FCC approves spectrum changes for Sprint and hospitals
The Commission issued new rules, trying to make spectrum use more efficient.
Ministry of Innovation / Business of Technology
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Pink Slips
HP lays off 27,000 employees in restructuring move
The company hopes to save around $3 billion and reinvest it in other areas.
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IBM's Siri ban highlights companies' privacy, trade secret challenges
Apple's Siri is persona non grata at IBM, and it's just the beginning.
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It's a wireless world
Cable companies to allow WiFi roaming across 50,000 hotspots
Lots of hotspots, but only in a few major cities.
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Future U: Library 3.0 has more resources, greater challenges
Libraries strive to balance the physical and digital despite dwindling budgets.
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Facial detection startup changes privacy policy after Friday launch
SceneTap's policy now states it will not store "facial mapping metrics."
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Feature Story
Make mainframes, not war: how Mad Men sold computers in the 1960s and 1970s
Celebs, comics, and—at times—computing itself helped sell the young technology.
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Facial detection cameras ready to creep out San Francisco bar patrons
A smartphone app called SceneTap determines body count, gender ratio in bars.
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Travel across the Roman Empire in real time with ORBIS
Google Maps for the ancient world.
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Comcast answers data cap questions
"We're out of the cap business," Comcast says.
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third-party cookie jar
Twitter confirms support for Do Not Track
Twitter won't use cookies for surreptitious data collection if users opt out.
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Comcast suspends 250GB data cap—for now
Everyone will get at least 300GB—and possibly more—when caps return.
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More bandwidth!
330Mbps fiber-to-the-home coming to UK this summer
As the UK "last mile" moves from copper to fiber, it gets much faster.
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What's responsive Web design all about?
Code once, display nicely on any device.
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3THz is the new 5GHz
Terahertz frequencies bring Japanese researchers 3Gbps in a WiFi prototype
The tiny wireless radio transmits on spectrum between 300GHz and 3THz
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Feature Story
Private: some search engines make money by not tracking users
DuckDuckGo and Ixquick take a tiny bite out of Google.
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Feature Story
Say hello to the real real-time Web
It's not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web
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Quoth the Raven
Google Docs' new sidebar makes research faster
Now you can find handy info without ever leaving the page.
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Advertising
General Motors pulls annual $10 million worth of ads from Facebook
A GM executive says paid advertising is ineffective on the social network.
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More to the story
Ex-Yahoo CEO Thompson reportedly has thyroid cancer
The diagnosis impacted Thompson's resignation, according to anonymous sources.
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Build versus buy: one company's decision to go it alone
Do you build your own technology in-house, or buy/license from someone else?
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DRM-free physical media: dead in the water or the answer to art’s prayers?
A Kickstarter to create a DRM-free HD video format caters to small-time artists.
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Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks
E-readers are ascendant, but they'll have to fight to gain ubiquity.
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A new search for Yahoo
Yahoo names interim CEO in light of Thompson's credentials scandal
Daniel Loeb will also join Yahoo's board after bringing everything to light.
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Are you really getting ripped off on printer ink?
Questions raised about the amount of hydrophobic foam inside the cartridges.
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Feature Story (4 pages)
Precision and purpose: Ubuntu 12.04 and the Unity HUD reviewed
This release—the first with 5-year long-term support—is rock solid.
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Feature Story (3 pages)
Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome
Dunning-Kruger study today: The uninformed aren't as doomed as the Web suggests.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
Coolest jobs in tech: decoding life, touring solar systems
When you run IT for cutting-edge scientists, no job is ordinary.
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Feature Story (3 pages)
The future is forever: the state of IPv6 in the Apple world
The new Internet is upon us. Apple has work to do but there's no reason to fear.
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