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Google Faces Class-Action Lawsuits Over New Privacy Policy

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March 22, 2012
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Google Faces Class-Action Lawsuits Over New Privacy Policy The plantiffs say Google has not only combined information across products, but also has not provided consumers with an easy and efficient way to opt out.
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Yes, Microsoft Wants Windows 8 to Compete With iPads Windows development blog shows how to translate iPad apps into Metro apps.
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Cloud Security Registry Slow to Catch On To date, only three companies have submitted their cloud security data to the cloud security registry, making the registry of little use.
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FCC Moves to Open Up New Mobile Spectrum The FCC votes to move ahead with plans to open up 40MHz of wireless spectrum in the 2GHz band to mobile voice and broadband service.
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J.C. Penney Slashes CIO Role In January, the J.C. Penney Company introduced Kristen E. Blum as its CTO. This month, the retailer eliminated its CIO in a move to, according to a company memo, 'ensure we have the right structures to ensure efficiency and productivity.'
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New iPad Slow to Recharge, Barely Charges During Use Our lab testing shows that the third-generation iPad has some charging challenges.
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The Pros and Cons of Using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI might cost less than buying new PCs to run Windows 7 (or 8), but the biggest savings come from managing a single image for a host of workstations.
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Google Patents Technology to Serve Ads Based on Background Noise A new Google patent could enable the search giant to base advertising on background noise during phone conversations, although the scope of the patent is much...
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Will Megaupload's 28 Petabytes of Data Be Deleted? The hosting provider for the defunct file-sharing site Megaupload wants to delete the data now that investigators have collected most of what they need for the...
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DOJ Sues AT&T Over Billing for Text-based Communications Service The U.S. Department of Justice has accused AT&T of overcharging the government by millions of dollars by failing to crack down on scammers using a text-based...
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Norwegian Government Portal Compromises Users' Personal Information Norway's Altinn portal had to be closed after users got access to data belonging to two people, and on Thursday the site remained down.
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Hacktivism Was the Leading Cause for Compromised Data in 2011, Says Verizon More than half of data stolen from companies in 2011 was a result of hacktivist actions, even though the majority of data breaches were still caused by...
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Google Docs Gets Better at Spell-Check New system is context-sensitive, so it's almost like a grammar checker. In other words, don't worry if you're always using the wrong "you're."
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Google's BigQuery Brings Big Data to the Cloud While most of the talk around big data assumes such systems will be deployed in-house, Google is building a service that will allow for analyzing large amounts...
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Most Webmasters Don't Know How Their Websites Got Hacked, Report Says Most owners of compromised websites don't know how their sites got hacked into and only 6 percent detect the malicious activity on their own.
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