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Facebook IPO will mean big business for thousands of smaller companies

ElectroGeek — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:13 +0000

Patrick Salyer doesn’t work at Facebook. He doesn’t own any of its stock. But he’s one of thousands of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and around the world who stand to make a lot of money when the Menlo Park social network goes public later this year. Salyer, 30, is chief executive of Gigya, a Palo [...]

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Kinect coming to laptops? Why?

ElectroGeek — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:22:26 +0000

Hey, look at this: Kinect on a laptop. OK, so there we go. According to The Daily, companies are well on their way to making laptops–or, at least, laptop prototypes–running Windows 8 and equipped with Kinect motion camera hardware instead of standard webcams. The Daily got to see some of this technology first hand on [...]

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Facebook is on a new mission: to take down clickjackers

ElectroGeek — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:52:00 +0000

Facebook has teamed up with the Washington Attorney General to put real resources toward getting rid of spam on the social network — starting with a lawsuit. “Security is an arms race, and that’s why Facebook is committed to constantly improving our consumer safeguards while pursuing and supporting civil and criminal consequences for bad actors,” [...]

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Apple iPhone 4S Jailbreak, 10 Months in the Making, Now Available

ElectroGeek — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:37:16 +0000

The Apple iPhone 4S’ super-tough A5 processor has had hard-working hackers stumped. After 10 months of efforts, however, they’ve released a free jailbreaking download. The Chronic Dev Team, a group of iOS hackers, has unveiled its GreenPois0n toolkit, a free download enabling Apple iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners to jailbreak their devices. The download [...]

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Apple vs. the textbook: Can education go paperless?

ElectroGeek — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:58:46 +0000

Apple announced that it was “reinventing the textbook” using the iPad, its iBooks bookstore and a new kind of book creation tool. But despite the tremendous success of the iPad in recent years, and despite the biggest partners in educational publishing, does the company have the ability to effect real change? Or is Apple ignoring [...]

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Windows’ cut of Microsoft revenue drops to two-year low

ElectroGeek — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:51:45 +0000

Windows’ contribution last quarter to Microsoft’s revenue hit its lowest point since Vista’s swan song more than two years earlier, according to figures released by the company Thursday. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, the Windows division accounted for 22.7% of the company’s total sales, its lowest share since the 20.3% that the group recorded [...]

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Thousands of Minis and Mini Coopers recalled

ElectroGeek — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:27:23 +0000

BMW announced on Monday the recall of nearly 89,000 of its Mini and Mini Cooper cars in U.S. and more than 235,000 worldwide. The company said a water pump that cools the turbocharger in some models has a circuit board that can malfunction and overheat. “In an extreme case this overheating can lead to a [...]

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Are there too many smartphones on the market?

ElectroGeek — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:19:45 +0000

Are there too many smartphones on the market? That and other provocative questions were posed during a CES panel discussion Thursday between journalists for the The Verge and managers for Windows Phone at Microsoft and smartphone makers HTC and Samsung. The question of whether there are too many smartphone variations on the market was partly [...]

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Ultrabooks are everywhere at CES, but should you buy one?

ElectroGeek — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:05:09 +0000

The main theme of the Consumer Electronics Show this year, in case you’ve been hiding under a rock this week, is the ultrabook. These lightweight laptops are chasing after the MacBook Air, trying to undercut Apple’s $1,000 price tag and add their own flair to the lineup of super-slim devices. Intel, the company behind the [...]

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Ramnit Computer Worm Compromises 45K Facebook Logins

ElectroGeek — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:25:03 +0000

A computer worm that has traditionally targeted the financial industry has set its sights on social networking, recently stealing over 45,000 Facebook login credentials, according to security firm Seculert. In a statement, Facebook said the majority of the login credentials were outdated, but it was still notifying the affected users. The worm, known as Ramnit, [...]

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