Bit.ly Partnerships to Help Address Twitter Security Threats
Bit.ly, a URL shortening service popular among Twitter users, is partnering with VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to add a new level of security. The move addresses the growing abuse of shortened URLs, which conceal the full addresses of Websites, by attackers and spammers. – Bit.ly, [...]
AP source: GE, Vivendi in tentative deal for NBC
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AP – General Electric Co. has reached an agreement to buy the 20 percent stake in NBC Universal held by French media conglomerate Vivendi SA, The Associated Press has learned.
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GE, Vivendi Forge Tentative Deal on NBC Stake [Voices]
By Jeffrey McCracken and Sam Schechner, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal
General Electric Co. has hammered out a tentative agreement to buy partner Vivendi SA’s minority stake in NBC Universal for $5.8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, setting up a deal that would give [...]
Motorola: Can It Sell One Million Droids This Quarter? [Voices]
By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s, Tech Trader Daily
So, just how many Droid smartphones can Motorola (MOT) sell in the December quarter?
RBC Capital analyst Mark Sue asserted in a research note dated Sunday that he thinks the company has already sold 700,000 to 800,000 Droids, [...]
Bit.ly Partnerships to Help Address Twitter Security Threats
Bit.ly, a URL shortening service popular among Twitter users, is partnering with VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to add a new level of security. The move addresses the growing abuse of shortened URLs, which conceal the full addresses of Websites, by attackers and spammers. – Bit.ly, [...]
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC beta delayed, new features revealed
According to a blog post by producer Gordon Van Dyke, DICE has delayed the PC beta for its upcoming military FPS, Battlefield: Bad Company 2. “With the huge success of the PS3 beta we decided to drastically increase the PC beta’s capacity to insure as many [...]
Sharp shows plant making 10th generation panels
SAKAI, Japan — Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world’s first making giant “10th generation” panels for flat screen TVs.
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Startup News & Technology | Sharp shows plant making 10th generation panels
bit.ly Partnerships to Help Address Twitter Security Threats
bit.ly, a URL shortening service popular among Twitter users, is partnering with VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to add a new level of security. The move addresses the growing abuse of shortened URLs – which conceal the full address of Web sites – by attackers and spammers. [...]
Eclipse tells ex-community director to ‘go away’
Bjorn Freeman-Mason had become a thorn in the Eclipse Foundation’s side, so Eclipse executive Mike Milinkovich very directly said, “You’re a jerk. Go away.”
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Startup News & Technology | Eclipse tells ex-community director to ‘go away’
Practice overtaking theory in cloud computing
The practice of using cloud computing to solve real development, deployment, and operations problems is generating more buzz than the vision and theory.
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Startup News & Technology | Practice overtaking theory in cloud computing
