ChangeWave Research , a part of analytics and data research firm 451 Research , set out to research just that, interviewing a sampling of 254 North American Kindle Fire owners.

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Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry.

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and #34;All government business is done in English here. I don and #39;t need an official law saying that English is the de facto language. Everyone knows that already, and #34; said John Cook, mayor of El Paso, Texas — a border city in which 73 percent of its 800,000 inhabitants say they speak Spanish at home.

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A Norwich primary school has been left without any ICT equipment for children’s lessons after it was broken into for the second time in less than a month.

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Government sources said it would ditch the rules and #39;within months and #39; that let learners sit the theory test in any of 19 foreign languages – including Urdu, Russian and Albanian.

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A version of Microsoft and #39;s record-breaking Kinect motion and voice sensor is made available for use on Windows.

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A 2008 email informing James Murdoch of the potential scope of phone hacking at the News of the World was deleted in an IT upgrade last year, lawyers say.

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Last week, Google announced new privacy standards that essentially created a single, unified policy across all of its properties

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Twitter has embraced censorship, many fear — and the world’s most repressive regimes are applauding the move.

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Lance Armstrong, who won the Tour de France a record seven times, took a stake in Mobli Inc., an operator of a video social networking site.

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The Pinacotheque de Paris is the black sheep among art institutions in the French capital.

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Facebook may file a prospectus as early as next week, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who demanded anonymity because discussions are private. But the company is still hammering out a final date.

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Twitter incited anger among its international users on Friday after it announced a new method of blocking individual posts from appearing in certain countries. But some Internet advocacy groups defended it.

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Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.

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Facebook has and #34;an 800 million-strong Neighbourhood Watch system and #34; to protect against people carrying out malicious acts, the Leveson Inquiry hears.

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Teaching children how to write programs and develop applications is admirable, but digital literacy isn and #39;t just about that Michael Gove recently labelled the current provision of ICT in English schools as and #34;dull and #39; and argued, schools should have the freedom to teach computer science. The education secretary and #39;s speech came after a Royal Society report which mentioned that computing science is seen as …

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and #34;The United States has a huge budget deficit, so taxes are going to have to go up, and #34; the Microsoft co-founder told the BBC . and #34;And I certainly agree that they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That and #39;s just justice. and #34;

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As we mentioned yesterday, Facebook Timeline is coming whether you like or not. In the next few weeks, your Facebook profile will be assimilated, giving you seven days to get your house in order before everyone can browse through your virtual history

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Commentary: Wikipedia and #39;s wimpy protest San Antonio Express-News Copyright 2012 San Antonio Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 10:43 a.m., Thursday, January 19, 2012 Wikipedia went dark today in protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act), proposed legislation to curtail …

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Scotland and #39;s First Minister said the two countries would share a and #39;social union and #39; after independence, in which ties of family, friendship and economic links would remain strong.

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Facebook announced on Tuesday that it would begin the global rollout of Timeline, a profile-page makeover that displays a user’s entire history of photos, links and other things shared on Facebook in chronological order, making them accessible with a single click.

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KIRKLAND, Wash. — Bill Gates has a terse response to criticism that the high-tech solutions he advocates for world hunger are too expensive or bad for the environment: Countries can embrace modern seed technology and genetic modification or their citizens will starve.

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Google said Tuesday that it would revise its privacy policies and terms of service, to make them shorter and more readable and to change the way Google can use information that users provide.

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If recent acquisitions are any indication, Twitter is beefing up security on its site. On Monday, it acquired Dasient, a three-year-old Internet security start-up, marking Twitter’s second security acquisition in just three months.

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Microsoft said it suspects a former Russian antivirus company employee is behind an illegal botnet operation.

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Since Google Inc. (GOOG) introduced its Android operating system in 2007, the company’s strategy has been simple: Give it to developers for free and make money when consumers click ads on the Web or through apps. That model is hitting a snag.

