Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel Did you know that today is an international holiday, one that’s celebrated in the U.S., Canada, and 27 countries in Europe? Known as Data Privacy Day in North America and Data Protection Day in Europe, today is meant to increase public awareness about privacy in the information age.
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Celebrating Data Privacy Day
Mårten Gustaf Mickos , former CEO of MySQL , has joined Index Ventures as Entrepreneur In Residence ( EIR ). The news comes four months after the man joined another VC firm , Silicon Valley-based Benchmark Capital , also as EIR
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Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos joins Index Ventures as EIR
When people are choosing a capacitive touchscreen phone, screen size and resolution are probably their main concerns. But in fact, accuracy is also an important aspect that determines the performance of a screen display. To find out which touchscreen smartphone can most accurately interpret finger inputs, the MOTO Development Group (not related to Motorola has conducted a simple test between four popular devices on the market
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Capacitive Touchscreen Accuracy Test
Samsung has introduced another basic candy bar handset namely the Samsung Stunt SCH-r100 , which is now available through regional carrier MetroPCS. Being compact, sturdy and affordable, the Stunt offers an easy-to-use interface combined with some communication capabilities to help you stay connected on the go. To begin with, the Stunt has a trim bar design, which is very lightweight at 2.5 ounces and pocket-sized at 4.2″ tall by 1.7″ wide by 0.54″ deep.
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Samsung Stunt SCH-r100 – A Budget-friendly Phone for Basic Communications
Sony Ericsson has released its financial results for the last quarter of 2009 with a narrower loss, continuing the positive trend shown in the prior quarter . However, this also marked its sixth consecutive quarterly loss and brought a whopping €836 million deficit for the whole year. The Swedish-Japanese joint venture reported a forth-quarter loss of €167 million (US$235 million), showing a slight improvement on the €187 million loss a year earlier
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Sony Ericsson Posts Shrinking Loss for Q4 2009
Times of India reports that the buying pattern of Indian consumers has changed with time, more so for the good of companies who run their business over the web. Alibaba , recently conducted a search over the web, the result of which turned out to be a pleasant surprise that ‘The Indian’ especially the Indian Entrepreneurs have started using the web as a medium to buy more of pre-used products.
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Are Indians ‘Buying on The Web’?
iPad About Well bless my soul and whiskers. This is the first time I’ve joined the congregation at the Church of Apple for a new product launch. I’ve watched all the past ones, downloaded the Quicktime movies and marvelled as Apple’s leader has stood before an ovating faithful and announced the switch to Intel, the birth of iPod, the miniMac, the iTunes Store, OS X, iPhoto, the swan’s neck iMac, the Shuffle, Apple retail stores, the iPhone, the titanium powerbook, Garageband, the App Store and so much more.
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A data breach at the National Archives and Records Administration is more serious than previously believed. It involved sensitive personal information of 250,000 Clinton administration staff members, job applicants and White House visitors, as well as the Social Security number of at least one daughter of former Vice President Al Gore. The data, which included more than 100,000 Social Security numbers, was stored on a computer hard drive that the NARA discovered missing last April from a data processing room in Maryland.
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250,000 White House Staffers, Visitors Affected by National Archives Data Breach
On Saturday, January 23, 2010, I had the opportunity to attend my first WordCamp hosted by WordCampBoston.com . WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress, the platform that many bloggers (like me) use to host our blogs. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users
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Top Blogging Tips for Developers and Bloggers from WordPress WordCamps
Posted by Chris Talbot, Elections and Issue Advocacy Team Editor’s note: We’re excited to welcome Google’s Elections and Issue Advocacy Team to the Public Policy Blog. Since 2007, they’ve worked with political candidates, consultants and advocates to build online advertising campaigns and fully integrate digital media into political strategy
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The Digital Playbook: Top 5 strategies for political campaigns
Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube (Cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog .) Tonight at 9 p.m. ET we’ll be livestreaming the President’s State of the Union address on YouTube . As we announced yesterday, not only will you have the opportunity to watch the speech live online, you’ll also be able to submit your questions for the President during and after the speech, and the President himself will respond to a collection of your top-voted questions in a live interview at the White House next week
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Live Tonight on YouTube: The State of the Union
This week, my team has been busy getting ready to move TMC out of our building at 1 Technology Plaza as we prepare to move down the street to River Park. Our new headquarters will allow us to accommodate our rapid growth and we hope to double our size at our new address. By Monday, we expect to be up and running and look forward to the next phase of our company’s growth
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TMC Moves on Friday
I used a slew of technology at the show but two products are worth special mention. The first is the Flip Mino HD video recorder which excelled in low-light conditions and allowed me to take rapid and high-quality videos of the show. Thanks Cisco for providing me with this device
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Tools I Used at ITEXPO East 2010
Elysia is “an enthusiastic fashion-addicted chick writing about trends, inspiration, often changing wants, and anything else random popping into her mind,” and she blogs all about it at Fashion Fille , which is set to celebrate its two-year anniversary this July. I had the pleasure of speaking with Elysia about her blog and her take on fashion
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Ten Questions with Fashion Fille
Foreign students represent a huge revenue source for the big players in the market. For example, the UK and Australia have an international student market that is estimated to be worth €12 billion and countries like New Zealand receives around €1.5 billion per year
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Ireland drops the ball attracting International Students
Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone vendor, decided to bring its Ovi Map navigation software to all Nokia smartphone users for free. This is considered as an attempt to retrieve its loss in the smartphone market and a response to Google’s services
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Nokia Offers Free Navigation and Mapping Tools for its Smartphones
The Cricket MSGM8 is a candy bar messaging phone with a QWERTY keypad released for Cricket Communications. As a basic handset designed for starters, the MSGM8 has an easy-to-use interface, intuitive layout and one touch keys for opening messaging and email box, scheduler and MyHomeScreen for web access. It has a simple and straightforward slate form factor, measuring 4.2″ long by 2.3″ wide by 0.5″ thick and weighing 3.7 ounces.
