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For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews

Agencies like the Federal Trade Commission have been trying to crack down on online product reviews that do not disclose the connection between a merchant and the person doling out the praise.

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Victory on Antipiracy Issue Buoys Internet Lobby

With their success against antipiracy legislation in Congress, the Internet industry and its allies are weighing their future as a political force.

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AT&T Posts $6.7 Billion Loss on Failure of T-Mobile Deal

AT&T posted a substantial $6.68 billion loss for the fourth quarter, primarily from the breakup fees incurred after the company’s failed bid to buy T-Mobile USA.

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Nokia Reports a One-Billion-Euro Loss but Its Shares Rise

Nokia said it lost almost 1.1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) in the fourth quarter, compared with a profit of 745 million euros a year earlier.

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Clean Energy Projects Face Waning Subsidies

Wind and solar companies say they need more government support to be competitive. But in Washington, there’s little enthusiasm for more subsidies.

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Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs

If a new proposal by Oracle is accepted, oversight of Java technical standards will fall under the auspices of a single committee, rather than the current system, which has separate entities for Java EE/SE and ME.

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John Deere plows into agile

John Deere & Co., has moved about 800 software developers into an agile development process, and did so in just over a year.

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What JavaScript’s inventor really thinks about Google Dart

Brendan Eich says that Google's language is not likely to get browser support and that JavaScript itself probably would not be extended to support native code

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Railroad Association Says TSA’s Hacking Memo Was Wrong

McGruber writes “Wired reports that the American Association of Railroads is refuting the U.S. Transportation Security Administration memorandum that said hackers had disrupted railroad signals. In fact, ‘There was no targeted computer-based attack on a railroad,’ said AAR spokesman Holly Arthur. ‘The memo on which the story was based has numerous inaccuracies.’ The TSA memo was subject of an earlier Slashdot story in which Slashdot user currently_awake accurately commented on the true nature of the incident.”



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O2 Fixes ‘Accidental’ Leak of Phone Numbers

judgecorp writes “British mobile operator O2 says it has stopped sharing users phone numbers with all websites, and says the breach was an accident. Yesterday, users found that the operator was automatically passing their mobile numbers to any site they visited, while using O2’s mobile network,”



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