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Entries from February 2010

Microsoft Ends Fight Against Cryptome

February 28th, 2010 · 12:25 am

Microsoft issued a letter to Cryptome.org essentially ending the battle regarding Cryptome’s publication of a confidential document regarding how Microsoft can provide user information to the Government in the case of possible criminal activity. Cryptome is a watchdog site that publishes sensitive corporate and government documents. Microsoft had issued a complaint against the website and [...]

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Lady Gaga Is 25% of Vevo’s Web Traffic

February 25th, 2010 · 1:54 am

An executive vice president of digital for Interscop, Geffen, a music label owned by Universal Music Group, stated in a press conference that Lady Gaga accounts for about one quarter of the website traffic for Vevo–a web service created by three of the largest record companies. Comscore reported that Vevo had 35 million unique visitors [...]

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Microsoft Delivers Cloud Service For Federal Government

February 25th, 2010 · 1:45 am

A new service called Business Productivity Online Suite Federal was implemented for the Federal Government by Microsoft. The goal of the project was to achieve better security than the traditional cloud infrastructure by Microsoft such as fingerprinting as part of background checks and biometric access control. This cloud service by Microsoft is becoming an attractive [...]

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