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O'Brien: Social media has changed the Web, but can it make a buck?
Amid the fallout from Facebook's IPO is renewed skepticism about its business model.
4 hrs ago | CRC Press
Computer Science & Engineering
Accessible to art, engineering, computer science, and film students and professionals, this text provides a concise, principles-based introduction to 3D animation.
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Judge Rules APIs Cannot Be Copyrighted
A judge today made a crucial decision in the Google vs. Oracle case when he ruled APIs cannot be copyrighted.
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Cloud Computing: Quest in Play; Dell Reportedly Kicking the Ball
Quest is looking for an offer better than the $2 billion Insight Venture Partners, the private equity house, bid in early March and Quest accepted barring a superior offer.
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Over-55s pick passwords twice as secure as teenagers'
People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old.
Your 'likes' could become the next ads on Facebook
Nick Bergus, whose humorous Facebook post about a 55-gallon barrel of personal lubricant was transformed into an paid advertisement by Amazon on the social network, at his computer in the community center in North Liberty, Iowa.
Quantum algorithm can predict what the Large Hadron Collider will see
Every time particle physicists look for the Higgs boson or any other members of a large collection of theoretical particles, they have to do a bit of statistics .
Cloud Computing: Elliott Turns Screw on BMC to Sell
Elliott Management, the $20 billion hedge fund that now owns 6.5% of BMC and wants it to sell out to anybody that'll better its $6.8 billion market cap, filed a 36-page PowerPoint presentation with the SEC Thursday laying out its case.
Open-source medical devices: When code can kill or cure
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Oracle suffers massive blow in Google case
A US judge on Thursday dismissed Oracle's copyright claims against Google over parts of the Java programming language, dealing a further blow to Oracle's quest for damages over smartphone intellectual property rights.
Cloudera and DataSift Partner to Deliver Big Data Insights From Social Data
DataSift is powering its Hadoop clusters with Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop , which performs the Big Data heavy lifting to help deliver DataSift's Historics , a cloud-computing platform that enables entrepreneurs and enterprises to extract business insights from historical public tweets.
10 Questions for Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove
Originally, going way back, I started my career in computer science at the age of 12 when I spent two summers at Wesleyan University studying computer science.
Mobile Tech, Social Media Force FTC to Revisit Advertising Guidelines
The Federal Trade Commission is looking to update 12-year-old framework for disclosure and privacy as marketers increasingly seed messages on mobile devices and social networking sites.
Facebook flub means digital economy is dead? Hold that thought
New York Times columnist says Facebook IPO disappointment sign digital economy is 'illusion'; Internet more 'hobbyist's paradise' than viable business platform.
Local datacenter launches pay-as-you-go cloud computing service
DRFortress , Hawaii's leading colocation and cloud services provider, today announced that it has launched "DRFcloud," which it says is the first local, pay-as-you-use, cloud computing services based in the state.
Apple makes use of a number of open source technologies in its software products, but operating systems like iOS and OS X are hardly considered "open." The company has tight control over nearly every aspect of its mobile and desktop operating systems, ensuring that its products come as close as possible to resembling Apple's vision from the moment ... (more)
Oracle plans new cloud-based products, first Ellison tweet
Last year's Congressional debt standoff hurt consumer confidence more than the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Betsey Johnson and Justin Wolfers write.
Mobile Payments Still Slow to Catch on in U.S.
Even if the next iPhone has a mobile wallet app and a Near Field Communication chip inside, don't expect contactless payments to suddenly explode in the U.S. Despite its influence in the smartphone realm, Apple is only one part of a complex world of wireless financial transactions that involves banks, credit card processors, smartphones on several ... (more)
Rumored Facebook purchase of Face.com spotlights facial recognition
Whether or not Facebook acquires facial recognition services provider Face.com, as rumors say it will, the persistence of the speculation calls attention to the expanding use of the technology in social applications.
UNO Hosts Computer Science Conference
The University of Nebraska at Omaha's College of Information Science & Technology will host the International Conference on Computational Science in Omaha from June 4-6, 2012.
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