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How Google Comes Out Cleaner Than Apple on Privacy

Path's privacy snafu of collecting address book data and storing it on remote servers without permission opened the floodgates of media hellhounds on that...

SoftLayer Launches New Worldwide Object Storage Service

Dallas-based SoftLayer came out with a heartfelt news announcement on Valentine's Day. The seven-year-old company, which started out as a Web hoster but now...

Microsoft Mistakenly Claims Google Home Page Infected With Blackhole

Microsoft quickly updated its security tools after users reported seeing warnings that Google's home page was infected with the Blackhole exploit kit.Microsoft's Forefront corporate...

Google PageRank Used in Molecular Chemistry Research

Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in...

Google Voice Search vs. Siri in Battle for Speech-Driven Ads

Anyone who reads this blog knows I'm a pretty faithful follower of John Battelle's own Search Blog.Battelle sparked an interesting conversation about the mobile...

Does Gmail’s Perpetual Window Play Fast, Loose With Data?

This fine piece in Wired about a "perpetual window into Gmail" caught my attention this weekend for two reasons.First, I live in Gmail. It's...

Mozilla Closes Security Flaw in Firefox 10

Less than two weeks after releasing Firefox version 10, Mozilla has updated its popular Web browser to close a security flaw.A critical security vulnerability...

Google Prepping Storage Drive, Home Entertainment System

Unlike my blogger peers, I'm not usually wont to skewer a so-called scoop. And I won't start doing so, but I will point out...

Romney Most-Mentioned Politician in Spam Messages

Even spammers are following the United States presidential elections and have their favorites among the Republican candidates.Bitdefender researchers analyzed 8 million pieces of spam...

HP Touch to Share NFC App Joins Google Wallet, Android Beam

Near field communications, also known as good-ole NFC, was one of a handful of rages in 2011.You couldn't read a story about mobile payment...