Apple has acquired mapping startup WiFiSlam, which is developing an indoor location service for smartphones, Apple said Monday. An Apple spokesman declined to comment on its purpose in making the acquisition or its future plans for the ...
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Analysts say the proposal for internet users to delete their online data and become invisible online could create a black hole in the web economy. Tineka Smith reports. Last year the European Commission announced proposals for the 'right ...
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New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce growth, some tech groups said. Sens. John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and ...
Salesforce.com is hoping to give its Marketing Cloud product line a fresh boost with a new social advertising platform for Twitter. The offering, now in closed beta, is powered by a new advertising API (application programming interface) ...
Europe is planning a co-ordinated response to Google’s data collection practices, says the Wall Street Journal. The French Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et de Libertes (CNIL) says it, and other European privacy ...
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Microsoft is pulling no punches with a new promotional campaign for its revamped Outlook email service, as it directly accuses Google of "invasion of your privacy" and "going through mail to sell ads". The campaign - which Microsoft calls ...
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LinkedIn's Q4 earnings comfortably beat analysts' expectations yesterday for a second quarter running, causing shares to rise by almost 10 per cent. Analysts had predicted revenue for Q4 of $279.5m whereas the actual figure came in at ...
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More than two thirds of consumers say “no” to online tracking. Many consumers around the globe are becoming more cautious about their personal data being collected when on the internet. According to Ovum this is creating a ...
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Web and mobile device users have little understanding about how much of their personal data is collected online, making it difficult to rely on free-market competition for solutions to privacy concerns, privacy experts told the U.S. Federal ...
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When it comes to consumers' rights to control their own browsers, everybody wants to sound like they're pro-choice. But with many millions of advertising dollars on the line, the definition of pro-choice tends to align with the financial ...
Online social networks are gathering information about their users that those people never intended to disclose, and government regulation may be the only way to stop the practice, a researcher said Tuesday. People deliberately disclose a ...
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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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To gain a competitive edge, modern content management systems and portals must leverage the latest mobile and TV trends. Elinext Group today announced that it advances CMS and portal software solutions integrated with mobile phones, tablets ...
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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 that's ...
Twitter will allow advertisers to target users based on their interests following a successful test of a new advertising feature, the company said. The feature adds to Twitter’s other advertising offerings, including Promoted ...