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Anyone who visited Soverain Software's website could be forgiven for believing it's a real company. There are separate pages for "products," "services," and "solutions." There's the "About Us" page. There are phone numbers and e-mail addresses for sales and tech support, even a login page for customers.It's all a sham. Court records show Soverain hasn't made a sale—ever. The various voice mailboxes were all set up by Katherine Wolanyck, the former Latham & Watkins attorney who is a co-founder and partial owner of Soverain. And the impressive list of big corporate customers on its Web page? Those are deals struck with another company, more than
On Friday afternoon, Netflix published a blog post announcing a breaking change to their API, and dedicated a small paragraph to the fact that their API terms of use had been updated. On a technical level, these changes will cripple many apps currently integrating with Netflix, but the legal changes may be even more significant. Netflix customers should be aware of not only the upcoming changes to any 3rd party apps they might use, but what this says about Netflix as a business.
You can find the announcement on their developer blog.
FORTUNE -- Unbeknownst to me, I've been feeding geographical information into Google's (GOOG) mapping database for years -- searching for addresses, sharing my location, checking for traffic jams on Google Maps. Google, for its part, has been scraping that data for every nugget of intelligence its computers can extract. Without consciously volunteering, I've been participating in a massive crowdsourcing experiment -- perhaps the largest the world has ever seen. Who knows what I might have been teaching Google Maps if I'd been navigating the surface of the planet with an Android phone in my pocket?Apple (AAPL), by building its much-loved (and
Senior Crystal Davis, 20, wears a "Vote 2012" shirt as she helps fellow students during a campus voter registration event Tuesday at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.Senior Crystal Davis, 20, wears a "Vote 2012" shirt as she helps fellow students during a campus voter registration event Tuesday at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.Jim Gilliam hopes so. The Web pioneer has wrangled more than 170 million voter-registration records from all 50 states, cleaned them up and updated them.And he's giving all that data away for free to candidates and Web developers, hoping to open up "the building block for
Eight years ago I wrote a post called Opportunity: Windows is completely missing the TextMode boat. The language is dated...I assume we all realize that there are literally millions of Windows machines from 95 to XP that exist only to allow more than one Telnet/ProcommPlus/Terminal window at a time, so end-users can interact with remote systems.I’m just saying that my Tab,Tab,Tab,Enter will beat your Click,Tab,Alt-F,O,Click,Double-Click, more often than not and I will take the Pepsi Challenge otherwise.Command Lines are faster than Graphical User Interfaces. Command Lines and all the things we string together within them are DSLs (Domain Specific
Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More
When the news hit that Sparrow has been acquired by Google, you could almost hear the collective sigh from those who use and love this wonderful iOS and Mac OS X email client. Many people (myself included) took to Twitter to voice our disappointment with this move, especially about the fact there there will be no additional development on the app:
We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a long post about random number generation , which I find to be one of the most fascinating subjects in crypto...
SafeNet eToken PRO Anywhere There was a time just a few weeks ago when it seemed like the CRYPTO 2012 accepted papers list might not be...
( source /cc) Update 6/6: Microsoft has given us more details on what's going on here. If these collision attacks are truly novel, this...
Unitards: another consequence of quantum computing. Back in December I asked readers for some topics they
Going offline is the nightmare-scenario for blogging platforms and it is one that Tumblr-rival Posterous is currently suffering from after the company – bought by Twitter in March – lost “multiple” databases, taking it out of service for two hours and counting this morning (Asia time – evening US time).
A little over half an hour after it took to Twitter to reveal it was having issues (at 17:32 PST), Posterous said things had returned to normal but that response was premature and the
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