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POTENT PATENTS PROPEL GOOGLE-MICROSOFT BATTLE
2011

POTENT PATENTS PROPEL GOOGLE-MICROSOFT BATTLE

August 4, 2011 0
Google took the battle to enemy lines when their SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond blogged on Wednesday that several of Google’s rivals were attempting to use ‘bogus patents’ to destroy Android.
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KISSMETRICS COURTING TROUBLE OVER PRIVACY ISSUES
2011

KISSMETRICS COURTING TROUBLE OVER PRIVACY ISSUES

August 4, 2011 0
In the guise of web analytics, opportunist online analytics companies seem to be taking undue advantage of their positions and encroaching upon users’ privacy. This came to light when Wired.com broke news that KISSmetrics, a website analytics company had developed and was using an undeletable tracking cookie.
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RANDI BIDS BYE TO FACEBOOK
2011

RANDI BIDS BYE TO FACEBOOK

August 4, 2011 0
Changes are likely in the pecking order of social media giant Facebook with the recent resignation of Randi Zuckerberg, marketing director and sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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GOOGLE’S ANTITRUST COMPLAINTS; FROM 4 TO 9
2011

GOOGLE’S ANTITRUST COMPLAINTS; FROM 4 TO 9

August 4, 2011 0
Since November last year antitrust investigation have surrounded Google and it has just grown. Sources close to the matter have stated that there have been registered complaints by five new groups. Like every such antitrust case in EU and US, here even the detailing of the newly registered complaints are sparse. Even the details of […]
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$17M FOR INKLINGS TO ADD TEXTBOOKS TO IPAD
2011

$17M FOR INKLINGS TO ADD TEXTBOOKS TO IPAD

August 4, 2011 0
Interactive textbook maker, Inkling had a Series B funding which raised 17 million USD for the company. Sequoia Capital, Pearson Education and Jafco Ventures were part funders and it was led by Tenaya Capital. Matt MacInnis, CEO of Inkling commented in a recent interview that the market for textbook in US is huge and last […]
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Facebook’s Facial Recognition Violates Privacy Laws, Says Germany’s Watchdog
2011

Facebook’s Facial Recognition Violates Privacy Laws, Says Germany’s Watchdog

August 4, 2011 0
Berlin — As the humongous crowd flocks by the biggest social outfit around the globe, that is Facebook, but the social media giants recently re-activated facial-recognition application violates European and German data protection law and the social network must stop the program and delete all data already collected on users — or face fines up […]
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Yahoo Mail Suffers Another Outage — Users Considering Gmail
2011

Yahoo Mail Suffers Another Outage — Users Considering Gmail

August 4, 2011 0
Sunnyvale, California — Internet pioneer Yahoo’s Mail and other services appeared to have suffered another outage Wednesday, “for some users in certain locations,” Yahoo acknowledged this morning, but according to the online company, its services are now operating normally.
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INSTANT PAGE RENDING ON GOOGLE CHROME
2011

INSTANT PAGE RENDING ON GOOGLE CHROME

August 4, 2011 0
Google is on an updating spree and this new update relates to the search engine giant’s first love which is in fact the search engine. Instant pages is officially out for Google Chrome Browser only, the other browsers may or may not be lucky enough to give their users this unique Google service. Instant pager […]
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TWITTER’S OLD DESIGN FINALLY REMOVED
2011

TWITTER’S OLD DESIGN FINALLY REMOVED

August 4, 2011 0
Almost a year back Twitter had come up with its redesigned Twitter which was popularized as the ‘New Twitter’. But since the launch of this new Twitter, the old Twitter had even been working and there its existence was still very much intact. The problem currently is that the new Twitter is no more new […]
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FREE SKYPE APP FOR iPAD
2011

FREE SKYPE APP FOR iPAD

August 3, 2011 0
On Tuesday, Skype’s iPad app was released for free on the iTunes app store but not before a slight hitch. On Monday, the app was available in the app store for a short time before Skype mentioned on Twitter that ‘it should not have been available’ and yanked it. However, 12 hours later, Skype was […]
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