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French Court Rules Against Google Maps for Unfair Competition

Tech News While Bottin Cartographers is only a provider of mapping services, Google has both a free Map service, and a map API for use by developers and other mapping services. However, it has recently started charging higher for its API, which gives meaning to Bottin Cartographers' worries. Read More »

Credit Suisse Gets in Trouble for Manipulating IT Systems to Hide Losses

Tech News This raises serious concern on IT practices in companies that handle critical back-office jobs. Fabricating data can disrupt the balance of cash flow across multiple channels, causing a gridlock like situation. However, an equally big concern here is that of ethics. Read More »

This Sunday, Go to the Most Secure Super Bowl Ever

Tech News Super Bowl sees tightly integrated security measures. However, for the coming Super Bowl on Sunday, security has been upped considerably and it is believed that this is the most secure Super Bowl to have happened ever! Read More »

Wayland is Heading Towards its First Stable Release

Open Source Software If you have not heard of Wayland until today, it is because Wayland has not had any public release of their display protocol. Wayland will replace the X Window System in Ubuntu and Fedora, after its release. Read More »

Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and Microsoft Start Battle Against Email Spam

Social Media Although methods like SPF and DKIM have been used in email phishing protection already, they have their limitations. Finally, all tech giants, namely Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, PayPal, Facebook and LinkedIn are going after spammers. They have decided to verify if the email sender is indeed the actual sender. Read More »