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Facebook Admits Its Ads Are Too Annoying | MIT Technology Review
Facebook says its ad targeting technology has irked its users and will be upgraded....
Web - MIT Technology Review

Google Faces Fine for Not Complying With French Privacy Demands
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) faces a fine for failing to make changes to its privacy... Google informed France's data-privacy regulator that it contested findings that its ...

IBNLive

Microsoft received 37000 end-user data requests in first half of year
PCWorld
Judges and police investigators are on track to submit about the same number of requests to Microsoft for end user data this year as they did in 2012, according ...

ZDNet

Apple maps route to AK airport runway reactivated
Boston.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — To the chagrin and worry of Alaska transportation officials, Apple reactivated maps app directions Friday that guide drivers to the ...

Alaska Dispatch

Martha Stewart Slams Apple Customer Service in Twitter Rant ...
E! Online
No action yey," she added. "Maybe I have had a good entrepreneurial idea? Apple Now? Like same day delivery from Amazon? I think I am on to something....

CIO Today

Apple Fixes iOS 7 Bug; Google Revamps Search; Gates Calls Ctrl+ ...
PC Magazine
Apple Fixes iOS 7 Bug; Google Revamps Search; Gates Calls Ctrl+Alt+Del a 'Mistake' ... to the forefront of the candidates to become the new CEO of Microsoft....

WPTV

What Google's Calico Means For Healthcare
InformationWeek
With CEO Larry Page's announcement last week that Google will be investing in Calico, a healthcare company, came a flurry of speculation from every corner of ...

Amazon, Apple face more international taxes in Europe
USA TODAY
Such as the "data tax" on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, about to be proposed by ...MICROSOFT: Microsoft's Surface Pro 2: So Right, but So Wrong....

Apple iPhone 5s carries US$199 BOM and manufacturing cost, IHS ...
HispanicBusiness.com
Apple's new flagship product- the iPhone 5s- features some cutting-edge ... "In addition, it is very interesting to see that Apple continues to collaborate closely ...

Google's five weirdest projects from its first 15 years
Christian Science Monitor
The Google doodle Friday depicts a bunch of letters cluttered around a birthday ... The game, of course, is a kind of birthday party for Google, which turns the ripe ...

Christian Science Monitor

Google at 15: Hiring Marissa Mayer, Employee #20
Bloomberg
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Heather Cairns, Google's fourth employee and Ben Legg, CEO at Adknowledge and former COO of Google Europe recall the hiring of ...

Apple Patent Tips System for Autographing E-Books | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "The patent focuses primarily on e-books, but also notes that Apple's technology could be used in other digital formats, like music albums, movies, and applications. Additionally, the "autograph" can extend beyond a signature to include text, audio clips, images, photo albums, videos, or other media."

How is technology revolutionizing health care? — Tech News and ...
By GigaOM
Health tech innovation will take center stage in New York City this Nov. 14 and 15 at the New York eHealth Collaborative's Digital Health Conference as a who's who of New York's health IT ecosystem gather to network and discuss health ...
GigaOM

From TEDxToronto to the trenches, a glimpse of technology's future ...
By Daniel Bader
A thousand or so delegates, and a few lucky media folk, packed themselves into a comfortable, soporific theatre in downtown Toronto yesterday to hear a.
MobileSyrup.com

Valve reveals the hackable, touch-enabled Steam Controller - Gizmag
By Jonathan Fincher
Jonathan grew up in Norway, China, and Trinidad before graduating film school and becoming an online writer covering green technology, history and design, as well as contributing to video game news sites like Filefront and 1Up.
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

Linn Introduces New Technology with Exakt Loudspeaker
By HomeTheaterReview.com
Linn has introduced a brand new technology that the company is implementing in the company's Klimax speakers. The new Exakt technology moves the source inside the speaker itself.
HomeTheaterReview.com

Apple's advanced fingerprint technology is hacked; should you ...
Less than 48 hours after the iPhone 5s went on sale, a group of German hackers claimed to have lifted a fingerprint and created a fake finger that could spoof ...
www.zdnet.com/apples-advanced-fingerprint-technology-is-ha...

North Korea 'has technology to build uranium-based nuclear bombs ...
Pyongyang thought to be mastering production of components for gas centrifuges needed to make such bombs, say experts.
www.theguardian.com/.../north-korea-uranium-based-nuclear-...

Book News: Apple Seeks Patent For Digital Book-Signing Technology
Also: University of Toronto faculty members disown David Gilmour; a new poem by Helen Mort; Teju Cole remembers Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor.
www.npr.org/.../book-news-apple-files-patent-for-digital-book...

Technology in the America's Cup: Against all odds | The Economist
BY SOME measure, it was the most spectacular match-sailing series ever and one of the greatest sporting comebacks in history. Down by 8-1 a week earlier ...
www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/.../technology-americas-c...

Stanford engineers build computer using carbon nanotube technology
A team of Stanford engineers has built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes , a semiconductor material that has the potential to launch a new generation of ...
phys.org/.../2013-09-stanford-carbon-nanotube-technology.ht...

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