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A hack nearly gained access to millions of computers. Here’s what we should learn from this.

Vox

Getty Images The internet is far less secure than it ought to be. How to (almost) hack everything Here’s how events played out: In 2005, software engineer Lasse Collin wrote a series of tools for better-compressing files (it’s similar to the process behind a.zip file). The security ramifications would have been huge.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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Finding the Best Torrent for Mac

Galido

You can look for the files you are searching for easily with the right free torrent software, access them more rapidly and handle them in one convenient spot. Built-in bandwidth booster – This auto-adjusts the Internet connection and network-dependent bandwidth usage to ensure quick file transfer. Absence of bundled software.

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

SPF13

spf13 AKA Steve Francia 16+ years building the internet Father, husband, skateboarder Chief Evangelist @responsible for drivers,integrations, web & writing. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In 1998 Google won the search race through custom software & infrastructure. For over a decade BIG Data = custom software.

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

SPF13

spf13 AKA Steve Francia 16+ years building the internet Father, husband, skateboarder Chief Evangelist @responsible for drivers,integrations, web & writing. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In 1998 Google won the search race through custom software & infrastructure. For over a decade BIG Data = custom software.

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Valve debuts ‘Chat Filtering’ feature on Steam — but why did it wait this long to do it?

GeekWire

The software has been in beta since August , and was initially built by Valve for popular multiplayer games such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Valve launched Steam as a software client for product updates in September 2003. By rights, one would’ve expected Steam to have gotten a chat filter years ago.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

In 2003 there were three major vendors of social networking platforms for the enterprise: Spoke , VisiblePath , and Contact Networks , while Interface Software integrated similar functionality into its CRM application InterAction (since bought by Lexis-Nexis). The companies took different paths from there.

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