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Google Dashboard to help control of data
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Google has launched the Google Dashboard, allowing for a better overview of data attached to your Google account and more control of your information. The Google Dashboard brings together the host of popular services now offered by Google, and displays them in a simpler fashion. "We think of this as a great step towards giving people transparency and control over their data, and we hope this helps shape the way the industry thinks about these issues," said Alma Whitten, Software Engineer on Privacy and Safety. "It's important for people to be aware of what data they have online and to be able to manage that data- Google Dashboard should help to make this ...
Funny Or Die links up with YouTube
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YouTube has announced it is to partner Will Ferrell's comedy website Funny Or Die, offering up a channel featuring a boatload of the site's comedic content. Funny Or Die has been around since 2007 and is the brainchild of Will Ferrell and writer Adam McKay. The site has garnered something of a cult following due to the amount of exclusive skits that they post, usually with A-list talent involved. Although the partnership with YouTube isn't the site's first big-name link-up (they also work with HBO) putting archive clips on to the video-upload site will certainly see its popularity increase. Exclusive video To celebrate the ...
Bluebeat bootleg Beatles site uses 'psycho-acoustic simulation'
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A website offering unauthorised downloads of The Beatles music has been handed a lawsuit by EMI but it is bizarrely claiming it has rights to the music it is offering. Bluebeat, which offers an alternative to digital radio, had been pretty much under everyone's musical radar until earlier this week when it was found that the entire archive of The Beatles were available to download on the site. Although there are some reports that this archive has now gone, TechRadar has found that three of The Beatles records are still available: Love, Let It Be…Naked and the band's greatest hits offering 1. Simulated ...
Intel gives Facebook social-networking advice
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A worker at Intel has posted a blog post stating what changes he would like to see to Facebook, using the issues in his life as a case study. In the revealing blog, Dale Taylor at Intel explains how he would like a number of things changed on the social-networking site, including how much information it gives out to non-direct Facebook folks. Taylor uses the example of his divorce and explains: "My ex and her family are visible to me through our common children on Facebook. Honestly I would rather not know or see about anything to do with her and her family, yet I am confronted with it. "I want to see what my children have to say, what they are thinking, doing ...
Secret net security flaw exposed by accident
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An unusual cloak-and-dagger operation being run by internet security experts has been exposed this week, after details of a flaw in the SSL protocol were made public. The problem with the Secure Sockets Layer standard that keeps e-commerce websites, mail servers and more safe from attack was first discovered in August by a phone-security firm called PhoneFactor. Secret project That company immediately set to work with the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) to fix the issue in secret so as not to alert hackers. However, an engineer working independent of ICASI found the flaw by himself this week ...
