Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 1:15 pm PT
In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive legal attack against the powerful social networking giant for intellectual property violations.
Lauren Goode in News on February 20 at 7:43 pm PT
A few days after a Wall Street Journal report said Google was bypassing privacy settings in Safari to track users, Microsoft is alleging that the search giant is doing the same thing with Internet Explorer.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 21, 2011 at 1:00 am PT
Google’s new CEO isn’t much for the social Web. If he has a presence on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn it was created with deep privacy settings or a fake name. I couldn’t even find a fleshed-out Google profile for Larry Page.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT
As part of the new Facebook profile page redesign, users can now have a strip of the five most recently tagged photos of them running under their basic information. Some are having fun with this option, pranking each other to show inappropriate pictures and silly sequences of words.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 3, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
In an unusual move, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection asked a Columbia University Law School professor to censor his remarks in a hearing about online privacy legislation.
“We as members of Congress are never inclined to censor testimony in open congressional hearings,” Rep. Zachary Space, an Ohio Democrat, said when introducing the professor, Eben Moglen. “But Congress tries to foster highest level of decorum. I would ask you to avoid personal attacks against any companies or company employees.”
Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 16, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT
If you love reading and want smart ways to share your books with friends or reading updates with social networks, the Nook Color has you covered.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 14, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
While there are many interesting photo-sharing apps out these days, Dave Morin and Path are the most convincing about there being a larger idea behind what they’re doing. San Francisco-based Path is stubbornly focused on close personal connections–a.k.a. real friends.
Kara Swisher in News on May 28, 2010 at 4:52 pm PT
Correcting yet another too-early rumor, sources tell BoomTown that–as has been previously reported many times in many places–Microsoft and Apple are in long-term talks about adding the Bing search service as a prominent option on the iPhone and
not as a replacement of Google.
But sources added that talks are not complete.
Currently, Google is the default search on the popular mobile device, although you can easily go into its settings and switch the search option to Yahoo.
John Paczkowski in Social on May 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm PT
Announcing Facebook’s newest set of privacy controls this morning, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “We are really going to try to not have another backlash.” If backlash is the metric for evaluating the company’s approach to member privacy, it seems to have done okay, at least at this early juncture. Within hours of Facebook’s announcement of new privacy controls, four of its most outspoken critics weighed in on them. And all had positive things to say.
John Paczkowski in Social on May 26, 2010 at 10:47 am PT
In a Washington Post editorial Monday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to simplify the privacy tools that have so befuddled the social networking site’s members and sparked complaints from privacy advocates and lawmakers. This morning, we found out just how he proposes to do that.
