April 13, 2010 at 10:25 a.m.
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Consumer news,
Internet
By Wailin Wong | Facebook launched Tuesday a redesigned version of its Safety Center, a section of the social networking platform’s Web site that offers resources for parents, teachers and other users.
The Safety Center comprises multimedia information from both Facebook and a number of independent organizations, including members of Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board such as Common Sense Media, a San Francisco-based non-profit that reviews Web sites, television shows, movies and other types of media from a family-friendly perspective. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook said the revamped Safety Center is the first collaboration between the company and the Safety Advisory Board, which was started in December.
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April 13, 2010 at 6:07 a.m.
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Advertising/Marketing,
Internet,
Technology
Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street Journal | Twitter Inc. will
start rolling out advertising to users Tuesday, the four-year-old
company’s first significant attempt to turn its microblogging service
into a profitable business.
The company plans to announce a new service called Promoted Tweets, a
Twitter spokesman said. The ads will appear at the top of search
results for searches users conduct on Twitter, a model similar to
Google Inc.’s wildly successful search advertising system. Over time,
they may appear in the stream of posts users see when they log into the
site.
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April 8, 2010 at 1:35 p.m.
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Internet,
Technology
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the new iPhone OS4 software during an Apple special event in Cupertino, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Associated Press | Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad devices will soon be able to run more than
one program at a time, an ability that phones from Apple’s rivals
already offer and that iPhone owners have long sought.
The changes, coming this summer to iPhones and this fall to iPads, mean
that users might be able to listen to music through the Pandora program
and check a bank account online simultaneously. Currently, users must
return to Apple’s home screen, effectively quitting the open program,
before starting a new task.
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April 7, 2010 at 12:22 p.m.
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Consumer news,
Internet,
Telecommunications
By Becky Yerak |
AT&T, which has been criticized for its service and under pressure
to improve, said it invested nearly $40 million from 2008 to 2009 to
increase the wireless capacity of its mobile broadband network
throughout the Chicago area, enabling better and faster connections for
voice and data uses even during peak hours.
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April 6, 2010 at 12:45 p.m.
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Consumer news,
Internet
Yelp now letting visitors see those that are automatically filtered out by software meant to catch content that isn’t trustworthy. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
By Monice Eng | Yelp has made changes to address business and consumer concerns that it manipulates reviews to benefit businesses that advertise with the online user review site.
The changes, explained in a Tuesday press conference, include showing a list of reviews that have been filtered out by the site and removing its “favorite review” feature that allowed advertisers to choose a positive review to display at the top of their listing.
“This is about giving visibility into the review filter and letting people see that advertising and content are not linked,” said Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman Tuesday. |
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“This is about giving visibility into the review filter and letting
people see that advertising and content are not linked,” said Yelp
co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman Tuesday.
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April 6, 2010 at 10:29 a.m.
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Internet,
Litigation,
Politics,
Telecommunications
Associated Press | A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the
Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require
broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic
flowing over their networks.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a
big victory for Comcast Corp., the nation’s largest cable company. It
had challenged the FCC’s authority to impose so-called “net neutrality”
obligations on broadband providers.
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April 6, 2010 at 8:02 a.m.
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Internet,
Telecommunications
An AT&T kiosk at Northshore Mall beyond in Peabody, Mass. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, file)
Associated Press | AT&T Inc. said Tuesday it would invest
$1 billion to upgrade its business network, services and products for
large companies worldwide as well as for small U.S. firms, a sweeping
enhancement of its systems as network traffic in global economies
migrate from voice to video and data.
The investment brings to more than $4 billion the total that AT&T
has spent to upgrade its systems and services for over 3.5 million
businesses since 2006.
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April 5, 2010 at 10:38 a.m.
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Internet,
Technology
Tribune staff report | Apple said Monday it sold more than 300,000 iPads on its opening day,
meeting the expectations of some analysts while underscoring the
challenges the company still faces marketing the much-anticipated
device beyond early adopters.
The figures, which included pre-orders that were picked up or delivered
Saturday, were hardly exceptional despite weeks of hype about the
revolutionary nature of a new class of device that falls somewhere
between the phone and computer.
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April 2, 2010 at 8:18 a.m.
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Internet
By Wailin Wong | Facebook was the most searched-for brand in the
U.S. in the last week, outranking other marquee names such as Google,
Craigslist and Amazon, according to new data from research firm Hitwise.
In the week ended March 27,
Facebook captured 2.8 percent of all
searches in the U.S., Hitwise said. Google was second at 2.4 percent,
followed by Yahoo! at 1.6 percent. Craigslist accounted for 1.1 percent
of searches and Amazon had 0.1 percent.
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April 1, 2010 at 8:49 a.m.
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Internet
Associated Press | For at least one day, Topeka is one of the
most popular Web sites in the world.
It’s all part of an April Fools’
Day prank by Google, which for one day has changed its name to “Topeka.”
The Internet search engine says its new name is a response to Topeka’s
decision to change its name to “Google, Kan.” for the month of March.
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April 1, 2010 at 8:10 a.m.
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Internet,
Technology
From the Wall Street Journal | After being on of the first to spend a week with Apple’s new iPad, Wall Street Journal’s veteran technology columnist Walter Mossberg says it has the potential to change portable computing, challenge the primacy of the laptop and possibly killing the mouse interface we’ve known for decades.
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April 1, 2010 at 6:25 a.m.
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Internet,
M&A,
Pharmaceuticals
Dow Jones Newswires | Debt-laden drug maker Wockhardt Ltd. has
been forced to abandon the sale of its nutrition business to Abbott
Laboratories because of a dispute with some of its overseas lenders.
But the news was greeted positively by investors Thursday, as fears the
company would now struggle to repay loans were outweighed by
expectations it could get a better price for its nutrition business
from a new suitor.
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March 30, 2010 at 12:45 p.m.
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Internet,
Technology
Associated Press | Facebook is about to change the way it asks
its users to connect to brands on the site. Instead of asking people to
“become a fan” of companies such as Starbucks, Facebook will let them
click on a button that indicates they “like” the brand.
Facebook already lets people show that they like comments or pictures
posted on the site, and it says users click that term almost twice as
much as they click “become a fan.” Facebook says changing the button
will make them more comfortable with linking up with a brand.
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Dow Jones Newswire-WSJ | Apple Inc. is developing a new iPhone to debut this summer and also
appears to be working on another model for U.S. mobile phone operator
Verizon Wireless, say people briefed on the matter.
The people briefed on the matter said that the next iPhone is being
manufactured by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision
Industry Co., which produced Apple’s previous iPhones. The
other iPhone model that has CDMA capability is being manufactured by
Pegatron Technology Corp., the contract manufacturing subsidiary of
Taiwan’s ASUSTeK Computer Inc., these people said.
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