Sony will hold a PlayStation event in the U.S. later this month amid widespread speculation it is gearing up to launch the PS4. The company's game division, Sony Computer Entertainment, posted a cryptic video along with the date Feb. 20. ...
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The maker of the Path social networking app will pay a $800,000 civil penalty to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected personal information from children without parental consent, the agency said Friday. ...
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When the Super Bowl was plunged into darkness after Beyonce's electrifying halftime performance, Twitter lit up. In a play on her hit, "Single Ladies," one Twit-wit wrote, "If you liked it, you should've put a backup generator on it." And ...
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A quarter of a million Twitter accounts have been compromised by hackers, according to the social network. This follows similar attacks on the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in the last two weeks. Analysis: Why Twitter may ...
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The BRAIN Dealer Tour of San Francisco wrapped up Thursday with a 20-mile jaunt around the city, ably led by folks from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, who for the most part managed to route us around the steepest hills as we visited ...
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The operator of the Path social networking app has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent. The ...
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From Huffington Post to Beijing, across Twitter and beyond spreading across social media like the norovirus is 2013's first Appy Moment of the New Year created by VSM Enterprises. At .99, we have proven there is indeed an app for ...
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For anyone who says that heavy metal is dead, all you have to do is load up Spotify, the world's biggest music streaming service, and you'll see that couldn't be further from the truth. With over 20 million users around the world, Spotify ...
Apple software hackers unveiled a website late Wednesday where the latest untethered jailbreak is expected to be released soon. An elite team of hackers has been working for months to develop an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6, Apple's ...
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The Super Bowl drove more than 24 million tweets about the game and halftime show, but the night's biggest social networking winners were the companies quick-witted enough to take advantage of the blackout that stopped play for a half hour. ...
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Twitter said its site is back up and running after an outage worldwide knocked out access for some users for nearly three hours today. Starting at 10 a.m. Eastern time, Twitter suffered intermittent downtime and slow page loads that ...
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The BRAIN Dealer Tour glided across the Golden Gate Bridge early Wednesday to start a day visiting bike shops in Marin County on a 35 mile-plus day of riding around the beautiful area. It's no secret even to folks who haven't ...
Ventana Research has secured four of the top ten blog post positions on Information Management Magazine's 2012 most read blogs. The Ventana Research blogs offered research-based insights on big data, business analytics, data integration and ...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using Twitter to track what has been a particularly severe flu season across the U.S. As people take to Twitter to complain about being sick with the flu and its dreaded symptoms, researchers ...
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With its future in the balance, the company until now known as Research In Motion launched its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, two new handsets and a new company name on Wednesday. The new operating system brings the BlackBerry ...
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