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Facebook makes move into search with Questions - 29 juillet 2010
Facebook has made its first steps into the search market.
The social network has launched a trial of a feature called Questions, which allows people to pose queries to the site’s 500 million users.
The service has been rolled out to a select group of Facebook members and will "evolve over time", the site said. (...)
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Facebook data harvester speaks out - 29 juillet 2010
The man who harvested and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users has spoken out about his motives.
Ron Bowes, a security consultant, used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings.
The list, which contains the URL of every searchable (...)
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Apple boss Steve Jobs explains ban on Flash - 30 avril 2010
Steve Jobs has used an open letter to defend Apple’s decision not to allow Flash on many of the firm’s products.
Neither the iPod, iPhone nor iPad can run the software despite the widespread use of Flash technology on websites for video and animations.
He said Flash was made for an era of "PCs and mice" and (...)
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US urges ’action’ needed to fight net attacks - 5 mars 2010
Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano has admitted there is an urgent need to step up efforts to protect Americans from cyber attacks.
Her comments at the world’s largest security conference hosted by vendor RSA, comes as the cyber threat grows ever more sophisticated.
Incidents like the attack on Google (...)
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’Scareware’ scams trick searchers - 22 janvier 2010
Makers of fake anti-virus software are exploiting search engines to drive people to sites peddling ’scareware’.
Using popular and mis-spelled search terms, the criminals divert people to sites that are seeded with fake warnings about virus infections.
The pop-up warnings claim that a visitor’s PC is riddled with (...)
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Doctors warned about risk of ’Facebook flirts’ - 3 décembre 2009
Doctors are being warned not to respond to flirtatious approaches on social networking sites.
The Medical Defence Union, a legal body for doctors, said communicating via sites such as Facebook may be a breach of ethical responsibilities.
It issued the warning after a number of cases in which patients (...)
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MSNBC.com takes over Breaking News Twitter feed - 3 décembre 2009
A Twitter feed set up by a Dutch teenager as a hobby has been taken over by Microsoft news channel MSNBC.com.
The BreakingNews feed, operated by BNO News and set up by 19-year-old Michael van Poppel two years ago, was handed to MSNBC.com on December 1.
The feed delivers breaking news to more than 1.5m readers. (...)
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Privacy law call in Facebook row - 4 mars 2009
By Maggie Shiels . The row over Facebook’s change in its terms of service governing users personal data highlights the need for a privacy law, claims a leading watchdog.
The Electronic Privacy Information Centre was on the brink of filing a legal complaint when Facebook announced it would revert to its old policy. (...)
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Microsoft and Yahoo’s shotgun marriage - 2 février 2008
Is this Bill Gates’ last big throw ?
Microsoft’s proposal to buy internet veteran Yahoo for a whopping $44.6bn (£22.4bn) certainly grabs the attention.
But does it make business sense ?
In a way this won’t be the Microsoft founder’s problem. This summer Mr Gates will leave the company to work full-time on fighting (...)
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Congo’s coltan rush - 1er août 2003
In the yard of the Shenimed sorting house, young men are busy sorting and cleaning colombo-tantalite ore, or coltan, as it is known in this part of the world.
Regional analysts say the international demand for coltan is one of the driving forces behind the war in the DRC, and the presence of rival militias in the (...)
