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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Calls All Hands Meeting On Privacy — Facing increasing pressure from the media and users, Facebook has called an all hands meeting tomorrow afternoon, at 4 PM Pacific, to discuss the company's overall privacy strategy according to sources inside the company.
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New York Times:
A Bewildering Tangle of Options — To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet.
Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Facebook faces fresh privacy criticism — Facebook has been sharply criticised by European data protection officials for putting users' privacy at risk with changes to its service. — Officials advising the European Commission said in a letter to the social networking company that changes …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Facebook Needs to Find Its Voice on Privacy
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Delivers the Future of Productivity With Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 — New products and cloud services available to businesses today. — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 …
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Office 2010: A Tale of Decadence and Hand-to-Hand Combat — Arriving at Google's main campus the other day, I flipped my keys to the valet and hopped out of my car. I noticed a modified RV over on the right side of the parking lot where employees could get quick free hair cuts.
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Forrester: Google still a distant Office competitor
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HTC:
HTC SUES APPLE FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT — Complaint outlines five HTC patents infringed by Apple products — HTC Corporation today took legal action against Apple Inc., filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to halt the importation and sale of the iPhone, iPad and iPod in the United States.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HTC files patent complaint against Apple, asks for ban on iPhone, iPad, and iPod — We'd been wondering how and when HTC would respond to Apple's patent lawsuit, and here we go: the Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Building Facebook Into iPhone OS (AAPL) — Apple is building Facebook features into the latest version of its iPhone software, we're told by a plugged-in source in the mobile industry. These features could be announced during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7 …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Gives a Nod to Newton with New ‘What is iPad?’ Ad — Apple started airing a new iPad ad tonight called “What is iPad?”. The Ad seems to be a departure from their recent ads with a bit of a gruff narrator walking through what the iPad is. However, it struck me as strangely familiar …
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Quentin Hardy / Velocity:
SAP's Big Problem — Word that SAP AG is buying Sybase for $5.8 billion is a reminder of a critical reality in today's technology industry: Even the world's largest maker of business management software, SAP, is worried if it is big enough. — SAP had revenues of $15.3 billion for 2009 …
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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Sprint Evo 4G Will Have Two-Way Video Chat, Goes On Sale June 4th For $200 — It's official: the Sprint Evo 4G will be on sale for $200 (with contract) on June 4th—even earlier than we thought. It'll feature two-way video chat on 3G and 4G networks, which makes sense given the forward-facing camera.
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Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
More Choice for Users: Unlisted Videos — Melinda teaches high school in the Bay Area and recently reached out to us with a problem. Her students just finished a video history project that she wanted to share with their parents and classmates. But she was concerned about posting …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
RIAA wins big in LimeWire lawsuit — A federal court has found the company that operates file-sharing service LimeWire liable for copyright infringement, according to court records reviewed by CNET. — U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, for the Southern District of New York …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Loses Senior Android Product Manager Erick Tseng To Facebook — Surprising industry move of the day (or maybe not): Google's Senior Product Manager, Android, Erick Tseng, has departed the company and will start working at that other game-changing Internet company as of next week: Facebook.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Microsoft, Verizon defend Kin's monthly pricing, noting cloud backup — Product manager says new phones will have app downloads in the future — Computerworld - Microsoft's new Kin phones are not truly smartphones, but Verizon Wireless is charging users a minimum monthly $70 service fee anyway …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Gathering Vitals of Your So-Called Scattered Life — The important records of most people's lives are too often hard to find when you need them. Some are on paper, scattered in folders, drawers or boxes in homes and offices. Others are in digital files on one or more computers.
John Provine / The Official Google Blog:
Understanding the web to find short answers and “something different” — One year ago today we announced Google Squared in Labs, an early attempt to find and extract structured data from across the web, such as a detailed table of [dog breeds] or [broadway shows].
Jason Snell / Macworld:
MobileMe Mail beta adds server rules, interface tweaks — Apple late on Wednesday announced a new beta program for the mail component of its MobileMe internet service. The new beta offers new interface views, server-based mail rules, SSL-based security, and improved performance, according to the company.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
‘HURT LOCKER’ PRODUCERS ABOUT TO SUE AN ARMY OF PIRATES — EXCLUSIVE: The war against movie piracy is getting downright explosive. We've learned that the producers of the Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker” are preparing a massive lawsuit against thousands of individuals who pirated the film online.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple-Verizon Political Calculus, 2010 Edition — Regarding Verizon's announcement of a supposed forthcoming Android iPad-alike tablet, MG Siegler wrote: … There's a lot to unpack here. First, I'll state up front that I know very little, one way or the other, regarding whether the iPhone is coming to Verizon this year.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Scroogle scrapes back to life — Google screws IE6 — Scroogle is back, once again serving up privacy-friendly Google search results, a day after a sudden change to google.com shut down the swashbuckling service. — The not-for-profit Scroogle stopped working on Monday …
Miro / iFixit Blog:
iPhone 4G Processor Revealed — Today's photos from Vietnam of a leaked iPhone 4G prototype contain legible part numbers revealing new iPhone's processor: the Apple A4. — The silkscreen on the production A4 reads: — APL0398 339S0084 YNL215X0 — K4X2G643GE N26CGM0T
