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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Facebook app designed to thwart hackers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dwienulkirul</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:MyPageKeeper)Facebook users can lean on a new app to help them fight spam and malware.Designed by a team of students at the University of California at Riverside, MyPageKeeper is a free Facebook app that continually monitors wall posts and news feeds for malicious content. If the app suspects that any content may contain spam or malware, it alerts you and gives you the ability to remove it.Beyond protecting your own Facebook account, it can also protect the accounts of friends who may get infected by viruses or hit by spam just by viewing your page.The app was the effort of Md Sazzadur Rahman and Ting-Kai Huang, two Ph.D. students in computer science at UC's Bourns College of Engineering. The two also worked with a Web protection service called StopTheHacker.com, which was created by Anirban Banerjee, a Ph.D. alumnus from UC Riverside, and Michalis Faloutsos, a professor of computer science and engineering at UC, according to a university press release sent out yesterday.The team created the app in response to the surge of spam and malware that has plagued Facebook users.&quot;Facebook is the new Web,&quot; Rahman said in the release. &quot;It provides a fertile ground to spread malware, since users trust links and posts that are seemingly from their friends. Hackers have realized this, and they have started using it to distribute malware and conduct identity theft.&quot;You can install MyPageKeeper by adding it to your Facebook account from the app's page. Once installed, the app gives you the ability to send a message to any of your Facebook friends inviting them to install it too.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The top 20 games of E3 2011]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dwienulkirul</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim(Credit:Bethesda Softworks)Another E3 has come and gone leaving gamers and journalists equally dizzy with anticipation. We saw dozens upon dozens of titles at the big show but only a few can be called &quot;best of.&quot; We've racked our brains to bring you the 20 titles we were most excited about in an easy to use slideshow. Not sure you agree with us Make sure to sound off in the comments section below or click on over to see if the title you're most excited about landed in our short runners up list. Top 20 games of E3 2011 (photos) Even though these titles missed our top 20, there's still plenty to look forward to from:Prey 2Sly Cooper 4Asura's WrathStar Wars: The Old RepublicDark SoulsSSX<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Toolbar for IE goes Instant]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dwienulkirul</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[While Google Toolbar 7 for Firefox launched several months ago, the Internet Explorer version (download) went live just this week. It brings Google Instant to the popular toolbar, along with more robust privacy options and a cleaner interface.Google Toolbar 7 for Internet Explorer (pictures) Although the support for Google Instant search is the most notable feature improvement in version 7, what appears most interesting is the way that the toolbar lets you know that features like Instant that require tracking to work actually do track you. While this might not be news to some, it's a strong reminder that many of the data-rich features that people love do come at a cost to personal privacy.Enabling the features is easy. After installation, which unfortunately requires a reboot of all your open browsers, the toolbar walks you through activating Instant and opens a tab with Google's toolbar tutorial video. If you choose to install without activating Instant, you can do it later by going to the Options menu. The Option menu is now accessible from the Wrench icon, just as it is in Chrome. The Options menu is also where you can toggle privacy features after installing, under the Privacy tab. A new hot key combo, Alt+G, will jump you directly into the toolbar's search box.For people who want to have a different default search engine in Internet Explorer, this can be a clever way to have two search engines accessible directly from the keyboard.Along with the Wrench icon, much of the toolbar's look has been tweaked to make it look more like Chrome. App icons are identical to those used for Chrome extensions, and the vertical tab choices in the Options menu also resemble the current Chrome menu.One excellent feature in Internet Explorer 9 is that it tells you what kind of performance impact your add-ons have on the browser. My installation of Google Toolbar 7 impacted browser start time by zero seconds, according to IE's add-on management window. That is a massive improvement for a toolbar's reputation, when most are notorious for slowing down the browser launch.It's important to note that the Internet Explorer Google Toolbar installer will also install the Google Toolbar forFirefox. You must later go into Firefox and disable it, if you only want it in one browser.