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<title><![CDATA[Twitter beefs up your control over third-party apps]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Twitter)Twitter is now giving its users more control and clarity over what information third-party apps are allowed to access.As defined in a recent blog, third-party apps are those that &quot;automatically share your tweets on other networks, connect you to players on gaming platforms, or instantly tweet whenever you update your blog.&quot;Common examples include third-party Twitter apps such as TweetBot, TweetDeck, and Twitterific. But they can include any Web site or service that taps into your tweets.Such third-party apps need your permission to access certain information about your account. But in an effort to be more sensitive to privacy concerns, Twitter is shining more light on exactly what these apps want from you.Now when you first try to sign into a third-party app using your Twitter credentials, Twitter will display a detailed permissions screen that lists exactly what information the app is requesting.For example, the app may want to read your tweets. It may want to see who you follow. Even more, it may want to update your profile or post tweets on your behalf. The permissions screen will also tell you what the app won't be able to do, such as access your private messages or see your Twitter password.It's then up to you to decide whether or not you're comfortable handing over the level of access that the app requires. Unfortunately, it's still an all or nothing proposition. You can either authorize the app to see everything, or click the &quot;No, thanks&quot; button, which means you won't be able to use the app at all.As part of the tighter permissions process, Twitter is also now requiring third-party apps that access your direct messages to ask your permission to do so. And by the middle of next month, apps that don't need access to your DMs will no longer have it, letting you use those apps as you normally would.You can see which third-party apps already have access to your Twitter information: From your Twitter account page, click on the Settings option that appears in the pull-down menu under your photo and user name. From there, click on the Applications menu, and you'll see all of the third-party apps with access. You can click on the link for each one to check out its Web site and even revoke access on an individual basis if you're not comfortable with any of the apps.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Man sued by Apple support firm for complaining gets new iMac]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SlullyTug</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Happy endings do happen. Sometimes.So I am delighted to report the existence of at least a slightly cheery ending in a troubling legal case involving an Apple support company and one of its customers.You might remember this difficult tale. In what was a landmark case in Greece, an Apple support company, Systemgraph, decided to sue one of its customers when he complained (very mildly) about its service on his blog.Dmitri Papadimitriadis, the Greek physician who was bold enough to declare publicly that he was not pleased with Systemgraph's service, was unhappy that his iMac seemed to come back from that service in a rather worse state than it went in.So he took to a blog forum, where the most critical word he used to describe Systemgraph was &quot;shoddy.&quot;Systemgraph, whose skin appeared a little thin, sued him for 200,000 euros.Let&amp;39's hope his new iMac works perfectly.(Credit:CC Freakyman/Flickr)Once this story echoed into objective ears, Systemgraph seemed to have second thoughts about its lawsuit and withdrew it.Still, Papadimitriadis believed he deserved a new iMac--and a little compensation for his legal costs.Well, 167 days after his original request for a new machine, I can report that Papadimitriadis has a new iMac. He told me that it had been jointly funded by Systemgraph and by the retailer from whom he originally bought the iMac.This occurred after the intervention of the Greek ombudsman and several very large male nurses who just happened to be passing by. (Yes, I am joking about the nurses.)Papadimitriadis seems happy to have at least received this much. However, he told me that there had been no movement on his legal expenses. He was also a little downhearted that despite getting a petition together and trying to contact Cupertino, there was &quot;no response from Apple despite the signatures.&quot;Indeed, despite repeated attempts to contact Apple (I tried too), the company has never commented on the case.Still, Papadimitriadis' stoic stance means that there is some precedent now in Greece for yelping (mildly) online about poor customer service. Moreover, he told me: &quot;The case has been discussed here in PR marketing / social media seminars and a university course.&quot;And how many of us can ever say we have been the subject of discussion in a university course<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nokia unveils new typeface, Pure]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SlullyTug</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Nokia)Nokia Sans, one of the most familiar typefaces worldwide and a brand recognition money can't buy, is about to become irrelevant. The world's largest phone maker has unveiled a new font dubbed Nokia Pure for mobile and digital environments. &quot;Logically enough, the starting point for our brand new typeface, Nokia Pure, was also on-screen legibility at small sizes--although now we're talking about the pin-sharp color screens of contemporary smartphones,&quot; Nokia said in a blog post on its Brand Book site. &quot;At the same time, we also needed a recognizable corporate typeface, versatile enough to work well in all manner of different environments--from other screen-based formats, to a whole host of printed materials.