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Today in Tech: Kindle Fire, ‘spear-phishing,’ SOPA and Carrier IQ – Washington Post (blog)

Today in Tech: Kindle Fire, 'spear-phishing,' SOPA and Carrier IQ
Washington Post (blog)
Carrier IQ: Motorola and T-Mobile responded Tuesday to requests from Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn) for more details on how they use Carrier IQ software. In its letter to Franken, T-Mobile revealed that it uses the device on some of its premium smartphones

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Marcin Jakubowski: Open-Sourced Blueprints For Civilization – Huffington Post

Marcin Jakubowski: Open-Sourced Blueprints For Civilization
Huffington Post
The lineup of the Microfactory looks like this: CNC Multimachine, CNC Circuit Mill/3d Printer, Induction Furnace, Ironworker, CNC Torch Table, Universal Welder, CNC Lasercutter, Hot Metal Roller. The science fiction author Robert Heinlein once said "A

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Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns (Michael S. Rosenwald/Washington Post)

Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns  —  MAIDEN, N.C. — Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment is rampant …

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Don’t get snagged by phishing tricks – Salisbury Post

“Dear AOL member/Bank of America customer, it has come to our attention that your billing and address information records are out of date. … Please verify your billing and address information.” Some scammers use email to “phish” the Internet …
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