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  • Google boss warns students against censorship of net and digital ethnic cleansing

    Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen have warned London School of Economics students against censorship on the internet and the dangers that 'digital ethnic cleansing' pose. Sky News quoted Schmidt, as saying that people will omit data if they want to restrict communication and information. He, however, agreed that any piece of information cannot be ...

  • Details on how News Corp. split will work

    News Corp. is planning to split into two companies. One company will operate as a newspaper and book publisher and will retain the News Corp. name. The other will be an entertainment company, called 21st Century Fox.Here's how the split will work:- Newspapers, book publishing and information services such as Dow Jones Newswires will be part of the publishing company. The 20th Century Fox ...

  • Why Googles Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe

    probe of its display-ad business . This comes as little surprise to anyone who has been watching the search advertising giant's quiet but steady rise in the past few years in the business of placing banner and video ads on websites. But it's also no sure thing that this probe will go any further than the last one. According to ...

  • Xbox One uncertainty earnings drag down GameStop

    Xbox 360 games won't work with the Xbox One Neither of those factors are pleasing investors, who had sent shares soaring more than 100 percent over the past 12 months through last Friday. GameStop's shares tumbled 11 percent Friday to $32.10, putting the week's drop at 19 percent. Particularly worrisome is what GameStop's business will look like if it becomes more ...

  • Bill to slay patent trolls garners broad backing

    Patent Abuse Reduction Act (PARA) , a bill introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to ward off litigious patent trolls. Though the EFF did cite concerns that the bill doesn't go far enough in protecting consumers, the bill may have enough support from both sides of the aisles to have a shot at becoming law. The proposed legislation is crafted to thwart some of the more common tactics that ...


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The Deceivers [DVD]

The Deceivers [DVD]

The Deceivers, a Victorian colonialist potboiler with art film pretensions (it was produced by Ismail Merchant), is set in India in 1825. Pierce Brosnan, in the pre-James Bond days when he was best known as the star of TV's Remington Steele, plays William Savage, a collection ... ...

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  • Back up your DVDs with free BDlot ISO Master

    iTunes . There wasn't a shiny silver platter in sight. That said, lots of folks have giant DVD libraries, and with good reason. DVDs are cheap. They work great in minivans that have DVD players. And, um, oh, what was that third one again? I can'tsorry. Oops. I kid, I kid. I'm just jokingly making the case for why you might ...

  • Google Translate says Hola to Chrome

    (Credit: Google) Not only is Google Translate not dead, its powers of mildly accurate, often-amusing, and on-the-fly translations are in the process of being gifted ...

  • Secret Twitter garden reveals itself when you tweet

    (Credit: University of Lincoln) It's always good to stop and smell the roses, but sometimes you have to tweet to access them. At least that's how it works with an interactive Internet-connected garden created by the ...

  • Yahoo said to press play on Hulu bid

    AllThingsD . Yahoo joins others such as Directv, Time Warner Cable, and The Chernin Group in making a play for Hulu, which is jointly owned by Walt Disney, News Corp., and Comcast. Guggenheim Digital, headed by former interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn, is also in the mix. The Internet titan's interest in Hulu closely follows ...

  • Google may build wireless networks in emerging markets WSJ says

    (Credit: Google) Google's bid to connect everyone to the Internet may have it entering the wireless service business. The company is looking at building cellular networks and offering service to emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, according ...

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