Is Facebook run by sociopaths?

In Europe, they view looking down from a cultural perch as exclusively their own domain, given that they believe history will always be on Europe's side.It was, therefore, less than deft of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to muse last week in Munich that, as The New York Times put it, privacy issues shouldn't occupy European minds when their economies are wafting into the...

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NEC to cut 10,000 jobs as iPhone continues assault on Japan

The company said this week that recent poor performance stemmed from the popularity of the Apple iPhone in Japan, an increase in the number of foreign rivals it faces in the IT infrastructure market, and trouble expanding beyond its home country, Reuters reported.NEC forecast a loss of $1.3 billion (100 billion yen) for the year ending March 31, and said about 7,000...

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the most powerful ultracompact eve is Sony's Cyber-shot TX200V r?

The new Sony Cyber-shot TX200V's photo and movie capabilities will make any smartphone camera look like a toy.At just barely more than half an inch thick, the TX200V features an 18-megapixel (18!) Exmor Rbackside-illuminated sensor, a 5x f3.5-4.8 26-130mm Carl Zeiss lens, and a 3.3-inch 1.2-million-dot-resolution touch-screen OLED display. It's also waterproof to 16 feet...

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Antiphishing standard in the works from Google, Facebook, others

The 15 companies will be announcing on Monday DMARC.org, which stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance--a system for verifying that e-mails are coming from legitimate companies and not imposters trying to trick people into clicking a phishing link. Basically, the system offers a common way for companies to authenticate their legitimate...

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