News: Software & Web

• Visa debuts credit card with keyboard that fights fraud
  Sindya Bhanoo, The Industry Standard
  Dec 04 2008
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  In 2009, some credit cardholders in the United Kingdom will get to test out a new Visa card that has an LCD display and a keypad. Visa hopes the new technology well help battle online fraud related ...

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• First Look: Facebook Connect Bound For Success
  JR Raphael
  Dec 04 2008
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  Facebook launched its Web-wide sign-on system, Facebook Connect, on Thursday -- and let me tell you, this thing has the potential to simplify and enrich social networking in a revolutionary way. The ...

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• Did Hulu deserve an Eddy?
  Rob Griffiths and Philip Michaels
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Our annual Editors' Choice Awards always inspire passionate debate--and that's just within the Macworld offices. While our list of winners reflects the consensus of our editors, not every pick is ...

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• Facebook, Google launch data portability programs to all
  Juan Carlos Perez
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Google and Facebook separately announced the general availability of their respective data portability programs on Thursday.Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect are generally designed to extend ...

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• Amazon Web Services offers access to Human Genome Data, labor statistics and more
  Sindya Bhanoo, The Industry Standard
  Dec 04 2008
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  Amazon Web Services is lending a hand to researchers and developers by hosting a centralized repository of public data and the computing power to crunch the data. As with other Amazon Web ...

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• Flickr Gets Flashy With New Video-Enabled Mobile Site
  JR Raphael
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Flickr's making it easier to stay connected with a brand new mobile site being debuted Thursday. The revamped m.flickr.com brings a refreshed design and a handful of new features, including mobile ...

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• Two (contrasting) faces of the enterprise IT swoon
  Eric Lai
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Software & Web

  There are plenty of predictions that corporate IT spending will shrink next year. So to see what's going on in the real world, Computerworld interviewed two enterprise IT buyers who gave very ...

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• Microsoft confirms Yahoo's Lu to run online services
  Elizabeth Montalbano
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Microsoft confirmed Thursday that it has tapped former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its struggling Online Services Group. Lu, formerly Yahoo's vice president of engineering for the Search and ...

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• Microsoft Windows Azure, Demystified
  Drue Reeves
  Dec 04 2008
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  Microsoft's recent entry into cloud computing, Windows Azure, was both a strategic and necessary move that has put other cloud computing players on notice. Threatened by competition from industry ...

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• De Beers tries to force spoof Web site offline over fake ad
  Jaikumar Vijayan
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Software & Web

  A provision in the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA) protects domain name registrars and Web hosting providers from being held legally liable in most cases for the content that clients post ...

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