Online retailer www.WorkingPerson.com recently launched a new program just in time for the holidays that rewards customers for participating in online social media activity and product reviews.Like traditional rewards programs,customers ...
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Facebook Gifts, the new social gifting service launched by Facebook on Thursday, might encourage users to expose information like their home addresses, birth date, clothing or shoe size that could pose security and privacy risks, according ...
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US regulators have ordered data brokers to turn over information about how they collect and use information about consumers, in a move hailed by internet privacy activists. The US Federal Trade Commission said nine firms were ordered to ...
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SMARTPHONE photo sharing service Instagram has refined its privacy policy to clear the way for sharing data with Facebook, which bought the company earlier this year. "Nothing has changed about your photos' ownership or who can see them," ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should analyze Facebook's relationship with a data marketer to ensure it doesn't violate the social networking site's recently approved settlement, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Monday. ...
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Fluid Inc., an award-winning digital agency and creator of on-demand, e-commerce solutions for retailers, has teamed up with specialty, mall-based retailer Charlotte Russe to launch the brand’s newly redesigned ecommerce web and ...
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Plans for an upcoming Infiniti performance flagship model with more than 400kW have been revealed on the Japanese luxury car maker's official Facebook page,as production of the brand's first?compact model has also been confirmed for 2015. ...
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In the midst of a tough job market, prospective employees are now dealing with a troubling trend of employers seeking Facebook and other social media passwords as part of their vetting process. After a recent Associated Press report, ...
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India’s Supreme Court has asked the government of Maharashtra state in western India for information on what action was taken against police officers there who arrested two girls earlier this month for a Facebook post. The court has ...
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To put clothes on their characters, computer graphic artists usually simulate cloth by creating a thin sheet, then adding some sort of texture. But that doesn’t work for knit sweaters. To make the image realistic, the computer has to ...
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Recently selected as the top 10 start-ups at Asian technology summit, Echelon '12, Dropmyemail is an award-winning cloud email backup and migration solution. After a few whirlwind months since the launch of Dropmyemail at DEMO Asia '12, the ...
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Apple yesterday unveiled the iPhone 5, the nameplate everyone wanted last year before they settled, sometimes only after a lot of griping, for the iPhone 4S. The rumor mill nailed most of the feature set -- one analyst said Apple could ...
The University of California is suing Facebook, alleging infringment on four patents that enable Internet browsers to host embedded interactive applications. Facebook, along with Wal-Mart and the Walt Disney Company, were sued in ...
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The MapAlerter.com system is a free service for people who want to receive important service alerts from their local authority by text message, email, landline and social media, including Facebook and Twitter. The service has already been ...
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China has blocking access to Google in what’s likely a move to squelch any controversial content on the nation’s Internet as its government prepares to change leadership. The blocking was reported by GreatFire.org, which ...