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  • Facebook booked over group exhorting cow slaughter

    An FIR was Monday registered here against social networking site Facebook on a complaint that claimed a group on the site exhorts people to slaughter cows, police said. The site was booked under penal provisions and under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, on the complaint filed by senior police officer Amitabh Thakur. In his complaint filed at Gomtinagar police station, Thakur alleged ...

  • US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline

    HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. diplomat has become a sort of tweeter-in-chief for the U.S. mission in Cuba, reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal critics on the island.The U.S. Interests Section has long cultivated ties to dissident bloggers and tweeters. But the mission's deputy chief Conrad Tribble has been reaching out to the communist Twitteratti as well.That has prompted ...

  • DealBook Sprint Raises Offer for Clearwire Stake

    Sprint plans to expand its Long-Term Evolution network. Sprint Nextel raised its offer for the wireless network operator Clearwire on Tuesday, just hours before shareholders were scheduled to vote on its earlier ...

  • Poll Teens migrating to Twitter

    A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They're also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" that they see on ...

  • 5 tips to outsmart phone thieves

    Be like a dolphin Dolphins sleep with one eye open, to stay semi-alert to lurking predators and unexpected danger. If you need to use your phone in the wilds of the subway or sidewalk , do so discreetly, reserving at least a portion of your cognitive capacity for minding what is happening around you. Avoid leaving your phone on the table at restaurants, bars and coffee shops where it can easily ...


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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [Blu-Ray]

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [Blu-Ray]

As most people know, dinosaurs predated the mammals of the Ice Age franchise by millions of years, thus, the third installment of the now seven-year-old computer-animated series has quite a bit of work to do in order to justify the furry and the scaly sharing the s ... ...

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  • Big Data could generate millions of new jobs

    FORTUNE -- With data analytics now one of the fastest growing fields in IT, it stands to reason that data scientists are in demand. That's great for people with the requisite skills. The problem, according to Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president at IT research firm Gartner, is that there aren't enough of them. Of the almost 2 million openings he expects over the next three years ...

  • Apple grilled about tax havens

    Apple executives defended the company's tax strategy on Capitol Hill Tuesday, claiming that it pays one of the highest effective tax rates of any major ...

  • Sen. Rand Paul The Senate should apologize to Apple

    AAPL ) achievements with outrage over its "convoluted and pernicious" (McCain's words) tax avoidance strategies. Sen. Rand Paul showed no such balance. He lit into his own committee's leadership for "dragging" one of America's great success stories into what he called a "show trial." "I'm offended by the tone of these hearings," he ...

  • Judge rules Airbnb illegal in New York City

    Bad news for Manhattanites who use Airbnb to rent out their apartments temporarily: New York City officials have ruled that the service violates an "illegal hotel" ...

  • Meet David Karp Techs newest superstar

    Tumblr allows users to share their thoughts for free with a community of bloggers. A friend of Karp's describes Tumblr as "a place for the lonely to be less lonely." Search for just about anything and you can find a community built around that topic. That friend said that if Karp had not been a bit of a loner himself, when he was a teen, he may not have even been able to envision ...

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