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• Draft script for James Bond film Spectre leaked in Sony hack

  14-12-2014 19:28
  
  Producers say early version of screenplay was among material stolen in cyber-attack targeting film studio last month Continue reading...
  
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• Amazon sellers hit by nightmare before Christmas as glitch cuts prices to 1p

  14-12-2014 19:11
  
  Small businesses count cost of error in RepricerExpress software that resulted in thousands of items going for a song Continue reading...
  
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• From Mary Berry to Xbox Studios, the big winners and losers of 2014

  14-12-2014 19:04
  
  Boris Johnson and Nick Clegg helped LBC to go national, and BBC3 prepared to fall off the TV schedules Continue reading...
  
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• Sony Pictures email hack: what we've learned about greed, racism and sexism

  14-12-2014 18:57
  
  Whoever was behind the publication of private correspondence, it has shone an unflattering light on the world of Hollywood executives Shonda Rhimes calls leaked Sony email ‘racist’Sony Pictures hack: a PR disaster from which there may be no return Continue reading...
  
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• People finding their 'waze' to once-hidden streets

  14-12-2014 18:14
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the people whose houses hug the narrow warren of streets paralleling the busiest urban freeway in America began to see bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling by their homes a year or so ago, they were baffled.
  
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• Privacy is not dead: Microsoft lawyer prepares to take on US government

  14-12-2014 17:05
  
  Interview: Brad Smith tells Dominic Rushe US demand for access to customer’s emails on server in Dublin strikes at heart of balance between safety and privacy Continue reading...
  
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• Your info has been hacked. Now what do you do?

  14-12-2014 16:37
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Criminals stole personal information from tens of millions of Americans in data breaches this past year. Of those affected, one in three may become victims of identity theft, according to research firm Javelin. Whether shopping, banking or going to the hospital, Americans are mostly at the mercy of companies to keep their sensitive details safe. But there are steps you can take to protect yourself against the financial, legal and emotional impact of identity theft — and
  
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• Identity theft victims face months of hassle

  14-12-2014 16:36
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As soon as Mark Kim found out his personal information was compromised in a data breach at Target last year, the 36-year-old tech worker signed up for the retailer's free credit monitoring offer so he would be notified if someone used his identity to commit fraud.
  
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• Fighting Talk: Can everyone please stop making us buy bigger phones?

  14-12-2014 14:40
  
  News broke this week that Google may, at some point in the very near future, stop making and selling the Nexus 5. That's no surprise as, in keeping with the general ebb and flow of modern capitalism, existing things tend to stop getting made in favour of newer and better things all the time. What annoys some people about this development, though, is not that the Nexus 5 is being binned and replaced. It's that the replacement is very nearly six-inches across, diagonally speaking. Add a bit more o
  
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• Opinion: Only learning to code can stop technology from being the boss of us

  14-12-2014 12:00
  
  This week, Barack Obama became the first US president to write an app. Well, he wrote some JavaScript. Well, he wrote "moveForward(100);" which drew a line to complete a square.And that's awesome. He was kicking off Hour of Code 2014, a global movement to get students to engage with coding, and here's what the CEO of Code.org, its parent company, said on Quora about that line of JavaScript: "Drawing one line to finish a square isn't hard, it's not rocket science. And that's exactl
  
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• Sony Pictures hack - a PR car crash from which company may never recover

  14-12-2014 11:44
  
  Business leader: the hacking of Sony Pictures and its embarrassing revelations are a lesson for all companies given that hacking can only get worse Continue reading...
  
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• Xiaomi's India smartphone ban exposes wider patent risk

  14-12-2014 10:18
  
  By Sumeet Chatterjee and Gerry Shih MUMBAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - The court order that banned Chinese mobile maker Xiaomi from selling its phones in India has halted its breakneck expansion into the world's fastest growing major smartphone market and could be just the start of a string of patent challenges. Xiaomi Technology only started selling in India in July and quickly became the country's fastest growing smartphone brand; with minimal marketing, it is already outselling even low-cos
  
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• Review: Thecus N8810U-G

  14-12-2014 10:00
  
  Introduction and designThe N8810U-G is a two-unit rack-mount network storage unit, designed for server cabinets. It's big, since it accommodates eight hard disks, weighs 15kg, and it's over half a metre deep, with dimensions of 90mm x 428mm x 586mm.It accommodates up to eight SAS or SATA disks, which can be configured in many types of storage array, from the basic types including JBOD, and RAID modes 0, 1 and 5, to more advanced configurations including RAID 50 and RAID 60.Pitched at about £1,5
  
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• How to hack your home: why there’s never been a better time to tinker

  14-12-2014 08:00
  
  As presenter of this year’s Christmas lectures, Professor Danielle George wants us to ‘hack our homes’. Here she explains why hacking – as in tinkering with technology, not sabotaging it – has become a key skill for today’s children Continue reading...
  
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• Coalition strikes deal with Telstra and Optus over copper wires for NBN

  14-12-2014 07:30
  
  NBN Co head says keeping old networks will be less invasive than installing fibre cables Continue reading...
  
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• Skoda Yeti: car review

  14-12-2014 07:00
  
  It isn’t hairy and it doesn’t have a big footprint, but Skoda’s Yeti comes alive in the muddy wilds of Kent Continue reading...
  
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• The ERP monolith begins to unravel, sort of

  14-12-2014 06:08 via zdnet.com
  
  Will all-encompassing enterprise application suites survive what the cloud has in store?
  
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• NBN Co to take over Telstra, Optus networks in new deals

  14-12-2014 05:58 via zdnet.com
  
  Telstra will hand over ownership of its copper and hybrid fibre-coaxial networks to NBN Co for the multi-technology mix network under a new deal signed on Sunday.
  
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• This year’s Christmas stocking essential, how the ‘selfie stick’ is set to storm Britain

  14-12-2014 01:05
  
  In London’s tourist hotspots, everyone is catching on to the smart way to take group photos Continue reading...
  
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