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For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life (AP)
date: 2012 02 05
AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.
Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site (AP)
date: 2012 02 04AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call (AP)
date: 2012 02 04
AP - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.
Facebook Timeline feature unpopular, especially among Baby Boomers (Yahoo! News)
date: 2012 02 04Yahoo! News - The new mandatory Facebook Timeline is a surprisingly controversial feature. You either love it, or you hate it. And according to a new poll, it appears that almost all of you hate it. Overall, only 20% of those surveyed said they liked …Super Bowl bust: U.S. government seizes 307 domains for violating NFL copyrights (Yahoo! News)
date: 2012 02 04Yahoo! News - While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. …NASA Launches Facebook Game to Test Space Program Knowledge (Mashable)
date: 2012 02 01Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling?Internet giants remove content after India court warning (Reuters)
date: 2012 02 06Reuters - Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.Singapore's Artivision says in tie-up with Intel (Reuters)
date: 2012 02 05Reuters - Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp.Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue falling (Reuters)
date: 2012 02 06Reuters - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp expects to post much lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, underscoring analyst views that it will face another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant (ContributorNetwork)
date: 2012 02 06ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.Facebook looks to mobile devices for revenue: report (Reuters)
date: 2012 02 06Reuters - Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Times reported on Monday.TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report (Reuters)
date: 2012 02 06Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.Glitches plague free Evi app for Android (Appolicious)
date: 2012 02 06Appolicious - The free Evi app for Android eluded me for days while I was testing it out. Every time I tried to search using the app, it told me all circuits were busy. But the super friendly voice assured me that they were working to correct the issue in the near future. In this day and age, a few days are a lifetime.Going mobile: Travel's eventual high-tech future (Reuters)
date: 2012 02 04Reuters - Welcome to the airport terminal of the future.Celebs suit up for DirecTV Beach Bowl (AP)
date: 2012 02 05
AP - Deion Sanders said he wasn't worried. Joe Montana went in with his game face on and Jordin Sparks just hoped sand did not end up in her eyes.