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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 ...

  • Taiwan cuts growth forecast on muted export demand

    Taiwan has lowered its economic growth forecast for 2013 to a muted 2.4 percent as global demand for the island's electronics exports remained ...

  • Bharti Infotel threatens customer fined Rs 50000

    forum to pay Rs 50,000 as compensation to a customer for making threatening calls to pay internet bills which were raised despite his request for disconnection of the service. The South West District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum observed that the act of the telecom major amounted to not only deficiency in service but also unfair trade practice and for that the customer needs to be ...

  • FCC hopes to avoid end of world for cell phones

    "I e-mailed my boss to ask what would happen if we don't free up enough spectrum," said Tom Sugrue, T-Mobile's vice president of government affairs, at a panel discussion held at the CTIA wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas this week. "He wrote, 'It will be the end of the world as we know it.' He didn't put a smiley face at the end or anything." ...

  • Apple No tax gimmick left behind

    Tim Cook did Steve Jobs proud at this week's Congressional hearings into Apple's tax avoidance practices. During his testimony the CEO pulled a mind trick or two out of his iPocket, rivaling even the late Apple visionary in his ability to ...


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The Fire Within (Le feu follet) [DVD]

The Fire Within (Le feu follet) [DVD]

While Louis Malle is often associated with the French New Wave, largely because of the young age at which he made his first feature (he was in his early 20s) and the time period when he started making films (the late 1950s), he was always just outside that movement. Unlike Truffaut, G ... ...

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  • Survey Mobile now top priority for corporate app builders

    Mobile applications are becoming the principal focus of corporate software development efforts, according to a survey by PHP tools vendor Zend Technologies. Zend's Developer Pulse survey this quarter found that 91 percent of developers plan to deliver content and services to a mobile audience. This compares to 66 percent in a survey the company took in 2012. "Mobile applications are ...

  • Microsoft extends Azures reach to China Japan and Australia

    dollarydoos , Microsoft will invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand its hybrid cloud platform to China, Japan, and Australia. The move, which makes Microsoft the first multinational organization to make public cloud services available in China, represents a significant investment in the company's cloud strategy. Microsoft has poured ample resources into Azure of late, and ...

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 edges out iPhone 5 in camera test

    iPhone 5 at 72 . The top scorer is the Nokia 808 Pureview at 77, but model is hobbled by its Symbian operating system, a commercial failure compared to Apple's iOS in the iPhone and Google's Android in ...

  • Apple Again Faces Mirror Worlds In Court

    (click image for larger view and for slideshow) A defunct software company that failed to win a 2008 patent claim against Apple is back for a second bite at Apple and several other technology companies. Mirror Worlds Technologies, which sold software called Scopeware from 2001 until its demise in 2004, on Thursday filed a patent infringement claim against Apple, Best Buy, Dell, HP, Lenovo, ...

  • Linux-Based Education OS Gets New Features

    (click image for slideshow) Edubuntu 13.04, released April 25, brings the education edition into sync with the latest version of Ubuntu, the popular Linux operating system. While schools are advised to stick with the Long Term Support (LTS) version, Edubuntu 12.04.x, the new release is "intended for enthusiasts and users who would like to try out the latest and greatest software," ...

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