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Eric Schmidt: Google Did NOT Steal From Oracle (ORCL, GOOG) 27 Aug 2013 | 05:20 am
Google chairman Eric Schmidt had some choice words for Larry Ellison on Sunday. In a post to his Google+ account, Schmidt wrote: We typically try to avoid getting dragged into public battles with ot...
Uber Drivers Are Secretly Rating You Too 27 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
If you've taken a ride with Uber, the popular on-demand car service, you probably remember that at the end of your ride, you were prompted to rate your driver. A rating of one star implies poor servi...
Someone Figured Out How To Show The Most Popular GIFs Being Tweeted In Real Time 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
A new website simply tells you which GIFs are currently trending on the Internet. It's called .gif Hell and it tracks the gifs that are being tweeted about and puts the image on the site. You can loo...
10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning 26 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
Good morning! Here's the news. Steve Ballmer's sudden departure from Microsoft was "neither planned nor as smooth as portrayed." The choice facing Ballmer's successor is: double-down on Windows and ...
Microsoft's New CEO Will Immediately Have A Huge Decision To Make Post-Ballmer 26 Aug 2013 | 03:13 pm
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The next CEO of Microsoft Corp has one big decision to make: press on with retiring chief executive Steve Ballmer's ambitious plan to transform the software giant into a broad-base...
Adultery Website Is About To Enter China, Where Demand Is Already Huge 26 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
The founder of a dating service promoting adultery is setting his sights on China's cheating hearts after a controversial launch in Hong Kong. "It is a reality of life, we are an unfaithful society,"...
DHS: 44% Of Android Users Are Vulnerable To Security Breaches 26 Aug 2013 | 02:46 am
Millions of Android smartphone users are susceptible to security vulnerabilities such as viruses and malware, according to an internal bulletin prepared by the Department of Homeland Security and the ...
This Short Film Will Make You Think Twice About Using Your Smartphone Too Much 25 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
The following short film about smartphone overuse has been passed around a bunch this weekend. We first spotted it on Gawker and BoingBoing. It's right on the money: Join the conversation about this...
11 Extinct Operating Systems That Time Forgot (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG) 25 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
As the battle for smartphone operating-system supremacy rages on (and some would argue it's already over with Apple's iOS and Google's Android on top), it's worth noting that such power-grabs are as o...
There's A Major Shift From TV To Digital Video Ad Spending 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Bad news for the TV industry. After polling 5,000 advertising executives attending the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Digital Content NewFronts, the IAB found that 75% of U.S. senior executives pla...
