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July 28, 2012
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App Lets You Send Pictures via Sound Chirp uses sound to transmit words, pictures and URLs from one phone to another, and it gets its name because its data transmission sounds like a robotic bird.
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Domino's Pizza Sales Boosted by Online and Social Media Domino's Pizza has revealed that its e-commerce function has helped deliver a 11 percent increase in its total sales for the first half of 2012.
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NSA Chief Asks Hackers at Defcon for Help Securing Cyberspace Hackers can help educate people who don't understand cybersecurity as well as they do, and protect help networks, civil liberties, and privacy, the NSA chief said.
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Security Experts Cold on Former FBI Official's Black Hat Keynote Call for business to 'step up' in fight against cyber attacks sparks discussion of proper private, public roles.
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Twitter Suffers Malware Spam Outbreak A widespread spam attack linking to malware has broken out on Twitter, according to the security firm Sophos.
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Your Complete Social Media Guide to the 2012 London Olympics As the 2012 Olympics kick off today, don't rely solely on the TV broadcasts to enjoy the festivities: Thanks to social media, there are plenty of alternatives.
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Megaupload Lawyers Ask for Judge to Restore Business A U.S. judge should permanently dismiss a U.S. Department of Justice criminal case against file-sharing and storage website Megaupload, the company's attorney requested Friday.
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Who Owns Your Twitter Account? Analysis: Take my Twitter account -- please! Employers' policies are often unclear when it comes to social media account ownership.
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Google Talk Users Lash out Over Major Outage Google Talk, a desktop and mobile text and voice chat service used by many Google Gmail customers, suffered a widespread outage Thursday morning that the company says affected "a majority of users."
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Windows 8 Ultrabooks and Tablets to Feature New Sensors Ultrabooks and convertible tablets will soon have everything from compasses and gyroscopes to GPS and accelerometers.
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Court Tells Apple, Samsung Most Documents in Patent Case Must Be Public Apple and Samsung Electronics won't be able to keep certain pieces of information from the public during their high-profile jury trial that begins on Monday, a...
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Bring Back the 80s With This Modern Take on the Old Mixtape Miss the old mixtapes? This upgraded, 3D-printed version from MakerBot looks just like the real thing, but holds your favorite MP3 playlist instead.
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Reseachers Temporarily Restore Sight to Blind Mice With a Single Chemical Injection UC Berkeley researchers restore sight to genetically blind mice with a single chemical injection, and it may work on humans too.
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Do Big Selections Confuse You? This New Technology Will Help You Choose A Japanese invention scans and recognizes different items by shape, color and pattern, providing instant information.
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Print a Smell on a Postcard A concept device could let you take pictures and capture the smell on a postcard.
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