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Twitter has acquired over 900 patents from IBM, a move likely intended to settle IBM’s claims that Twitter was infringing on at least three of its patents. IBM said Friday that Twitter acquired the patents in December, and that the companies had entered into a patent cross-license agreement covering
A Netflix-like movie service could soon be offered free of charge to Toronto library cardholders. The Toronto Public Library is currently in talks with Hoopla Digital, an online streaming service, to grant library users access to an online vault of films, music albums, TV shows and audiobooks. No la
Amazon announced Thursday that it might increase the cost of Amazon Prime subscriptions, as it released lackluster quarterly earnings. During a conference call with investors, the company said Prime subscription, which offer members receive free two-day shipping and access to Amazon’s instant video
Back in December, some overzealous pornography filters in the UK that were meant to keep kids from seeing pornographic materials were flagging some legitimate and non-porn related sites. Specifically, the filters were blocking a number of sites for charities and sex education in the filter. The UK g
Zynga shares surged 20.2% in after-hours trading Thursday after the online gaming company said it is cutting 15% of its workforce and acquiring a mobile video game-make for $527 million. The San Francisco-based company is reducing its headcount to 314 workers with most of the cuts coming from manage
Box, the enterprise storage and collaboration company, has reportedly filed for an initial public offering of its stock. Quartz and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that the company has filed confidential paperwork to go public, under a provision of the JOBS Actthat allows companies with less t
As computers enter ever more areas of our daily lives, the amount of data they produce has grown enormously. But for this “big data” to be useful it must first be analyzed, meaning it needs to be stored in such a way that it can be accessed quickly when required. Previously, any data that needed to
We’ve seen the Galaxy Note series get larger and larger as time passes, but this is the first time we’ve seen the Note actually get smaller. The Galaxy Note 3 Neo has now been officially unveiled by Samsung Poland and will come in two flavors, 3G and LTE+, and the latter offers connectiv
An international research group of scientists and engineers led by the University of Bristol, UK, has made an important advance towards a quantum computer by shrinking down key components and integrating them onto a silicon microchip. Scientists and engineers from an international collaboration led
London-listed video search and ad company Blinkx said it “strongly refutes” assertions made in a blog post that raised concerns about its business model and sent shares in the company down by more than half on Thursday. Traders had earlier cited the posting by Harvard Business School pro
Chips with graphene inside are theoretically quicker than plain silicon designs, but they’ve been slow in practice; the manufacturing process often damages the graphene, stripping away its speed advantage. That won’t be a big problem with IBM’s prototype radio receiver, though. The
Yahoo mail users seem to be the most recent victim of mass data theft. Yahoo, in a security update posted today, claims to have “identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts.” The company then took action on behalf of its users, prompting them to res
