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  • Apple latest among tech firms to deny sharing customer data Apple latest among tech firms to deny sharing customer data

    WASHINGTON Technology giant Apple Monday revealed that over the last six months it had received between 4,000 to 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement authorities relating to criminal investigations and national security matters. The disclosure comes on the heels of similar statements and data from the Microsoft and Facebook Inc last week after reaching a deal about ...

  • Open Data Center Alliance Tackles Big Data Analysis

    Open Data Center Alliance , a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers. The alliance was set up in 2010 to provide a collective voice for enterprise customers, who use their buying power to try to influence the data center products vendors sell, with an emphasis ...

  • High-frequency trading fears overblown ASIC

    The Australian Securities and Investments Commission today confirmed it will not move ahead with previously proposed regulatory changes to rein in high-frequency trading (HFT), after a report released earlier this year found that the impact of HFT on the Australian market was ...

  • NewsGators SharePoint add-on tries to filter reduce enterprise social noise

    NewsGator has upgraded its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) add-on for SharePoint to make the software better able to tailor the content, notifications and capabilities it displays for each ...

  • Australian startup snapshot ReadCloud

    Computerworld's Mobility & Wireless newsletter ] ReadCloud chairman Lars Lindstrom and co-founder Jeremy LeBard saw a problem in education: Students were carrying several kilos worth of books in addition to laptops with no books on them. In addition, there was no easy way for students to share their notes with each other. The founders determined that bringing eBooks to the classroom ...

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The Night of the Hunter [Blu-Ray]

The Night of the Hunter [Blu-Ray]

Like most films that experiment with conventions, push boundaries, and muddy otherwise comfortable demarcations of tone, style, and genre, Charles Laughtons The Night of the Hunter was not particularly well received when it was first released in 1955. Neither audi ... ...

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  • Mobile app data protection not our responsibility say Australians

    Companies are responsible for protecting data collected by mobile apps rather than the individual who uses the app according to an Australian survey conducted by ...

  • Australia suspected to have PRISM data Ludlam

    Greens senator Scott Ludlam believes the US National Security Agency (NSA) has handed information it has collected from its PRISM system to the Australian ...

  • Sprint sues Dish Clearwire over takeover plan

    Dish and Sprint have been in a bidding war over Clearwire, which Sprint also plans to buy, and last week Clearwire's board recommended shareholders accept Dish's offer. But in a complaint filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery on Monday, Sprint said Dish's proposal violates its rights and those of other strategic investors. In its suit, Sprint wants to prevent the deal from being ...

  • International Trade Commission Rules in Favour of Canadian-Based We-Vibe in Vibrator Patent Case

    brand of sexual wellness products, is pleased to announce the final determination of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in Investigation No. 337-TA-823. The ITC has ruled in favour of Standard Innovation on all accounts. The Commission has issued a general exclusion and cease and desist order against all infringing Lelo Inc. products. The ITC ruling bans the import, sale, ...

  • Efficiency will hold down storage growth IDC says

    IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said. Annual sales of storage capacity will grow by more than 30 percent every year between 2013 and 2017, according to a forecast the research company ...

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