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Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For “Application Privacy Summit [Guest Post]
techcrunch.com
The following is a guest post from Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow, following yesterday and today’s revelations that select apps were uploading user’s entire address books to their database. We blew it, we’re sorry, and we’re going to make it right. It’s Hipster’s goal to provide a fun and beautiful service...
Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For “Application Privacy Summit [Guest Post]
Wake up call: 59% of mobile apps don’t earn enough to break even
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With Instagram recently having been acquired by Facebook for $1 billion and OMGPOP, makers of Draw Something, cashing in for $200 million, developers are attacking the mobile app space with a renewed vigor. Before jumping head first into a new project aiming to be the next big acquisition target,...
Why Anti-Circumvention Laws Are Evil: Hollywood Gets To Veto DVD Jukebox, Despite Complete Lack Of Infringement
www.techdirt.com
As mentioned, it looks like Canada's new copyright law will include the "digital locks" provision, which is more accurately described as giving Hollywood a veto on any technology it doesn't like. If you haven't followed the specifics, the "digital locks" provision is an anti-circumvention rule that makes it against the...
Why Anti-Circumvention Laws Are Evil: Hollywood Gets To Veto DVD Jukebox, Despite Complete Lack Of Infringement
Battlefield developer will require a 64-bit OS for future games
www.theverge.com
As video games become more demanding, performance becomes a matter of the utmost importance and, starting next year, Battlefield developer Dice will be tapping into your operating systems to help run its engine. Rendering architect Johan Andersson tweeted, "We'll have Frostbite-powered games in 2013 that will _require_ a 64-bit...
BitTorrent Pirates Go Nuts After TV Release Groups Dump Xvid
torrentfreak.com
Every now and again, the world’s most famous piracy release groups get together and have a big old meeting to decide how they’ll carry out their future activities. At the top of the agenda is an item of utmost importance – how to change things around to ensure the highest...
Why we don’t need the government to protect us from online tracking
venturebeat.com
The Do Not Track legislation introduced by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has picked up considerable steam since its debut in Congress last February and has inspired a furor of similar bills ready to clog (or already clogging) Congress. Speier and privacy groups supporting the bill say that tracking consumers’ online...
Flame off! Malware makers scramble to clean infected computers
venturebeat.com
Could the writers of the Flame malware be attempting to cover their tracks? Security software maker Symantec noticed this week that computers infected with Flame have sent out urgent commands to remove all traces of the malware from other systems. Flame has been described as a “nightmare scenario” by security researchers, who are learning something...
RIM’s new chairwoman promises shake-up isn’t over
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Research In Motion’s newly appointed chairwoman of board Barbara Stymiest vowed on Thursday that the changes sweeping the struggling smartphone vendor will continue. RIM announced late last month that company co-founders Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis were stepping down from their roles as co-CEOs and co-chairmen of the board...
Protect Yourself with Microsoft Security Essentials
www.blackweb20.com
Microsoft Security Essentials, while not some flashy new piece of software, is probably one of the most overlooked. Even some who have heard of it have yet to actually download and install it. Being more of a tech person, I always find it surprising how vulnerable many people are when...
Uberpaper aims to kill the echo chamber of social news
gigaom.com
Personalized algorithms and social networking sites are great for helping people navigate a lot of things online — music, movies, restaurant recommendations and the like have benefited greatly from high tech curation. But according to serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, when it comes to getting the news, these technologies create a...
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