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Putin Urges Better Online Intellectual Property Protection
SOCHI, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday a more effective system was needed to protect intellectual property rights on the internet. "Without defending intellectual [property] rights, a great damage will be done," the Russian president said on Friday at a meeting to discuss the development of the country’s film industry. Putin said that ...
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NuoDB co-founder and CTO departs succeeded by early employee
Seth Proctor, formerly a developer at NuoDB, has been named the company's new CTO. Cambridge-based NuoDB, developer of a database built to work in the cloud which aims to power the Web of the future, says co-founder Jim Starkey has retired from the CTO position at the firm. He has been succeeded in the role by company developer Seth Proctor. Starkey had spent three decades working in ...
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Google builds bigger crypto keys to make site forgeries harder
Google is upgrading the digital certificates used to secure its Gmail, Calendar, and Web search services. Beginning on August 1, the company will start upgrading the RSA keys used to encrypt Web traffic and authenticate to 2048-bits, twice as many as are used now. The rollout affects the transport layer security (TLS) certificates that underpin HTTPS connections to Google properties. Sometimes ...
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Florida would provide parts to U.S.-produced Apple computer line
US-based Apple Mac line would include components from Florida, according to company CEO Tim Cook Florida got a bite of good news from Apple during Tim Cooks recent Senate hearing testimony on taxes, with the CEO announcing Florida would take part in a U.S.-based Mac line. He wasnt specific about where in Florida, but Cook did say Texas would be home base for assembling the Mac line. Illinois and ...
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DHS finds critical vulnerability in software used for background checks
Critical infrastructure at risk from SCADA vulnerabilities SCADA software, used for industrial control mechanisms in utilities, airports, nuclear facilities, manufacturing plants and the like, is increasingly a target for hackers looking to exploit what appear to be growing numbers of vulnerabilities - giving rise to fears that critical infrastructure may be at ...
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
When people think of the Terminator films, the first things that come to mind are big action and big special effects. Even though James Camerons 1984 original was a fairly low-budget blockbuster, it featured big chase scenes, a postapocalpytic future, and grisly-real make-up effects by Stan Winston that included a scene of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the titular cyborg cutting out his own dam ... ...
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Interactive Intelligence to Present at Raymond James InternetSoftware Crossover Conference
INDIANAPOLIS -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ), a global provider of unified IP business communications software and services, today announced that its CFO, Stephen R. Head, will present at ...
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Independent Proxy Advisory Firms ISS and Glass Lewis Recommend Softchoice Shareholders Vote in Favour of Arrangement Agreement
May 24, 2013 /CNW/ - Softchoice Corporation (TSX: SO) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & CO., two leading independent proxy research and advisory firms, have published reports recommending that their clients who are Softchoice shareholders vote in favour of the plan of arrangement ("the Arrangement") under which certain funds ...
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Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems
A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...
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How cat photos on caturday helped me understand Google+
Hello? Is anyone out there? Thats how a lot of people feel when they log on to Google+ and try to interact with friends and business connections, many of whom are off chatting on other social media platforms. The experience used to be a lonely one for me. The often non-chronological order of Google+s news feed confused me, too. That is until curiosity got the best of me, and I started watching ...
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Robots on the big screen have ties to Kansas City entrepreneur Video
Crackerneck is the name of a Golem Workshop prototype. When "Man of Steel" premieres next month, a Kansas City-area robotics engineer may experience a sense of dj vu. The debut will mark the second time Derek Scherer's handiwork has shown up on the big screen. Derek Scherer, who used to build battlefield robots for the U.S. Army, also played a part in the animatronic creatures in ...