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Google’s Opt-In Facial Recognition Avoids Facebook’s Missteps

Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) quiet introduction of facial recognition for its photos application on Google+ is drawing praise from analysts and security researchers alike because it...

Google Currents Challenges Flipboard, Zite on Android, iOS

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Dec. 8 launched Google Currents, its long-awaited magazine-reading application for smartphones and tablets, joining an increasingly competitive field led by Flipboard and...

Penguin Computers, Assembled in Silicon Valley

I think Fremont, Calif. counts as being part of the Valley, so I was shocked to find out that Penguin Computing has an assembly...

Apprenda – The Deploy Anywhere Platform as a Service (PaaS) Stack for .NET – YouTube

Right now I'm working on a review of Apprenda's .NET PaaS. I'm struck by how much less convenient dependency-installation always is w/ the Microsoft...

There Are Many Cloud Entry Points, as Well as Barriers

Cloud computing has become an industry buzzword ripping through IT departments and forcing them to scramble to get in the game. But while the...

HP to Set webOS Free: License and Timetable Unspecified

This morning, HP shared, in vague terms, its plans for the webOS mobile platform that the company picked up (before dropping, and then sort...

Google Attacking Amazon With Same-day Product Delivery

No doubt many people have read about and have had time to parse the ramifications of Google allegedly (NASDAQ:GOOG) building a rival to Amazon's...

If the Price Is Too Good to Be True, It Probably Is

If the Price Is Too Good to Be True, It Probably Is The first and most important rule is to use common sense: If someone...

Twitter Redesign Courts Businesses, Catches Up With Facebook, Google+

Social networking company Twitter announced a slew of changes to the online and mobile versions of the microblogging site Dec. 8, including a simplified...

Cloud Security, Onsite Capacity Top Storage Trends in 2012: Symform

The coming year will herald in a "storage revolution," according to Symform, which released its top cloud and storage predictions for 2012. Over the...