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Amid the fallout from Facebook's IPO is renewed skepticism about its business model.

Accessible to art, engineering, computer science, and film students and professionals, this text provides a concise, principles-based introduction to 3D animation.

A judge today made a crucial decision in the Google vs. Oracle case when he ruled APIs cannot be copyrighted.

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.

People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old.

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.

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 .

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

New York Times columnist says Facebook IPO disappointment sign digital economy is 'illusion'; Internet more 'hobbyist's paradise' than viable business platform.

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)

Last year's Congressional debt standoff hurt consumer confidence more than the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Betsey Johnson and Justin Wolfers write.

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)

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.

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.