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Google Latitude Adds Leaderboards, Game-like Check-ins
The latest update to the Google Maps app for Android introduces Latitude Leaderboards, a feature that gives you points for every check-in, just like Foursquare. The update was pushed over the weekend in the Android Market and builds on Latitude, Google's less popular location service.
Fluent Turns Your Inbox into Facebook-Like Stream
Fluent, a new Web-based e-mail client created by three former Google engineers, turns your inbox into a Facebook-like stream that lets you view conversation threads, attachments and mail from multiple accounts at a glance.
Google Unlikely to Back Down Amid Lawsuits Over Privacy Concerns
Google's privacy practices are under fire from lawmakers in Washington, civil liberties groups and the average Joe mobile phone owner -- the latest attack is a lawsuit from an Illinois man worried about how his personal information is used -- but don't expect the Internet search leader to back down.
Truth About the March 8 Internet Doomsday
Heard the one about the FBI shutting down the Internet next month?
Twitter finally completes redesign rollout for all users
Twitter this week finally wrapped up the rollout of a Twitter.com redesign first announced in December.
Messages beta ready for download
Messages is now ready for Mac users to test drive. Shortly after announcing its planned Mountain Lion update for OS X on Thursday, Apple released a beta of the revamped version of iChat that will ship with the new operating system this summer.
8 Tips to Defend Against Online Financial Fraud Threats
Criminals in 2012 are increasingly targeting the accounts of business owners and executives as a way to facilitate financial fraud and CIOs can help protect their organizations against these attacks.
8 Tips to Defend Against Online Financial Fraud Threats
Criminals in 2012 are increasingly targeting the accounts of business owners and executives as a way to facilitate financial fraud and CIOs can help protect their organizations against these attacks.
Copyright holders dealt blow in EU social networking case
Copyright holders cannot force social networking sites to install filters to prevent illegal file-sharing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Thursday.
Rackspace enlists Redapt for private cloud installs
Rackspace hopes to make it easier to use its OpenStack private cloud offering by partnering with Redapt, a company that procures, configures and ships servers to customers.
Boost for wireless in Europe as more spectrum is made available
Wireless broadband gets a boost in Europe after the European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of reallocating radio spectrum frequencies.
Online Dating's Strangest Sites
Online dating is now responsible for one in three romantic relationships. So in honor of Valentine's Day, check out these 12 "niche" dating sites. Some are interesting, some are stimulating, and a couple are just plain weird. Enjoy.
Mozilla will ask all certificate authorities to revoke SSL-spying certificates
Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspect SSL-encrypted traffic for domain names they don't control.
Royal Philips Electronics reports Web security breach
Health-care technology and lighting vendor Royal Philips Electronics has reported a possible security breach affecting a portion of its website, the company announced Tuesday.
Senate bill may require 'critical' networks to adopt cyber standards
A bill in the U.S. Senate would require operators of so-called critical infrastructure networks to adopt cybersecurity practices if evaluations by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security find their security lacking.