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Facebook's Social Web: How to Protect Your Privacy

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April 23, 2010
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Facebook's Social Web: How to Protect Your Privacy By default, you're now opted into Facebook's new Web-wide sharing services. If you'd rather keep your personal info private, here's a step-by-step guide to taking back control.
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Why I, Like, Really Dislike Facebook's 'Like' Button Facebook's "Like" button program told Pandora my musical preferences even though I didn't ask it to. It was both cool and creepy.
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Apple Gets Nasty With Adobe Over Flash Apple finally gives in to Adobe's mud-slinging, responds to Adobe's claim that it ties down developers to the iPhone by not letting them code in Flash.
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Letterman Puts iPhone 4G Ordeal in Perspective Reality check: The rest of the world isn't iPhone-obsessed. Really.
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Google Dashes Hopes of Free iPhone Turn-by-Turn GPS Google clarifies how its free mobile navigation software works -- and where it doesn't (yet).
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McAfee's Mea Culpa for Update Error The security vendor apologizes for its faulty antivirus update, which wreaked havoc on Windows systems this week.
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Palm Buyout Options Dashed after HTC Declines Doesn't anybody want to snap up Palm's nifty webOS for a bargain?
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Earth Day: 6 Green Tech Products To Watch These six green tech products will help you conserve energy and were made with a reduced amount of nasty toxins
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Facebook Accounts Hacked, Sold Here's yet another reminder to safeguard your Facebook information and check those settings.
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1.5 Million Stolen Facebook IDs up for Sale VeriSign has spotted a hacker in an underground forum offering 1.5 million Facebook accounts for sale.
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The McAfee Update Mess Explained Corporate IT administrators faced a full-blown meltdown of PCs, as hundreds, sometimes thousands, of Windows XP computers went down after getting a faulty...
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Bing Loses More Money as Microsoft Chases Google Microsoft continues to suffer heavy losses in its Online Services Division as it tries to match rival Google.
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UK National Health Service Hit With Malware Infection Computers belonging to the U.K.'s National Health Service have been hit with data-stealing malware, although it doesn't appear patient data was stolen.
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Color E-ink: Electrowetting Brings Color and Video to E-book Reader Screens A new release from a group of Dutch researchers paves the way for efficient e-book readers with color and video e-ink displays.
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Real-time Voice Translation Coming to Mobile Instant speech translation is already technically feasible for certain environments, vendors said at the Mobile Voice Conference in San Francisco.
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Facebook's New Features and Your Privacy: Everything You Need To Know Facebook has introduced a bevy of new features that will impact your privacy. Here is what you need to know.
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Microsoft Earnings Again Buoyed by Windows 7 Microsoft announced strong income and revenue growth for its third fiscal quarter, thanks in good part to continued brisk sales of Windows 7.
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Mobile TV: Better Options Coming Soon As phones improve, new devices (iPad) launch, networks improve, and consumer demand grows, lots of money flows toward bigger and better mobile video services. Who will emerge as the "Hulu of mobile"?
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Getting Touchy with Windows 7 Touch Pack Microsoft has made the Windows 7 Touch Pack--games and applications for touchscreen displays--available for download.
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Microsoft Wins Piracy Case Against Chinese Company Microsoft won a Chinese court case over pirated software used by a local insurance company, and was awarded damages to the tune of US$320,000.
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Facebook's Social Web: How to Protect Your Privacy By default, you're now opted into Facebook's new Web-wide sharing services. If you'd rather keep your personal info private, here's a step-by-step guide to taking back control.
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