Awfulman.com http://www.awfulman.com Sat, 19 May 2012 15:24:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Twitter backs web privacy effort http://www.awfulman.com/twitter-backs-web-privacy-effort/ http://www.awfulman.com/twitter-backs-web-privacy-effort/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 15:24:11 +0000 admin http://www.awfulman.com/twitter-backs-web-privacy-effort/

Micro-blogging service Twitter will support an initiative that lets people browse the web without being monitored.
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In the wake of Facebook’s billion-dollar Instagram buyout, video-sharing apps are jostling to become the next big thing.

Ever since Facebook announced its $ 1 billion acquisition of the company behind the popular photo-sharing app Instagram last month, the question on every nerd’s lips has been: What will be the next big thing in mobile apps?







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Researchers reveal details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip.
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Political advertisers are going to flock to FB this year

There’s certainly money in politics, and Facebook knows it. The company, now under pressure to to justify its enormous $ 104 billion IPO, is trying to hire someone to maximize political advertising sales during the 2012 election season in the U.S.







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Facebook shares are trading flat at $ 38 on their stock market debut, having initially jumped to $ 42 within minutes of trade beginning.
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Facebook prices its shares at $ 38 each ahead of one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.
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Mobile phone data of suspects in police custody is to be extracted and retained, regardless of whether charges are brought, the BBC has learned.
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In a deadly flu outbreak, shutting airports should reduce the spread of the disease. But networks scientists have discovered a better approach that’s just as effective

One of the nightmare scenarios for modern society is the possibility of a global flu pandemic like the 1918 Spanish influenza which infected about a quarter of the global population and killed as many as 130 million of them. 







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