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Syria and Egypt Strife Sparks Rash of Cyber Attacks

Syria's civil war and political strife inEgypt have thrown up new battlegrounds on the Web and driven a surge in cyber attacks in the Middle East, according to a leading Internet...

Reuters

Record Labels Ask Providers to Collect Illegal Download Data

BT, Virgin Media, BSkyB and Talk Talk are being asked to sign up to a voluntary code for policing illegal downloading Broadband providers are being asked to create a database...

Rawstory

You’ll Never Believe Which Magazine Has the Most Digital Subscribers

All those people staring at their tablets on airplanes, the buttons to their Economist app conspicuously displayed—are they more likely to spend the flight actually reading theEconomist, or slingshotting irate avians into green...

Slate

Do Microsoft employees use Google at the office?

I am studying at Purdue University. Companies come here to hire students for full time and internship positions. Like many others, Microsoft too came. I attended the talk by Microsoft employees....

Quora

Shipments of New iPhone Models Begin Arriving in the U.S. Ahead of Next Week’s Media Event

With Apple having issued invitations for its September 10 media event where it is expected to introduce its next-generation iPhone 5S and 5C models, MacRumors has learned from a reliable source that the company...

Macrumors

Nokia’s Humorous New Ad Depicting Smartphone Culture

If you’ve been to a play or other event put on by your child’s elementary school recently, you might have experienced something similar to what the Nokia ad above depicts....

Petapixel

Are Online Password Managers Really Safe?

Digital bad guys are as concerned about return on investment (ROI) as any big business. That’s why they attack credit-card processing centers rather than gathering account information one credit card...

Techrepublic

Is Twitter Worth $15 Billion?

Twitter is preparing itself for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the company as highly as $15 billion, reports the Sunday Times, citing anonymous (but nonetheless compelling) senior banking...

Mediabistro

Yahoo Groups Re-Design Traumatizes Users

Yahoo! has told thousands of users who are complaining about the Purple Palace's pisspoor redesign of its Groups service that it will not be rolled back to the old format...

Theregister

Microsoft Buys Nokia Mobile for $7.2 Billion

Nokia, the once-"burning platform" mobile devices company, is now seen to be a looked-upon savior for Microsoft. Late Labor Day evening, Microsoft announced it would be acquiring the handset and...

Readwrite

Yahoo Pulling Out of China

The Yahoo portal in China contains a farewell message citing adjustments to its operations strategy as the reason for the change.  Yahoo's news and community services have shut down in...

Bbc

Candy Crush Growing Too Fast

Candy Crush Saga, the popular mobile device game by King.com, has seen some spectacular success. Now, it turns out the candy-puzzle game has grown faster than an algorithm charting its...

Wsj