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Alexander Macgillivray / Twitter Blog:
FTC Announcement — Early in 2009, when Twitter employed less than 50 people, we faced two different security incidents that impacted a small number of users. Put simply, we were the victim of an attack and user accounts were improperly accessed. There were 45 accounts accessed …
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Twitter Settles Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers' Personal Information; — Company Will Establish Independently Audited Information Security Program Social networking service Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy …
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Twitter settles FTC charge on security, privacy violations — Update: With comments by Twitter's general counsel — Twitter has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that it “deceived consumers” by allowing hackers to obtain administrative control over Twitter because of loose security.
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
That iOS 4 reception issue is looking more and more like a software bug — Much fuss has been made about the iPhone 4's reception woes, but the evidence continues to mount that suggests the problem is purely the result of a bug in the current build of iOS 4.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
iPhone 4 Loses Reception When You Hold It By The Antenna Band? — This is a reader video found on Macrumors forums illustrating something weird. When the guy holds the iPhone in his hands, touching the outside antenna band in two places, he drops reception. Placing the phone down gets him 4 bars.
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Jonny Evans / Computerworld:
iPhone 4: queues everywhere, selling out — iPhone-mania this morning as queues form across the US for Apple's must-have product, even as shops across the UK, France, Germany and Japan have already sold out following huge demand. — Video above: The queue outside Apple's flagship Regent Street, London store this morning.
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Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video) — I think the video speaks for itself! — If you can't watch the video: IE9 is some orders of magnitude faster than Chrome when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering. — In some other initial benchmarks …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
iPhone 4's yellow spot issue goes away with a bit of time? — We're starting to hear a few reports of the dreaded yellow spots disappearing from the iPhone 4's display after a day or so of use. Interestingly, someone posting on the AppleInsider forums seems to know why:
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Farhad Manjoo / Fast Company:
Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere — On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, just after 2:30 p.m., the unthinkable happened: Apple became the largest company in the tech universe, and, after ExxonMobil, the second largest in the nation. For months, its market capitalization …
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Facebook snags White House economic advisor Levine as global policy head — Facebook said Thursday that it is expanding its global policy team and poached from the White House, hiring as its new vice president of global public policy, Marne Levine, chief of staff of the National Economic Council.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Police Your Own Damn Copyrights — I changed my mind: The court was right to side with YouTube over Viacom. In March, I criticized YouTube's founders for their apparent disregard for copyright law during the site's first few years of operation. Internal e-mail messages that were released …
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Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
WHAT VIACOM'S LOSS TO YOUTUBE MEANS FOR HOLLYWOOD
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
FaceTime really works in iPhone 4, new owners say — More than 400 people lined up this morning at one Apple Store in Massachusetts to get a new iPhone 4, and promptly started using FaceTime video chat as soon as they got the new smartphones. — NATICK, Mass. — More than 400 people lined …
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Lawmakers grill Apple CEO Jobs on location information gathering — Key lawmakers want to know from Apple how it collects and uses information about the geography of iPhone and iPad users through location-based applications. — Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) …
Rich Cannings / Android Developers Blog:
Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature — Every now and then, we remove applications from Android Market due to violations of our Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement or Content Policy. In cases where users may have installed a malicious application that poses a threat …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Review: Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect Is A Wonderfully Biased History Of Facebook — I've read David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect twice now. I've also interviewed him about the book twice on stage - once at TechCrunch Disrupt and a second time this evening at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
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JR Raphael / Computerworld:
Android 2.2 hits Nexus One — so who's next? — Ladies and gentlemen, the taste of Froyo may finally be upon us. — Numerous users of Google's Nexus One phone started receiving an Android 2.2 upgrade over-the-air on their devices Wednesday night. Gauging by users' reports …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
BZZZZZZ: YouTube Gets A Vuvuzela Button (Seriously) — YouTube always has had a way with pranks. Some time in the last hour, the world's largest video portal activated a new button on some videos that looks like a tiny soccer ball. Clicking it will activate an endless …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple ships iMovie for iPhone, available now — In tandem with this morning's introduction of the iPhone 4, Apple's iMovie for iPhone app is available now from the App Store. — As announced at WWDC, the app lets you make HD movies on your iPhone using video editing features carried across from iMovie on the Mac.
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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Amazon CTO Vogels counters ‘private cloud’ pitch — Amazon executives took aim at the private cloud sales pitch and argued that it amounts to little more than fear, uncertainty and doubt. — Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, said the private cloud—the idea that enterprises can run internal clouds …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Fox Mobile Launches Its Mobile Hulu Lookalike, BitBop — Fox Mobile is rolling out its subscription mobile video service BitBop, making a wide range of TV content available on Blackberry mobile phones. The service, which costs $9.99 a month, includes full-length TV shows from a number …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
GetJar, The ‘Wal-Mart For Mobile Apps,’ Raises $11 Million — Fast-growing mobile app store GetJar, which says it has had more than one billion apps downloaded from its store to date, making it second in size only to Apple's app store, has raised $11 million in a second round of funding.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amidst Turmoil, Linden Lab's CEO Steps Down — June has not been a good month for Linden Lab, the creator of virtual world Second Life. A few weeks ago, the company announced that it was laying off 30 percent of its staff and taking Second Life into a new direction.
Carolina Madrid / Reuters:
Alibaba.com to buy U.S. e-commerce site Vendio — (Reuters) - Top Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba.com, plans to buy Vendio Services Inc, making its first major U.S. acquisition to further its strategy of expanding its global footprint. — The fast-growing Web operator founded …
Adam L. / Fast Company:
Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love — Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has discovered, for the first time, that social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains. And that should be a wake-up call for every company. — The essence of affection.