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook backtracks on apps grabbing address, cell number]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dwienulkirul</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebook-backtracks-on-apps-grabbing-address-cell-number</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Facebook is temporarily putting the kibosh on a new tweak that gave apps the ability to capture someone's cell number and address.Pushed through on Friday, the new change expanded on the information already available to third-party app developers based on a user's permissions.When downloading a Facebook app, people have always been asked if they want to share their name, picture, friends list, and other information. The change threw in an additional request asking to share a person's address and mobile phone number.Concerns quickly arose that Facebook users might click the option to allow access without even thinking or that phony, malicious apps could tap into the new feature to snatch addresses and cell numbers. In response, CNET blogger Larry Magid explained how to remove your address and mobile number from your Facebook profile entirely.In a blog post late yesterday, Facebook said it had received useful &quot;feedback&quot; from users over the weekend on ways to make the process more transparent. As a result, the company has temporarily taken the feature offline with the goal of refining it to help people understand that they're intentionally choosing to share such information. Facebook is promising that an improved version will find its way back online in the next few weeks.Privacy concerns over Facebook are nothing new. The company has a history of surprising its users with tweaks to the site that potentially leave their personal information more exposed. Facebook also has a habit of testing the waters with such changes and then backtracking when people complain.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tumblr blames database cluster issue for outage]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dwienulkirul</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Popular microblogging platform Tumblr is still suffering from an outage that started yesterday.&quot;We're working quickly to recover from a major issue in one of our database clusters,&quot; Tumblr wrote on its Twitter page about 21 hours ago. &quot;We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience.&quot;Tumblr hasn't provided any information about how the company's database cluster was affected, and has only promised to &quot;be back shortly.&quot; In a follow-up tweet released earlier today, Tumblr said that it is working through &quot;a slow and painful recovery.&quot; It promised to share information about the outage on the company's blog when the site is back up.That recovery might finally be complete. The company sent out another tweet after the original version of this story was published, saying that &quot;the recovering database cluster is online and healthy.&quot; It said that it would be &quot;incrementally opening up access to blogs while monitoring performance.&quot;However, that hasn't stopped Tumblr users from taking to Twitter to express their displeasure.Currently, hundreds of Twitter users are commenting on the outage every minute with some wondering if Tumblr &quot;died or something.&quot; Many others seem frustrated, saying that the outage, which has been &quot;nearly 24 hours,&quot; according to one user, &quot;better be fixed&quot; soon.Tumblr has not responded to a request for comment on the nature of the outage or how much longer the service will be down.We will update this story as we learn more.Updated at 2:53 p.m. PTto include details on Tumblr announcing incremental access to the site.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gawker yanks Palin excerpt after court order]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dwienulkirul</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Hope you've sated your curiosity about Sarah Palin's upcoming book: Gawker Media, which published unauthorized excerpts of the book on Thursday, has pulled them off the Web following a federal court order.The ruling comes following a lawsuit filed Friday by Palin's publisher HarperCollins. AP:A federal judge on Saturday ordered Gawker Media to pull leaked pages of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book &quot;America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag&quot; from its blog.The injunction prohibits Gawker from &quot;continuing to distribute, publish or otherwise transmit pages from the book&quot; pending a hearing on Nov. 30.The link to Gawker's original post now generates a 404 error message. Palin's book is due out on Tuesday, a full week before the scheduled hearing.I've asked HarperCollins if they have any additional comment beyond the statement they sent me this morning (the publisher is owned by News Corp., as is The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, home to All Things Digital). I have yet to receive any comment from Gawker Media.Via Politico, here's the court order. Note the handwritten note at the bottom, indicating that a hearing was held at 3pm Saturday afternoon.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.              