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• San Francisco wants Uber and Lyft drivers to get business permits

  16-04-2016 19:32
  
  The City and County of San Francisco launched another salvo in the ongoing regulatory tussle between the city’s government and ridesharing services Uber and Lyft. This time, though, it’s the drivers who will have to pay up.
  According to SFGate, San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros wants Uber and Lyft drivers who operate within the city to register for a business permit in order to continue driving for the ridesharing companies. The city plans to send letters to over 37,00
  
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• Eenvijfde Nederlanders gebruikt apps op maat voor werk

  16-04-2016 18:02
  Een op de vijf medewerkers in Nederland maakt gebruik van apps op maat, speciaal ontwikkeld voor het werk. Een zeer grote meerderheid van deze gebruikers zegt dat deze custom apps de productiviteit verhogen. Daarop duidt onderzoek van FileMaker naar het gebruik van apps voor het werk in Nederland.Een minderheid (13%)... lees meer
  
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• RDW kiest Enable-U voor beveiliging berichtenverkeer

  16-04-2016 17:59
  De Rijksdienst voor het wegverkeer heeft Enable-U, integratiespecialist voor de Nederlandse overheid, een opdracht gegund voor levering en beheer van zogenaamde XML-SOA gateways. Het bedrijf gaat de RDW helpen om op een veilige manier realtime digitale informatie uit zijn systemen te delen.De RDW is onder andere... lees meer
  
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• How to upgrade your MacBook Pro Retina to a 1TB PCIe SSD (+video)

  16-04-2016 12:30
  
  When Apple began shipping the MacBook Pro Retina in late 2012, it announced that the built-in solid state-drive (SSD) and RAM would not be user upgradable after purchase.
  Well, the RAM part of that statement turned out to be patently untrue. That's a simple piece of hardware to locate. But Apple's proprietary PCIe SSD modules proved impossible to find.
  Then along came Other World Computing (OWC) to single-handedly fight Apple's planned obsolescence for MacBook Pro laptops with retina diplays. T
  
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• The CEOs of Google and Oracle met for 6 hours Friday but failed to settle their lawsuit

  16-04-2016 01:57
  The CEOs of Oracle and Google met for six hours on Friday but failed to reach a deal to end their massive copyright lawsuit over Google's use of Java in Android."After an earlier run at settling this case failed, the court observed that some cases just need to be tried. This case apparently needs to be tried twice," Magistrate Judge Paul Singh Grewal, who mediated the talks, noted on the court's docket.Oracle accuses Google of illegally copying a key part of the Java platform into its Android op
  
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• Japan earthquakes disrupt electronics supply chain

  16-04-2016 00:51
  
  A series of powerful earthquakes that shook southwest Japan this week has also disrupted the electronics supply chain. Sony, Mitsubishi Electric and chip-maker Renesas are among the companies with factories in the area.On Thursday evening local time, Kumamoto prefecture was hit by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, the first of many to rock the area. Early Saturday morning, a more powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck, triggering a tsunami advisory and several strong aftershocks.At least four people
  
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• Chrome extensions will soon have to tell you what data they collect

  16-04-2016 00:16
  
  Google is about to make it harder for Chrome extensions to collect your browsing data without letting you know about it, according to a new policy announced Friday.Starting in mid-July, developers releasing Chrome extensions will have to comply with a new User Data Policy that governs how they collect, transmit and store private information. Extensions will have to encrypt personal and sensitive information, and developers will have to disclose their privacy policies to users.Developers will als
  
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