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Judge: Unredeemed Borders Gift Cards Are Worthless Scott Neuman, npr.org If you were hop­ing to cash in that Bor­ders gift card for the lat­est Dan Brown novel — or at least hop­ing to get some cash for it — you’re too late.A Man­hat­tan fed­er­al judge on Wednes­day ruled that the bank­rupt and defunct book chain o… Setting precedent?
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Report urges better use of public data to improve government services by Olivia Solon, wired.co.uk The UK gov­ern­ment needs to devise a nation­al data strat­e­gy in order to improve gov­ern­ment ser­vices and unlock eco­nom­ic growth, accord­ing to a report released this week.The Shake­speare Review is an inde­pen­dent review of pub­lic…
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So Google Compute Engine is out, your move Amazon Barb Darrow, gigaom.com Now that the fog of hype is start­ing to lift from the Moscone Cen­ter where Google rolled out its promised Ama­zon cloud killer, don’t expect the folks up in Seat­tle to stand still. As Ama­zon Web Ser­vices has made clear over the past 7 years,…
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FCC again balks on telephone network shutdown by Larry Downes, cnet.com commentary The remaining wireline carriers want to speed up the transition to native IP networks, an investment that has the added bonus of ending the digital divide once and for all. So why won’t the FCC let them do it?Six months after wire­li…
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The Melon Headband Launches On Kickstarter To Track Your Brain Waves And Mental Focus Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com Track­ing one­self is all the rage, with quan­ti­fied self devices like the Nike Fuel­band, Jaw­bone Up, and Fit­bit Flex enabling users to mon­i­tor and keep track of their phys­i­cal activ­i­ty over time. But what about track­ing your men­tal…
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India launches biometric data project to make every citizen count in official eyes Howard Schneider for the Washington Post, guardian.co.uk Cloud-based database will aid access to government services and bypass corruption in civil service for 1.3 billion citizensCould a semi-Orwellian programme to collect biometric data for 1.3 billion Indians become a key tool to pull people out o…
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