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Earlier this week, Facebook users voted to adopt new privacy policies the social networking site proposed in late October . Facebook wanted to present its privacy guidelines in a "clearer and more comprehensive" manner. The site split the policy into eight sections, including sections that ...
Online
If a mobile ad dropped in the forest, would anyone care? Some would, but most wouldn't. According to market research firm Parks Associates, 38 percent of consumers don't want to see mobile ads for any reason, according to MediaPost . But about the same number (37 percent) said they don't care ...
Other
Twitter on Thursday released long-awaited location-tagging features for the Twitter API. The new feature will allow users to embed their locations with their tweets. For privacy reasons, it's strictly an opt-in feature--meaning you won't send out your location if you don't want to. To turn on ...
Online
Google today announced that it has remade the mobile version of its News page for owners of iPhone, Android, and Palm webOS handsets. The new page joins existing versions for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Symbian handsets.
The update page "provides the same richness and personalization on ...
Mobile
Android
iPhone
Palm Pre
Apple
Windows Mobile
Name changes are a big deal. Just ask Prince. When Apple asked The Little App Factory was asked to the name of its popular app, iPod Rip, the plucky developer was put in a weird position. The company's CEO, John Devor sent a long and heartfelt e-mail to Apple head Steve Jobs, reading, in part, ...
Gadgets
Apple
iPod
Steve Jobs
Sony is taking yet another shot at Apple's music dominance. The company yesterday announced that it look to launch its own online storefront stocking music, books, apps, and movies. No release date for the store--tentatively named Sony Online Service--has been announced.
Sony, which shut ...
Hardware
Sony
Apple
iTunes
Google has an important ally in its newly revealed Chrome OS. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu--one of the more user-friendly versions of Linux around--has agreed to contribute engineering to the project, under contract.
In a post on the company's blog, Canonical's VP of OEM services ...
Software
Ubuntu
Chrome
Linux
Google Chrome OS
If you can make friends with a local cheese maker or find a spice shop in your neighborhood, I recommend doing so. But if specialty shops that suit your champagne tastes aren't available, you might like Gourmet Library . .The site is a new social network plus Web service that brings people who ...
Other
This is not your grandfather's Netvibes: The former Web 2.0 darling among personal start pages will formally launch a new version at Le Web 09 in Paris in December, but the first 200 of our lucky readers can take an early look. Our contact over at Wasabi, Vincent Chang notes that ...
Online
Netvibes
Larry Page
Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 will be available on November 24 in all shipping languages, Microsoft announced Thursday.
Users must have Power Pack 2 installed on their Home Server and Power Pack 3 will automatically install as a Windows update.
Microsoft unveiled the Power Pack 3 ...
Software
Microsoft
Windows 7
The Verizon ads that take aim at AT&T's 3G network will stay on the air -- for now. A judge on Wednesday denied AT&T's request to remove the Verizon commercials while the two sides battle it out in court.
Earlier this month, AT&T sued Verizon in Georgia district court for ...
Mobile
Verizon
Stop the presses. Twitter has decided to change its greeting from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?"
"The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone ...
Online
In addition to rolling out its Chrome OS code , Google on Thursday also unveiled automatic captions and timing for YouTube.
Automatic captions will use the speech-to-text algorithms currently used in Google Voice to produce captions for a selected video. These captions can also be ...
Online
YouTube
Chrome
Google Voice
Google released the code for its Chrome operating system on Thursday, and announced plans for a Chrome OS-based netbook before the 2010 holiday season.
Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, hosted a technical preview at the company's Mountain View headquarters, ...
Online
Chrome
The Parents Television Council is pleased with Microsoft's recent decision to pull its sponsorship of Fox's Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show over content concerns, but the group doesn't think the software giant has gone far enough. During Microsoft's annual board ...
Software
Microsoft
Windows 7
Oh Google, you tease. The company today held a conference in its hometown of Mountain View to unveil its long-awaited Chrome OS. Looks like the non-developers among us are going to have to wait a while longer.
While developers and brave users can download an early build of the app beginning ...
Online
Chrome
Google Chrome OS
Google today kicked off its Chrome OS developer event in Mountain View by showcasing the progress of the operating system's spiritual and technological predecessor, the Chrome Browser. The company's VP of product management, Sundar Pichai, took to the stage to highlight some keypoints, ...
Online
Chrome
Linux
Mac
I finally own a Blu-ray DVD player, which I quite like, but Istill can't warm up to internet-enabled BD-Live feature. Sounds like I'm not the only one.
Despite the fact that Sony has sold 14 million Blu-ray players Worldwide, their average weekly sign in for the BD-live service is, in the ...
Hardware
Sony
Blu-ray
Yahoo has decided to sunset its excellent, if now irrelevant, Yahoo Go mobile app. Originally launched in 2006 for the Nokia 6682 smartphone, Yahoo Go has seen three major releases across Windows Mobile and Symbian handsets. Yahoo Go offered much of what's popular on today's smartphones, ...
Online
Yahoo
Nokia
Windows Mobile
Symbian
SOS Online Backup, PC Magazine's Editor's Choice for online backup today increased its lead in innovations over the competion by being the first to come out with an iPhone app . The market share leaders in the space, Mozy and Carbonite, have yet to make a similar announcement. The app not ...
