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2 hrs ago | 4 Hoteliers

Google for Hotels: Q+A with David Zammitt, Google Travel Industry Manager.

Not just a search engine anymore, Google has dramatically extended its presence and influence in the online travel space in recent years.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Google, Startups, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science

4 hrs ago | PC World

Start-up readies network-optimized Linux for data centers

Start-up Cumulus Networks this week has emerged with a Linux network operating system designed for programmable data centers like the ones Google and Facebook are building.

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Related Topix: Social Software, VMware, Software, Science / Technology

8 hrs ago | New Statesman

No. 10's Potemkin summit on internet porn solved nothing

The "Downing Street summit" is a trusty device to bump some minor item a couple of points up the news agenda.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Science / Technology, Social Software

11 hrs ago | Salon

Popularity boost for search engines outside NSA dragnets

Small-player search engine DuckDuckGo has a very simple method for resisting handing over vast swathes of user information to the government - it just doesn't collect the data in the first place.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Dapper, Citizen Sports

15 hrs ago | CNet News

Popular WordPress Plug-ins Vulnerable to Attack: Checkmarx Research

Research from security vendor Checkmarx found that 12 of the top 50 plugins for the WordPress platform are susceptible to attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

20 hrs ago | ABA Journal

Google asks intelligence court to relax gag orders on secret data requests

Citing its First Amendment rights, Google has asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to relax long-standing gag orders restricting what can be said about the information the court requests.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology

Tue Jun 18, 2013

GlobeNewswire

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FWT, Inc., a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless communication infrastructure products, today reported that its 1999 fiscal year-to-date backlog has increased 47 percent to $25 million from $17 million at fiscal year-end 1998, as a result of orders for communications towers.

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Related Topix: Automakers, Retail, Auto Parts, Keystone Automotive Industries, Pennsylvania, Printers, Science / Technology

PC World

States tackling Google on human trafficking, drugs

The attorneys general of several states are turning up the heat on Google, concerned that the search engine giant makes it easier for criminals to sell illegal drugs online, engage in human trafficking and peddle pirated intellectual property.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Science / Technology

Engadget

Editorial: What internet radio needs to disrupt actual radio

"Internet radio" is usually a misnomer, as well as an indicator of its ambition.

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Related Topix: Online Music, Marketing, Pandora, Science / Technology, Opinion, Gadgets

Computing.co.uk

Companies exposed to attack by out-of-date SAP applications

Hundreds of organisations are running ageing, unpatched versions of SAP enterprise resource planning software some with applications exposed to the internet.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computer Security, Emerging Technology, Widevine Technologies, Search Engines

Computer Weekly

PM calls meeting to tackle online porn

Prime minister David Cameron has called a meeting with internet firms to discuss ways of blocking images of child sex abuse and to prevent children from viewing pornography online.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Powys County, Wales, Gwynedd County, Wales, United Kingdom, Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

CW2 Colorado KWGN-TV

Internet users look for security programs to protect themselves from NSA

As details continue to emerge about the scope of the NSA's domestic surveillance programs, many Americans are growing concerned about their privacy and tech companies are claiming to offer solutions.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Science / Technology

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Merinews

Internet Porn: Women, Children and Pets

The British utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham once said, 'Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.'

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology

The Atlantic

What the Kids Are Doing: A Search Engine for 4 Million Vines

Vine is hard to explain. It's an app that lets you make and share six-second videos, which sounds absurd.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Twitter

International Business Times

Google settlement clears way for new Class C stock

The online search engine leader had planned to issue Class C shares as a dividend to investors.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Sergey Brin

The Daily Beast

Lauren Conrad Is Golden

Lauren Conrad has not appeared on a reality TV show for four years, but her influence over young women continues to inspire mega-successful magazine covers and fashion lines.

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Related Topix: The Hills, Reality TV, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Laguna Beach, Lauren Conrad, Science / Technology

BBC News

Majestic Wine sees profits rise

Profits rose by A 0.5m to A 23.7m, the company said, in the year to 1 April. However, total sales fell by A 5.9m, or 2.1%, to A 274.4m after Majestic reduced its trading in the wholesale market.

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Related Topix: Beverages, Majestic Wine, Science / Technology

New Statesman

Google to provide internet connectivity through balloons

Search engine giant Google has launched a new pilot programme Project Loon in New Zealand to offer wireless internet services in remote regions of the southern hemisphere.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Vista Research, Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Raven Industries

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Mashable

Google Aims to Abolish Child Porn Pics With New Database

Google announced plans over the weekend to remove child pornography images from the web by using a new, picture-sharing database.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology

Daily Monitor

Virtual IDs to save Kenyans from fraud

Kenyans will soon acquire unique virtual identities for e-commerce to curb fraud in payments and reduce cash transactions.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

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