Threat landscape is 'constantly evolving'
Keeping systems safe from attack
[BBC] 
Join Embarcadero for Free Webinar on InterBase, the High Performance Zero Admin Embedded & Workgroup Database
SAN FRANCISCO – January 26, 2012 – Developers looking for a low cost, high performance workgroup or embedded database can learn about the InterBase XE in a free one-hour webinar from Embarcadero Technologies on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. (...)
[WebWire Computer software]
Ener1, a DOE grant recipient, goes bankrupt
Electric car battery maker Ener1 filed for bankruptcy Thursday, three years after receiving a $118.5 million grant from the U.S. government.
[CNN Money]
* Why Apple Just Realised the Company's First True Post-PC Quarter *
We should no longer be confused about the notion of the 'post-PC era': Apple's shocking iOS device sales numbers for its first fiscal quarter are just further proof that tablets and smartphones are the personal-computing products taking over our hearts and wallets. Read more on this exclusive (...)
[OSNews]
European Commission Signs ACTA
I promise we'll have more on ACTA next week, but for now, I'm too busy to properly cover the subject. In any case, the European Commission signed it today, but that means little - each individual member state's parliament still has to ratify it, and if one votes against it, it's over. The (...)
[OSNews]
KDE SC 4.8 Released
KDE has announced its latest set of releases, providing major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, and improved stability, performance and dynamic power (...)
[OSNews]
Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics
Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution.
[ComputerWorld]
Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor
The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body.
[Science daily]
What's behind Netflix's 20% spike?
Netflix is the highest flying stock on the S&P 500 Thursday, but was its fourth-quarter earnings report enough to justify a 20% run up in the stock?
[CNN Money]
Intel buys RealNetworks patents
Intel is paying $120m (£76m) for RealNetwork's video patents. Experts say it undermines claims that a "patent bubble" has burst.
[BBC]
Call for illegal site demotion
Rights campaigners have criticised plans to ask search engines to demote illegal sites in order to fight piracy.
[BBC]
Call for cyberwar 'peacekeepers'
Cyber-attack on our digital lives is a growing problem according to the US Army's Cyber Command, which is recruiting "world class cyber warriors".
[BBC]
VIDEO: Facebook's 'Neighbourhood Watch'
Facebook has "an 800 million-strong Neighbourhood Watch system" to protect against people carrying out malicious acts, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.
[BBC]
VIDEO: How Google 'removes' content
Google's legal director Daphne Keller explains how the firm is able to stop people from discovering contentious material using its search engine.
[BBC]
Software Patent Attorney Launches a New Practice Patenting Software for iPhone and Android Electronic Devices and Cell Phones Lakeland, Florida, January 22, 2012 - Software patent attorney, Steve Aycock today announced the launch of a new law practice which helps people patent their software. The law firm spec... [WebWire Telecommunications] Software Patent Attorney Launches a New Practice Patenting Software for iPhone and Android Electronic Devices and Cell Phones Lakeland, Florida, January 22, 2012 - Software patent attorney, Steve Aycock today announced the launch of a new law practice which helps people patent their software. The law firm spec... [WebWire Mobile communications] Software Patent Attorney Launches a New Practice Patenting Software for iPhone and Android Electronic Devices and Cell Phones Lakeland, Florida, January 22, 2012 - Software patent attorney, Steve Aycock today announced the launch of a new law practice which helps people patent their software. The law firm spec... [WebWire Computer software] AUDIO: Should online porn be blocked? If you switch to a new provider for your internet access later this year, you'll be forced to make a choice: do you want access to adult content or not? [BBC] AUDIO: Should online porn be blocked? If you switch to a new provider for your internet access later this year, you'll be forced to make a choice: do you want access to adult content or not? [BBC News]
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