Path confessed that it took users’ address book data without permission when the app loaded and admits it “made a mistake.” As part of its confession Path declared that it deleted all data it illicitedly collected. On Path’s About page it claims that its app accounts for “two million people sharing life with close friend [...]
Scientists have created what they claim is the world’s smallest transistor, using a single phosphorus atom. An international team at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University of Melbourne, has described the smallest transistor ever built in the Nature Nanotechnology journal. Michelle Simmons, who led the team, says the development is [...]
SponsoredReviews is officially launched today – March 12th 2007 after a Beta testing. SponsoredReviews is a blog marketing service provider wherein advertisers and publishers meet indirectly to help each other. Advertisers can gain buzz or reviews for their products or site on their favorite publishers blog network. In turn bloggers can make some $$ out [...]
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a Motion to enjoin Google from implementing new ToS and Privacy Policies on March 1, 2012. On February 8, 2012 EPIC filed a Motion for Temporary relief against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce Google’s March 2011 Agreement Containing Consent Order which included the FTC’s oversight on Google’s [...]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) refused to order a Social Media site to prevent the unlawful use of copyrighted works. In 2010 SABAM (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs), the Belgian collecting society for music royalties, lost a lawsuit to force Netlog (a Social Media site) to add a filter [...]
Everyone knows Google and everyone knows Youtube. But not everyone knows that the first one is the owner of the biggest and most popular video sharing webpage there is. To show You better the size of YouTube let’s talk numbers: over a million people a day visits YouTube and around 65,000 new clips are uploaded [...]
If you are interested in building up a successful online business then your must have a merchant account with a reputed online payment services Select a company that offers a variety of online credit card processing terminals that include security and fraud control features, batch processing PIN pads, check readers and other peripherals. They should [...]
Who don’t want to save money from their daily savings. Not all credit cards are the same. Many offer exclusive deals on 0% balance transfers, 0% on purchases and even offer cash back and rewards on every purchase you make with your credit card. Banking and savings are what we all use; however, many of [...]
There are lots of people who are always in search of a business opportunity or employment in their area. But all are not lucky to have one. There is lot of unemployment in un-developed countries due to rapid increase in population and also due to lot of competition arising from experienced and highly educated persons. [...]
Privacy continues to be hot news, just look at Facebook’s S-1 disclosures in its Initial Public Offering (IPO) which among a myriad of “Risk Factors” includes this statement about privacy laws: Our business is subject to complex and evolving U.S. and foreign laws and regulations regarding privacy, data protection, and other matters. Many of these [...]