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EFF leaves advocacy group over untrustworthy members

It's good for companies and organizations to bond together to fight the government over privacy issues. When members of that group have questionable allegiances such as Google and Facebook, it's...

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Why startups are leaving Amazon Web Services

When it comes to cloud computing, Amazon has been the place to be for large percentage of companies, especially startups. Things are changing. Amazon Web Services is the default, go-to...

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Twitter social television coming to an NBC station near you

Twitter is definitely trying to make a statement before going public. In the continued push for success and pre-IPO buzz, Twitter announced that they have formed partnerships with Comcast and...

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Ford’s driverless car is coming

Ford Motor Company has been in the race for the driverless car since near the beginning all those (2 or 3) years ago when it first started becoming a popular...

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Rumors already starting about iPhone 6 having a bigger screen

The iPhone 5C and 5S are barely out of their launch and their replacement is already making a run at them. If you want something bigger, you simply have to...

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Email marketing is suffering thanks to Gmail tabs

Usually, changes to any interface, especially one that's used daily such as email, are not welcomed changes by users. In the case of the tabbing features on Gmail, there has...

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Tablet magazines failed. Here’s why.

They were supposed to change the way we consume our daily news, our weekly magazines, and our favorite publications. Other than some lukewarm success for some companies (some of which...

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Twitter wants $1 billion

A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars. That's Twitter's new unofficial mantra as they go public. Twitter had revenue of $253 million in the first...

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Yahoo follows Google in email privacy issue

Yahoo is finally following in Google's footsteps. Unfortunately, they're doing so in a way that isn't very helpful. Can big email providers scan your messages in order to serve you...

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Provo. Google Fiber. October.

Utah appears to be the next home for Google Fiber, the fastest internet this side of the Grand Canyon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QU5lHzgvK0 The energy that Google has harnessed around its fiber effort...

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You could buy everything in the App Store for $1,112,909.46

It might seem like a lot of money to spend on over 3/4 of a million apps on the App Store, but then again, it's really not that huge of...

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Google Chrome plugins will soon be obsolete

Google doesn't think that we need plugins on our Chrome browsers. They will be eliminating support for them starting at the beginning of the year. As web technologies have matured,...

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