Apple topples HP in global client PC market

Record-setting earnings for the December quarter put Apple ahead of HP as the world's number one PC vendor, with the company's combined sales of 15.4 million iPads and 5.2 million Macs accounting for 17 percent of the total 120 million PC shipments worldwide.
Apple has zoomed past Hewlett-Packard to be named as the top dog in the global “client PC” market during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new report from analyst house Canalys.
That’s because Apple shipped more than 15 million iPads and five million Macs combined — representing..................
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Criminals in UK jails using Facebook to taunt victims

In a shocker, nearly 350 criminals in British jails have been found using Facebook with some of them taunting victims and threatening to seek revenge.
All the profiles were closed by Facebook following investigations by prison officials.
In the past two years, nearly 350 people have been caught posting entries on Facebook while serving a sentence, UK Ministry of Justice figures show.
Violent criminals have been using Facebook to taunt victims and their families from jail, it was disclosed yesterday, the Daily Telegraph...........
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Google, Microsoft DMARC: email providers join hands to fight spam, phishing

Fifteen leading email service providers and tech companies have announced a joint effort to fight phishers.
Google, Facebook, PayPal, Yahoo and Agari are among the companies behind the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) spec.
DMARC is a technical specification that standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using well-known mechanisms.
The acronym stands for domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance. Think of it as a set of rules that can make email.............
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Google: not possible for the company to monitor everything on website

As you all know Indian Court asked the Internet companies to monitor all content provided on their sites.Google and Facebook are two of the 22 companies summoned by Delhi Court for hosting explicit offensive content.Indian Court is trying its best to convince Internet Companies to monitor all content provided on their websites, however Google and Facebook clearly said that its impossible to monitor all content on internet.Another hearing on the pleas filed by the companies is slated to be held on February 2.
"I'm hoping there will be a balanced debate around it and eventually the right thing would happen," Google's chief business officer Nikesh Arora said. "We cannot censor the Web. We cannot censor the ability of people to express themselves around the world. You are asking not just censor the Web in India, you are asking to censor the entire world wide web. The Web has no borders. I think the idea of censoring everything and pre-..........
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