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Whoops! VeriFone’s Sail user agreement ripped off Square’s
VeriFone’s Sail mobile payments platform was clearly a Square wannabe from the beginning — now it seems that’s more true than we initially thought. VeriFone apparently lifted significant chunks of… Read more »
The Pirate Bay hit by hack attack
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay appears to have been hit by a coordinated hack attack.... Read more »
A Windows racket: Microsoft will clean crapware off your PC for $99
The PC crapware problem has finally gotten bad enough that Microsoft is now charging users to fix it. For $99 Microsoft is now offering to strip consumers’ Windows PCs of… Read more »
Web typography: create “art from code”
Sponsored Post Thanks to CSS3 web design techniques and font-foundries, the ability to create gorgeous typography and beautiful design for browsers, is more accessible than ever...... Read more »
Today, Google web search is getting a new, bigger, better brain
Finally, Google’s search algorithm is getting a huge boost from a source we can actually trust. No, it’s not your dimwit friends and their Facebook shares. It’s Knowledge Base, a… Read more »
Electric Imp unveils cloud-based home automation: now you can burn your toast from Tokyo
Home automation is a hot category that just got even hotter. And possibly, just a bit easier. Today Electric Imp is announcing the Imp, a cloud-based approach to monitoring and… Read more »
Facebook to sell 25% more shares
Facebook says it will sell 25% more shares than first planned in its forthcoming flotation in response to strong demand.... Read more »
DealBook: Facebook Increases Number of Shares for I.P.O.
Facebook will offer 96 million more shares, or 25 percent more than it was planning to offer previously in response to high demand.... Read more »
Path CEO Dave Morin to join Eventbrite’s board of directors
Dave Morin, CEO of social-network Path, has joined ticketing startup Eventbrite‘s board of the directors, a move Eventbrite claims will help it continue innovating on the social front. While Path… Read more »
Microsoft Kinect’s NUads is what the TV industry needs to survive the future
What if your ads watched you while you were watching them? Microsoft is set to debut its new motion-sensitive advertising project NUads next month, which the company says will revamp… Read more »
