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Sunday, September 5, 2010

• Judging You By the Online Company You Keep
  theodp writes "Network analysis uses data about your social network interactions to make assumptions and predictions about your behavior. The Economist notes the upside for companies looking to sell products. But don't forget about the downside, warns
  
• Google pays $8.5m to settle Buzz privacy invasion suit
  Google has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of Gmail users when it released Google Buzz, a Gmail bolt-on that turned the email service into a Tweetbookish social networking tool. The suit in
  

Saturday, September 4, 2010

• Nasty Data-Stealing Bug Haunts Internet Explorer 8
  Trailrunner7 writes "There's an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that enables simple data-stealing attacks by Web-based attackers and could lead to an attacker hijacking a user's authenticated session on a third-party site. The flaw, which
  
• Google To Pay $8.5 Million In Buzz Privacy Settlement
  eldavojohn writes "Google's Buzz service will cost the company $8.5 million in settling a class action lawsuit related to the privacy debacle from the days after its release. Ars reports: 'In the proposed settlement submitted to the court this week,
  
• Prototype: Online Giving Meets Social Networking
  Edward Norton, right, with Martin Sunte, ran the 2009 New York City Marathon to aid a Kenyan wilderness reserve.
  
• Google doodle marks buckyball anniversary
  Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball The buckyball was first discovered 25 years ago by a group of scientists at Rice University, in Texas, and named after the architect Richard
  
• Apple�s Ping Tops 1M Users in Two Days, but It�s No Google Buzz
  Apple announced just a few hours ago that it�s new music-centered social network Ping has surpassed 1 million users in a mere two days. More News From VentureBeat While the announcement may seem impressive, if you consider that iTunes has over 160
  
• Google Wave To Live On As 'Wave In a Box'
  snydeq writes "Google Wave will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, according to a blog post by Google Wave engineer Alex North. 'We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we've already open sourced (detailed at
  
• Google Will Pay Out $8.5M Over Buzz Privacy Snafu
  Bad buzz over a faulty service can exact a price from an Internet giant. But what�s the real cost? More News From VentureBeat Google has settled with plaintiffs over the privacy concerns stirred up by its attempt at a Twitter-like social network, Buzz,
  
• Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M
  A price has been put on Google's mistakes surrounding the launch of Google Buzz: $8.5 million. That's what Google will pay to settle a privacy lawsuit filed in the wake of its Google Buzz launch, which was heavily criticized for automatically including
  
• Google Settles Buzz Privacy Lawsuit
  Dillard's, a leading U.S. retail chain, worked with Xerox to create a thorough plan and blueprint for change, including a detailed cost analysis and estimated savings for adopting new technology. QinetiQ, a leading international defense and security
  

Friday, September 3, 2010

• Google faces antitrust investigation in Texas
  Google is facing an antitrust investigation in Texas over claims the company unfairly manipulated results on its search engine. The news was first reported on Friday by �[1], which says it received a "tip" that the investigation was underway. said that
  
• Reporters' Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare
  The new hotness in tech investing today is location check-in apps. From social services like Foursquare and Gowalla to shopping-focused business like Shopkick, investors love check-in. And why not? They're making already, even though but a tiny fraction
  
• Texas Conducting Antitrust Review of Google
  Google on Friday said that the Texas Attorney General's Office is conducting an antitrust review of the search giant, following a similar investigation launched in Europe earlier this year. The attorney general's office has asked Google for information
  
• Facebook adds 'liked' news stories to search results
  Facebook's search results featuring "liked" articles. (Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Facebook is taking a page out of Google's playbook. The social network updated its search this week to include articles that a user's friend has "liked." So,
  
• Twitter picture could incriminate Paris Hilton
  Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Mugshot of Paris Hilton When Paris Hilton was last Friday, she claimed that the purse in which authorities found 0.8 grams of cocaine wasn't hers. She said she'd been holding it for a friend. Trouble is, the purse
  
• Texas opens antitrust investigation of Google
  Google will face an antitrust investigation in Texas over charges that it manipulated search results, in what appears to a similar case to one pending in Europe. Google confirmed an earlier report by Friday after the close of the stock market that Texas
  
• Consumer Watchdog thinks Google's Eric Schmidt is a data perv
  Imagine wandering through Times Square and seeing a 60-foot-tall animation depicting you (yes, you) as a creepy child-baiting ice cream truck driver. How would you feel? That's probably the question Google's Eric Schmidt is being asked today.
  
• In Defense of Google, Or Why Consumer Watchdog is Full of It
  The self-appointed Consumer Watchdog activist group is running a Times Square jumbotron advertisement lambasting Google as a massive invader of your privacy, caricaturing its CEO Eric Schmidt as a creepy, high-tech ice cream vendor who profiles children.
  
• Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post to Walls
  Dillard's, a leading U.S. retail chain, worked with Xerox to create a thorough plan and blueprint for change, including a detailed cost analysis and estimated savings for adopting new technology. QinetiQ, a leading international defense and security
  
• Twitter: 300,000 Apps, but None of Them Matter
  Twitter CEO Ev Williams posted a blog entry Thursday with an update on the microblogging services usage, which continues to grow sharply. More interesting than the numbers, though, was the message written between the lines: Twitter now has 145 million
  
• Finalists announced for eBay modular datacentre
  Six finalists have been announced for the eBay's recent request for proposals (RFP) for a new, high-density, modular, containerised datacentre. On Wednesday, Dean Nelson, eBay's senior director of global datacentre strategy, announced that the finalists
  
• Google Gearing Up for iTunes Rival Music Service by Year End
  Google is apparently in talks with record labels to populate its upcoming music store and streaming service by Christmas, sources familiar with the matter tell Reuters. That Google is working on an iTunes competitor is no big surprise we saw vague
  
• On the GreenBeat: Smart Meters Win in PG&E and Oncor Disputes, Facebook to Get Greener � �over Time�
  PG&E smart meters vindicated, but the utilities company is criticized for poor customer service. An audit of Pacific Gas & Electric released yesterday reported there were no technical flaws with its smart meters, ending an investigation triggered by
  
• Facebook Moves In on Twitter�s Turf With New Follow Feature
  Facebook confirmed yesterday that it has begun testing a new subscribe feature for users and pages. The feature lets users follow a user or page and receive notifications when a new update or piece of content, such as a picture or video, occurs. The new
  
• Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square
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• Does Facebook Still Have Some Twitter Envy?
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• Facebook becomes second most targeted phishing site
  Facebook has pushed eBay off its second place position in the list of organisations most often attacked by phishers, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab. The social networking site accounted for 12.8% of phishing messages in July 2010, more than
  
• Google Wave becomes Wave in a Box
  Google Wave, the social networking service canceled by Google, will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, a Google engineer said this week.
  
• More Twitter users tweeting via mobile apps
  Among the more than 145 million users of Twitter, a growing number are accessing the microblogging service through mobile apps. The number of mobile users on Twitter has grown 62 percent since mid-April, according to a from CEO Evan Williams. Among
  

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