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Facebook and NBC Look Towards A Social Winter Olympics, Just Don’t Mention The Tape Delay Or #NBCfail

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NBC and Facebook have announced a content sharing deal for coverage around this year’s Winter Olympics from Sochi in Russia. It continues Facebook’s ‘social’ relationship with the Olympics via NBC,...
    






Researchers Report Exact Timeline Of Massive Target Data Breach

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Following yesterday’s identification by Brian Krebs of the exact malware used in last year’s Target personal data breach, the research lab at Seculert analyzed a sample of the malware and describes...
    






Chess Champ Carlsen Delights Silicon Valley With Dry Wit

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He’s awkward. He’s charming. At age 23, he’s the new chess champion of the world. And in a Silicon Valley speaking appearance, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen unleashed enough of his dry wit to keep his...
    






‘The Banner Saga’ Review: Beautiful, But Not Quite Brilliant (PC)

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The moment I laid eyes on indie developer Stoic’s The Banner Saga, I wanted to love everything about it. The art-style is simply jaw-dropping, calling to mind classic Disney—Sword in the Stone comes...
    






IBM Goes All In On Cloud – Announces A $1.2B Global Service Investment

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When Bob Dylan famously crooned that the times they are a-changing he was unlikely to be thinking about the technology marketplace. But his lyrics are apt as I sit and reflect on some news that IBM...
    






Church Sex Abuse Files Released

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At least 30 priests who had a bad reputation of being child abusers have had their names released to the public in Chicago. This came about after their victims’ families caused an uproar related to...
    






Apple to Refund $32.5 Million for Unauthorized App Purchases by Kids

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Some things need to be clarified beforehand otherwise the backlash might prove to be more than manageable. A similar thing happened in case of Apple Incorporated. The tech giant had allowed a 15...
    






Obama’s Manufacturing Hubs Mean Cronyism, Corporate Welfare And Less Innovation

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It’s an endless parade, one  top-down proposal after another from Washington. Having just presided over another 80,000 pages of regulations in the 2013 Federal Register, the launch (so called) of...
    






The Altar Of Shiny

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By Courtney Nash Web and mobile users continue to expect faster sites and apps–especially when it comes to mobile–and this year I’d like to see people who work on the web spend more time focusing on...