&quot; Based on the concept of a seamless and fluid motion, the Nokia Pure typeface comprises rounded letters without serifs that &quot;flow into each other&quot; to create an impression of forward movement. The font was developed by Nokia together with London-based typographic designer Bruno Maag, who is the founder and managing director of Dalton Maag. A short film called Pure Reversal,&quot; which features a woodblock version of the typeface, has also been produced by graphics design studio Build. The new font will come in three weights: light, regular, and bold. These are designed to deliver &quot;pin sharp&quot; legibility on screens. The new branding--which is also supposed to create a sense of harmony between the different divisions of the Finnish outfit--will appear on billboards and devices this year, according to Nokia Conversations. (Credit:Nokia)(Source: Crave Asia) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA 2012 budget reflects 'tough choices,' uncertain outlook]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SlullyTug</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Faced with reduced funding and an uncertain outlook, NASA's $18.7 billion fiscal 2012 budget prioritizes the Obama administration's major goals and objectives, focusing on maintaining the International Space Station, retiring the shuttle and ramping up efforts to spur development of commercial manned spacecraft.The budget also reflects the administration's commitment to building a new heavy-lift rocket and a crew capsule that could be used for deep-space exploration.But the budget follows the administration's proposal to freeze federal funding at 2010 levels for the next five years, resulting in a $276 million decrease for NASA compared to the agency's 2011 budget.NASA Administrator Charles Bolden outlines the agency&amp;39's fiscal 2012 budget request during a news conference in Washington.(Credit:NASA)Until Congress weighs in with actual funding, it's not clear when a viable United States manned spacecraft will emerge to service the station or when eventual deep-space missions might occur.In the meantime, with the shuttle's retirement looming after a final three missions, NASA will continue to rely on Russia to provide transportation to and from the space station aboard Soyuz spacecraft at about $55 million a seat.&quot;This budget requires us to live within our means so we can invest in our future,&quot; NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden told reporters. &quot;It maintains our strong commitment to human spaceflight and new technologies. It establishes critical priorities and invests in excellent science, aeronautics research and education programs that will help us win the future.&quot;Because &quot;these are tough fiscal times, tough choices had to be made,&quot; he said. &quot;Our No. 1 priority is safely flying out the shuttle and maintaining the safety and well being of the American astronauts currently living and working in space.&quot;NASA is working under a continuing resolution that requires the agency to operate at 2010 funding levels. The $19 billion fiscal 2011 budget remains in limbo, as does precise funding to begin ramping up work on commercial manned spacecraft, the new heavy lift launcher and the multipurpose crew vehicle NASA is planning for deep-space exploration.The new budget funds the congressionally mandated Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket and the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle at roughly the same levels that were authorized in the 2011 budget: $1.8 billion for the rocket and $1 billion for the crew capsule.Closer to home, NASA managers hope the private sector can design, build, and test commercial manned spacecraft for initial flights somewhere between 2014 and 2016 to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The 2012 budget includes $850 million to kick-start development.&quot;It's clearly a function of what funding's available,&quot; said Bill Gerstenmaier, chief of space operations at NASA headquarters. &quot;But for planning purposes, we've been looking in the 2014, '15 or '16 time frame, somewhere in there for crew. But the proof of the pudding is when we actually start getting some concrete budgets and start getting some real plans and start to see some real proposals.&quot;Space science would receive just over $5 billion in the 2012 budget, a slight increase over the yet-to-be-implemented 2011 budget, while space operations, which includes the shuttle and station programs, drops $1.16 billion to $4.3 billion in 2012. The reduction is due in large part to the shuttle's retirement.All of those funding levels are frozen through 2016--projected spending in 2013 through 2016 is shown as &quot;notional&quot;--and until Congress gives its final approval, design details and target dates are nebulous.&quot;Any budget takes place in a context,&quot; said Elizabeth Robinson, NASA's chief financial officer. &quot;Perhaps the context this year is a little more complicated than others but as always, it's a combination of internal and external factors. Both an internal and external factor is we still don't know what's happening to our funding levels in 2011. The agency is proceeding in all of its programs, but commitments to life cycle costs and launch dates are likely to be impacted by whatever we get in 2011.