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| Apple gives chief operating officer $5M bonus
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:43:30 GMT
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| Privacy issues nix Netflix movie-picking contest
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:50:54 GMT AP - Netflix has canceled a sequel to a $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendations. |
| Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:11:20 GMT AP - A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies. |
| No .xxx yet: Internet agency delays porn decision
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:47:23 GMT AP - Porn Web sites can't park themselves at a ".xxx" address quite yet. |
| Chinese minister insists Google obey the law
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:32:26 GMT
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| Lenovo says business will focus on mobile Internet
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:38:53 GMT
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| Reported cyberfraud losses double in 2009: FBI
(Reuters)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:41:55 GMT
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| Microsoft Xbox 360 Leads Gaming Sales in February
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:02:50 GMT NewsFactor - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video-game console moved to the top of the U.S. market in February. The software giant's console had been number two behind the Nintendo Wii for nearly three years. |
| iPad Will Read Books Aloud, Support Open EPUB Format
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:00:22 GMT NewsFactor - Eager to be the first on your block with an iPad? Apple started taking orders for the tablets on Friday. Wi-Fi models running from $499 to $699 will be available on April 3; 3G models, costing $629 to $829, won't be available until late April. |
| Summary Box: Court OKs cable TV access rules
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:44:05 GMT AP - THE DISPUTE: Cable TV providers challenged a five-year extension of federal regulations requiring them to make channels they own available to rivals such as satellite TV. |
| GDC: AFK Interactive Brings the MMO Experience to Your Phone
(PC World)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:32:00 GMT PC World - Some of you World of Warcraft addicts may be familiar with Blizzard's Armory app for iPhone that lets you keep track of your character and guild, and generally blurs the line between your online and offline world. Running with that same concept is AFK Interactive, which has created a mobile development platform that will bring similar functionality to all kinds of mobile phones, including "dumb" ones. |
| Apple COO gets $22 million reward as Jobs stand-in
(Reuters)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:25:05 GMT Reuters - Apple Inc has awarded its chief operating officer a bonus valued at $22 million for leading the company while Chief Executive Steve Jobs was on 6-months' medical leave last year. |
| QAD shares slide after 4th-quarter revenue drops
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:39:31 GMT AP - Shares of QAD Inc. sank Friday after the business software provider reported a drop in fourth-quarter revenue and predicted another drop for the first quarter. |
| RadiSys acquires Pactolus; terms not disclosed
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:47:52 GMT AP - RadiSys Corp., a maker of servers that support wireless phone networks, said Thursday it acquired privately held Pactolus Communications Software Co. Terms were not disclosed. |
| Cybercrime surge pushes 2009 losses to 559 million dollars
(AFP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:43:51 GMT
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| Prototype $200 Tablet Runs Android, Chromium OS, Linux
(PC World)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:16:00 GMT PC World - $200 tablet PCs have been something of a pipe dream. There was the Crunchpad, which was supposed to be $200, but that didn’t last very long, coming out as the $400 Joo Joo. If what Freescale showed off at Mobile World Congress becomes reality, though, the dream may finally come true. |
| Anticipation Grows as Apple Takes Orders for IPad
(PC World)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:20:15 GMT PC World - Apple started taking orders for the iPad tablet Friday, with early adopters rushing to order one of the most hotly anticipated products in recent memory. |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 12, 2010 is:
sub rosa • \sub-ROH-zuh\ • adverb
: in confidence : secretly
Example sentence:
The private investigator met sub rosa with his client to show her photos of her husband rendezvousing at various local establishments with another woman.
Did you know?
"Sub rosa" literally means "under the rose" in New Latin. Since ancient times, the rose has often been associated with secrecy. In ancient mythology, Cupid gave a rose to Harpocrates, the god of silence, to keep him from telling about the indiscretions of Venus. Ceilings of dining rooms have been decorated with carvings of roses, reportedly to remind guests that what was said at the table should be kept confidential. Roses have also been placed over confessionals as a symbol of the confidentiality of confession. "Sub rosa" entered the English language in the 17th century, and even before then, people were using the English version, "under the rose." Earlier still, "unter der Rose" was apparently used in Germany, where the phrase is thought to have originated.