Friday, March 23, 2012

Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords

Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords


Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords

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Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it's an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities.

Facebook takes steps to address privacy concerns

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FILE - A Jan. 3, 2011 file photo shows the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user "rights and responsibilities" policies.


Girl's voice mails gone after T-Mobile promotion

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When Faron Butler wanted to hear his daughter's voice, he went to the voice mails she left him before she died of cancer at the age of 14.

Bigger Brother: Surveillance system compares your face to 36 million others in a second

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Big Brother is watching — and getting better at its job. At this year's Security Show expo in Japan, Hitachi Kokusai Electric took the wraps off a new surveillance camera system that can pick out your face— and compare it to … Continue reading

Massive Angry Bird poised to launch from Seattle’s Space Needle

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Dream of playing a real-life game of Angry Birds? You may have missed your chance when they had amassive game in Barcelona, Spain, but this is a pretty cool consolation prize: The makers have turned the Space Needle into a makeshift Angry … Continue reading

Mashable Is Seeking a Director of Sales Development

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Interested in joining Mashable's growing sales team?  We're expanding and we have an opening for our first ever Director of Sales Development.

Zynga founder, other insiders to sell 43M shares

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Zynga's CEO and other insiders at the online games company plan to sell 43 million shares of stock in a public offering that will boost the amount of stock available for general trading by 35 percent.

AT&T bringing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to 11 more devices

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Get excited, AT&T-using Android owners. You may be on the list of lucky individuals getting an upgrade to the latest version of Google's Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich.

Best Buy's US iPhone sales almost rival Apple's own

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Best Buy's US iPhone sales almost rival Apple's ownIf you wanted to know which company's stores were selling more iPhones, Apple or Best Buy, the answer is Apple—but only by 2 percent. Data shows how limited Apple's sales would be without its retail partners.


Girl's voice mails gone after T-Mobile promotion

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When Faron Butler wanted to hear his daughter's voice, he went to the voice mails she left him before she died of cancer at the age of 14.

Dad upset after dead daughter's voice mails erased

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A man in Washington state is blaming T-Mobile for losing voice mails his daughter left him before she died of cancer at the age of 14.

Calif. settlement will fund car charging network

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An energy company accused of artificially inflating the cost of electricity, leading to California's power crisis a decade ago, agreed to pay a $120 million settlement that will fund 10,000 electric car charging stations across the state, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday.

NRG settlement to fund CA car charging network

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NRG Energy Inc. has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a dispute over long-term contracts signed during California's energy crisis 10 years ago, and most of the money will be used to create a network of more than 10,000 car charging stations for electric vehicles, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday.

11 Hilarious 'Mad Men' Parody Twitter Accounts

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1. Don Draper

Facebook buys IBM patents

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Facebook bought IBM patentsFacebook confirmed Friday that it has added a trove of IBM patents to its arsenal on an increasingly lawsuit-strewn technology battlefield.


Mashable Is Seeking a Director of Sales Development

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Interested in joining Mashable's growing sales team?  We're expanding and we have an opening for our first ever Director of Sales Development.

8 Unexpected Moments From SXSW [PICS]

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South by Southwest can be a stimulus overload. With so much to see and do crammed into such a short period of time, it's easy to forget to stop and take in the smaller details.

Apple's devoted shareholders get rich, and hang on

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Anton (L) and his brother Erik Marinovich pose in this undated handout photo supplied by the Marinovich familyNEW YORK (Reuters) - When Anton Marinovich turned 18, his grandmother gave him $1,000 with strict instructions to invest in the stock market. He chose Apple Inc. Seventeen years later, his investment is worth more than $240,000 and will bring him over $1,000 a quarter through the company's new dividend plan. "It's pretty bananas," Marinovich said. ...


Facebook takes steps to address privacy concerns

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FILE - A Jan. 3, 2011 file photo shows the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user "rights and responsibilities" policies.


Facebook warns employers not to demand passwords

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Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it's an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities.

Meet the $25 Musical Button Seducing Corporate America

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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Facebook, lawmakers warn employers not to demand passwords

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An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in MunichSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and lawmakers have warned employers against requesting Facebook passwords while screening job applicants, a controversial practice that underscores the blurring distinction between personal and professional lives the era of social media. The practice has reportedly grown more commonplace as companies increasingly regard profiles - or embarrassing photos from wild nights out - as windows into a prospective employee's character. ...


KIT Digital: 4 directors quit; shares slide

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(Reuters) - Four directors of KIT Digital Inc, including independent director Santo Politi, stepped down from the video technology company's board as part of a management rejig, sending the company's shares tumbling to a more than two-year low. KIT Digital said the there were repeated requests from shareholders to reduce the number of inside directors. The company also appointed Chief Administrative Officer Barak Bar-Cohen interim chief executive, replacing Kaleil Isaza Tuzman who will continue as the chariman of the board. ...

BATS exchange withdraws IPO after stumbles

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Joe Ratterman, CEO of BATS Global Markets, speaks at the Reuters Exchanges and Trading Summit in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - In a breakdown that resembled a mini version of the 2010 "flash crash," a series of blunders hit the market debut of BATS Global Markets Exchange Inc on Friday, causing the company to take the extremely rare step of withdrawing its initial public offering of shares. The problems Friday morning caused BATS shares briefly to trade for less than a penny, confusing investors and potentially threatening the future of the fledgling exchange itself. The glitches also fouled a trade in shares of Apple Inc, the world's most valuable company, and caused a temporary halt in the ...


