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Status Update: The Facebook Phone - It's Complicated.
by
Steve Henn
Sep 23, 2010
Is a Facebook Phone in the works? The company denied it over the weekend, but turns out this all might depend on what the definition of is is....
Facebook quietly launches de facto follow feature
by
John Moe
Sep 21, 2010
So I noticed this last night when I was Facebook friended by one of my kids' friends. He's a nice kid but I didn't want to have that kind of...
Google engineer fired for snooping
by
John Moe
Sep 15, 2010
Google has fired engineer David Barksdale for accessing private information from users' Google Voice, Gmail, and instant messaging accounts. The...
Microsoft used as tool of repression by Russian government
by
John Moe
Sep 13, 2010
A New York Times article got plenty of buzz in tech circles over the weekend. It's about how the Russian government is using the construct of the...
Want users to tell all??? Have an ugly site.
by
Julia Barton
Sep 3, 2010
The scuzzier-looking the site, the more users may reveal about themselves. That's the finding of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. They...
For public good, not for profit.
Soon, a trip to the airport might mean a skeleton scan
by
author198
Aug 24, 2010
Yesterday, body scan images were in the news thanks to a handful of U.S. Senators who want to know why 35,000 images taken of people walking into a...
No peeking at Facebook pages
Aug 23, 2010
Imagine a world in which it's illegal for an employer to get info about a job applicant on Facebook. That's the world Germany might live in. On...
Senators want to know why U.S. Marshals Service is keeping body scan images
Aug 23, 2010
They're images of people who entered a U.S. Courthouse in Orlando, Fl. Earlier this month, reports of the 35,000 images the U.S. Marshals Service...