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Apple’s Spaceship on Video: Pat & Mike take a peek. Well, Pat does.
Join Pat and Mike at Apple’s whiz-bang spaceship headquarters. Well, OK, join them at a dusty construction site, which is where the spaceship will one day be. But hey, this […]
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Bill would require smart phone ‘kill switches’ to counter rising thefts
Hoping to pressure smart phone manufacturers to develop more anti-theft technology, San Francisco’s district attorney and a state senator plan to introduce a bill in the legislature that would require […]
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It’s lonely out there in Twitterville
Sad, but not so startling, news on Twitter today. It seems the median user account at the micro-blog service has only one follower. One, as in uno. One, as in […]
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Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates join the season of giving
Two of the tech world’s biggest philanthropists made impressive personal contributions this week. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is selling 41 million shares of company stock in a secondary offering, […]
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Quoted: Mossberg’s farewell
“Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it’s not your fault.” — Walter Mossberg’s first sentence of his first column for the Wall Street Journal in 1991, stating […]
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Off topic: Beer bubble, best stories of 2013, NFL sketches and reporting the apocalypse
We’re living in a golden age of beer. But is the foamy craft-beer bubble about to burst? Got some time on your hands? Check out Bloomberg Businessweek reporters’ picks for […]
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Merger mania: Odesk, Elance tie the knot, while Inspirato snaps up rival Portico
It happened not once, but twice on Wednesday: A Silicon Valley company announced a big merger, and I thought, “Hey, I know that guy.” First, workforce-for-hire marketplaces Elance and oDesk […]
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Be careful what you do in front of your computer; someone may be watching
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found a security vulnerability in Macs released before 2008 that would allow a hacker to surreptitiously take pictures or videos of users via those devices’ built in webcams.
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Independent panel on surveillance recommends a curtailment of NSA activities
The president’s independent panel on national security programs issued its report on Wednesday recommending limits on spying. Among the 46 recommendations, the tech industry will care about the following, as […]
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TiVo founders readying new TV adapter
InVisioneer, a San Jose-based startup from TiVo founders Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton, appears to have a new digital media adapter in the works that could be unveiled within weeks.
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