Downed Facebook accounts still haven't returned
It's been a week and some members say they still receive a "down for maintenance" error message when trying to access their profiles.
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Facebook acknowledges access problems
Some members of the social network claim to have been unable to access their accounts for several days now; it's a database problem, Facebook says.
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GPS device maps typically two years old
User-generated data may be the answer to the problem of users encountering inaccurate maps on their GPS navigation devices, say industry voices.
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Google: The cloud is cheaper
In response to McKinsey report, search giant says companies should consider application stack in addition to hardware when weighing costs of cloud.
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Google again delays debut of Project 10^100 ideas
It's proved harder than Google thought it would be to analyze the ideas submitted to a project to fund bright ideas to help others.
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Facebook's COO: Response to disabled accounts was 'too slow'
Sheryl Sandberg says the database failure was a consequence of the social network's rapid growth, which sometimes causes unexpected snags.
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Mozilla executives address Firefox's challenges
While company has managed to get nearly a quarter of browser market, it is a "daunting space to compete" in, say executives. There is, however, still a place for Firefox.
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Moderate leisure surfing at work is OK
Study may find employees who use 20 percent of time in office surfing for leisure more productive, but firms say this is too much personal surfing time.
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Has online piracy reached tipping point?
news analysis Across the globe, copyright owners are on the offensive and say jobs and future of intellectual property are at stake. Can they do anything about it?
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Wall Street Journal, AP take aim at Google
Editor of the Journal says sites that aggregate news are "parasites" and says legal challenges are coming.
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Salesforce jumps on the Twitter-for-CRM bandwagon
The software-as-a-service company has added Twitter to the lineup of social media sites that clients can keep tabs on using its Service Cloud product.
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Private-sale shopping sites are hot
Saddled with unsold merchandise amid the recession, makers of luxury goods are selling their wares through members-only shopping sites.
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Facebook woos developers with a roadmap
The social-networking company unveils what it's up to in the next three to six months so that developers can plan to add new things to their apps.
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How will you use Google Wave?
Google's Wave collaboration platform is already attracting attention from businesses, according to one of the key architects of the service.
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Finland decrees Net access legal right
Country becomes world's first to pass law making broadband access, at speeds of at least 1Mbps, a legal right for all its citizens by July 2010.
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Facebook's mounting customer service crisis
It's unclear how many members still can't access their accounts after Facebook acknowledged a database issue, but one thing's for sure: the ones locked out are steaming mad.
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Google offers easy translation service for Web pages
In honor of International Translation Day (you forgot?), Google is publishing code that Webmasters can use to detect the preferred language of their visitors.
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Xen.org to build open standards cloud platform
Xen Cloud Platform will form part of wider initiative aimed at bridging private clouds with public cloud services such as those offered by Amazon and Rackspace.
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Wikimedia receives US$500,000 from Hewlett Foundation
Nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia plans to use grant to improve user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, among other things.
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Here come the 'Twitter, we did it first' lawsuits
Service that makes emergency-management messaging software has sued Twitter over alleged patent infringement. The legal documents, however, are pretty vague.
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