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More About First Data Corp.'s Acquisition of InComm
http://www.paymentsnews.com/ 2008/ 05/ first-datas-acq.htmlIn late April, First Data Corp. announced the acquisition of InComm, a marketer, distributor and technology innovator of stored value gift and prepaid products. At the time, specific terms weren't announced. Yesterday, First Data filed a 10-Q with the SEC reporting its financial results for the first quarter of 2008.
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Fawcett Forgives Woman Who Leaked Medical Info
http://www.liquidmatrix.org/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ fawcett-forgives-woman-who-leak…Always one for grabbing the spotlight (inexplicably at times) Farrah Fawcett has forgiven the hospital staffer that leaked her personal info. From Starpulse: Farrah Fawcett has forgiven the hospital worker accused of selling her confidential medical details to the media, insisting she’s just a “pawn” in the system.
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Layered Tech Talks Grid Computing
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/ archives/ 2008/ May/ 16/ layered_tech_talks_…Layered Tech Talks Grid Computing Layered Technologies CMO John Pozadzides recently visited the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and took some time out to speak with Michael Scherotter from Microsoft about LT’s Grid computing technology. This video is approximately 10 minutes.
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Who to entrust your social network
http://blog.thylmann.net/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ who-to-entrust-your-social-network/The question will be gaining importance over the coming months (for the digerati) and years (for normal people ;)). With the other shoe having dropped, and now Facebook banning Google Access for Friend Connect, things are hotting up.
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Anam signs SMS deal with Telenor
http://blog.siliconrepublic.com/ 2008/ anam-signs-sms-deal-with-telenor/[16.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic] Dublin-headquartered mobile software company Anam has partnered with Nordic telco Telenor to deliver new messaging services to Telenor’s customers. Telenor will deploy Anam’s Smart Services Message Centre, which will allow the company to easily create and deploy new messaging-based services.
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Facebook Calls it Off With Google. It will not Participate in ‘Friend Connect’ Citing Privacy Concerns
http://www.watblog.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ facebook-calls-it-off-with-google-it-will-…A few days back we wrote about Google’s Friend Connect and how it had partnered with Facebook to create what seemed to be like a happy marriage. Everyone was raving about the Internet becoming more Social – it still is anyway with networks opening themselves up and carrying information elsewhere.
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Garmin offers “Lifetime of Navigation” to BlackBerry users for $99.99
http://www.unwiredview.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ garmin-offers-lifetime-of-navigation-t…If Garmin can’t sell you one of their GPS devices, they could still try to sell you the service that’s supposed to come with it. That is, the navigation service that’s really the core of their business.
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Deriving information from structured data
http://mndoci.com/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ deriving-information-from-structured-data…On net@nite I heard that Dipity, a great site for mashing up timelines uses Freebase as one of its information sources. An excellent example is this timeline for Marillion embedded below Earlier today, on Friendfeed, Alex Iskold described an “aha” moment for Powerset, which I have been quite underwhelmed by thus far (although it has a gorgeous UI).
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[facebook] the social network war
http://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ facebook-social-network-war.h…Facebook has banned Google's Friend Connect access to the Facebook API, saying: We've found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge, which doesn't respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service.
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Report: Government's Cyber Security Plan Is Riddled With New Spying Programs
http://www.PrivacyDigest.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ report+governments+cyber+security+pl…Report: Government's Cyber Security Plan Is Riddled With New Spying Programs - Via Threat Level: Major elements of the Bush administration's proposed $17 billion "cyber security" initiative have little to do with protecting government networks, and a lot to do with spying, according to a budget report released by the Senate Armed Services Committee this week.