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Iran’s View of Cyberwarfare – New York Times

Iran's View of Cyberwarfare
New York Times
Iran, as the current head of the Non-Aligned Movement and a responsible member of the international community, has been at the forefront of calling for the strengthening of international legal instruments against cyberwarfare. Cybersecurity is a global

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Privacy and penny-pinching points of view about Xbox One

Meet Xbox One, which some fans are calling a win, while others are underwhelmed and saying it’s a disaster. It goes after the TV watchers as well as gamers. Besides gaming, the Xbox One system “will allow users to watch live TV, make group video calls on the TV via Skype, and search the Web.” Microsoft boasted, “This is the beginning of truly intelligent TV.”
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23Mbps down, 44 up: A tech insider’s view from the Super Bowl

When the lights went off at the Super Bowl during the big game’s infamous power outage, not everything went offline.

The stadium-wide Wi-Fi network kept working—or at least it did in some areas and for part of the outage. But it was a very old-school technology—a landline phone—that saved the day for Andrew Stern, a broadcast engineer for a San Francisco radio station.

After coming home from New Orleans, Stern gave me a rundown on how the Super Bowl’s technology held up. Was the Wi-Fi network as good as promised? Answer: yes. Did the 35-minute power outage cause problems? Answer: yes—but Stern and team found a way to manage.

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Salesforce Jumps 8% On FYQ1 Beat; Q2, Year View Tops Estimates (Tiernan Ray/Tech Trader Daily)

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Salesforce Jumps 8% On FYQ1 Beat; Q2, Year View Tops Estimates  —  Hosted software vendor Salesforce.com (CRM) this afternoon reported fiscal Q1 revenue and earnings per share ahead of estimates, and forecast the current quarter well ahead of consensus.  —  Q1 revenue came in at $504 million …

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