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Cricket MSGM8 – the Affordable Texter-friendly Handset
ShoesForHaitNow.com has a simple goal: collect 100,000 pairs of shoes to send to the people of Haiti. BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have offered their support to the Shoes For Haiti Now project. Not only will we be helping to promote the site, but we will also be collecting shoes at our BlogCatalog offices
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BlogCatalog Accepting Donations For ShoesforHaitiNow.com
If you stream any video on your site, this news could drastically increase your future costs. Here is an excellent article from Christopher Blizzard on HTML 5 video and H.264 which delves into the potential problems we could see on the web when a company demands to get paid for technologies which users may have thought were open.
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HTML 5 Plus H.264 not as Open as you Think
While smartphones with increasingly advanced capabilities continue to improve user experience, they also pose higher risks of mobile virus, spyware and other malware. With more companies developing security software and services to tackle this problem, the smartphone security market is set to boom in the next five years, according to ABI Research
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Rising Demand for Smartphone Security
Consumers from all over the world are quickly embracing mobile technologies for shopping, as over half (51 percent) of consumers across 11 countries reported using their cell phones as product research tools and bargain finders during the 2009 holiday shopping season, according to a new study released by Motorola . In-store activities performed by holiday shoppers on handsets include price comparison, reading product reviews, finding product information, and seeking coupons and discounts online. Although last year’s figures are not available for comparison, Motorola said the number of people using their smartphones for shopping has surged this year
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More Consumers Use Cell Phones for Shopping
Apple is holding a media event this week where the company is widely expected to launch its first tablet computer . But a new tablet may not be the only new product from Apple this week, as many people expect the company to launch new iPhone software and perhaps even new iPhone hardware at the event
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Apple Announcing New iPhone Software, Hardware This Week?
Posted by Vincent Paquet, Senior Product Manager, Google Voice (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) It’s sometimes easy to take the little things in life for granted: a haircut, a shower, shoes or even a phone number. Sometimes life doesn’t turn out the way we planned, and those little luxuries become much harder to come by. Project CARE is a program to provide free Google Voice phone numbers and voicemail accounts to homeless individuals.
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Bringing Project CARE to veterans in Washington, D.C.
What if Sherlock Holmes could wield an umbrella or a walking stick with the same dexterity and deadliness that Bruce Lee demonstrated with nunchuks? Introducing the coolest blog ever! No, really I defy you to find a blog more unusual or interesting or creative than this one
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What if Sherlock Holmes could fight like Bruce Lee?
The four main benefits provided by the Truphone Local Anywhere service include: Local calling rates in Truphone countries. Local contact numbers in Truphone countries Low-cost international calling Low-cost roaming in non-Truphone countries You can actually purchase a GSM SIM-unlocked phone and use this new SIM as your only phone service provider and not even have a standard wireless carrier account. However, you must remember that this is mainly for international travellers because it will be more expensive than a traditional US wireless carrier service if you use it for local calls
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Benefits of Truphone Local Anywhere
Truphone has announced their latest service called Truphone Local Anywhere that makes every call a local call. The service is designed for international travelers who could save more than 90 percent on their mobile bills with this new service that provides local number for calls, texts, and data with a single SIM card. The Truphone Local Anywhere service launched today in the US and UK with other countries coming in 2010
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Truphone Local Anywhere SIM Card
English as a second language is a thriving industry in the UK, with an estimate 600,000 students traveling to the UK each year to study. More than half of these also then go on to higher education courses – and for this reason the English Language industry brings in over £1.5bn to the British economy each year. However, the booming industry has some major concerns regarding the new points based visa system.
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New Visa Rules Threaten UK English Language Schools
LG Electronics has set some high goals for its mobile business this year. The South Korea based company, currently the world’s third largest cell phone maker, wants to climb up to one of the top 2 positions within 2 years by achieving a double-digit market share in the global smartphone market. On the road to this target, LG plans to ship 140 million handsets worldwide by the end of 2010, which will be 20 percent up from last year’s figure.
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LG’s Plan to Build its Smartphone Business
Posted by Jacquelline Fuller and Prem Ramaswami for the Google Crisis Response Team (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) With relief efforts underway, many displaced Haitians and their friends and families around the world are deeply concerned about the safety and whereabouts of loved ones.
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Staying connected in post-earthquake Haiti
News of targeted attacks on Google , Adobe , and other large companies were made public last week. The initial assumption was that the attacks were done with malicious PDF files but on Thursday Microsoft released information that the attacks were done with a new security vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This is interesting as the majority of targeted attacks are using email attachments sent to one or a few recipients at a target organization
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New Internet Explorer 0-day Vulnerability and Targeted Attacks