Large-scale Google outage affects customers worldwide
Access to several of Google's most popular web services, including Gmail, Drive and the main administrative console was disrupted for around two hours Wednesday morning.
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Google grabs behavioral analysis startup Behavio
Behavio, the startup best known for maintaining the open-source Funf mobile framework, announced Saturday that its staff had been acquired by Google, in a move likely aimed at bolstering the search giant's mobile capabilities.
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Linux Foundation adds members, brings Xen project aboard
The Linux Foundation announced Monday that three companies have joined the organization -- mobile hardware maker Hisense, application and network acceleration provider Solarflare, and server manufacturer Thomas-Krenn.
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Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software
Dell says it's hoping to move closer to the forefront of data center technology with the release today of a suite of new products designed for software-defined networking.
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Google Death: Inactive account manager helps you plan digital last will and testament
Google provided a somewhat morbid reminder of the increasing primacy of digital data in our lives with the release today of the euphemistically named Inactive Account Manager feature.
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Is Samsung's Galaxy Mega Android smartphone lineup just too big?
While the issue of size creep in Android phones hasn't exactly been ignored, big devices have become so commonplace that the discussion is largely academic at this point -- the vast majority of high-end Android phones are simply big. Deal with it, as a certain former Microsoft employee might say.
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Iowa State researchers discover possible route to terahertz storage speeds
A team of Iowa State University researchers, working at the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, recently detailed a way to use ultra-short laser pulses and special materials to switch magnetism roughly 1,000 times faster than current-generation storage devices.
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Reddit co-founder calls out Google, Twitter, Facebook over CISPA
A co-founder of social news site Reddit has publicly urged the heads of Twitter, Google and Facebook to support efforts to defeat a controversial cyber security bill currently under consideration in Congress.
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Google gives Play store a facelift, as Android tweaks continue
Google today rolled out a redesign of its Play store for Android, changing the interface for smartphone and tablet users looking for apps and media content.
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Open-Xchange takes aim at no less than Microsoft Office, Google Docs
As his interviewer stumbles for an appropriately careful term to describe the state of open-source office software development, Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, offers to help.
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Google-led group warns of 'patent privateers'
Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for Google, Red Hat, BlackBerry and EarthLink.
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Will Android users feel welcome in Facebook's Home?
Unless you're a huge Facebook fanatic, will this really be something you use every day? Time will tell.
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Privacy flap prompts CyanogenMod developers to back down on mandatory info collection
The lead developer of CyanogenMod, one of the most popular third-party versions of Android, has reversed a change that would have removed the ability for users to opt out of data collection, after a determined protest from some CyanogenMod users.
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Apache Foundation promotes development framework Bloodhound to the top
The Apache Foundation announced Tuesday that the software development and project management framework Bloodhound is now an official top-level project, having graduated from the organization's product incubator.
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Open-source video recorder adds full HD support
If you're an enthusiastic home PC builder and a fan of Star Trek - and, to be fair, if you're the first, you're probably the second as well - it's an exciting day, as developer Klaus Schmidinger has released a new version of his open-source video disk recorder software.
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