Mike Elgan: Why Facebook Places is going nowhere
Mark Zuckerberg the CEO needs to listen to Mark Zuckerberg the fictional movie jerk and withhold monetization of Places until it's truly "cool."
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Mistype Twitter or Facebook, win an iPad (or not)
A slip on the keyboard could land Web surfers on questionable survey pages instead of the websites they really want to visit: Twitter, Facebook or YouTube.
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Facebook buys most of content-sharing site drop.io
Facebook said it purchased most of drop.io, an online content-sharing service, but the social-networking giant sounds more interested in acquiring the company's developers than its technology.
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SWIFT to upgrade global financial messaging platform
SWIFT announced it will be upgrading its messaging platform for financial institutions to include greater security features and a move from file-based formats for storing messages to a customer-hosted Oracle database.
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Microsoft buys chip company Canesta
Microsoft is acquiring Canesta, a company that has developed chips that allow natural user interactions with machines, furthering Microsoft's goal of creating more natural user interfaces.
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PayPal recovers from widespread outage
PayPal is experiencing an outage that is affecting most of its members, preventing them from using the online payment service to conduct transactions.
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27 things you need to know about Oracle, SAP and HP
The last month has seen a blur of activity in Oracle's corporate theft lawsuit against SAP, which goes to trial in a California district court on Monday morning. SAP has conceded some misdeeds, Oracle has made a meal of it in the press, and HP has somehow been dragged into the kerfuffle. Here's what you need to know to understand what's going on with Oracle, SAP, HP and that now defunct company called TomorrowNow.
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Security Manager's Journal: Slammed with a $100,000 phone bill
The way VoIP works, the company will have to pay for calls made by hackers, but it doesn't want that to happen again.
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If we were serious about the Web
Why don't we make the Internet a real infrastructure, with the sort of oversight that benefits commercial air travel?
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