The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved a settlement with Facebook related to charges that the social networking leader deceived consumers regarding the privacy of their data. The settlement stipulates that Facebook must obtain ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle has agreed to acquire Eloqua for about $871 million in a bid to build out a set of marketing automation software. Eloqua's board has approved the deal and it is expected to close in the first half of next year, ...
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Government departments have been given the go-ahead to use iPhones to send and receive sensitive emails, as part of moves to broaden the number of approved public sector mobile devices beyond BlackBerrys. Under new guidelines, civil ...
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Secure.me has developed a website and a browser plug-in designed to make Facebook users aware of the personal information that gets harvested by third-party applications. The App Advisor Security Network website has profiles on more than ...
Tags: website, browser, Facebook, personal information, applications
Facebook is tweaking its development platform to allow third-party applications to communicate directly with their users by sending notifications to their profiles. A new Notifications API (application programming interface), now in beta ...
Tags: Facebook, development platform, applications, notifications, profiles
Juniper Networks this week has rolled out edge routers designed to enable service providers to rapidly deploy new service applications. Juniper's MX2020 and 2010 3D Universal Edge Routers run software called JunosV App Engine that's ...
HTML5 Web publishing platform Wix.com will launch an app market Tuesday for selling of third-party applications built with the company's automated Web development technology. Called Wix App Market, the platform also enables customers to ...
Tags: Wix.com, HTML5 Web, app market, applications
Mobile operators are rapidly adopting new network software, called EPC (Evolved Packet Core), that will give them more control over service quality but also new tools for metering data usage. EPC is the next generation of software for ...
Tags: mobile operators, new network software, EPC, service quality, data usage
SAP has made a series of announcements defining itself as a major player in the enterprise social software market with a superior approach to rivals such as Salesforce.com. A new platform called SAP Jam, now generally available, combines ...
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The changes Twitter is making to its API policies triggered a wave of protest among its developers, but they might be necessary for the strategy Twitter has laid out for itself to make money and keep growing its service. The stricter ...
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Google has upgraded its Chrome browser for Android devices, boosting its security framework and patching several security bugs. The security holes that were fixed were all rated as “medium” for their severity, and Google paid ...
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Microsoft has given a makeover to its SkyDrive cloud storage service, including a new Web interface, as well as improvements to its desktop applications and developer API, the company announced on Tuesday. It's not surprising that ...
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Juniper Networks this week has rolled out edge routers designed to enable service providers to rapidly deploy new service applications. Juniper’s MX2020 and 2010 3D Universal Edge Routers run software called JunosV App Engine ...
Tags: network, routers, Juniper, Juniper Networks
Facebook is tweaking its development platform to allow third-party applications to communicate directly with their users by sending notifications to their profiles, according to Facebook official Bo Zhang. A new Notifications API ...
Tags: apps, Bo Zhang, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Notifications
A Yahoo user has sued the web portal company for negligence for allowing more than 450,000 user names and passwords to be stolen from one of its sites. Jeff Allan of New Hampshire, whose login credentials were posted online after a ...
Tags: Yahoo, user, personal data breach