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Keep tabs on what Google knows about you
Hiding your wireless network from Google's insatiably hungry information sniffers is easier than tracking your personal data stored on Google servers. Read this blog post by Dennis O'Reilly on Workers' Edge.
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Mozilla Attempts To Sidestep iPhone Ban on Rival Browsers
In an effort to get around Apple's ban on rival browsers for its iPhone, Mozilla plans to offer a Firefox application that will give users access to their browser bookmarks and history. The app will also let users open tabs from their most recent Firefox sessions. The Firefox Home app is a spin-off of the bookmark and tab synch technology..
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Not Fooled: Ignoring Privacy Is Facebook's Business Model
After a slew of loud criticism, Facebook have rolled out new, more understandable privacy controls. Change your settings to ‘friends of friends’ and it will apply to all your interactions with Facebook. Aapplications and external websites will now have to ask permission for access to any sort of private data.The only problem? It won’t matter.
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Why Facebook Users Are Considering Leaving [CHART]
Last week we asked you, our readers, to tell us why you’re planning on leaving Facebook (if you actually are, that is). Well, more than 5,000 votes later, and the results are in: 31% of respondents proclaimed their intention to stick with FB, and approximately the same number cited access to personal information as their number-one reason for vamoo
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Chrome 5 Released
Google has announced the official release of Chrome 5, a new stable version of the company's increasingly popular Web browser. This is the first stable release with official support for Linux and Mac OS X.
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Google Android means a smartphone in every pocket
The cutting edge of mobile phone technology is going mass market, and the search giant is set to make more money than ever before, says Matt Warman.
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Irish Broadband Implements 3 Strikes Policy for filesharing
EIRCOM WILL from today begin a process that will lead to cutting off the broadband service of customers found to be repeatedly sharing music online illegally.
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IBM to buy Sterling Commerce from ATT for $1.4 billion
NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) said on Monday it has agreed to buy business software integration services company Sterling Commerce from AT&T Inc (T.N) for about $1.4 billion in cash.||AT&T said it expects...
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RIAA Copyright Lawsuits Plummet. We Hope You Die, RIAA!
New federal copyright infringement lawsuits plummeted to a six-year low in 2009, the year after the RIAA abandoned its litigation campaign against file sharers.
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What backlash? Facebook is growing like mad
Some tech pundits think Facebook is in trouble, but the data tells a different story: growth hasn't slowed a bit.
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