China's ZTE to "curtail" business in Iran

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A ZTE logo is pictured at the Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong(Reuters) - ZTE Corp, China's second-largest telecommunications equipment maker, said it will "curtail" its business in Iran following a report that it had sold Iran's largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring telephone and Internet communications. Reuters reported Thursday that Shenzhen-based ZTE had signed a 98.6 million euro ($130.6 million) contract with the Telecommunication Co of Iran in December 2010 that included the surveillance system. (http://link.reuters. ...


3 Key Metrics for Evaluating Your Mobile Ecommerce Site

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Although the mobile web has become mainstream, not all websites have kept pace with the eager throngs of mobile shoppers.

HP hikes dividend by 10 percent

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File photograph of a woman walking past the Hewlett Packard logo at its French headquarters in Issy le MoulineauxSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard raised its quarterly dividend by 10 percent, making good on a pledge to shareholders even as it struggles to stabilize its operations and grow its revenue. HP has said it intended to increase its regular dividend annually, and that the increase would to be in the double digits. It has about 1.98 billion shares of common stock outstanding. The current increase in the dividend will be effective as of May 2012. HP's previously announced dividend, payable on April 4, remains at 12 cents per share. ...


AOL hires Evercore to sell patent portfolio: report

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AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong rings the opening bell with company representatives at the New York Stock Exchange(Reuters) - AOL Inc has received buyout offers from private equity firms and has hired Evercore Partners Inc to help it sell its over 800 strong patent portfolio, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Providence Equity Partners Inc, TPG Capital and Silver Lake, among others, have approached AOL about taking the Internet company private, but no deal has been struck yet, Bloomberg cited sources as saying. Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which together with its affiliates owns 5. ...


'I Google Everything With Bing Now'

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Even fed-up former Googlers who have migrated to Bing can't really get away from the search giant. "I google everything with Bing now," said commenter Azalp Yerbua in response to our post on Google's betrayal of its users. Yerbua has decided, like many others, that he or she doesn't approve of Google's moves of late, so our commenter will now "google" with Bing. With the use of google as a verb Yerbua reminds us, however, just how dominant the company is. ...

The Case for the $25 Lightbulb

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Best LED Lightbulb: Phillips AmbientLED [The Wirecutter]

Facebook Now Claims to Own the Word 'Book'

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Slyly if not secretly, Facebook has just tightened its grip on the intellectual property right to yet another incredibly generic, remarkably common word: "book." As if the also generic and common words "face", "poke" and "wall" weren't enough, the company added "book" to its list of do-not-touch terms in a newly revised user agreement. This means that if you use the word "book" on the Internet in a way that Facebook or its lawyers deem unsavory, the social network can decide to sue you. This is not a joke.

How to Sync Bookmarks Between Your Smartphone, Tablet and PC

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The problem with having web browsers on all of your gadgets is that you get separate sets of bookmarks on each one. So while you might remember a website or article you wanted to look up, that you've been to a million times on your laptop or home computer, getting there on your smartphone might require a web search ... and another, and another, as you try to remember the exact wording.

New Android Gadgets Aim to Replace Your TV

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You can already watch Netflix, Hulu Plus, and YouTube on most Android devices ... even the Barnes and Noble Nook, which runs Google's open-source Android operating system under the hood, so to speak. And you may have already seen gadgets like the Logitech Revue running "Google TV" software, which proved so unpopular that their price was chopped down to a mere $99.

Inventors Make Android-Powered Glasses, Wings

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Smartphones powered by Google's open-source Android operating system are prized by hardware hackers and inventors. Not only are there numerous cheap Android smartphones available off-contract, it's easier to modify them to do what you want them to do than it is with other devices. Many Android smartphones are easily "rooted," allowing deep access to system software, and Android apps can be written in Java as well as simple scripting languages. ...

Constant Texting Coming Back to Bite Us

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COMMENTARY | Bonnie Miller fell in a river because she was texting and walking, says Digital Trends. This story is just one of many such incidents. Some are funny, like when someone falls in a mall pool while texting. Others are dangerous. People get hurt and hurt each other trying to do two things that require full attention at once. Unlimited texting may have sounded like a good idea when it first came out; now it's coming back to bite us. It isn't just the guilty that suffer.

Why the '4.6 Inch iPhone Screen' Rumors Are Wrong

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COMMENTARY | An "unnamed industry source" told South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper that Apple's making a new iPhone with a screen 4.6 inches across, according to Reuters' Miyoung Kim. The current iPhone has a 3.5 inch screen; a 4.6 inch screen would place it in the realm of Android "superphones" like the Droid series.

Klout Doesn't Really Measure Influence [STUDY]

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A new study about digital influence says Klout and other social media measurement tools don't really define how users influence their networks.

Choiix Power Fort 5600: Bite-sized portable battery charges with speed and style

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Choiix Power Fort 5600: Bite-sized portable battery charges with speed and styleRemember when you were told that you could have too much of a good thing? Well that was a lie — when it comes to charging your smart devices: power, electricity, juice, whatever you want to call it, there is no such thing as too much. While the flood of smart devices such as tablets and smartphones is undeniable in today's society, the means to charge them, sadly, remains less ubiquitous. Naturally, as we use our devices more and more throughout our busy day, charging them can become a real nuisance, especially when on the go.


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