In a self-proclaimed effort to warn people about the dangers of not protecting their personal information on social networks, hackers took over hundreds of Facebook groups today, changing the name of all affected groups to “Control Your Info.” and posting the following warning to each group and its registered users —————————————————————————- Hello, we hereby announce […]
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The 2009 Application Usage and Risk Report from Palo Alto Networks that analyzed web use and traffic patterns on over 200 networks globally showed that business use of social networks, social media and collaborative software exploded over the last six months. Findings from the report include: – Twitter use grew by 250 percent from the […]
In August, Google announced that it was reworking its search engine to make it faster and more efficient. The new project is called Google Caffeine. Google Caffeine is billed as an effort to improve Google’s indexing speed, power and accuracy. Google’s own Matt Cutts discusses more about the Google Caffeine project in the video below: […]
Google has been the target of much criticism lately regarding how much information they record on people who use their search engine and other web services as well as how they use this information. In an effort to make their personal data more public, Google has launched a privacy dashboard for users who want to […]
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Cell phone technology, mobile applications and social networks make a powerful combination for tracking people. Ironically, most of the people being tracked do so willingly through their own use of these technologies. Google’s announced that it will offer turn-by-turn navigation to users of the Motorola Droid, showing the precision with which cell phones are now […]