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A bipartisan group of congressional representatives wrote a letter to Google Inc. chief executive Eric Schmidt, grilling him over what they called Google Spy-Fi data collection. The company Street View mapping vehicles had collected three years worth of data about wireless access points around the world -- including personal communications that were being... Read More »
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As if the all-too-real BP oil spill were enough of a circus, a satirical Twitter account called @BPGlobalPR adds some dark humor to a sludgy situation. The fake BP Twitter page was created a week ago and already has 42,000 followers -- dwarfing BP real account, @BP_America, which has 5,700. The person pulling the strings of @BPGlobalPR, who refused to... Read More »
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Making good on its earlier allusions to finding additional outlets for its social games, Zynga on Wednesday said it would distribute games on Yahoo. The deal gives Zynga a new outlet for its games, which reach 230 million players a month, mostly on Facebook. For Yahoo, Zynga´s hyper-popular social games are part of a broader strategy to add more... Read More »
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Speeding through a red light? Not a chance, according to IBM Corp. The technology behemoth, known for its work with computers, is now trying its hand at traffic. The company recently filed a patent application for a system that could remotely stop and start vehicle engines at traffic signals in order to save fuel and prevent crashes. The system would... Read More »
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Googling yourself -- or "ego surfing" -- is no longer just an exercise in digital narcissism. It´s a necessary effort to shape -- and protect -- your online brand. And online reputation monitoring is on the rise, with 57% of adult Internet users using search engines to find online information about themselves, up from 47% in 2006,... Read More »
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Silicon Valley often views itself through the prism of the world-changing technology it creates. Last month, for example, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told an audience of software developers at the website Chirp conference in San Francisco that Twitter was not a triumph of technology, but a triumph of humanity. Techonomy Some who think the popular... Read More »
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