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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook in Privacy Breach — Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the F8 developer conference this spring. — Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc …
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Facebook Developer Blog:
Using Facebook UIDs — We take user privacy seriously. We are dedicated to protecting private user data while letting users enjoy rich experiences with their friends. This more social Web will only occur if users trust that they are in control of their information.
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Financial Times, Computerworld, The Not-So Private Parts, Lolapps Blog, Network World, VatorNews and UMBC ebiquity
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LOLApps Back On Facebook After UID Issues
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The Atlantic Online, Softpedia News, Computerworld, BlogsDNA, Mashable!, Gamezebo and VentureBeat
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Determined to Crack the Social Code — Google has been stunningly adept at devising computer algorithms to help people search the Internet. But when it comes to building features for social networking, the company has been much less effective. — And changing that is one of the company's biggest business challenges these days.
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Rajat Mukherjee / Google Enterprise Blog:
The new Google Search Appliance - a bridge to the cloud — In the last year, businesses have started using cloud-based applications from Google and other technology providers at an accelerated rate. While many organizations still have information that resides in on-premise systems …
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Ars Technica, Computerworld, eWeek, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, PC World and Search Engine Land
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Europe's Trademark Office Confirms iPad's New Landscape Design — This week the European Trademarks and Designs Registration Office confirmed that one of Apple's new iPad designs is displaying an extra left side 30 pin connector to allow it to dock in landscape mode under application 001222905-0001.
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App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, PadGadget, SlashGear, I4U News, Electricpig, everythingiCafe and MacStories
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sprint promises WiMAX in NYC on November 1, LA on December 1, and San Francisco a few weeks later — The fact that Sprint and Clearwire have teamed up to deliver WiMAX to New York, LA, and San Francisco isn't news. In fact, we've already seen the networks light up in operational readiness modes …
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
New MacBook Air: Bigger Battery, Sharper Case [Independent Confirmation] — Apple's new MacBook Air will be thinner, lighter and boxier than the current model. Mockup exclusively for CultofMac.com by Dan Draper. — On Wednesday, Steve Jobs will likely introduce a redesigned 13.3-inch MacBook Air …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel, Microsoft, and the curious case of the iPad — “That tablet thing? Yeah, we'll get back to you on that.” That's a crude but fairly accurate encapsulation of the attitude Microsoft, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices have toward the iPad and the tablet market in general. — Why the cavalier attitude?
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9 to 5 Mac
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Netflix on Wii drops the clunky disc requirement, starts streaming through Wii Menu — It's not just the PS3 that will be doing its Netflix streaming disc-free from today: the Wii is joining in the fun as well! Americans and Canadians alike will be able to download and install Netflix …
Softpedia News:
Adobe Reader X Lands on Android, WP7, Blackberry Tablet OS — Today, leading software giant Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the launch of the Adobe Acrobat X software family (Acrobat X, Reader X, the Acrobat X Suite and new document exchange services) for professionals looking to come up with higher quality content.
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CNET News, Business Wire, Adobe Reader Blog, Download Squad, PC World, Education IT Blog and The Tech Report
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Facebook Money Machine — An update to this column: According to the Wall Street Journal, any of Facebook's most popular applications have been transmitting identifying information — in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names — to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies.
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The Equity Kicker
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% - Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011 — The Number Resource Organization, the coordinating mechanism for the five Regional Internet Registries or RIRs, this morning announced that less than 5% of the world's IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses remain unallocated.
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CNET News, Market Wire and PC World
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
A Renewed Mark Zuckerberg — If you've seen Mark Zuckerberg speak at some point over the past few weeks, you've probably noticed something different about him. It's not that he's just more charismatic, but for the first time it appears as though he feels comfortable in his own body while speaking on stage.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg On Facebook's Strategy For China (And His Wardrobe)
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TheAppleBlog, Gearlog, iLounge, Agence France Presse, Music Ally, Inside Facebook and NewsGrange
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Groupon Is No Ebay — Chicago-based Groupon is certainly one heck of a startup. Like Zynga it sort of came out of nowhere in 2009. Even last December I was sort of only vaguely aware of how fast it was growing. — But it was clear by early 2010 to the whole world that Groupon was on a tear.
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Screenwerk, the Econsultancy blog and Bronte Media
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