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Ventyx E.ON Bet on Smarter Distribution Grids
, wants to make distribution grids more amenable to distributed energy resources. The Ventyx Distribution System Operations Solution, which Ventyx is developing in collaboration ...
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Oculus VR Closes $16M Funding Round - Oculus Rift Team To Double
Oculus VR Inc . announced the successful conclusion of a $16 million round of Series A funding Monday, adding to their Kickstarter-filled war ...
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Asia Markets Japan Korea stocks choppy as investors eye Fed
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese and South Korean stocks advanced Tuesday after wavering between gains and losses, as investors pondered whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will maintain its monthly bond ...
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Jack in the Box closing 67 Qdoba stores
Jack in the Box announced Monday it will shutter 67 of its Qdoba stores, but as a measure of its faith in the brand, it will open many more of the Mexican Grill outlets in the coming ...
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Whos Cloud Is It Anyway Battle of the Enterprise - HP Takes On Amazon AWS - Workday is Working On Own Cloud
The cloud industry of Abbott and Costello took place last week - Who's on first..what's on second and I don't know who is on third? This was the cloud drama that happened last week in what is now a full blown fierce competitive marketplace for enteprise grade cloud industry. HP vs Amazon Web Services - folks the cloud wars are on. HP is taking the gloves off. Here is the story ...
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Edward Snowden Single-Handedly Forces Tech Companies To Come Forward With Government Data Request Stats
for years to reveal the number of times that law enforcement and government agencies turn to it for information about its users. Reports varied wildly: In 2009, Newsweek said the site got 10 to 20 requests from police every day. In 2011, Reuters ...
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I Used iOS7 Beta For a Week So You Didnt Have To
beta would be available to developers later that day. Beta operating systems - especially for devices like mobile phones - can be buggy as hell, which is why they aren't recommended for the general public. I, though, am a licensed Apple developer, so I bravely and gallantly downloaded and installed iOS7s beta on my iPhone 5 to spare you, the reader, any troubles. You should be glad I did. ...
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Smell the Ive 3 Days Hands-On with iOS 7 Beta
's iOS 7. Calling it new and Apple's iOS might be technically correct, but many would argue that this baby isn't new, it's borrowed, and it's not Apple's iOS7, it's Jony ...
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The NSA’s Slideshow Explaining Its PRISM Surveillance Program
41 slides from a NSA data-collecting program were leaked to the Guardian and the Washington Post. The program, called PRISM, shows the extent of the agency's reach into the communications of American ...
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Want To Be Smart and Successful Take a Nap
University of Chicago sleep researcher David Gozal, MD, sacrificing it for work, entertainment or some other lifestyle choice. In large part, he believes, we do this because it can take months or even years for a disease caused by sleep deficit to fully emerge. In the meantime, everything from our health to our relationships to our sense of wonder gets diminished. "Sleep is the food of the ...
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Obama NSA spying doesnt mean abandoning freedom
In an interview with Charlie Rose, the president maintains that the top-secret NSA spying programs were within the bounds of the law and were intended to protect U.S. ...
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Sprint sues Dish Clearwire to prevent $6B takeover bid
Sprint Nextel has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network and Clearwire seeking to prevent Dish's takeover of the wireless broadband provider. The No. 3 wireless carrier filed a lawsuit Monday against the two companies in Delaware Court of Chancery, alleging that Dish's tender offer violates the rights of Sprint and Clearwire's shareholders and the laws of the state of Delaware. ...
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Samsung Boasts Of Double-Data Speed Galaxy S4 Smartphone
JK Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Aside from churning out impressive, feature-packed technology that dominates the smartphone industry, Samsung is also adept at stirring up interest in what it has up its sleeve. Last month the South Korean electronics giant announced it was working on "5G" technology that would one day be ...
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Why Has Apple Overpriced iCloud
(AAPL) overpriced iCloud so much? You might not have noticed, but iCloud is now significantly overpriced. In case you're like me and you signed up for iCloud a year ago and have it on auto-renew, you probably can't even remember what iCloud costs. Here is an iCloud refresher: - You get the first 5 GB of storage free - The next 10 GB (for 15 GB total) costs $20/year - 20 ...
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Ex-HTC execs cant quit phone game create startup Kazam
Two former HTC executives are hoping for a fresh start with their own company. Michael Coombes, former head of sales at HTC, and James Atkins, former U.K. marketing head for the company, said on Monday that they are launching smartphone manufacturer Kazam. The two executives are promising smartphones that are about "stunning design, robust hardware, and intuitive technology, underpinned ...
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Apples Eddy Cue Steve Jobs was confused in his e-mails
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) NEW YORK -- An e-mail from late Apple CEO Steve Jobs about e-book deal terms is no smoking gun, just a confused draft of a message, a high-level Apple executive said Monday during the e-books antitrust trial. Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of software and services, testified that he never received an email from Jobs that said publishers would have to ...
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School iris-scanned students without telling parents
A Florida school admits that it made several mistakes when it allowed a security company to install iris scanners without telling parents -- and without even having a contract with the ...
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Former Microsoft exec tries his luck at building marijuana brand
In this photo taken May 30, 2013, former Mexican president Vicente Fox, left, speaks as Jamen Shively, CEO of Diego Pellicer, looks on during a news conference in ...
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Hertz-owned Thrifty says offer of free rental car was a mistake apologizes to customers
DALLAS -- Thrifty Car Rental says it's sorry, but many customers who were offered a free one-day rental won't be getting that after all. The company says the offer was intended for a select group of top customers but was sent accidentally to many other people. "We're very sorry for any confusion our eagerness may have caused," the chain, which is owned by Hertz Global ...
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PRISM Apple Facebook Microsoft ... Who released which data
If you're feeling dizzy in the wake of the PRISM affair, you're not alone. Here's a summary of the companies involved and what they did with your ...
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Tough Advice That Changed My Life For The Better
Have you ever heard the phrase "we're tough because we care"? That's the philosophy LearnVest C.E.O. Alexa von Tobel abides by when it comes to personal finance, noting that tough advice can often be great advice. "One of the most valuable pieces of advice that I ever heard was from an investor who told me that 'people simply live too big,' " she says. ...
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7 Management Practices That Can Improve Employee Productivity
Credit: One Way Stock All companies want to improve employee productivity, but how often do they examine their own management practices as a means of attaining ...
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Samsung On Quest For The Holy Grail With The Help Of Jay-Z
Jay-Z's "Magna Carta Holy Grail" won't drop for several weeks, but it has already made the hip hop artist $20M. On Sunday night Jay-Z announced the upcoming release of his new album with a three-minute commercial that aired during the fifth game of the NBA finals. The commercial, produced by Samsung, directed users ...
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Scott London I Got About $70000 in Kickbacks
Scott London spoke to CNBC's Jane Wells about the KPMG insider trading scheme and how much he made in kickbacks. London says "nothing like this has ever happened ...
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Googles low-cost Chromebooks coming to 6600 more stores
(Credit: Google) While Google hasn't done a lot of promotion around its Chromebooks, there's no doubt that the company is still working on bringing the low-cost laptops to more people around the world. The tech ...
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Rhode Island offshore wind farm contraversey
There is division in the ranks over a wind farm planned for construction off Block Island, while officials in the state government have accused future surveys for potential new sites of lacking in scope.
Deepwater Wind is becoming a controversial name in Rhode Island over plans to build an off shore wind farm just off the coast of Rhode Island. While not as controversial as Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that caused the mess in the Gulf of Mexico, the renewable energy plans of Deepwater Wind are certainly raising some hackles. Read more
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