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Google Announces Helpouts, an Educational Video Chat Service Google recently launched a site for its new Helpouts feature, a person-to-person service through Google+ Hangouts that will connect people with experts for real-time video tutorials. Once it launches, professionals can make money sharing their knowledge with anyone who has an Internet connection. |
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Instagram Changes Brand Guidelines to Discourage App Copycats Instagram updated its brand guidelines this week to forbid other apps that connect to the service not only from featuring its logo or any design that “copies the look and feel” of the brand, but also from using either “Insta” or “Gram” in their names. Smart business move or petty jab at developers? |
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Cloud Prediction: High Availability with a Chance of Downtime In the past, disaster recovery meant either paying for expensive data replication services to remote data center hot sites or purchasing full sets of redundant hardware. Some companies were willing to pay for that peace of mind, but others went looking for more cost-effective approaches. |
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What Does Jeff Bezos' Acquisition of The Washington Post Mean for IT? Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, recently acquired The Washington Post. The move took a lot of industry watchers by surprise and had everyone wondering—why? It seems somewhat certain that information technology and journalism might be at the cusp of a massive transformation. |
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Security Researcher Proves Facebook Bug by Hacking Zuckerberg’s Wall Security researcher Khalil Shreateh discovered a Facebook bug that allowed a hacker to post on anyone’s wall—even one with privacy settings. But Shreateh’s reporting method raised some eyebrows: Shreateh exploited the bug to post on Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s wall. |
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