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Microsoft says new Kinect for Windows sensor coming in 2014

Friday, May 24, 2013

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Microsoft will make available a new Kinect sensor for Windows in 2014, officials said on May 23.The new Kinect for Windows sensor will include many of the technologies that Microsoft showed off in... read more

Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War

Friday, May 24, 2013

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Google, Industry News, Waze

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Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter... read more

FiOS customer discovers the limits of "unlimited" data: 77TB a month

Friday, May 24, 2013

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Fiber, Industry News, Networking

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Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to what Verizon will let you do with FiOS' "unlimited" data plan. And a California man discovered that limit when he got a phone call from a Verizon representative... read more

Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M

Friday, May 24, 2013

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Dropbox, Industry News

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When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public. People could download the email organizer, but using it... read more

Spam and the Byzantine Empire: How Bitcoin tech REALLY works

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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BitCoin, Technology

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Why does Bitcoin work? Fraudsters should have left it in cinders years ago, and might have done, if it wasn’t for two things: spam and the Byzantine Empire.A Bitcoin is basically an entry in a ledger... read more

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LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million

Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-05-04 05:28

LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock.

SlideShare allows users to upload documents to the web and have them embedded all over the place. How does it fit at LinkedIn? Here's what CEO Jeff Weiner said in a press release explaining the move:

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