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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
For Facebook, the Privacy Snowball Just Keeps on Rolling — Call it the “snowball effect,” or maybe the “witch-hunt” effect. At some point, when a company is under fire for something, even the smallest piece of evidence that it might be guilty of that thing can get blown out of proportion.
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook, MySpace Face Privacy Loophole — Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent.
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Tom S. Noda / PC World:
Study: 60 Percent of Facebook Users Mulling to Quit — Due to prevailing privacy concerns, several Facebook members are thinking to quit the popular social networking site — at least 60% of them — according to a latest survey conducted by IT security firm, Sophos.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Unbelievable: WSJ Calls Facebook's Referring URLs a Privacy Violation (UPDATED)
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google's Gundotra Goes After Apple: The Video — At Thursday's Google I/O keynote, VP of engineering Vic Gundotra repeatedly ripped into Apple, and he did it right off the bat. The video above, which just came out, shows the first ten minutes of his keynote where he discusses why the world needs Android.
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Will M / All Facebook:
Android Gets Facebook Graph API Before the iPhone — Facebook announced new mobile social networking functionality for the Android platform this week. At Google I/O, Google's developer conference, executives routinely made fun of Steve Jobs and Apple, but Facebook's role in the drama was overlooked by the press.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo Poised to Unveil “Project Nike” Partnership Deal With Nokia at Monday Event — Today, Yahoo sent out an invite for a press conference in New York on Monday with a mysterioso tone: — It read, vaguely: — “Please join Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz for an exciting announcement …
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Seesmic Blog:
Introducing Seesmic for iPhone — Seesmic for iPhone brings an efficient perspective to social networking on a mobile platform. An application which enables Twitter, Facebook and Ping.fm - letting you update dozens of social networks at once (including MySpace, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Flickr …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Does Seesmic For iPhone Stack Up Against TweetDeck And Twitter For iPhone?
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DigiTimes:
HP Taiwan confirms plans for WebOS-based mobile devices — HP will adopt the WebOS platform in smartphones and tablets, according to Monty Wong, vice president of personal computing systems group at HP Taiwan, adding that since netbooks are more similar in functions with traditional computers …
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
HP on Web OS devices: Tablet coming before October, no plans for netbooks
Dieter Bohn / Android Central:
Most 2010 HTC Android phones will get Froyo ...in 2010 — Like many of you, we are already wondering if and when our favorite Android phones will get the Froyo Android 2.2 upgrade. By “favorite Android phones” we naturally mean the hotness made by HTC. So, we asked and here's the deal …
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Xinhua News Agency:
Death revelations, fatal fall brings attempted suicides of Foxconn workers to 11 with nine deaths — Another Chinese employee of the Foxconn Technology Group plunged to his death in Shenzhen Friday, the same day the deaths of two Foxconn workers earlier this year at a north China plant were revealed.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google's “Royalty-Free” WebM Video May Not Be Royalty-Free For Long — The announcement of Google's new WebM video format and release of the VP8 video codec as an open standard have been hailed by some as the move that will free the Web from the proprietary H.264 codec widely used …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Steve Jobs Is Not Impressed With Google's New Video Format
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Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Android for iPhone 3G, Now Available for Download — Android port for iPhone 3G is now finally available for download. You can do pretty much everything that you would expect a normal Android phone to do but it is still not recommended for day-to-day regular use.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Carriers Will Be Able To Decide Which Android Phones Have Tethering (And They Can Charge For It) — Today during its keynote at I/O, Google officially announced that the latest version of Android, called Froyo, will feature tethering and wireless hotspot functionality — a big win for Android users.
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Randy Nelson / Joystiq:
Google celebrates Pac-Man's 30th anniversary with playable logo — A playable ... logo? That's exactly what web giant Google has today, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man's Japanese release. The doodle (Google's term for its event and holiday-specific logos) …
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
The Unanswered Questions About Google TV — Murphy was in the room when Google unveiled its Google TV platform at its I/O developer conference today. The demo was plagued with numerous problems, with remote controls losing sync and questionable content showing up on the TV feeds used …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Facebook Knows Who You'll Hook Up With — Facebook's CEO came up with a way of predicting who a given user would be dating one week in the future, according to a new book about the social network. And he did it for fun. — CEO Mark Zuckerberg found it entertaining to dive into user data …
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Erika Lovley / The Politico:
The iPad makes inroads among members of Congress — Attorney General Eric Holder may have been the star witness at last week's House Judiciary Committee hearing — but Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz's iPad was the VIP. — Like jealous siblings on Christmas morning, lawmakers peered over Chaffetz's shoulder …
TUAW:
Found Footage: Apple pulls iSlam Muhammad app — In what is sure to raise a ruckus, comedian / filmmaker / app developer Emery Emery recorded a phone call with an Apple App Store rep when his iSlam Muhammad app was pulled from the App Store after one day. The highly entertaining conversation …
Vivek Kundra / The White House Blog:
Data.gov: Pretty Advanced for a One-Year-Old — One year ago, data.gov was born with 47 datasets of government information that was previously unavailable to the public. The thinking behind this was that this data belonged to the American people, and you should not only know this information, but also have the ability to use it.
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Lisa M. Krieger / Mercury News:
Stanford University prepares for an amazing “bookless library” — One chapter is closing — and another is opening — as Stanford University moves toward the creation of its first “bookless library.” — Box by box, decades of past scholarship are being packed up and emptied from two old libraries …
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