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European Lawmakers Want "Right to Be Forgotten" on Facebook, Google(Mashable) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-25 20:30:33)
Mashable - European Internet users may be getting better control over information posted online, thanks to some proposed sweeping reforms lawmakers proposed Wednesday designed to protect digital privacy.The suggested law calls for a "right to be forgotten" and a "right to data portability." The former would require Internet companies such as Facebook and Google to completely wipe all of a user's info from their servers if such a request was made. The latter demands users be allowed to easily transfer data from one online service to another, a currently difficult task.
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Mohegan Sun owners outline debt refinancing plan(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-25 16:52:03)
AP - The parent company of the Mohegan Sun casinos has announced a debt refinancing plan offering new terms to bond holders and reducing the loan amount.
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Vt. power provider, IBM to help 'smart grid'(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-24 16:59:30)
AP - The Vermont company that runs much of the electric distribution system in the state is joining with IBM to build a fiber optic control system designed to make the system more efficient and reliable.
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Chip Solar House is powered by the sun and controlled through Xbox Kinect(Digital Trends) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-24 01:25:16)
Digital Trends - There is a lot that goes into making a house green, and we donât mean just slapping a coat of paint on it. Building an energy efficient home is hard enough, let alone maintaining a home that doesnât harm the environment by wasting resources and over consuming energy. Little things like switching off the lights and adjusting the thermostat go a long way in conserving energy, but it isnât always easy, and it can be difficult fiddling with all of that on a day to day basis. Enter the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arch) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their easy-to-use CHIP Solar House, a cutting-edge solar home you control with a wave of your hands and the help of Xbox Kinect.
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Second life: Revive your old workstation with SSDs(InfoWorld) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-23 11:00:00)
InfoWorld - I've written on a number of occasions about the capabilities of enterprise-class SLC solid-state drives (SSDs) when leveraged in demanding primary storage environments. Their ability to both provide impressive sequential read/write performance and shoulder enormous OLTP loads has made them an almost indispensable component of high-end database and large VDI infrastructures.
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How the major stock indexes fared on Friday(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 22:45:19)
AP - IBM and Microsoft drove the Dow Jones industrial average higher Friday after the tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts expected.
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Summary Box: IBM and Microsoft power Dow's rise(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 22:31:43)
AP - EARNINGS: IBM and Microsoft drove the Dow Jones industrial average higher Friday after the tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts expected.
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Microsoft and IBM push Dow up, Google falls(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 21:12:56)
AP - Microsoft and IBM drove the Dow Jones industrial average up after the tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts had expected.
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Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 20:12:05)
Reuters - The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by U.S. authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday.
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Stocks trade mixed, driven by earnings, debt talks(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 16:53:19)
AP - Microsoft and IBM are driving the Dow Jones industrial average up in morning trading after the tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts had expected.
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Stocks open mixed, driven by earnings, debt talks(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 14:46:40)
AP - U.S. stocks are opening mixed. Stronger earnings from Microsoft and IBM helped drive the Dow up while concerns about debt talks in Greece still hang over the market.
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IBM, other tech results point to robust IT demand(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 01:54:39)
Reuters - A strong outlook from IBM and decent results from Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp suggest that corporate decision makers are shaking off nervousness about economic growth and boosting spending on technology.
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IBM 4Q earnings beat estimates, revenue falls shy(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 01:06:09)
AP - IBM Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings handily beat Wall Street's expectations on Thursday, helped by higher revenue and profit margins in the technology icon's lucrative software and services segments.
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IBM brims with confidence for 2012 after solid quarter(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-20 00:05:57)
Reuters - IBM Corp, the world's largest technology services company, aims to grow earnings by at least 10 percent this year after it beat fourth quarter profit estimates, underderscoring signs of confidence in global tech spending.
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IBM reports higher 4Q earnings, revenue(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-19 22:54:11)
AP - IBM Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings handily beat Wall Street's expectations on Thursday, helped by higher revenue and profit margins in the technology icon's lucrative software and services segments.
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Microsoft 2Q beats Street despite soft PC market(AP) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-19 22:18:57)
AP - Microsoft Corp. battled through a weak PC market to post flat earnings in the final quarter of 2011, boosting sales of servers, Xbox games and its Office productivity software while trimming losses at its Bing search engine.
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IBM sees 10 percent EPS growth in 2012 after solid Q4(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-19 22:07:58)
Reuters - IBM Corp, the world's largest technology services company, aims to grow earnings by 10 percent this year after it beat fourth quarter profit estimates, underderscoring signs of confidence in global tech spending.
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NetApp's Tom Georgens: How we got big, stayed nimble, and view storage today(InfoWorld) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-19 21:32:20)
InfoWorld - Those of us with a bit of institutional memory recall a brash upstart named Network Appliance that burst onto the storage scene to challenge EMC -- itself once a brash newcomer -- and other storage royalty like IBM. But that was 20 years ago, as difficult as that seems to believe, and the company, now named NetApp, is $5 billion-plus storage leader in its own right.
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McAfee software bug could turn customers' PCs into spam servers(Reuters) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-19 05:03:27)
Reuters - Anti-virus software maker McAfee warned that a flaw in one of its products could make customers' PCs vulnerable to attacks in which hackers used their computers to distribute spam.
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IBM achieves breakthrough in data storage technology, creates world's smallest storage device(Digital Trends) (Yahoo Tech Enterprise 2012-01-19 01:10:42)
Digital Trends - There has been some pretty neat stuff coming out of the IBM camp as of late. Earlier this week we got a glimpse of the companyâs plans to further develop battery technology in electric cars. Now it looks like another research and development division at IBM is hard at work pushing the envelope, and expanding computer storage space on an atomic level.