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  • FINRA reviewing brokerages use of social media

    (Reuters) - Wall Street's Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is looking at how brokerage firms supervise their use of communication outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the industry-funded regulator ...

  • Ciscos $613 billion Internet of Everything

    In 2013, Cisco calculates that companies could produce $613 billion of mostly incremental profit by harnessing the growing networked world of people and ...

  • Yo Bum rush the torrent

    Public Enemy BitTorrent Bundle (download) on Wednesday. The Bundle is a new tweak to existing torrent technology from BitTorrent that introduces the Holy Grail of missing torrent ...

  • Woz on Kickstarter project Im blown away

    Zero Chroma Teatro case , which includes a built-in kickstand that props your iPhone vertically or horizontally at any number of angles. Alas, over time the hinge got loose, to the point where it wouldn't prop at any angle. So now I'm on the hunt for some kind of stand, one that supports both portrait and landscape viewing and goes where I go. And guess who just found me one? Lovable ...

  • 8 iPhone game styles that would rock with a controller

    You can read that entire list right here. The iPhone game controllers are coming. Where before there was a trickle of game controllers that did not have Apple's blessing, that's all changing ...


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Speed 2: Cruise Control

Don't let the movie poster fool you. Even though Sandra Bullock takes top billing and her face is most prominently displayed on the advertisements for "Speed 2: Cruise Control," she spends most of the movie taking a back seat to Jason Patric's action hero, Willem Dafoe's mugging villain, and director Jan De Bont's confusing action and bigger-than-life special effects. Bullock, who has a sly and wo ... ...

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  • Privacy glasses screw with facial recognition systems

    (Credit: National Institute of Informatics) Foiling facial recognition systems that identify people based on photographs may be as simple as wearing a special set of glasses equipped with near-infrared LEDs powered by a battery pack. The LEDs are arranged around the nose and eyes. The human eye can't pick up the near-infrared, but a camera sees it as bright light, enough to obscure the ...

  • Wi-Fi Alliance launches 802.11ac certification program

    The Wi-Fi Alliance announces its Wi-Fi Certified ac certification program, which aims to guarantee the interoperability of 802.11ac-enabled devices regardless of their hardware vendors or type of ...

  • LG Optimus F7 available on Boost Mobile June 27

    Android Jelly Bean, and an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera. We first caught wind of this smartphone back in February, when LG debuted the handset at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. In addition, U.S. Cellular started offering the Optimus ...

  • Microsoft offers hefty bounties to thwart hackers

    By Jim FinkleBOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is looking to recruit computer geeks in its ongoing efforts to protect Windows PCs from attacks, offering rewards of as much as $150,000 (95,822.15 pounds) to anybody who helps identify and fix major security holes in its software.Microsoft unveiled the rewards program, one of the most generous in the high-tech industry to date, on Wednesday as it ...

  • Met Police PCs take 30 minutes to boot

    has revealed it uses PCs that take 30 minutes to boot up and systems dating back to the 1970s, giving the government a run for its money. Assistant commissioner Mark Rowley revealed the dire state of the Met Police IT during a Budget and Performance Committee meeting in London on Tuesday, admitting, "The nature of the infrastructure meant that for many officers around the Met to log on to ...

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