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Apple changes purchases policy to protect kids on iPad, iPhone games
Apple said Thursday that it changed its policy for how purchases can be made within applications on the iPhone and iPad, an attempt to protect users, particularly children, from accidentally racking up iTunes charges.
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Cecilia Kang
| March 10, 2011; 11:53 AM ET |
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FTC: Identity theft, Internet auctions, services among top 10 complaints
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that the top complaint it received from consumers last year was over identity theft. Also high on the list were complaints about Internet and telecommunications services and Internet auctions.
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Cecilia Kang
| March 8, 2011; 11:28 AM ET |
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Consumers, FTC, Mobile, credit cards, internet
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Free messaging apps threaten wireless carriers' cash cow
Here's the dirty secret about text messages. It costs a wireless carrier close to nothing to send and receive them -- even though they charge about $10 a month for 500 to 1,000 texts. Now, a new crop of...
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Cecilia Kang
| March 3, 2011; 9:00 AM ET |
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Apple, FTC, Facebook, Mobile
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Google Street View Trikes add more pictures
Google is putting its controversial Street View application into greater focus with the addition of photos of places around the world taken from its fleet of global tricycles. The search giant wrote about the new Trike pictures on its...
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Cecilia Kang
| March 1, 2011; 9:51 AM ET |
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Google has pre-beta in-app payment program
Google is working on a new in-app payment program, now in pre-beta testing for developers. According to TechCrunch, the service will launch in May.
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Hayley Tsukayama
| March 1, 2011; 8:30 AM ET |
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The Circuit: Huawei wins injunction, Netflix and CBS team up, Google revises SSN policy for kids
The Circuit: Huawei wins injunction, Netflix and CBS team up, Google revises SSN policy for kids
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Hayley Tsukayama
| February 23, 2011; 8:23 AM ET |
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Digital Divide, FTC, Kids Online, Online Anthropology, Online Video, Privacy
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