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Facebook's Anti-Privacy Backlash Gains Ground

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May 8, 2010
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Facebook's Anti-Privacy Backlash Gains Ground The backlash against Facebook's new anti-privacy policies is only getting stronger. It's time for the social network to respond.
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How to Keep Your Privacy Safe(r) on Facebook Your information can't be made safe on Facebook, but you can make it safer.
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Zynga Expected to Launch Social Gaming Site The online games company may be looking to break off from its primary platform, Facebook.
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iPad vs Netbook: The Battle Continues Don't be too quick to bury the netbook, analyst suggests.
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Scribd Ditches Flash in Favor of HTML5 Site that lets anyone upload almost any document and publish it to the Web announces it is converting the millions of documents it hosts to HTML5.
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What's Causing The Apple iPad 3G Shortage? Apple's 3G iPad, which just went on sale last week, is already in short supply.
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Geek 101: HTML5, CSS3, and You HTML5 and CSS3 will let Web developers do more with their sites. Here's what you need to know about these new technologies.
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Symantec Study Mischaracterizes Linux Spam Symantec report highlights Linux issues, but exaggerates risk of Linux spam
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This Week in Geek: iPhone Hacking, HTML5, and Fast New Drives Miss the GeekTech blog this week? Catch up on an iPhone running Android, new SSDs, and more. It's This Week in Geek!
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Google vs. Foursquare: Geolocation Battle Heats Up At the Web 2.0 Expo, Google indicated it would be enhancing its Latitude service to give other location-based time-wasters a run for their money.
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Apple TV's Future Comes into Focus Apple TV is one 'hobby' that looks ever more like a secret fourth weapon in the company's future business strategy.
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Samsung Releases Bada SDK Samsung released the software development kit for Bada, its application development platform.
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Researchers to Cure Blue Pill Virtualization Attacks North Carolina State University researchers develop virtualization security software HyperSafe.
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The FCC's Broadband Plan: What You Need to Know Do ISPs really face the same restrictions as common carriers? Reviewing the broadband battle.
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Intel to Launch New Processors for Ultrathin Laptops Intel on Friday confirmed that it will launch new Core i3 and Core i5 processors for ultrathin laptops later this year.
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Borders Offers Kobo E-Reader At $150, Kobo is the cheapest e-reader yet thats backed by a big brand, and it will start shipping in June.
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Nokia, Apple Ratchet Up the Patent Madness The companies have been at each other's throats since October  suing, countersuing and piling on claims of patent infringement. This is not how it's supposed to play out.
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The FCC's Move, Facebook Privacy Issues Redux Stymied by a recent court decision regarding network neutrality, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has decided to partially reclassify broadband as a...
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Facebook Users Ho-Hum Over Privacy Issues, Exec Says Opting in or out, frequent policy changes and other Facebook practices aren't deterring activity, a Facebook exec maintains.
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