Faster Forward: May 16, 2010 - May 22, 2010
Facebook, MySpace leaked user data to advertisers
As I was making my way home yesterday afternoon (a journey that stretched well into the morning hours, but that's not important right now), the Wall Street Journal was posting a report about yet another privacy misstep by social-media Web sites. WSJ writers Emily Steel and Jessica E. Vascellaro reported...
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May 21, 2010; 5:00 PM ET |
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Google plays Pac-Man
It is a dark day for productivity in offices everywhere. Google is honoring the 30th anniversary of the classic video game Pac-Man with a "Google Doodle" logo that doubles as a fully playable version of the game, complete with what I remember as the correct sound effects. Just click the...
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May 21, 2010; 2:15 PM ET |
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An expanding Android universe
SAN FRANCISCO -- The future looks bright for Google's Android smartphone platform. Or at least it looks a lot brighter than it did two and a half years ago, when it debuted on a single smartphone with a tiny number of add-on applications. In today's keynote at its Google I/O...
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May 20, 2010; 5:55 PM ET |
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Google TV: Some Web smarts for the idiot box?
SAN FRANCISCO--Google's engineers are apparently tired of watching TV with a laptop on the coffee table. The keynote that opened the second day of the Mountain View, Calif., firm's Google I/O conference featured an extensive tour of the next version of Google's Android smartphone software. It also included an excruciating...
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May 20, 2010; 3:06 PM ET |
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Google I/O, day two: And now, Android?
SAN FRANCISCO -- Remember how yesterday's blog post had a headline suggesting news about Google's Android smartphone operating system? Although the keynote that opened that company's Google I/O conference here ran more than half an hour long, it barely touched on Android. That news, it's been strongly suggested to me,...
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May 20, 2010; 10:19 AM ET |
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Details on Google's Chrome Store and WebM plans
SAN FRANCISCO--At a press briefing here, Google executives provided more details about the two Web initiatives announced in this morning's keynote presentation: the Chrome Store for procuring Web applications, and the open-source WebM Web multimedia format it's developing with other companies. The Chrome Store ... * Is coming sometime this...
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May 19, 2010; 6:30 PM ET |
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Live from Google I/O: Android, Chrome, Web apps and more
SAN FRANCISCO--Wednesday morning, Google will open its annual developers conference, Google I/O, with a keynote presentation outlining its major product developments. I'm expecting news about its Android smartphone operating system; its project to add Web software to TVs; such Web applications as Gmail, Google Calendar and its Buzz info-sharing service;...
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May 19, 2010; 11:00 AM ET |
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A field trip to the Internet Archive
SAN FRANCISCO -- Many people think of the Internet Archive only as the home of the Wayback Machine, the site that lets you see what pages looked like years ago. But the archive is also of the real world, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that makes its home in a former...
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May 18, 2010; 7:16 PM ET |
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Notes on the digital-music business: Things could be worse
SAN FRANCISCO -- The last panel discussion at Monday's SF MusicTech conference here might lead you to think there's something rotten in the state of digital music. Tim Quirk, a vice president at the Rhapsody music service, lit into the major record labels for their self-defeating greed. "They charge more...
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May 18, 2010; 2:37 PM ET |
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PostPoints tip: Facebook is only for friends
Tracking Facebook's latest privacy moves can be a full-time job--with a high risk of having to run a correction because one aspect or another of its latest features and options was less clear than initially advertised. But two guidelines about that social-networking site still hold true if you want to...
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May 18, 2010; 9:27 AM ET |
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Facebook meets the "Unlike" button
The site that functions as one big popularity contest looks a little unpopular today. After a series of changes that eroded its users' privacy, Facebook has been getting smacked around in public. A Wired blog post declared the widely-used social network "Gone Rogue." A team of programmers looking to develop...
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May 17, 2010; 5:00 AM ET |
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