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The idea of a Facebook Android version makes my head hurt
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on March 30, 2013
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Why Sequestration Could Really Hurt Long-Term Research
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on March 3, 2013
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The U.S. budget cuts that take effect tomorrow will demoralize future inventors, researchers, and disease curers.
The across-the-board U.S. budget cuts scheduled to take effect on March 1, known as sequestration, will have ripple effects that hurt scientific and health research for years to come, the heads of two federal research agencies said this week.
The sequester will hurt tech nationally
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on March 1, 2013
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The federal government’s automatic budget cuts, due to begin Friday, may accelerate cost savings measures already in place. But there will be damage to IT spending, and a period of uncertainty as the government reacts to the cuts.
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Facebook’s Graph Search Won’t Hurt Google Without Your Help
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on January 18, 2013
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The success of the social network’s new search tool will depend on how much information its users are willing to share.
Facebook hopes you’ll use its new social search feature, Graph Search, to find everything from dentists your friends recommend in New York to restaurants they’re talking about in San Francisco. But while the tool appears to be a smart way to glean insights from your connections, experts say it is inherently limited by the amount of useful information shared within a user’s social circle or made publicly available by those outside that circle. That means it may take time—and effort on the part of Facebook users—for it to be truly useful.
Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues
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on November 25, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “We’ve heard this one before, over and over again: pirates are the biggest spenders. It therefore shouldn’t surprise too many people to learn that shutting down Megaupload earlier this year had a negative effect on box office revenues. The latest finding comes from a paper titled: ‘Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload.’”
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Samsung profits soar on Galaxy, Note sales, but legal damages could hurt
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on October 5, 2012
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Samsung Electronics said Friday that stronger-than-expected sales of its Galaxy smartphones sent operating profits up 90 percent in the latest quarter, but analysts warned its results could take a hit in the coming months as it books legal damages owed to Apple.
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Did Samsung verdict hurt Apple’s reputation?
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on September 9, 2012
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In “Things that make you go hmmm?”, an analysis of Apple’s Facebook page suggests that even its own fans were critical of the company after the court case. Or were they?
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Japanese semiconductor companies hurt in Q2, study says
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on August 3, 2012
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The Japanese semiconductor industry is on a downward spiral as rival companies in Taiwan, South Korea and the U.S. made gains in chip, memory and integrated circuit sales, research firm IC Insights said in a study.
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Navy study: Sonar, blasts might hurt more sea life
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on May 13, 2012
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Blog – Can Touch Screens Hurt You?
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on January 17, 2012
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Press on something, and it presses back.
We all know that we are frail creatures, that life is short and precarious and fraught with risk, and that often its greatest pleasures are the very things that lead us all the more swiftly to our inevitable undoing. I wish I could tell you that our gadgets offered an exception to this rule. Instead, a medical doctor has come along to tell us that our touchscreens are hurting us.
How SOPA & PIPA Could Hurt Scientific Debate
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on January 14, 2012
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mwolfam writes with this pointed excerpt from a piece at the Huffington Post by Los Alamos National Laboratories post-doc researcher Michael Ham, who makes a slightly different case than most for the reasons that SOPA and PIPA should be stopped: “Simply put, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) currently under development in Congress will provide a rapid way to sentence websites to death without the need for pesky things like trials and juries. Much to the surprise of nobody who understands how the Internet works, these two Acts will have absolutely no effect on digital piracy, but they will create an environment where freedom of speech could be severely curtailed, large companies can execute competitors, and scientific data can be hidden from the public.”
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Why Greedy Stockholders and A $100 Billion IPO Could Hurt Facebook
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on November 29, 2011
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Facebook will IPO in April or June 2012, right on time with our prediction and when it would need to start filing public financial reports, according the the Wall Street Journal. The outlet’s sources say Facebook could raise $ 10 billion at a $ 100 billon valuation, and hasn’t chosen which banks to go with yet. But is this the right move? To date, Facebook has been conservative with monetization and progressive with product development. It minimizes ad real-estate in favor of maintaining a healthy user experience for the long term, and pushes products people might not warm up to for years. But outside stockholders could detract from Facebook’s vision and momentum. They could push for faster returns, and pressure the company to display more ads, turn mobile into a direct revenue stream, and play it safe with product. This might produce short-term gains, but could hamper what CEO Mark Zuckerberg has built into a core communications utility for the world.
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Hard drive shortage expected to hurt consumers most
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on November 2, 2011
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While flooding in Thailand is affecting hard disk supplies worldwide, the customers most likely to be hit hard by price increases will be consumers in the retail market as manufacturers put enterprises and PC system manufacturers atop their lists.
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Will An Apple Television Hurt Google TV?
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on October 29, 2011
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Google TV 2.0 has launched with support for applications, an improved interface, and a host of other features that most of wished we could have seen in the first version of the software. But at least we have it now. And for those of us who love to be entertained in the living room, it’s [...]
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Extradition review could hurt U.K. hacker’s case
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on October 18, 2011
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A U.K. hacker fighting extradition to the U.S. may have lost one avenue for argument after an independent review panel concluded the U.K.-U.S. extradition treaty is not slanted against U.K. defendants.
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Free texts to hurt carriers’ bottom line?
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on October 10, 2011
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New Apple iMessage platform will allow users to bypass the SMS text-messaging network–as well as wireless carriers’ texting charges.
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Voltage Pictures dismisses 90 percent of defendants in Hurt Locker file-sharing lawsuit
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on October 3, 2011
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That record-breaking Hurt Locker lawsuit may not be so impressive after all, now that Voltage Pictures has slashed a major chunk of defendants from its file-sharing complaint. Last week, the company voluntarily dismissed about 90 percent of the 24,583 defendants originally named in the suit, according to documents filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The dismissals were made without prejudice, meaning they could theoretically be re-targeted in the future, though the number of those that reached settlements with Voltage remains unclear. The company also identified some of the alleged file-sharers by name, but acknowledged that 2,278 IP addresses remain anonymous. For more details, check out the coverage from TorrentFreak, where you’ll find the full list of dismissed IP addresses, along with the recently-named defendants.
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