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  Anonymous Takes Revenge on Oakland Officials, Posts Private Data

  7th February 2012 19:57

  Vigilante hacker collective Anonymous made public personal information of Oakland, Calif. city officials Tuesday, in response to what the group…

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  Pandora vs. Spotify: Who Will Win the Battle for Streaming Music?

  7th February 2012 19:45

  Once upon a time, the future of streaming music rested squarely on the shoulders of Pandora Radio. Built on the Music Genome Project, a patente…

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  Wolfram Alpha Pro is "Freemium" Done Right

  7th February 2012 19:44

  Wolfram Alpha isn't the "Google killer" that many hyped it up to be prior to its 2009 launch. Instead, the self-described computational knowledge engine takes a completely different approach to letting users find and analyze information. Rather than scouring the Web and ranking everybody's pages in the order it thinks we'd find them useful, it uses its own data sets and computational power to return detailed reports and analysis about whatever topics users query it for. Tomorrow, the service will…

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  Path Is A Free App, And It Will Spy On Us

  7th February 2012 19:39

  Path is a lovely app. It pushes all the right buttons. It's mobile, it's tactile, it's personal, it's full of people we love and moments that matter to us. It makes us feel good. It's got all the greatest hits a post-Facebook social app should have. It's also free. "Facebook will always be free," it tells us, so free is now the standard. Free apps are expensive, though; we pay with our data. Whenever Facebook or Google messes with our…

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  Study: PDF May Be Creating More Paperwork Than It Saves

  7th February 2012 19:30

  In 2008, a UK-based Adobe Acrobat engineer remarked, "I believe in striving to minimize the use of paper, but I do believe that we will probably never reach a position where paper is eliminated from our workplaces." This morning, his predictions were clearly confirmed by a study published by the information professionals organization AIIM. The study shows that while the exchange of PDF files as e-mail attachments has reduced the volume of paperwork traded between IT professionals, that reduction is…

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  Airplanes Didn’t Use GPS — Until Now. Will Your Flight Be Faster?

  7th February 2012 19:22

  The Federal Aviation Administration is finally making the leap from radio-based navigation to a modern GPS system. Congress passed Monday a $63…

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  Mobile Carriers and OEMs Get Android App Testing Cloud from Apkudo

  7th February 2012 19:15

  When developers think of application testing, it always centers around how an app will perform on a particular device. This is especially important in the Android ecosystem that has upwards of 300 devices from a variety of original equipment manufacturers worldwide. From the inverse perspective, nobody ever thinks of the testing needs of the carriers and OEMs. Cloud-based testing platform Apkudo thought about manufacturers and carriers with a new release of device analytics platform. Manufacturers can now test devices against…

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  How Much Do Tech Companies Make Per Employee? [CHARTS]

  7th February 2012 19:12

  As the U.S. limps back from recession, the tech industry has been hailed as a boon for growth and job creation. But upon closer inspection of multi-bi…

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  How To Get My Attention

  7th February 2012 18:57

  It's an attention economy, and the good people at Jones-Dilworth have built a tool that will help you get some. Totem launches today, a free app that helps anyone build a great press page. Whether you're a giant company, a start-up, or even a solo act, you shouldn't have to think too hard about a press page. For that matter, neither should I. A press page is a place for you to put all the info a reporter needs about…

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  Teen Sends Her MIT Admissions Letter to Space [VIDEO]

  7th February 2012 18:54

  A 16-year-old accepted into Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched her admissions letter 91,000 feet to space and videotaped its j…