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From InfoWorld: Intel's next-generation processor code-named Westmere-EX may include more cores than the company's current server chips, according to the title of a paper about the chip announced on Sunday. Intel will present a paper, called "Westmere-EX: A 20-Thread Server CPU," at... |
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From PC World: Wi-Fi traffic intercepted by Google's Street View cars included passwords and e-mail, according to the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL). CNIL launched an investigation last month into Google's recording of traffic carried over unencrypted Wi... |
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From PC World: Google has started using its next generation plug-in API to embed support for Adobe Acrobat PDFs more deeply into the Chrome browser. The company believes this will benefit security, performance and reliability. According to Google, the latest developer version of... |
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From CNET News.com: One month after releasing its open-source, royalty-free VP8 video compression technology, the company already is working on significant revisions to the technology. VP8, combined with the Vorbis audio technology, form the WebM codec with which Google is trying to... |
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From CNET News.com: Social-networking powerhouse Facebook saw its revenue climb as high as $800 million in 2009, $100 million more than previously estimated, according to a media report. The Reuters news agency reported the higher revenue, citing unnamed sources. One of those same... |
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From DailyTech: Napster fell. Kazaa fell. And now the RIAA is waging an all out war to try to ensure Limewire follows in its P2P ancestors' footsteps. Even as the move industry turns its efforts to suing thousands of BitTorrent users, the music industry is waging its own hard... |
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From DailyTech: Apple is well known for its battles against George Hotz, the iPhone Dev Team, and legions of other iPhone hackers. By contrast Android's team members -- Google and hardware partners (HTC, Motorola, Samsung, etc.) have taken a much more hands off approach, even as... |
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From PC World: Verizon may follow in AT&T's footsteps and introduce tiered, limited data plans this year, Businessweek reports. Businessweek spoke with John Killian, chief financial officer of Verizon Communications Inc., on Thursday. Killian suggested that Verizon might move from... |
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From CNET News.com: In the latest update to Snow Leopard, Apple included software to protect Mac computers from a Trojan horse that has been distributed by attackers disguised as iPhoto, but which opens a back door on the machine, security firm Sophos said on Friday. When Apple... |
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