&quot;In the wake of the 2003 Columbia disaster, the Bush administration ordered NASA to finish the space station and retire the shuttle by the end of fiscal 2010. Using money freed up by the shuttle's retirement and the end of station assembly, NASA was told to develop a program to return astronauts to the moon for long-duration stays by the early 2020s.NASA developed the Constellation program to meet those objectives and began designing low-Earth orbit and heavy lift versions of a new shuttle-derived rocket known as Ares and a new crew capsule, called Orion, that could fly to the station and, eventually, deep-space targets.The Obama administration canceled the Constellation program last year, deciding it was not affordable. Instead, the administration favored a &quot;flexible path&quot; approach laid out by a blue-ribbon panel that called for relying on the private sector to ferry astronauts to and from the station.NASA was to focus on developing a new architecture for visiting a variety of deep-space targets including nearby asteroids and, eventually, Mars. After lengthy discussions between NASA, Congress, and the White House, the agency opted to use a variant of the Constellation program's Orion capsule as a reference design for a deep-space capsule and a less powerful version of the Ares V moon rocket.In legislation passed last year, NASA was told to build the new rocket by 2016. The agency responded in January that it would not be able to deliver given the expected funding. And that was before the proposed spending freeze.&quot;In this time of necessary budget cuts, NASA does well compared to most other agencies,&quot; Sen. Bill Nelson, D-FL, the architect of the heavy-lifter legislation, said in a statement. &quot;But the president's budget does not follow the bipartisan NASA law Congress passed late last year. The Congress will assert its priorities in the next six months.&quot;Given the budget uncertainty in Washington, it's not clear when any of these new systems might fly. But Bolden said he's convinced NASA and its private-sector partners will deliver in the end.&quot;Trust me. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think it could work,&quot; he said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to seal 22 security holes this month]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SlullyTug</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft today said it will address 22 vulnerabilities as part of next week's Patch Tuesday, three of which are critical.Three of the 12 bulletin items released by Microsoft earlier today are classified as critical, and affect Microsoft's Windows operating system, with one affecting Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser as well. The rest are classified as &quot;important.&quot;In a post on Microsoft's Security Response Center blog, the company said it will be making fixes for vulnerabilities in the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine, as well as CSS exploit in Internet Explorer that could allow an attacker to gain remote code execution. Along with the fixes for the rendering engine and the CSS exploit, Microsoft says it will be addressing zero-day flaws that created vulnerabilities in the FTP service found inside of Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and 7.5. Not included in this month's batch of announced patches is a fix for the recently-discovered script injection attacks that affect Internet Explorer. Acknowledged by the company last week in Security Advisory 2501696, the exploit targeted the way IE handled MHTML on certain types of Web pages and document objects, and could provide hackers with access to user information. According to Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer at Qualys, the best route to prevent those attacks continues to be the workaround Microsoft outlined in its initial security advisory about the problem. Microsoft has a full list of the pending issues here.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google claims Bing copies its search results]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SlullyTug</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[After noticing curious search results at Bing, then running a sting operation to investigate further, Google has concluded that Microsoft is copying Google search results into its own search engine.A Bing search result based on one of Google&amp;39's hand-coded honeypot search results that previously appeared only in Google. (Click to enlarge.)(Credit:Google)That's the report from Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan today, who talked to both companies about it and presented Google's evidence. According to the report, a mechanism could be the Suggested Sites feature of Internet Explorer and the Bing Toolbar for browsers, both of which can gather data about what links people click when running searches.The story began with Google's team for correcting typographical errors in search terms, which monitors its own and rivals' performance closely. Typos that Google could correct would lead to search results based on the correction, but the team noticed Bing would also lead to those search results without saying it had corrected the typo.The original hand-coded honeypot search result on Google. (Click to enlarge.)(Credit:Google)Next came the sting, setting up a &quot;honeypot&quot; to catch the operation in action. Google created &quot;one-time code that would allow it to manually rank a page for a certain term,&quot; then wired those results for particular, highly obscure search terms such as &quot;hiybbprqag&quot; and &quot;ndoswiftjobinproduction,&quot; Sullivan said. With the hand coding, typing those search terms would produce recognizable Web pages in Google results that wouldn't show in search results otherwise.Next, Google had employees type in those search terms from home using Internet Explorer with both Suggested Sites and the Bing Toolbar enabled, clicking the top results as they went. Before the experiment, neither Bing nor Google returned the hand-coded results, but two weeks later, Bing showed the Google results that had been hand-coded.Microsoft didn't say today whether it plans to continue the practice, but evidently it doesn't consider it &quot;cheating,&quot; as Google does.In a comment to ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft said, flatly, &quot;We do not copy Google's results.