IBM Tops Microsoft in Market Value

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International Business Machines Inc. topped rival Microsoft Corp. in market valuation for the first time since 1996, the latest sign of the technology industry’s shift in emphasis away from the personal computer.

The reversal comes more than a year after Microsoft lost its crown as most valuable technology company to Apple Inc. Microsoft’s market value peaked in late 1999 around $600 billion and has trended downward ever since, as the company has failed to replicate its dominance of PC software in markets like Internet search and mobile.

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Nokia Cutting Another 3,500 Jobs in Manufacturing

Nokia said Thursday that it plans to cut a further 3,500 jobs as it shifts its manufacturing operations as part of its broader strategy shift.

The company plans to close a facility in Romania and location services facilities in Malvern, Penn. and Bonn, Germany, with the job cuts coming by the end of this year. The reductions are in addition to the cuts Nokia announced earlier this year. Furthermore, the company said it is starting to reevaluate its staffing levels at a number of other facilities with an eye toward cutting more jobs next year.

Facebook tracks what you do online even when you’re logged out !!!!!

An Australian technologist has claimed that Facebook can track the web pages you visit, even when you are logged out of the social networking giant.

According to Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic, when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users.

This simply means that any time you visit a web page with a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending personally identifiable information back to Facebook.

“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit,” Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post.

“The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions,” he added.