h4 a{            text-decoration: underline !important'        }        addStories{            margin-bottom: 15px'        }        addStories li{            line-height: 1.8em'        }                            Additional stories from AllThingsD                                                        Gawker Yanks Palin&amp;039's Book Excerpt After Court Order                                                                        Sarah Palin&amp;039's Publisher Sues Gawker Over Book Excerpt You Haven&amp;039't Read                                                                        LOLCatz: Safra on The Stand Again in Oracle-SAP Trial                                                                        The Landscape Around Google&amp;039's Hiring Binge                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Carol Bartz keeps it clean as she tries to explain Yahoo&'s business]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The most reliable question that pops up at Yahoo events is, a4AWhat is Yahooa4 The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today was no exception, where interviewer John Battelle posed that question to Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz.Bartz replied that Yahoo is actually a4Aa very simple storya4 that can be boiled down to five areas &amp;8212' a4Acontent, communications, media, technology, innovation.a4To be honest, when I first heard that, I thought it was little more than a collection of buzzwords. But Bartz pointed out that her answer leaves out some areas where Yahoo has unsuccessfully tried compete in the past &amp;8212' most obviously search, where Yahoo essentially sold off its technological infrastructure and traffic to Microsoft.At the same time, ita4a4s worth noting that Yahoo is putting a bigger emphasis on its technology side recently. For example, at a press conference in September, a Yahoo executive said the company isna4a4t just a media organization, but rather an a4Aamazing technology company in the media business.a4 Bartz acknowledged that when you look at any individual Yahoo website, it may seem like a4Aanybody could put that page together,a4 but she said therea4a4s a lot of technological sophistication in mixing automation and human curation to select the content on that page. Plus, it takes some pretty serious technology to serve 18 billion ads per day.Bartz also criticized the question,  she called a &amp;''trick questiona4 used to suggest that Yahoo executives don&amp;'t understand what the company&amp;'s core identity. Outside of Silicon Valley and New York, most users know exactly what Yahoo is, she argued.a4AIa4a4m never asked that outside of the country or in Iowa,a4 Bartz said.Battelle also asked Bartz whether Yahoo is considering a private equity buyout to leave the public market. Bartz responded, a4AI love being a public company CEO,a4 then when Battelle pointed out that she hadna4a4t answered the question, she added, a4AOh, I forgot that was the questiona4 and declined to say anything further.Another hallmark of Yahoo press events, at least with Bartz, is profanity, but today I didna4a4t count  a single a4Adamna4, much less an f-bomb. Ita4a4s not clear if that was a deliberate change or if Bartz was just feeling less combative, but it was a surprise.[photo by Dean Takahashi]Next Story: Website-tester Optimizely snags $1.2M in all-angel funding round Previous Story: Can Coda steal sales from the backlogged Nissan LeafPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Web 2.0 SummitCompanies: YahooPeople: Carol Bartz          Tags: Web 2.0 SummitCompanies: YahooPeople: Carol BartzAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat 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.VentureBeat 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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<title><![CDATA[Bezos-Backed Heartland Robotics Raises Another $20&nbsp'Million]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dwienulkirul</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Heartland Robotics today announced that it raised $20 million in a series B venture round led by Highland Capital Partners.  Other investors include Sigma Partners and existing investors Bezos Expeditions and Charles River Ventures.  The Boston-based company previously raised $7 million in August, 2009.The founder of Heartland Robotics is Rodney Brooks, a former AI reseracher at MIT and one of the co-founders of iRobot.  Instead of making robot vacuum cleaners, time around Brooks is developing a new class of manufacturing robots.  I normally don&amp;'t quote from a press release, but this Brooks quote sounds like something straight out of an Isaac Asimov novel:&amp;''Our robots will be intuitive to use, intelligent and highly flexible. Theya4a4ll be easy to buy, train, and deploy and will be unbelievably inexpensive. Heartland Robotics will change the definition of how and where robots can be used, dramatically expanding the robot marketplace.&amp;''They sound so harmless, don&amp;'t they  Let&amp;'s just hope these robots obey the Three Laws of Robotics.  I wonder if they&amp;'ll be friends with the Anybots.CrunchBase InformationHeartland RoboticsHighland Capital PartnersBezos ExpeditionsInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Grameen IT CEO on how technology transformed Bangladesh]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kazi Islam describes his job as &amp;''implementing the future&amp;''. He is the CEO of Grameen IT which runs the IT services of Grameenphone, Bangladesh&amp;'s biggest mobile carrier.Islam grew up in the U.S. become returning to his home country. &amp;''I lived in the future. I went back into the past. My job is to implement the future&amp;'' he says. Islam is convinced that emerging countries like Bangladesh will determine which technologies survive and dominate in that future. I talked to him about how technology has transformed his country and why tech companies need to pay attention.Grameenphone is a billion dollar business in a country where the average revenue per subscriber is 1 or 2 dollars. One of company&amp;'s first innovations was the Village Phone scheme, established at a time when a mobile handset still cost $1000. The program gave villagers access to micro credit to buy a mobile phone that could then be rented out to other villagers. Islam told me that 10 years on Village Phone has become a victim of its own success as handsets and minutes dropped in price. Now you can buy a handset for 10 dollars.