&quot; However, that denial turns out to be more a matter of interpretation.A blog post by Harry Shum, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Bing, offered some detail on what Microsoft did. He acknowledged monitoring what links users clicked, but essentially described it as letting humans help gather data through crowdsourcing.We use over 1,000 different signals and features in our ranking algorithm. A small piece of that is clickstream data we get from some of our customers, who opt-in to sharing anonymous data as they navigate the web in order to help us improve the experience for all users.To be clear, we learn from all of our customers. What we saw in today's story was a spy-novelesque stunt to generate extreme outliers in tail query [rare search query] ranking. It was a creative tactic by a competitor, and we'll take it as a back-handed compliment. But it doesn't accurately portray how we use opt-in customer data as one of many inputs to help improve our user experience.The history of the web and the improvement of a broad array of consumer and business experiences is actually the story of collective intelligence, from sharing HTML documents to hypertext links to click data and beyond. Many companies across the Internet use this collective intelligence to make their products better every day.Google made it clear it isn't happy about it.&quot;I've got no problem with a competitor developing an innovative algorithm. But copying is not innovation, in my book,&quot; Sullivan quotes Google Fellow and search expert Amit Singhal as saying. &quot;It's cheating to me because we work incredibly hard and have done so for years but they just get there based on our hard work...Another analogy is that it's like running a marathon and carrying someone else on your back, who jumps off just before the finish line.&quot;And in a statement to CNET News, Singhal added that Google disagrees with Microsoft's position, speaking just as flatly as Microsoft denying copying:Our testing has concluded that Bing is copying Google Web search results.At Google we strongly believe in innovation and are proud of our search quality. We look forward to competing with genuinely new search algorithms out there, from Bing and others--algorithms built on core innovation and not on recycled search results copied from a competitor.Google didn't respond to CNET questions about whether it plans any actions beyond publicizing the honeypot.Google brought its concerns to Sullivan shortly before a Bing search event today. Coincidentally or not, Google just shifted that event's agenda significantly. Indeed, the search-copying issue become the focus of a debate between Microsoft and Google representatives at the conference.Stefan Weitz, director of Microsoft's Bing search engine, shared this response with Sullivan: &quot;Opt-in programs like the [Bing] toolbar help us with clickstream data [information that shows Microsoft what links people click on], one of many input signals we and other search engines use to help rank sites. This 'Google experiment' seems like a hack to confuse and manipulate some of these signals.&quot;Hack, experiment, or honeypot, it's very revealing. Google created about 100 such hand-coded results, Sullivan said, so it's hard to imagine the act distorting search results in any significant way. The next relevant question will be to see whether Microsoft concludes it's time to update its own search algorithm so that a Bing search for &quot;hiybbprqag&quot; won't lead to ticket information for the Wiltern theater anymore.Updated 4:20 p.m. PST: Google has officially commented on the matter via a blog post attributed to Singhal. In it, he writes &quot;However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google.&quot; Also, &quot;And to those who have asked what we want out of all this, the answer is simple: we'd like for this practice to stop.&quot;Updated several timeswith comment from Google and Microsoft, most recently at 4:10 p.m. PT.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[33needs helps do-gooder startups crowdsource their funding]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The crowdfunding concept really seems to be taking off, especially with what Kickstarter has done to help fans fund creative projects. Now a startup called 33needs is bringing a similar approach to funding for-profit startups that want to tackle big, global issues.Founder and chief executive Josh Tetrick said that the company comes from his experience working for &amp;''a venture capital-like initiative&amp;'' for the United Nations in Kenya while he was a law student. During that time, he said he met a4Ahundreds of entrepreneursa4 who had great ideas and valuable experience but didna4a4t have access to capital.a4AWe are the only platform that enables ordinary people to invest, make a social impact, and earn a return,a4 Tetrick said.The company whose model comes closest to 33needsa4a4 is probably profounder, a startup led by Kiva cofounder Jessica Jackley that launched in November and also offers a crowdfunding approach to small businesses and startups. Both services reward their investors with a share of the revenue from their companies. Asked about how 33needs differentiates itself, Tetrick pointed to 33needsa4a4 emphasis in companies with a social or environmental mission, and the fact that it allows investors to participate in the potential &amp;''upside&amp;'' from their investments. More than 895 entrepreneurs and nearly 1,000 potential investors have already signed up to participate in 33needs. Tetrick said his hope is to fund at least 30 startups in the next 60 days. Startup categories include &amp;''the planet&amp;'', education, community, health, opportunity, and sustainable food.33needs is self-funded.Previous Story: LG will launch a smartphone with glasses-free stereoscopic 3DPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: crowdfundingCompanies: 33needsPeople: Josh Tetrick          Tags: crowdfundingCompanies: 33needsPeople: Josh TetrickAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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