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Into iPhone
I guess we all know classic publishing business has seen its better days — i.e. they’re dying quickly. Still seeing a major company like Penguin Group going iPhone caught me surprised, nevertheless. They have released a native application for iPhone and iPod Touch to stay in touch with their customers while on-t (Read More)
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Digg ptamaro
A Trojan horse application has been found circulating the Internet. If infected, users can end up having their system passwords nabbed, and be redirected to a number of phishing Web sites. (Read More)
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Digg dalogi
Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening's long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery -- a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store, "it's so sterile," gasps Lisa (Read More)
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Dec 01, 2008
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services from MySpace (Data Availability) and Google (Friend Connect).All three services are platforms for third pa (Read More)
Dec 01, 2008
: At the end of the day this is about single sign on (SSO), which is always beneficial. However, the login and password pair should be treated as sacrosanct -- in essence, by some trusted organization whose mandate is at its core to protect core personal data that may travel along with the login/password.Nowhere can anyone demonstrate to me that either MySpace or Facebook have the core mandate to protect user privacy. In fact, their growing business models may actually prove antithetical to the users core privacy, since these social networks (and others) will continue to build revenues around 3rd party organizations that want access to the networks' user base. The secondary elephant-in-the-room issue is that social networks may or may not have robust enough security models to even allow for secured and protected data. Any system that allows a user to create a profile with a pets or kid's name as a password is not, in my mind, a secure enough platform. Since both Facebook and MySpace have been hacked frequently enough over the past year alone, I think this is still cause of concern that tens of millions of people may not be adequately aware of as they post personal contact information and pictures of their children as well as connect with people they think they know but who may be Internet predators. I'm not trying to be the harbinger of gloom and doom here, since I enjoy these and many other social networking platforms. I just think the larger concern with Facebook connect and the like is that people may be making assumptions about how their private data is being protected, when it may not be.
Dec 03, 2008
: its not that nobody cares, its that we're fattened by FREE. I saw the movie "Wall-e" with my kids a few months ago. The Earth is utterly destroyed and uninhabitable by humans. The remainder of human life lives on some massive spaceship that resembles a cruise ship. Humans can no longer walk, they are moved around on pods with TVs in front of them and fast food slurpies and burgers always in their hands. They are massively obese and have vacant/vapid looks.Free is hard to beat, and that may be what you're referring to, Saxonchap, when you say nobody cares. I actually think people DO have that sneaking feeling that they're forfeiting something more valuable than money when they use their gmail, google maps, google reader, youtube, google toolbar, google search, picasa, google face recognition, google android, google CHROME, and so forth. All free. All amazing vast arrays of data that never get deleted and are used to fuel the advertising business of an $80 billion company. 
Dec 03, 2008
: @joebachana For sure, the "free" is a part of it. For many though, and I think this gets worse the younger you move down the age scales, I do believe either ignorance or a care-free attitude plays a huge part. I used to owna couple fo up-scale Internet Cafes in Upstate NY, and to see the usage of patrons, young and old, was quite a revelation!Yes, most are aware of what an ID and password does, but I think so many don't realise the potential implications of lax security. Perhaps web 3.0/4.0 (for want of a use of a buzzword) will address that - I mean, we've already seen the consolidatiosn towards OpenId etc., and yes, I absolutley agreed with your very first sentence - it's basically SSO. But, were all going to be in trouble when we realise that Big Brother and 1984 has really taken over our lives and it's too late for us to do anything about it, right :) 48
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All Things Digital
About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock. While rumors of Facebook’s interest were brought up in an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago, some shot down (Read More)
Nov 26, 2008
: @thomaspower facebook's estimated 2008 revenues are 300 million USD as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook but then once again, those are just estimates and don't know how true they are.
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paidContent.org
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is bundling a form of copyright protection software into new MacBooks that has some buyers up in arms. Called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), the technology prevents MacBook owners from playing movies they've purchased through iTunes on many external monitors, TVs or projectors—meaning t (Read More)
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Submitted by Michaelfidler
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Arn / MacRumors:Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) Due in 1st Quarter of 2009? — Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at engineers and system administrators. (Read More)
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