&amp;''The village phone concept completely changed a nation through a technology. The measuring stick is how many people are using mobile phones today. 12, 15 years ago if you were telling me  that 60 million people (in Bangladesh) would have a mobile phone, people would just laugh at you.&amp;'' he explains.GrameenPhone now provides a range of services which go way beyond the traditional scope of a mobile carrier. One of the most popular is BillPay. Paying a utility bill in Bangladesh, and many emerging companies, is an arduous business involving hours of queueing to pay the bill and then queueing again to confirm that the money was received by the utility.BillPay allows instant payment via mobile. Islam told me that a surprising side effect is that &amp;''people are voluntarily going and paying. Before people would put it off.  From the government side their revenue went up significantly.&amp;''Buying a train ticket used to take a whole day. Now 50 percent of all train tickets are sold through mobile services and a huge number of tickets can be sold in a matter of hours. Grameenphone also provides a hotline where farmers can get advice on problems with their crops. &amp;''60 percent of our employment is agri-based. If your crop is infected, for example, you have no way of finding out what is really happening. You can make a phone call and describe. You can take a photo on a mobile phone and send it in an MMS&amp;''.Mobile healthcare is also an important focus, in a country where 390 out of 1000 women die due to complications in childbirth and access to basic health information is limited. &amp;''On average our very optimistic number is that we live to be around 62 years. That means compared to the U.S. we live 10 years less. A significant part of that is because their mother was not healthy and their birth was not perfect. So we start with birth.&amp;''I queried Islam on the biggest misunderstanding on how new technology is used in emerging markets. &amp;''The biggest misconception is that there is no business opportunity. In my mind that misconception comes from laziness.&amp;'' He also thinks that making fast money should not be the first priority of an entrepreneur. In his opinion, this is one of the reasons that most startups focus on the US and European markets. &amp;''Worry about people first. Whatever technology you build if it is people-focused and ultimately people embrace it, you are going to make a decent living&amp;'' he insists.Islam also condemns technology companies for not taking the emerging countries, home of half of the world&amp;'s population, into consideration when designing new products.&amp;''In none of them you will see a criterion which says that this particular product has to be applicable to emerging countries,&amp;'' he says. &amp;''If you forced innovators to think about this the world would be different. That particular tick box is missing. If companies are still not thinking about emerging markets and emerging market populations, they are committing two big crimes.  One is to themselves' they are missing out on the financial opportunity. They are also depriving these people of the benefit of this technology.&amp;''When I asked Islam about the technology sectors in which emerging countries will lead his answer was emphatic: &amp;''Everything&amp;''. While developed countries have made huge investments in infrastructure like fixed line telephony, emerging markets are an open field. &amp;''In Bangladesh there are less than 250,000 fixed line phones but there are 66 million mobile phones. Emerging markets will dominate in line of what innovations succeed in the future. Mobile is a big example of it&amp;''. Bangladesh also has one of the largest deployment of individual solar home systems covering 300,000 rural homes. How is this possible when people are only making a dollar a day According to Islam, entrepreneurs have developed new business models as well as technology to sell to this market.One technology which Islam predicts will create an explosion of new business is mobile finance. Bangladesh is a cash-based economy where very few people have bank accounts. &amp;''The moment you solve the mobile financial part of it, your service industry is going to explode since the service providers can collect the money.&amp;'' Grameenphone is planning to introduce P2P mobile payments and other financial services.&amp;''If you look at Bangladesh, 10 years ago our per capita income was 200$. Today our per capita income is around $900. Can you imagine in the US people&amp;'s per capita income going up by 500 percent in 10 years It is happening because of technology&amp;'' Islam concludes.Next Story: HighlightCam aims to make video editing simple and mobile Previous Story: iPad 2 rumors settle on thinner body and cameras, no high-res displayPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: bangladesh, emerging markets, mobilePeople: kazi islam          Tags: bangladesh, emerging markets, mobilePeople: kazi islamCiara Byrne is a full time techie and part-time writer. She has worked as a software developer, team lead, engineering manager and mobile standards expert. Ciara is based in Amsterdam and her interests include creative companies, useful technology, torture by piano and cycling in high heels. Follow her on Twitter at @deciara.  Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  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