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You decide: should you let someone else in your company use your password

This week's technology-related dilemma: one of your company bosses needs to borrow your password during the Christmas holidayIt's Christmas and your company has closed for the holiday. However, you are surprised to get a phone call from a senior colleague (not directly your boss) who says he need...

Breakfast briefing: Nokia's cutbacks, Google's Public DNS and weekend photography

• After a series of struggles, Nokia says it's going to cut the number of smartphone models it makes in half. Why? Because of "unnecessary differentiation" that's leading companies like Apple and Research in Motion to give it a run for its money. It's hard to tell exactly whether t...

After Yahoo integrates Facebook, Google integrates Twitter

Search giant attempts to incorporate social networking and real-time live-streams through tie-up with microblogging serviceThat was fast. Yesterday Yahoo revealed that it was integrating Facebook Connect deeply into its site; today Google announced that Twitter will become a log-in option. From n...

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Yahoo and Facebook extend tie-up

Search engine and social networking site to integrate further - but is it an even partnership?Joining forces is the big new trend in digital media. Recently, Twitter and LinkedIn linked their status updates, and today Yahoo and Facebook have announced that they will allow their users to combine t...

Breakfast briefing: LHC hit by power cut, while eBay takes the fight to Craigslist

• No sooner had the Large Hadron Collider officially become the world's most powerful particle accelerator than the project - already plagued by a series of technical issues - once again fell foul of problems. Reports suggest a power cut apparently hit Cern's computer centre and caused the a...