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Time for Facebook, Google et al to lobby hard Stringent proposals for the revision of Europe and #39;s outdated 1995 data protection law are to be revealed by officials this coming Wednesday.…

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Google shares plunge in after hours trading as it misses analysts forecasts – on the day Fortune magazine names it the best place to work in America Google was named the best place to work in America by Fortune magazine on Thursday and as if in celebration made more than $10bn in the final quarter of 2011, a company first. But the firm and #39;s results failed to impress analysts who had been expecting …

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A pending $3.6 billion transfer of spectrum will give Comcast, the nation and #39;s largest cable company, a presence in select Verizon Wireless retail locations, where Comcast salesmen will offer Verizon customers special offers if they sign up for the cable company and #39;s Xfinity service.

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Google Inc. (GOOG) ’s Larry Page delivered his first disappointing quarterly results as chief executive officer after his push into mobile advertising and weakness in Europe trimmed growth in revenue from online advertising.

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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) , the world’s largest software maker, reported second-quarter profit that beat estimates, lifted by holiday sales of Xbox machines and Kinect sensors, as well as corporate software demand.

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Researchers demonstrate that, if quantum computers fulfil their promise of ultra-fast computing, the job could be farmed out to and #34;the cloud and #34; while remaining secure.

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To help usher in Facebook’s coming seventh birthday, the company is learning how to use more verbs. On Wednesday, at a press event in San Francisco, Facebook announced that it had partnered with 60 new services around the Web to help show “actions” people were engaging in online.

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As Michael Gove allows schools to write their own ICT and computing curricula, here are some of the most interesting ideas you put forward during our Digital Literacy campaign Last week the Guardian launched a campaign to improve the teaching of computer science and IT in schools . Businesses had complained that poor quality courses in schools, colleges and universities had led to a shortage of …

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Protests on Wednesday quickly cut into support for two Internet piracy bills as Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, said he would no longer back the legislation he co-sponsored.

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A blacked-out Wikipedia asks David Carr, the New York Times columnist, to “Imagine a world without free knowledge.” Mr. Carr writes, “I just did and I didn’t like it, now can I have my Wikipedia back’”

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A teenager who aged nine became the world and #39;s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional has died. Computer genius Arfa Karim Randhawa, 16, from Faisalabad, Pakistan, died on Saturday night after complications resulting from an epileptic stroke.

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America Movil SAB (AMXL) may face restrictions on its mobile-phone prices, such as the difference in fees for calls within and outside its network, under rules that Mexico ’s telecommunications regulator is considering.

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Google plans to join the Internet companies that are protesting two controversial piracy bills on Wednesday. While some Web sites, like Wikipedia, plan to go dark for the day, Google will use its popular home page to link to information about its point of view on the legislation.

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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) ’s computer-network- management software, a product that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer once came close to scrapping, emerges today as the cornerstone of a bid to challenge VMware Inc.

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The network will gather data from the social Web site on whether viewers think the Republican presidential candidates are answering or dodging questions on Monday night.

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NEW YORK – Facebook and #39;s long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) is now likely to come in the third week of May, according to multiple sources cited Monday.

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Google hits back at comments made by Rupert Murdoch suggesting that the search giant was a and #34;piracy leader and #34;.

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Government grants that funded foreign language classes nationwide fall victim to budget cuts.

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Because the Internet eludes the grasp of government, often by working around it, censorship of Internet speech has proven difficult, as the global tumult in repressive government regimes bears witness.

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She was an active participant in conversations. She cracked jokes, offered suggestions for things to do, settled arguments, and entertained an eight-year-old during a quiet afternoon.

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SAP is based in Europe, which is supposed to be on the verge of a recession. So what accounts for its strong showing in the most recent quarter’

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Age is just a number to brainy Jay Williams, from Erdington, Birmingham, who is fast gaining a reputation as the master fix-it for computer-related problems.

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One of the UK and #39;s most eminent scientific institutions says British schools have lost their way in teaching computer science British schools have more computers per pupil than almost every other European country, but our computing lessons are still and #34;highly unsatisfactory and #34;, a group of leading scientists has warned. The Royal Society, one of the country and #39;s most eminent scientific institutions …

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Experts from Aberystwyth University, the Open University, and developers and #39; network Young Rewired State discuss women in programming, and also ask: how much digital literacy do young people need’ 3.01pm: In response to GoogleWhack and #39;s suggestion of exercises that might appeal to pupils : Maybe something like: and #34;Today we will be creating an app for you blackberry in which you can rate boys in order of …

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