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California Moves to Stop Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords

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May 11, 2012
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California Moves to Stop Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords The California assembly passed a bill on Thursday that prevents employers from demanding job applicants' passwords for accounts on Facebook or other social...
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Why is Mozilla Targeting Microsoft and Not Apple in Browser Spat? Why hasn't Mozilla lambasted Apple, as it did Microsoft, for blocking rival browsers from its mobile operating system?
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Netflix Frictionless Sharing: Do You Want to Automatically Broadcast What You Watch? Netflix is ready to fight the U.S. Senate on frictionless sharing. Do you want to automatically broadcast what you watch?
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DVDs and Blu-rays Will Soon Waste More Time with New Unskippable Piracy Warnings New piracy warnings will take 20 seconds to view when launching a movie, and won't allow circumvention.
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Free Game Friday: A Tiny Wizard and Wolfenstein 3D in Your Browser Ready for the weekend? We've got two great new freeware games and an all time classic now playable on the web.
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Good News! OLED TV Prices Will Fall Fast OLED TVs may debut for around $8000, but those prices will drop to $2300 in two years, research firm predicts.
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Patent Case Suspended While Samsung Tests Apple's 'Pinch-to-Zoom' Claim Samsung Electronics may challenge the validity of Apple's intellectual property claims before the Regional Court in Mannheim, Germany, rules.
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Want Your Facbook Status Seen? Pay Up. The social network appears to be testing fees for highlighting status updates, in what could be a sign of charges to come.
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Mozilla Cracks Down on Memory Leaks in Firefox Add-Ons Thanks to a new patch, memory consumption can be reduced by as much as 400 percent, Mozilla says.
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Samsung Launches Low-end Windows Phone With 4-inch Display Samsung Electronics has announced the Samsung Omnia M, a Windows Phone with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display that will first become available in Europe.
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Bing Social vs Google Search Plus Your World: Feature Showdown Bing and Google are taking different routes to incorporate social features into search. Here's a look at their competing forays into social integration.
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This Just In: Cloud Computing is Hard, and Takes a Long Time A recent survey from Cisco finally tells us what we suspected all along.
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Six Ways to Use Multiple Displays With Your Laptop Dual monitors improve productivity, but it can be hard to get laptops to use multiple displays. It's not impossible, though. Check out these six tips for connecting laptops to external monitors.
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Apple May Kill Google Maps in iOS 6 Apple's desire to oust Google Maps from the iPhone is no secret, and the company's acquisition of several mapping companies may have accrued the necessary technology to offer its own.
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Will Your Next Car Steal Itself? As vehicles offer an ever-growing number of digital features, they could present several security threats--unless automakers manage these technologies effectively.
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Amex Cards to Work With Isis Mobile Wallet American Express will allow its credit cards to use the Isis Mobile Wallet once the technology is deployed in Salt Lake City and Austin this summer.
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BlackBerry 7 Smartphones Approved for DOD Use Research in Motion's BlackBerry 7 smartphones have been approved for use by the Department of Defense, the company announced this week.
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Facebook Facial Recognition: A New Take on it Via the Klik App In our tests, we found the Klik facial recognition to be creepily accurate, although the photo needs to be pretty clear.
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MIT Business School Grapples With Virtualization MIT's Sloan School of Management has embraced virtualized desktops as a way to meet user needs and streamline operations, but the IT staff accepts that finding just the right mix of hardware and software is an ongoing challenge.
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