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Friday, 18th November 2011

Draft W3C Standard Looks More Like "Please, Do Not Track"

Last December, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission called upon leaders in the Web browser industry to develop technological means to enable servers to comply with federal guidelines - which are likely to become laws. The FTC mandated that they refrain from implementing any kind of behavioral tracking for individuals who explicitly opt out of all…

Hack Scott M. Fulton comments

YouTube Social Redesign Leaked

A leaked YouTube redesign caught by Business Review USA shows a starkly different layout that emphasizes social sharing. It features Google+ and Facebook sharing tabs on a prominent profile sidebar. The inclusion of Facebook is surprising, but YouTube is a popular destination, which offers a perfect opportunity to introduce Facebook friends to…

Jon Mitchell comments

Kindle Fire Limits Third Party Browsers

One of the more common criticisms lobbed at Apple when it comes to iOS is its restrictive application approval policies. Apps that contain racy content, include features that compete with Apple's own core functionality or that don't adhere to their user experience guidelines are often rejected. To some extent, the criticism is warranted…

Mobile John Paul Titlow comments

ISC Announces Major BIND 9 Vulnerability

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is reporting a major vulnerability in BIND 9, with an apparent exploit in the wild. According to the announcement, servers running BIND 9 and performing recursive queries should upgrade immediately. The actual exploit for this vulnerability is not yet reported. ISC says that it will cause a resolver to cache…

Enterprise Joe Brockmeier comments

Thursday, 17th November 2011

How Syrian Protesters are Using the iPhone

Ever since the eruption of the series of political uprisings now known as the Arab Spring, there's been much speculation over the role of social media and mobile technology. Whether revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and elsewhere could have happened without Twitter and cell phones is something historians will probably continue to debate years…

Mobile John Paul Titlow comments

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