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Facebook booked over group exhorting cow slaughter
An FIR was Monday registered here against social networking site Facebook on a complaint that claimed a group on the site exhorts people to slaughter cows, police said. The site was booked under penal provisions and under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, on the complaint filed by senior police officer Amitabh Thakur. In his complaint filed at Gomtinagar police station, Thakur alleged ...
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Anonymous threat leads to Guantanamo WiFi shutdown
According to the Associated Press the US military has shut down WiFi services at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and blocked personnel from accessing social networking accounts. US military personnel have been blocked from accessing Facebook and Twitter in response to an Anonymous operation meant to raise awareness about prison conditions at Guantanamo, although nothing bad has happened so ...
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Netflix wont release a Blackberry 10 app
Blackberry Q10 and Z10 smartphones, which must be a blow for the Canadian smartphone maker. When asked whether he had used the Blackberry 10 operating system, Reed said simply, "No." Then he elaborated a bit, saying, "Like many people I was a Blackberry addict from 1997 or 1998 through to the iPhone but I haven't tried [Blackberry 10]. We don't currently support ...
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Apples iPhone and iPad chips generate 83 percent of Samsungs processor revenue
Samsung relied on rival Apple for 83 percent of its processor revenues in 2012. As a semiconductor vendor Samsung is second only to Intel, however most of its chip revenues come from selling memory and controller parts. According to analyst outfit IC ...
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HTC One with stock Android incoming to challenge Samsung
. The developer apparently has some inside knowledge about the company's plans, tweeting on Monday that the firm will launch a "Senseless" version of the HTC One, just ...
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Apples Cook faces Senate questions on taxes
In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco. Cook is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill Tuesday May 21, 2013, to explain the company (TM)s tax strategy, which a Senate subcommittee says lets it avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, ...
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Live TV Where to watch the Senates Apple hearings
FORTUNE -- If the subcommittee report is any indication, Tim Cook and his colleagues will face tough questions Tuesday from Sens. Carl Levin (Dem.) and John McCain's (Rep.) Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The report charges that Apple ...
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PC will be saved by power saving Haswell says Intel
Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner. He said that all that is needed for the PC industry to be swept out of its doldrums is for the Haswell Messiah to arrive to herald a glorious new golden age for the PC. Well words to that effect at least. Speaking ...
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Watson starts diagnosing patients
Watson software to the health industry where it is going to be telling people what is wrong with them. Watson, which understands natural language, will be trying to make sure that doctors do not make the wrong medical diagnosis. Watson vice-president of marketing Stephen Gold told a digital health conference in Dublin that at the moment one in five medical diagnoses are incomplete or wrong. ...
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Stop blaming Ireland for dodgy tax arrangements
Google have been named and shamed for hiding their cash from the US in Irish bank accounts so that they can pay tax in the much cheaper Ireland. In a report to its Senate, the US is seen as blaming the Irish for "facilitating" Apple and Google's tax avoidance antics, something which has hotly been denied by Eire. Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore told national broadcaster RTE ...
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Ireland rejects blame for Apples low tax rate
1 of 3. Apple Operations International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc, is seen in Hollyhill, Cork, in the south of Ireland in this October 6, 2011 file ...
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Atlassian gives Jira bug tracker a new UI and a speed boost
Atlassian has revamped the Jira bug tracking tool with a new user interface, which the company said will offer faster navigation and a simplified workflow. "We really tried hard to create a whole new, more efficient Jira," said Dan Chuparkoff, Atlassian group manager for Jira marketing. "It should be easier to use and easier to ...
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Flickr users to Flickr We hate the new site
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Flickr users don't seem too happy about the new layout, at least according to a heavy dose of comments posted on the site's help forum. On Monday, Flickr's parent ...
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Lawmakers lambaste Apples tax strategy as outrageous
As CEO Tim Cook prepares to testify before a congressional subcommittee, Senators portray Apple has having exploited tax loopholes to escape paying its fair ...
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Kyocera looks to create multi-headed Hydro
(Credit: Lynn La/CNET) LAS VEGAS -- Kyocera is looking to capitalize on one of the phones that has been a quiet success story for the company. The Kyorcera Hydro has been one of the top 10 selling smartphones each month since its launch in August, according to ITG Majestics. The company is looking to build on the Hydro name with the introduction of two new phones, the ...
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Pandora now lets you listen to albums before theyre released
(Credit: Pandora) Dying to listen to the new Kanye West album before it's for sale? You just might be in luck. Pandora, the music streaming site and app, on Tuesday ...
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Sprint ups bid on Clearwire to $3.40 per share to outbid Dish
announced that it has revised its $2.97-per-share offer for Clearwire to $3.40 per share. The increased offer represents a 14 percent premium on the company's previous offer, valuing the company at $10.7 billion. More importantly, it's 10 cents higher than the $3.30 offer made by Dish. Sprint already owns approximately 50 percent of Clearwire. The company had previously said that its ...
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Ericsson closes telecom cable manufacturing facility
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ericsson announced on Tuesday plans to shut its telecom cable manufacturing facility in Sweden and would take a 500 million Swedish crown ($75 million) charge as a result.The company said it had given notice of a reduction of 354 positions. It said the market for copper cable had declined while fiber cable demand had grown over the last years, with production shifting ...
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Facebook releases Social Dialog for iOS SDK
Facebook has made it easier for developers to share information on Facebook through its native Share Dialog for Apple's iOS mobile operating system. Facebook has been feverishly developing its application programming interface (API) ever since the firm introduced it as a way for firms and developers to plaster the service with adverts and user generated media content. Now the firm has made ...
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Microsoft expected to reveal next-generation Xbox
FILE - In this June 5, 2012 file photo, show attendees walk past Microsoft XBox booth at E3 2012 in Los Angeles. With the next Xbox expected to finally be revealed Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., anticipation for what the company is planning for the next iteration of its gaming console is higher than Master Chief's last spaceship. (AP Photo/Damian ...
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Sprint boosts buyout offer for Clearwire
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Sprint says it has raised its buyout offer for the stake in Clearwire it does not already own by 14 percent.Sprint Nextel Corp. said Tuesday that it is offering $3.40 per share for Clearwire Corp. Its previous offer, from December, was for $2.97 per share for the wireless data operator.Sprint says this is its best and final offer. A vote on the previous offer had been ...
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SAP to crunch and sell carriers data on mobile use
Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach ...
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Former Nokia employees unveil first MeeGo smartphone
A group of ex-Nokia software developers unveiled their first smartphone, aiming to prove their former employer wrong by making a success of a technology dropped by the Finnish mobile phone ...
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New Android app checks 4G coverage
(Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) LAS VEGAS--Tapping into high-speed 4G networks is a real treat but sometimes a signal is hard to find. The new CellMaps Mobile Coverage app for Android is here to help. Announced today ...
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Next Xbox shipments to ramp up in third quarter
Microsoft has made plans for dramatically increasing its supplier shipments of the next Xbox in the third quarter in anticipation of a fourth-quarter launch, according to one ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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