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Private browsing modes in four biggest browsers often fail - 7 août 2010
You’ve been warned.
Features in the four major browsers designed to cloak users’ browser history often don’t work as billed, according to a research paper that warns that users may get a false sense of security when using the built-in privacy settings.
The private-browsing modes are supposed to allow users to visit (...)
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La "navigation privée" des navigateurs n’est pas fiable à 100 % - 7 août 2010
Les modes de "navigation privée" des navigateurs Internet, qui permettent de surfer sans que des traces de navigation soient enregistrées, servent-ils vraiment à acheter des cadeaux, comme tente de le faire croire la campagne publicitaire pour Internet Explorer 8 ? Rien n’est moins sûr, montrent les travaux d’une (...)
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Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy - 4 août 2010
The online habits of most people who use the world’s dominant Web browser are an open book to advertisers. That wasn’t the plan at first.
In early 2008, Microsoft Corp.’s product planners for the Internet Explorer 8.0 browser intended to give users a simple, effective way to avoid being tracked online. They wanted (...)
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La vie privée dans Internet Explorer sacrifiée au profit des publicitaires ? - 4 août 2010
Selon une enquête du Wall Street Journal, Internet Explorer 8 devait par défaut bloquer le tracking de la navigation des utilisateurs. Invoquant un impact sur son activité de publicité, l’éditeur a renoncé à ce projet porté par les développeurs. Editeur de navigateur et régie publicitaire : deux métiers inconciliables ? (...)
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Bing and Google in a Race for Search Features - 2 août 2010
Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing’s flight fare tracker. Paul Callan, a photography buff in Chicago, fell for Bing’s vivid background (...)
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Yahoo ! Japan snubs Microsoft search deal and partners with Google - 27 juillet 2010
Yahoo ! has signed a partnership with Google in Japan, despite a 10 year-long search deal it already has in place with Microsoft’s Bing around the world.
The move, which was announced in a statement along with Yahoo ! Japan’s first quarter earnings, has surprised many in the technology world, as Yahoo ! had its (...)
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Europe to Investigate Antitrust Complaints Over I.B.M. Mainframes - 27 juillet 2010
The European Commission opened investigations Monday into whether I.B.M. had abused its dominant position in mainframe computers, signaling that the era of aggressive prosecution of American technology leaders in Europe did not end with the Microsoft antitrust case.
Joaquín Almunia, Europe’s competition (...)
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The Web Means the End of Forgetting - 22 juillet 2010
Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption "Drunken Pirate." After discovering the page, her supervisor (...)
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Foursquare ’in talks with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo !’ about search partnerships - 19 juillet 2010
Exclusive : Foursquare is in talks with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo ! about a search partnership which could let people look up the most popular bar or restaurant in their area in real-time.
Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, Dennis Crowley, Foursquare’s co-founder, said that his company was in talks with (...)
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Rivalries and economy cloud Google expectations - 17 juillet 2010
Investors have muted expectations for Google’s second-quarter results, as economic clouds and shifts in the company’s strategy dampened hopes that it will beat Wall Street estimates.
At least three analysts have cut financial estimates for Google in the run up to its second-quarter earnings report due late (...)
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Turning the Page on the Page Turn - 10 juillet 2010
On Thursday a tidbit of news circulated around the Web that Microsoft had filed a patent in late 2009 hoping to lay claim to the look and feel of page turns on a touchscreen device.
The patent states that when "one or more pages are displayed on a touch display" a "virtual page turn curls a lifted portion of the (...)
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Microsoft Calling. Anyone There ? - 5 juillet 2010
Microsoft’s engineers and executives spent two years creating a new line of smartphones with playful names that sounded like creatures straight out of "The Cat in the Hat" "” Kin One and Kin Two. Stylish designs, an emphasis on flashy social-networking features and an all-out marketing blitz were meant to prove (...)
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Google moves into travel business with ITA purchase - 4 juillet 2010
Google has agreed to acquire ITA, a flight information software company for $700 million in cash, in a bid to enter the lucrative digital travel market.
The search giant is hoping that the cash acquisition, the fourth largest in its history, will allow it to create bespoke search tools focused on travel. ITA, (...)
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Google to be monitored for anti-Islamic content by Pakistan - 26 juin 2010
Google is among several high-profile websites which Pakistan is to begin monitoring in an attempt to block content it deems anti-Islamic.
Seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, will be monitored and 17 lesser-known sites are being blocked outright for alleged blasphemous material under court orders. (...)
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Le Pakistan ordonne la surveillance des "contenus anti-islam" sur le web - 25 juin 2010
ISLAMABAD "” Le gouvernement du Pakistan a ordonné vendredi la surveillance de grands sites sur internet, dont Google, Yahoo et YouTube, en liaison avec d’éventuels "contenus anti-islam".
L’Autorité chargée des télécommunications (PTA) "a reçu des ordres du ministère de l’Information et des Technologies pour surveiller ces (...)
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Rotten Apple, or Just Sour Grapes ? - 23 juin 2010
SAN FRANCISCO "” As Apple fans line up at stores on Thursday morning for the fourth iteration of the iPhone, the company is riding high.
And it’s not just the iPhone. Sales of the iPad tablet are strong too, and Apple has surged past Microsoft to become the most valuable company in the technology industry.
But as (...)
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Microsoft s’inquiète de la fin de la neutralité des résultats des moteurs de recherche - 20 juin 2010
Alors que la neutralité du net est régulièrement au centre de l’actualité high-tech, Microsoft a lancé un pavé dans la mare en élargissant la question à la neutralité des résultats des moteurs de recherche. Une ouverture du sujet qui peut surprendre, mais qui n’est pas négligeable lorsque les moteurs de recherche sont aussi (...)
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Facebook : vers le milliard de dollars en 2010 ? - 19 juin 2010
Plus de 400 millions de membres et 800 millions de dollars en 2009. Les attaques que subit Facebook sur sa gestion de la vie privée de ses membres ne freinent pas la bonne marche des affaires.
Le milliard de dollars serait-il à portée de main de Facebook ? En 2009, le réseau social devrait générer un chiffre (...)
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Kinect, manette humaine - 18 juin 2010
Si l’on cherchait le mot « Kinect » sur Google dimanche soir, on ne trouvait que quelques centaines de résultats désorganisés, dont celui renvoyant à une association bénévole australienne. Hier à 14 heures, le même mot récoltait près de 120 000 résultats (et à l’heure où ces lignes seront publiées, sans doute des millions). (...)
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We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint - 14 juin 2010
WASHINGTON "” Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.
"When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the (...)
