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Privacy Scorecard: Carriers, Web Firms Disclose Targeting Practices
Responding to a recent request from a House committee, a slew of telecom and Web firms have provided on-the-record details of how they use their sites and networks to target individuals with targeted advertising. (Their full responses can be found here). The responses at turns seem to address and miss the point in question,...
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Free CRM Now the Safest Online CRM in the Industry
(AP:http://www.freecrm.com) FreeCRM.com, the world's largest on-demand provider of SaaS CRM services with over 87,000 customers, today announced it is enhancing its security -- and protecting its customers -- by implementing advanced hacker-safe and PCI compliance scanning technology to protect, audit, and certify network and e-business security.
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Sheraton Hotels to showcase Microsoft’s ‘Surface’ computers
First introduced in hotels to help Las Vegas bar patrons flirt, Microsoft Corp.’s Surface units will now be installed in the lobbies of some Sheraton Hotels — including one in downtown Seattle — to provide guests with information. (MSFT)
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Feds defend use of cyber law in MySpace suicide case
LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors yesterday defended their use of a cyber-crime statute in the case of a Missouri woman charged with using a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide.
Freedom Forum Online |
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Trading freedom for gas savings
To combat rising gas prices, motorists check out Internet sites to find carpool companions. Robert Gilliland didn't think much about carpooling until gas prices got out of control. Now, he's happy to trade his motoring freedom for $120 in weekly savings.
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Blaze rips through building at Apple HQ
Firefighters battled a blaze for more than three hours at the headquarters of computer maker Apple.
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Report: Feds Do Little to Fight Spam, Spyware
While Web users drown in spam and fend off scams aimed at stealing their money, U.S. federal and state law enforcement authorities are doing little to resolve what has become a multi-billion-dollar problem, a think tank said on Monday.
PC Magazine |
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Three-Alarm Fire Reported at Apple HQ
Firefighters put out a three-alarm fire at Apple's Cupertino, Calif. headquarters Monday night, according to reports.
PC Magazine |
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Global warming: Fewer but stronger storms
U.S. scientists, using a new method to evaluate hurricane formation, say they've discovered global warming might produce fewer, but stronger, hurricanes.Associate Professor David Nolan and postdoctoral researcher Eric Rappin of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science developed the new computer model for evaluating hurricane frequency and formation in present and future tropical ...
Moldova.org |
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Yahoo's Fire Eagle Updates Location Across Sites
On Tuesday, Yahoo released Fire Eagle, a platform for sharing users' location information among different web applications.
PC Magazine |
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Online Identity Searching and Tracking Tools
Reputation management is a too hot topic to be left out of discussion here, especially for your own names. If you love searching for your name (either out of vanity or for business purposes), you will enjoy playing with the following online identity searching and tracking tools: 1. Twitter Search (previously known as Summize) searches [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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Delticom AG: 2008 six-month report
- Revenues up + 19 % to € 121.5 million - + 20 % revenue growth in eCommerce segment - EBIT increased to € 5.6 million (H1'07: € ...
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Four arrested in Cedar Rapids prostitution sting
Police arrested four women Tuesday for prostitution during an investigation into various Internet Web sites advertising "women looking for men...", according to a police report.The arrests was made at 3325 Southgate Ct. SW.Arrested: Jane Doe, no information available, for prostitution; Tracy Trout, 31, 412 E. 18th Ave. Ct., Milan, Ill., for prostitution; Lesley Felgenhauer, 28, 2420 N. Madison ...
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Ten Million Zombies Distributing Spam and Malware Every Day, According to PandaLabs and CommTouch
Panda Security, a leading provider of IT security solutions, today announced that PandaLabs, Panda Security's laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, announced the findings from a joint report with CommTouch on the current state of spam.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Telco offers Olympic news on cell phones
SUBSCRIBERS of the wireless services operator Smart Communications Inc. will be able to access the freshest Olympic news and watch the games live via their Smart handsets.
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Yahoo sets eye on Chapple and Biondi as directors
Yahoo is close to appointing John Chapple and Frank Biondi Jr. as its two additional board members, as it nears its Friday deadline to expand its board as part of a settlement agreement with investor activist Carl Icahn, according to sources.
CNET via Yahoo! News |
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Brain 'will be battlefield of the future'
Environment, science & technology: US intelligence report predicts 'pharmacological land mines' and drones directed by mind control
Guardian Unlimited |
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Boston-Power adds to Board of Directors
Boston-Power Inc. has named former Dell Inc. executive Martin Gavin to its Board of Directors.
Boston Business Journal |
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How to master the Web 2.0 arts
Martin Courtney, Computing , Thursday 14 August 2008 at 04:45:00 In the third of our four-part guide to collaboration, Martin Courtney looks at how IT professionals should go about acquiring the right skills to take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies Few would dispute the assertion that internet-based collaboration has transformed the way many people, particularly the younger ...
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Concept of cloud still shrouded in mystery
Martin Courtney, Ambrose McNevin, Computing , Wednesday 13 August 2008 at 17:19:00 Few fully understand how next-generation platform actually works Most IT professionals have heard of the cloud computing concept, but relatively few truly grasp what it is supposed to deliver or understand the technology behind it....
Computing.co.uk |
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Of Corregidor's Ghosts
I EXPECTED a great time when I won an overnight Corregidor Cruise on a blogging contest at http://celdrantours.blogspot.com.
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Best Buy snags US Iphone sales deal
US GADGET FLOGGER Best Buy will start selling Apple's Iphone from early September, it announced today.
The Inquirer |
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Service Channels
MessageLabs, an E-mail security firm which scans 3 billion messages a day for spam and computer viruses, has appointed investment banks to consider a flotation after breaking into the black last year.
Web Host Directory |
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Linux is still not ready for the masses
THE GREAT LINUX debate still rumbles on, and looks set to continue for some time.
The Inquirer |
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Fire Breaks Out at Apple Campus
Apple's Cupertino campus was the scene of a three-alarm fire Tuesday night. Firefighters spent over three hours fighting to extinguish the blaze, and finally managed to put the fire out early Wednesday morning
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