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  • Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians

    Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

  • Hackers target important Saudi websites Hackers target important Saudi websites

    The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

  • Acer accidentally outs the first 8in Windows 8 tablet

    longstanding brothers, the Iconia W8 and the Iconia W7 tablets, the Iconia W3 is featured on the product webpages at www.acer.fi despite never having been previously announced or launched. Upon asking an Acer representative what was going on, we were told the firm "does not comment on products that have not been launched", and it seems that it doesn't comment on products that ...

  • Google chairman Eric Schmidt will meet with David Cameron

    and Google chairman Eric Schmidt is set to meet with British prime minister David Cameron, just as Google is embroiled in another UK tax avoidance row. Ever since Schmidt gave up his CEO post at Google to become chairman, he has been busy meeting politicians on Google's behalf. His latest stint of glad-handing will occur this week ...

  • Intel sees GPU shipments drop while AMD and Nvidia see gains

    Intel saw its GPU shipments fall while AMD's remained flat overall and Nvidia posted an increase despite falling PC shipments. As Intel's reliance on the PC industry has been revealed with falling PC sales, the firm's GPU chip sales have also declined. According to analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, Intel's GPU shipment figures are down 5.3 percent from last year, while ...


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The Jane Austen Book Club

The Jane Austen Book Club

While it certainly helps to be familiar with the works of Jane Austen and to be able to distinguish between, say, Elizabeth Bennett and Marianne Dashwood, it is not a perquisite to enjoying screenwriter-turned-first-time-director Robin Swicord's romantic dramedy T ... ...

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  • Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1-billion vows won’t ‘screw it up’

    This Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, photo, shows a sign in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/The Associated ...

  • Tumblrs David Karp Home-schooled Yahoo billion-dollar visionary

    Facebook and Twitter. Karp told the paper such things "really poison a whole community".The son of a composer and a teacher who separated when he was 17, Karp grew up on Manhattan's upper west side. He was building websites for businesses by the age of 11, and his interest in computing was sparked by the work of animation house Frederator Studios. Homeschooled from the age of 15, ...

  • 40 years ago Ethernets fathers were the startup kids

    IDG News Service - Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today. "Beards, Birkenstocks, blue jeans, T-shirts," Metcalfe said earlier this month, recalling how he and his colleagues looked and dressed when they went to work at the cluster of modern, low-slung ...

  • Chesapeake Taps Anadarko Exec as New CEO

    Anadarko Petroleum as chief executive, filling the post vacated by co-founder Aubrey McClendon.Lawler, who is senior vice president of international and deep-water operations at Anadarko Petroleum, will join Chesapeake on June 17, the company said.McClendon's departure on April 1 came after a tumultuous year in which a series of Reuters investigations led to civil and criminal probes of the ...

  • Why Yahoo bought Tumblr and what it needs to do

    NEW YORK: Yahoo! geared up for a major announcement Monday said to be a $1.1 billion deal to take over popular blogging platform Tumblr, a move that could bring a younger, hipper audience to the struggling Internet pioneer. The deal, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, if confirmed would be the largest for Yahoo! ...

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