May 24, 2010 at 11:37 a.m.
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Internet,
Privacy issues,
Technology
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivering a keynote address at a conference in San Francisco in April 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Reuters
| Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the Internet social network will roll out new privacy settings for its more than 400 million users, amid growing concerns that the company is pushing users to make more of their personal data public.
“Many of you thought our controls were too complex,” said Zuckerberg in an opinion piece published on Monday in The Washington Post.
“Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. We just missed the mark,” said the 26-year-old Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004.
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Associated Press | Federal regulators have approved Google
Inc.’s $750 million acquisition of the mobile ad service AdMob despite
worries that the deal will enable Google to extend its dominance of
Internet marketing into the nascent field of wireless devices.
The Federal Trade Commission said Friday that its antitrust concerns
were overshadowed by Apple Inc.’s push into the $600 million mobile
advertising market in the U.S.
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May 21, 2010 at 11:10 a.m.
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Internet,
Technology
By Wailin Wong | Procrastination among cubicle workers of a certain generation is likely
to skyrocket today, thanks to a bit of nostalgic fun on Google’s home
page.
The Google doodle, which often gets small makeovers in honor of historic
events and anniversaries, has been transformed into a playable Pac-Man
game to commemorate the game’s thirtieth birthday. According to a post
on the official Google Blog, the Pac-Man tribute is the first-ever
playable Google “doodle.” To relive your childhood arcade memories,
simply wait a few seconds for the game to begin or click the “Insert
Coin” button, which appears under the search box.
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May 21, 2010 at 5:40 a.m.
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Advertising/Marketing,
Internet
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a keynote address, showing Facebook’s interconnectedness, at a conference in San Francisco in April. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street Journal | 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.
The practice, which most of the companies defended, sent user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being viewed when users clicked on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By Thursday morning Facebook had rewritten some of the offending computer code.
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May 20, 2010 at 3:06 p.m.
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Consumer electronics,
Internet,
Technology
Sony CEO Howard Stringer, left, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini smile during a Google TV announcement at the Google conference in San Francisco today. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Associated Press | Google Inc. believes it has come up with the technology to unite Web
surfing with channel surfing on televisions. To reach the long-elusive
goal, Google has joined forces with Sony Corp., Intel Corp. and
Logitech International. The companies unveiled their much-anticipated
plan for a “smart” TV on Thursday.
The TVs are expected to go on sale in the fall in Best Buy stores.
Pricing won’t be announced until later in the year. Sales of the TVs
will be limited to the U.S. this year before expanding into other
countries.
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May 20, 2010 at 11:51 a.m.
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Cell phones,
Internet,
Telecommunications
By Jessica Guynn |
Google Inc. said the latest versions of its Android phones will run
faster, have more advanced capabilities and serve as Wi-Fi hotspots for
other devices. The Internet giant made the comments Thursday at its San
Francisco developers conference, where it touted the fast adoption of
smartphones powered by its software.
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May 19, 2010 at 9:33 a.m.
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Computers,
Entertainment,
Internet,
Software
By Wailin Wong | “Lost” fans searching for secrets of the ABC show’s final episode may be in store for a nasty surprise: An infected computer.
PandaLabs, a unit of computer security company Panda Security, said it has detected a new distribution method for a kind of malware called the MySecurityEngine fake antivirus. This malware and the way it infects a computer are not new, but the bait it uses does change according to current events and popular search terms.
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May 18, 2010 at 5:50 a.m.
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Consumer news,
Internet
Associated Press | Microsoft Corp. is trying to make Hotmail
cool again. The free Web mail service soon will be switching to a new
approach that Microsoft hopes will give Hotmail an edge over rival
offerings from Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc.
The upgrade, expected to be available in July or August, will
automatically sort incoming messages into different categories devoted
to users’ key contacts and Internet social networks. It will also
provide previews of incoming photos, videos and other material without
having to open an attachment or click on a link.
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May 17, 2010 at 5:56 a.m.
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Advertising/Marketing,
Consumer news,
Internet
By Wailin Wong | Chicago-based
social commerce site Groupon has acquired a European daily deal site,
expanding its reach to 140 cities in 18 countries.
Financial terms of the deal with Citydeal, the German company, were not
disclosed. In a Sunday statement, Groupon said Citydeal is the “world’s
largest Groupon clone.” While Groupon has dozens of copycat competitors
in the U.S., this transaction marks the first time the company has
acquired one of its imitators.
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May 14, 2010 at 1:37 p.m.
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Cell phones,
Internet,
Telecommunications
By Wailin Wong
| Google is phasing out its online mobile phone store, ending an
experiment in selling devices directly to consumers.
The technology giant had been selling its Nexus One device via its Web
store since the phone’s launch in January. This retail channel marked a
significant difference from the way the vast majority of U.S. consumers
purchase their mobile phones — that is, subsidized through a wireless
service provider. The Nexus One was sold unlocked for $529 without a
plan or contract, although customers could buy it for a subsidized $179
if they signed up for a two-year contract with T-Mobile.
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May 14, 2010 at 10:01 a.m.
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Advertising/Marketing,
Internet
Associated Press via New York Times | Long a bastion of anonymity, Craigslist is putting a few of its users on camera. The San Francisco-based classified ads site on Thursday launched a weekly Web series that documents people using it. The videos are available on Craigslist and Google’s YouTube. They’re a kind of marketing tool to showcase the benefits of the site.
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By Mary Ellen Podmolik
| If it seems like you’ve been inundated with online ads this year, you were.
U.S. Internet users received a record 1.1 trillion display ads during the year’s first quarter, a 15 percent increase versus a year ago, according to comScore’s Ad Metrix.
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May 13, 2010 at 2:31 p.m.
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Computers,
Internet
Associated Press | Facebook’s users are a lucrative target for Internet criminals looking to steal
passwords and more. To combat malicious attacks, phishing scams and
spam, the online social network is rolling out new security features.
First, users can choose to be notified when their account
is accessed from a computer or mobile device they haven’t used before.
To do this, go to “account settings,” then “account security,” then
click change. There you can choose to be notified of logins by e-mail or
text message.
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May 7, 2010 at 6:06 a.m.
Filed under:
Advertising/Marketing,
Food,
Internet
From Ad Age | McDonald’s will be one of the first companies to use Facebook’s new location-based status updates for its users and marketers. McDonald’s, through digital agency Tribal DDB, Chicago, is building an app with Facebook that would allow users to check in at one of its restaurants and have a featured product appear in the post, such as an Angus Quarter Pounder, say executives close to the deal. .
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May 6, 2010 at 12:06 p.m.
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International,
Internet
Associated Press | It’s now possible for websites to use addresses entirely in Arabic.
The first three domain names in non-Latin characters have been added to
the Internet’s master directories, following final approval last month
by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.
It’s the first major change to the Internet domain name system since
its creation in the 1980s.
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