suggests when registered users could be tagged in photographs uploaded to its website. The move follows a review…
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by Susanne Posel September 14, 2012 (TSR) - Earlier this week, the CIA-sponsored hacker group called Anonymous claimed responsibility for the taking down of hosting provider GoDaddy and several websites…
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September 11, 2012 (TSR) - This probably shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, but apparently the Taliban is using fake Facebook profiles to spy on Australian troops. According to a…
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Jan. 24, 2012 (TSR) - Dr. Mark Maybury, the United States Air Force Chief Scientist, is stepping outside of the typical areas in which an Air Force Chief Scientist operates and into the…
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September 7, 2012 (TSR) - Bitcoins are having their economic moment in the sun following an attempted shakedown of Mitt Romney. On Wednesday night, an anonymous group of hackers announced…
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