Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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SEC Investigating Hurd's Exit From HP: Source
ABC News
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Regulators are looking into the events
surrounding Mark Hurd's abrupt exit as chief executive of Hewlett Packard
Co, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. The SEC's probe was
first reported by the Wall Street ...
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4 Things We Know So Far About Cydia for Mac
iSmashPhone
The Mac App Store is set to launch early next month. Meanwhile, Cydia
creator Jay Freeman, known as Saurik, has already announced that he is
working on a version of his popular iOS jailbreak software download portal
that's compatible with Mac OS X. ...
<http://www.ismashphone.com/2010/12/things-we-know-so-far-about-cydia-for-mac.html>
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Moonwatchers treated to total lunar eclipse
Washington Post
AP NEW YORK -- Skywatchers got an early holiday present this year: A total
eclipse of the moon. Hanging high in the sky, the moon slowly turned from
bright silver into a red disk early Tuesday. A total lunar eclipse occurs
when the Earth casts its ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122100766.html>
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FCC is set to assert authority over access to the Internet
Washington Post
By Cecilia Kang Federal regulators are poised to enact controversial new
rules affecting Internet access, marking the government's strongest move
yet to ensure that Facebook updates, Google searches and Skype calls reach
consumers' homes unimpeded. ...
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Microsoft quietly kills Office Genuine Advantage program
Ars Technica
By Emil Protalinski | Last updated December 20, 2010 10:26 PM Late last
week, Microsoft put an end to its Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) program.
The Office Notifier, the OGA ActiveX control for Internet Explorer, and the
OGA plug-in for Firefox have ...
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Top 10 Microsoft Stories Of 2010
InformationWeek
Alison Diana 12/21/2010 Odds are, almost every household in the United
States bought or used at least one Microsoft-related product in 2010. From
smartphones to game consoles, entertainment software to applications, cloud
computing infrastructure to ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/software/operating_systems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228800578>
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Internet porn block plans 'not feasible'
Telegraph.co.uk
Plans to block pornographic websites being accessed in homes with children
are unlikely to be feasible, Internet Service Provider (ISP) chiefs have
told the Government. A pornography website. Ed Vaizey has suggested that
such websites should be blocked ...
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Hands-On with the New Foursquare
Mashable
The new features may seem like belated additives that merely keep
Foursquarefoursquare on par with its location-based competitors, but this
update is replete with service-wide improvements that drive home the social
utility and post-checkin possibility ...
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Amazon EC2 Ramps Up Cloud Offerings With Oracle Apps
NetworkWorld.com
By Keir Thomas, PC World EC2 allows users to rent Amazon's computers on an
hourly basis--either rent bare-bones configurations of an empty OS, or with
additional software preinstalled (typically databases or Web servers).
Various renditions of the ...
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