Follow @johncabell It was almost like that scene from Woody Allen's Annie Hall: Alvy Singer: [the man behind him in line is talking loudly] What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it! Alvy Singer: [to audience] Whaddya do when you get stuck in a movie line with a guy like this behind you? Man in Theatre Line: Wait a minute, why can't I give my opinion?

The growing reach of the Internet and the proliferation of smartphones have made it easier to steal information remotely By Nicole Perlroth / NY Times News Service, SAN FRANCISCO A security camera monitors the exterior of Google's headquarters in Beijing.Photo: Bloomberg When Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film.

By Kevin Chen / Staff Reporter Acer Inc (), the world's No. 4 PC brand, yesterday announced that its first cloud computing-enabled smartphone had received the prestigious International Forum (iF) design award in Munich, Germany. According to an Acer statement, the CloudMobile handset will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress exhibition at the end of this month in Barcelona, Spain. The Taipei-based company unveiled its first cloud computing service, dubbed

LOOKING AHEAD:An industry analyst said companies and the government should cooperate to exploit the nation's competitive advantages instead of just cutting costs Staff Writer, with CNA Taiwan's cloud computing industry could be driven by the nation's competitive advantages resulting from its geographic location, undersea cable construction and hardware manufacturing capability, an industry analyst said yesterday.

February 12, 2012 JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An exhibition of contemporary art works by recent graduates of Israel's Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design has opened in Baltimore. The Maryland Institute College of Art will display the works through mid- March before the exhibit travels throughout North America over the next year. "Bezalel on Tour" features the work of 30 students who have graduated in the last five years from the departments of fine arts, architecture,

February 12, 2012 (JTA) -- A federal judge in Nevada has ordered the state's Department of Corrections to refrain from serving a new menu to inmates who keep kosher. In an injunction last Friday, Judge Gloria Navarro of the U.S.

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US government looks to mine social media to combat terrorist attacks, uprisings | Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S.

WARSAW, Poland --- Protesters took to the freezing cold streets of Berlin, Helsinki and many other European cities Saturday to voice anger at an international copyright treaty they fear will lead to censorship and a loss of privacy on the Internet. The rallies across the continent underline how opposition to the Anti- Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has spread quickly since a first groundswell of opposition emerged last month in Poland.