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NY official: Tagged site stole identities

Technology / Internet

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- New York's attorney general charged Thursday that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million Internet users worldwide - by sending e-mails that raided their private accounts.





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Judge rules in Palin e-mail case

Technology / Internet

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- A judge ruled Wednesday that the Alaska governor's office can use private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, as former Gov. Sarah Palin sometimes did.


Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature

Twitter testing tool to organize tweets

Technology / Internet

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature for dividing maelstroms of tweets into manageable sub-categories.


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Facebook, MySpace ban New York sex offenders

Technology / Internet

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Facebook and MySpace have closed the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in New York state under a law combating online predators, officials said Tuesday.


Tagged.com settles with NY, Texas in invite fight

Technology / Business

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The social networking site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after an attorney general alleged that the Web site essentially stole the identities of some 60 million Internet users.


3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While many vaccines used around the world today are produced for profit by commercial firms, the private sector accounts for a tiny fraction of the funding for an HIV vaccine: 4 percent in 2008, down from ...


The future of private equity

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Although global private equity markets have fallen on hard times, reports of their imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. So says Steve Kaplan, a widely recognized authority on entrepreneurial finance and corporate governance ...


'Credit Crunch' Will Hit Retirees in Unequal Ways

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How severely retirees will be affected by the continuing financial crisis and subsequent "credit crunch" depends to a considerable extent on the kinds of retirement plans they rely on for retirement income, ...


Another bailout? Government pension insurer could be next, expert says

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Another multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout could lie ahead, this time to rescue a cash-strapped government program that insures pensions of 44 million American workers and retirees, a University of Illinois finance professor ...


Economist argues that public-private partnerships are a must in creating an HIV vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT economist Jeffrey Harris argues that while the scientific obstacles to creating an HIV vaccine are great, the lack of commercial incentive poses a major problem.


US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cut the ribbon Friday on a command center for government cybersecurity

US boots up new unified cybersecurity center

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cut the ribbon on Friday on a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity efforts.



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