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The controversial world of clean power and data centers
This article is the third in a four-part series that we’re publishing this week. Over the past several years, a couple-hundred-mile area north of Charlotte, North Carolina, has emerged as a new hub for...
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The story behind how Apple’s iCloud data center got built
This article is the fourth in a four-part series that we’re publishing this week. Apple’s new $1 billion data center — one of the highest-profile new data centers in the world — has put the town of...
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Better medicine, brought to you by big data
Slowly but surely, health care is becoming a killer app for big data. Whether it’s Hadoop, machine learning, natural-language processing or some other technique, folks in the worlds of medicine and...
View ArticleCan Microsoft recover its super powers? Doubts persist
Can Microsoft do it again? The company that morphed from an upstart in the PC era by continuously taking on, then supplanting bigger, market-leading rivals, is in that position again — trying to make...
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MobiTV withdraws IPO bid
MobiTV, a maker of apps that let users watch live TV on smart phones, has withdrawn its request for an initial public offering to raise up to $75 million. In a letter sent to the Securities and...
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From bad to worse: jury directs RIM to pay $147.2M
The hits just keep coming for Research in Motion Ltd. Late Friday, a San Francisco federal court jury ordered the struggling smart-phone maker to pay $147.2 million to Mformation Technologies Inc.,...
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In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won
The Digg Townhall meeting broadcast live from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. 2008. Photo courtesy of Eric Magnuson, via Flickr Having spent a major part of the week sitting on...
View ArticleiOS hacker posts method to get in-app purchases for free
A Russian hacker has posted a YouTube video and accompanying instructions on how to get around having to pay for in-app purchase content in iOS apps. 9to5Mac found the video and posted a report on...
View ArticleTips for preventing the iOS in-app purchase hack, plus 4 other Apple stories...
With so many people writing about Apple, finding the best stories and reports isn’t easy. Here’s our daily pick of stories about the company from around the Web that you shouldn’t miss: Following this...
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Why I think OS X Mountain Lion is worth an upgrade
People often talk about the timeless design of Porsche’s cars: on paper they might not have deviated too much from the original idea, but in reality they have added more oomph, more features, and newer...
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