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NewsFactor: Facebook Finds Footing a Year After IPO Flop
A year ago, Facebook was being blamed for eviscerating the tech IPO market. This year, it could help resuscitate it. Some stock watchers suggest Facebook's recent reversal of fortune reflects a rejuvenated tech market, and the company would have fared muc...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:15am -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: What's in Store for Apple's iOS 7?
There's been talk recently that Apple's products are beginning to coast on their glorious past. So, with Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) arriving in San Francisco in three weeks, the speculation mill has been heating up about what the c...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:15am -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: U.S. Could Use Cyberattack on Syrian Air Defenses
The Pentagon has cyberattack capabilities that allow the U.S. military to help blind Syrian air defenses without firing a shot, according to military analysts.
"One of the reasons the Air Force has paid so much attention to cyberwarfare is ... for beat...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:15am -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: Soundbars Up the Ante on TV Sound
The days of home theaters with multiple stereo speakers spread around a room may be numbered, thanks to the soundbar.
The soundbar is a slender collection of speakers in a single housing that connects directly to the TV -- so there's no worrying about ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:00am -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: Google Glass Raises Congressional Privacy Concerns
The buzz around Google Glass continues, but it's not all good. Some in Congress are raising privacy issues around the futuristic product.
Eight members of the House Privacy Caucus sent a letter to Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page. They have some qu...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 5:00pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: Should Enterprises Skip Over Windows 8?
IT will skip Windows 8 as the enterprise standard. So says a new Forrester Research report penned by David K. Johnson that goes by the same name.
"Windows 8 is the boldest release of the OS since Windows 95. Microsoft chose to discard the Start button ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 2:30pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: U.S. Defense Department Gives iOS 6 Security OK
In a vote of confidence for Apple's iOS devices, the U.S. Defense Department has given the all-clear for employees to use iPads and iPhones for work. But only those running the latest operating system, iOS 6, and only if issued by the government.
The P...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 2:30pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: Lulzsec Hackers Jailed for Cyberattacks in U.K.
Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were sentenced to up to 32 months in prison on Thursday.
The hackers, who were affiliated with the group Lulz Sec...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 12:00pm -07:00T (268 words)
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NewsFactor: IDC: Windows Phone Now No. 3 in Market, BlackBerry No. 4
Has Microsoft Phone moved into a coveted though distant third place for smartphone platforms behind Google's Android and Apple's iOS? A new report from IDC says it has.
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker found that Android and iOS took an o...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 12:00pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Financial Times
The Financial Times is the latest victim of the Syrian Electronic Army, a "hacktivist" group that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The U.K.-based newspaper reported the attack followed a phishing attack on the company's e-mail accounts.
Twelv...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 12:00pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: In Sight at I/O: Google Glassware
Google Glass' capabilities are becoming clearer. At the Google I/O developers conference now taking place in San Francisco, the first wave of brand name apps for the new interactive headgear -- of course, called Glassware -- are entering the field of view...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 5:15pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: HP and SAP Partner To Advance HANA
"Project Kraken," a joint initiative by Hewlett-Packard and SAP to improve business processes and mitigate risks for customers, was demonstrated Thursday at the Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Fla. The initiative is based in HP server technology innov...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 3:00pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: Intel Going Mobile with Its New CEO
In his first speech as the new head of Intel, CEO Brian Krzanich said he would focus on beefing up the company's presence in the tablet and smartphone markets. Krzanich officially took the CEO reins Thursday, after serving as Intel COO since 2012. He's th...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 3:00pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: Hackers' New Tool of Choice: Smartphones
Smartphones are increasingly popular not only with consumers, but also with thieves who see the devices as another way to tap into bank accounts and other sensitive information, experts say.
Many consumers simply don't realize how vulnerable their Andr...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 12:45pm -07:00T (300 words)
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NewsFactor: Google Bets Its Empty Wallet on Gmail Tie-In
Google first demoed Google Wallet two years ago in its New York City offices. But nothing much has come of the app that promised to make your phone a wallet.
Google has hardly abandoned the idea of letting customers tap, pay and save using their Androi...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 12:45pm -07:00T (300 words)
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