When I first bought an iPhone I thought: How beautiful and sleek – in fact the phone was so sleek it kept sliding out of my hand. Like most people who do not carry a handbag, I had to buy an ugly, black, plastic cover to stop me dropping it. My iPhone resided inside that case where nobody could see its sleek, rounded edges. To my surprise those edges made up part of the recent Apple vs Samsung infringement action. I say surprised but I mean astonished – how can anybody win a billion bucks for a design[...]
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With a new attack that targets a security vulnerability in Oracle's Java spreading through the hacker underground and no available fix in sight, it may be time for users to deal with the plugin's bug themselves--by unplugging it.
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If you've been following the coverage of Prince Harry's recent trip to Las Vegas, you're likely very, very tired of hearing jokes about the "crown jewels." The day after one reporter (ironically) recounted the British prince remarking to a security guard that he "had to be careful or else he’d be 'up on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube thanks to somebody’s mobile phone camera,'" photos of the prince sans princely attire were published on TMZ, thanks to somebody's mobile phone camera snapping away during[...]
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Last week, IBM Research announced a pilot with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium to work on standardizing the exchange of health information among public health departments, doctors, and the CDC. The collaboration will extend work already underway to use doctors' electronic health record (EHR) systems to notify public health departments of conditions of concern. The idea is that some day soon, doctors will be able to automatically alert[...]
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It's the internet phenomenon that has everybody talking in Brazil, and yet it was born out of a college dorm room during an informal chat between fellow students. Sound familiar? Yes, I'm talking about Facebook, but not the big idea that came out of Mark Zuckerberg's mind, although the founder of the world's number one social network has a lot to do with it.
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Consumers believe that e-books cost very little to produce and therefore should cost very little to purchase -- and, certainly, e-books shouldn't cost $12.99 or (gasp!) $14.99. It's just a file, right?
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CIO Network
Yahoo this afternoon announced the appointment of Kathy Savitt, who had been the CEO of social commerce site Lockerz, as chief marketing officer. She will join the company September 14 and report to CEO Marissa Mayer.
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