Google+ Now Allows ‘Established’ Pseudonyms

Google had so far tried its best to ensure that people are known by their real names on Google+ . But a lot of people had signed up with names that were not their real names. However , Google suspended such accounts in the past which was not liked by the users at all. This ...

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Decrypting Own Hard Drive Is Not Self-Incrimination

A Colorado judge has ruled that decrypting own hard drive is not equal to self-incrimination under Fifth Amendment . The judge ordered one Ramona Fricosu , charged with fraud , to decrypt her computer hard drive . Fricosu had maintained that this would be against the spirit of Bill of Rights which prohibits forcing someone ...

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Don’t Be Evil Bookmarklet Makes Google Social Results Better

Google has recently started including Google + social results into its regular search results . However , this has attracted widespread criticism from other Social sites who are saying that Google is playing foul here by giving undue advantage to Google + . A group of FAcebook , MySpace and Twitter engineers have released a bookmarklet ...

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Y Combinator Calls For Killing Hollywood

'Destroy Hollywood' is the call by Paul Graham , founder of Y Combinator , a startup incubator behind some of the most successful start-ups like Dropbox and Airbnb , which are valued at $1 billion each now. Graham as called for start-ups  with potential to destroy Hollywood to come forward . He believes that Hollywood is under control of politically motivated and ...

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Big Changes at RIM – Top Executives Step Down

The Blackberry maker , RIM , has announced that its co-founder and co-chairman Mr. Lazaridis has stepped down alongwith Mr. Balsillie who was also a co-chairman . Both of them have been leading the company for more than 20 years now. Thorten Heins , a co-chief operating officer has been appointed as Chief Executive . Heinz ...

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Bad Times For Cyberlockers – MegaUpload Dead , File Sonic , FileServe Cave In

MegaUpload is dead. One of the world's most popular ( 50 million daily hits , world's 13th most popular ) website for cyberlocker services has been hit hard by the United States Justice Department , calling it  “international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy.” Its high profile founder , Kim Dotcom and ...

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Apple Introduces new iTunes U App

Apple's education even announced a new iTunes U app . This new app will give access to all iTunes U content of the users instead of searching through the whole iTunes to find it. iTunes U content is very popular and as of today , more than 700 million downloads of iTunes U content have ...

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Apple Launches Textbook Publishing App , iBooks 2

Apple has set on an ambitious plan to enter the textbook publishing field and released iBooks2 . The books will be present on the shelf and can be launched with a tap . Once launched they will be occupying the full screen and could also include embedded video content and any initial introductory movies. It ...

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Zynga Buys Four Gaming Companies

Zynga , the top game company at Facebook , has said that it has bought four game companies of small size in a bid to expand its products portfolio in smart phones and tablets markets . The consideration for the transaction has not been disclosed. The four acquired companies are : Gamedoctors that makes game ZombieSmash Page44 ...

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Kodak Files for Bankruptcy – End of An Era

Kodak has been trying to win some money through patent trolls but this will not be enough to save an imminent restructuring of the company. Kodak has just announced that it has finally voluntarily filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 , which is linked with reorganization . As per filing , Kodak has $5.1 billion ...

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