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