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Scientists break satellite telephony security standards

Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. German researchers at the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption algorithms of the European ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Social-networking rivals offer workaround for Google social search

Google's social-networking rivals have apparently teamed up to offer users a tool that allows them to avoid the integration of Google's core search business and Google+.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Young Indians in social network 'fatigue'

India's urban youth are suffering social-media "fatigue," prompting a number to delete their Facebook and other accounts, according to a new study.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Review: Scrutinizing your presence on Facebook

(AP) -- Here's one way to sum up 2011: I added 71 people as Facebook friends, shared 26 links and commented on 98 of my friends' status updates. I was tagged in 33 photos and added 18 of my own to the site.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Hewlett-Packard offers fix for printers susceptible to remote hacks

Hewlett-Packard released a firmware update Friday that it says will fix a susceptibility in some of the Palo Alto, Calif., company's popular LaserJet printers that researchers said could allow hackers to remotely take control o ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Ore. senator, others cited by digital-rights group

(AP) -- An Oregon senator who was behind a 1996 federal law that has made content-sharing services such as YouTube and Facebook possible is among three recipients of Pioneer Awards from a leading digital-rights group.

Technology / Other

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Property tax confusion pokes Facebook in Oregon

(AP) -- The promise of lucrative tax breaks helped persuade Facebook to build a data center in one of Oregon's most economically depressed counties. Now, the state and the company are in a dispute over how much Facebook ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Report: Facebook plans huge server farm in Sweden

Facebook plans to build a large server farm in northern Sweden near the Arctic Circle, taking advantage of the chilly climate to keep its equipment cool, a Swedish newspaper reported Wednesday

Technology / Business

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

LinkedIn unimpressed as Facebook dives into job market

Facebook Inc. has struck a partnership with the U.S. Labor Department to help the unemployed find jobs.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vail Resorts adds photo features to EpicMix app

(AP) -- Tens of thousands of skiers used Vail Resorts Inc.'s free EpicMix application last season to track how much they were skiing and to compete with friends and strangers over how many digital pins they could collect ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Friendster evolves to escape Facebook's shadow

(AP) -- Faded social networking site Friendster will soon delete nearly a decade's worth of user photos, blog entries and other data in a revamp to set it apart from Facebook, a company official said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook looks to cash in on user data

Julee Morrison has been obsessed with Bon Jovi since she was a teenager. So when paid ads for fan sites started popping up on the 41-year-old Salt Lake City blogger's Facebook page, she was thrilled. She described herself ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 20

To boost innovation, Facebook opens server designs

(AP) -- Facebook says it wants to help others build startups more easily and efficiently by sharing the technology behind the servers that power its massive online social network. In turn, it hopes to benefit ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Facebook tries out targeted ads

Facebook is testing a new system that instantly targets ads based on the content of members' wall posts and status updates, as the social network joins a growing list of Internet companies working with advertisers to market ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Docs warn about Facebook use and teen depression

(AP) -- Add "Facebook depression" to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors' group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0