News: Software & Web

• Techies gather for a lunch to save the world
  Stephen Lawson
  Nov 20 2009

  The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a ...

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• Twitter Geotagging: What You Need to Know
  Ian Paul
  Nov 20 2009

  Lost amid Thursday's Chrome OS hype was the official launch of Twitter's geotagging feature. Twitter's newest feature allows you to embed your location in the 140-character messages you send out to ...

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• YouTube UK gets full-length TV shows
  Oliver Garnham
  Nov 20 2009

  YouTube is now showing full-length TV programmes such as Peep Show, Derren Brown and Gordon Ramsay's F Word in the UK after its Shows section when live today. The Shows section includes almost 5,000 ...

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• Will secret copyright treaty restrict digital rights?
  Jeff Porten
  Nov 20 2009

  Most Americans expect that their laws are only passed after some period of public debate between Republicans and Democrats or their news-channel proxies. However, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade ...

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• Atlantis astronauts get rude awakening
  Michael Cooney
  Nov 20 2009

  Talk about a nightmare. The Atlantis space shuttle crew and other astronauts onboard the International Space Station were awoken this morning by a system depressurization alarm. According to NASA, ...

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• Banks on watch after suspected card breach
  Jeremy Kirk
  Nov 20 2009

  An apparent data breach in Spain has caused Visa and MasterCard to warn banks of possible fraudulent credit card transactions. The breach likely affects people across Europe who may have had ...

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• EU security agency highlights cloud computing risks
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 20 2009

  Cloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data, difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data moves from one legal jurisdiction to another, according ...

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• EU gives Oracle extra time to respond to Sun inquiry
  Paul Meller
  Nov 20 2009

  Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday.Earlier this month the ...

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• Cyberattacks on U.S. military jump sharply in 2009
  Robert McMillan
  Nov 20 2009

  Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday. Citing data provided by the U.S. ...

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• Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time
  Randall C. Kennedy
  Nov 20 2009

  The Chrome OS is here -- sort of. This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. And after months of speculation (and more than a few ...

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