| IBM eyes cybersecurity market with new platform
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Reuters - International Business Machines is gearing up to take a chunk of the growing Internet security market by applying its data analytics to help companies and organizations fight cyberattacks. |
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| Dell shares fall on earnings miss, outlook
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Reuters - Dell Inc forecast fiscal first-quarter revenue below Wall Street's expectations, stoking fears the PC industry has not fully emerged from its downturn and sending the company's shares more than 4 percent lower. |
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| New code from Pinterest offers to keep your images off the site and its servers
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Digital Trends - Pinterest has taken the Web by storm while simultaneously introducing a host of copyright issues. The entire model of pinning and repining means that artistsâ work has the potential to get lost in the mix and original sources can be difficult to find. We examined this incredibly messy situation recently, and found that users are generally quite torn over the problem. While they admit itâs been a huge interest generator for their respective sites, most feel that Pinterest itself needs to do more to urge users to properly cite material. |
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| How Setting the Cloud Free Could Change the Internet Forever
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Mashable - When I imagine "the cloud" where most of my daily interactions with web services such as Facebook and Google compute, I think of a free-floating space -- complete with scalloped edges -- that isn't tied to a physical location.
In reality, however, cloud computing is very much tethered to the physical world, through football-field-sized warehouses of connected servers that enable it. A computing job, though it can be accessed from anywhere in the world, can't be easily moved from one warehouse to another. It can't even necessarily be moved from one area of a warehouse to another area of the same warehouse. |
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| Court upholds lawsuit against Bay area Hooters
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AP - A state appeals court has upheld a class-action lawsuit filed by servers at several San Francisco Bay area Hooters restaurants. |
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| Murdoch's Sun: scoops, politics, Page Three girls
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Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper prides itself on an aggressive reporting style that has delivered decades of sensational scoops and made it Britain's best-selling newspaper. But now it is the one being scrutinized, and it doesn't like it one bit. |
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| Murdoch to fight back, launching "Sun on Sunday"
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Reuters - Rupert Murdoch vowed to launch a Sunday edition of his scandal-hit Sun tabloid on Friday in a bid to win over angry staff mounting one of the biggest challenges to his more than 40 years as a proprietor in Britain. |
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| SAP completes tender offer for SuccessFactors
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AP - Enterprise software maker SAP AG said Thursday that it completed its tender offer for all the shares of SuccessFactors Inc., paving the way for its acquisition of the software company to close. |
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| FBI could take down Internet for millions on March 8
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Digital Trends - The Federal Bureau of Investigation may soon be forced to shut down a number of key Domain Name System (DNS) servers, which would cut Internet access for millions of Web users around the world, reports BetaBeat. The DNS servers were installed by the FBI last year, in an effort to stop the spread of a piece of malware known as DNSCharger Trojan. But the court order that allowed the set up of the replacement servers expires on March 8. |
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| Foxwoods unveils outlet store at Conn. casino site
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AP - Foxwoods Resort Casino has unveiled plans for an outlet shopping center to add to revenue at its eastern Connecticut gambling enterprise. |
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| 4 Characteristics of a Winning Social Enterprise Strategy
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Mashable - Bill Kalma is VP of technical services at Model Metrics, an enterprise cloud computing services company. He focuses on the effective scoping, management and delivery of CRM projects from a technical perspective.
What is the social enterprise? Traditionally, the term has referred to an organization's social mission of philanthropy, charity or furthering a noble cause. |
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| Fans' rite of spring: sun-seeking baseball trips
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AP - Nothing stirs the blood of baseball fans quite like "pitchers and catchers report."
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