By Charles Clover and Courtney Weaver in Moscow
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number of news websites often critical of the Kremlin were silenced by
hackers as voting got under way on Sunday in Russia’s parliamentary
elections with pollsters predicting that United Russia, the ruling
party, could struggle to retain its majority.
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Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion delivers the keynote
address at the Blackberry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco. TORONTO — Google's share of the Canadian smartphone market doubled
between June to September while Research in Motion and Apple slipped,
according to a report by measurement firm comScore.
About eight million Canadians owned a smartphone in September and
35.8 per cent were using a BlackBerry, said comScore on Wednesday.
Apple had 30.1 per cent of the market, Google's Android platform had
25 per cent, Symbian had 4.2 per cent and Microsoft had 3.2 per cent.
RIM dropped about six percentage points since comScore's previous
mobile report in June, Apple lost almost one per cent a
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The Founder of Fireworknk, Johan Méndez had posted on his Twitter account (@Johanmmendez) with ten thousand followers, a photograph of a blonde woman that looks like Avril Lavigne.
Mendez gave no details of who is this photograph, it is certainly a pretty girl like Lavigne.
A message that has issued a controversial was "She really looks like! Here,”-lilyfferreira
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SALT LAKE CITY
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Microsoft's Windows 95 rollout presented the most challenges in the
company's history, leading to several last-minute changes to technical
features that would no longer support a rival software maker's word
processor, Bill Gates testified Monday in a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit filed by the creator of WordPerfect. 
Microsoft founder Bill Gates arrives at the Frank E. Moss federal courthouse in Salt Lake City "We worked super har
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Seven months after Sony and NJ-based jailbreak guru George Hotz made
nice over a highly-publicized PlayStation 3 crack, hackers continue to
tinker with the console. The latest breakthrough comes from the French
hacker Mathieulh, who managed to decrypt PS3 firmware 3.73’s lv0.
Those hoping for a public release shouldn’t hold their breath.
Image credit: Mathieulh, Twitter Mathieulh was quick to boast about his victory over security. After uploading proof of his successful decryption, he taunted Sony via Twitter.
"Feel free to check these lv0 build dates, they are the real ones. So
much for security,” he wrote the company. "If any of your engine
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 US pop star Britney Spears will perform in a free
concert in Mexico City on Sunday, an official said.
The concert, which will start at 7 pm,
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Washington: A drop in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels seems to have triggered Antarctic ice sheet formation.
Scientists from Yale and Purdue Universities stumbled on the discovery
while examining molecules from ancient algae found in deep-sea core
samples.
Matthew Huber, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue,
said roughly a 40 percent decrease in CO2 occurred prior to and during
the rapid formation of a mile-thick ice sheet over the Antarctic
approximately 34 million years ago.
"We went from a warm world without ice to a cooler world with an ice
sheet overnight, in geologic terms, because of fluctuations in carbon
dioxide levels," he added, the Science journal reported.
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Three new clips have been released from Up in the Air director Jason Reitman’s new pic Young Adult. Written by Diablo Cody (Juno),
the film centers on an alcoholic young adult novelist who ventures back
to her hometown in order to pursue her now-married high school
boyfriend. Charlize Theron is already turning heads for
her nasty performance, and the more I see of the film the more excited I
am to see it. Reitman’s a fantastic storyteller and Cody’s script is
said to be very, very dark.
Hit the jump to watch the clips. The film also stars Patton
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Venture capital firm, with Facebook, SpaceX, Spotify investments, raise mega fund.
Venture capital firm Founders Fund has raised a fourth fund, totaling
$625 million. Previous funds were raised in 2005, the year of the
firm's inception, as well as in 2007 and 2010. Facebook's Peter Thiel
and Sean Parker list among the partners of the San Francisco-based firm.
Founders Fund is well-known as one of the first investors in Facebook, Spotify, and many other high-profile companies.
And as the name would suggests, Founders Fund describes its
philosophy to ventures as "founder-supportive," which translates to
giving entrepreneurs space to develop their products and/or services
without the intrusion of what Founders Fund representative Tobey Proskey
calls, "adult supervision."
"From the beginning, we've alw
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Julian Assange has credited his Australian upbringing with providing the
motivation to launch WikiLeaks. However in a documentary aired in the
UK on Tuesday night, he was been attacked by a British journalist and
labelled an "extraordinarily dishonest man”. 
JULIAN ASSANGE has credited his Australian upbringing with providing the motivation to launch WikiLeaks.
Mr Assange,
who returns to Britain’s High Court next week for his appeal against
extradition to Sweden, was speaking in a television documentary,
WikiLeaks Secrets and Lies, which screened on Britain’s Channel Four on
Tuesday night.
"The combination of my temperament, th
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 Danish developer IO Interactive will release Hitman: Absolution in 2012, and then begin collaborating with Square Enix's just-announced Montreal studio on another entry in the franchise -- but that's not all.
With two studios on Hitman, IO has the opportunity to create a
new IP, and studio head Niels Jorgensen tells Gamasutra that's exactly
what the team will do. In a new interview, to be published in full on
Gamasutra tomorrow, we learned part of IO will collaborate with Square
Enix Montreal, and the rest will be developing a new property.
[ UPDATE: A Square-Enix rep also told Gamasutra that additionally, IO "will roll onto another Hitman
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Pete Naughton previews a new documentary on the internet's biggest social
network, in which the BBC's Emily Maitlis meets 27 year-old Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg.
 it feels strange to call Mark Zuckerberg, the doe-eyed 27-year-old CEO and
co-creator of Facebook, a business magnate – the phrase evokes pictures of
hard-bitten, rough-handed men such as Henry Ford. But a magnate he is, with
a net worth estimated at $17.5 billion (£11.2 billion) and a sphere of
influence that currently extends to the 800-million-and-counting users of
his social network.
In this wide-ranging, intelligently produced profile of Zuckerberg,
Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis travels to S
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