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The TAO of Facebook data management

Facebook reveals how its home-built distributed data store serves a billion users worldwide within milliseconds

Critics question whether NSA data collection is effective

The mass collection of data overwhelms investigators with information, critics at privacy conference say

Google adds malware, phishing numbers to its transparency report to make the Web ‘safer’

The data come from the company's Safe Browsing technology, whicht flags up to 10,000 sites daily

A Facebook Reader could prove a mobile boon

If reports of new Facebook news aggregator are correct, new app could keep mobile users busy

Oracle 12c database coming ‘within two weeks,’ middleware launch on deck

Database 12c focuses on cloud computing with its 'pluggable databases' feature

Big Data Analytics Moves to the Cloud

Microsoft lays out more Yammer integration plans

Email interoperability, improved document collaboration and search are future areas of focus

Hello, neighbors! Scientists find 3 potentially habitable planets

Researchers find record-breaking 3 possibly habitable planets around a star

Google should be regulated like telcos and electricity companies, say rivals

Market testing of Google remedies ends Thursday

Xamarin tool aims to show the ease wth which .NET apps can become mobile

The company's .NET Mobility Scanner analyzes C# code to see if it will run on Android and iOS