Facebook May Share User Data With External Sites Automatically
Imagine visiting a website and finding that it already knows who you are, where you live, how old you are and who your Facebook friends are, without your ever having given it permission to access that...
Judge Orders Blocking of Torrent Sites in Spain
In 2007, Spanish police took two torrent sites offline, Todotorrente and sister-site Trackertdt, and arrested their administrators for facilitating copyright infringement. — September 2008 saw the a...
Does Rest Of World Matter More Than The US?
I spent some time on Comscore this morning looking at US vs Rest Of World traffic for some of the largest web properties. Here are the stats for Feb 2010: — Google: 890mm worldwide visitors, 745mm ...
WA seeks new tax revenue from software, but not from Microsoft
Washington state legislators, searching for ways to resolve a $2.8 billion budget shortfall, aren't making many friends in the software industry these days. Except, perhaps, for one. — A proposed s...
RIM Acquires BlackBerry-App Maker Viigo
Research In Motion has acquired Viigo, a Toronto-based company that has built a platform that makes it easy for publishers and other content companies to develop applications for the BlackBerry platfo...
Agencies Test Industry's New ‘You Are Being Targeted’ Icon
As part of an industry-wide campaign to discourage new privacy laws, online ad agencies are planning to debut the new behavioral targeting icons in approximately four weeks. — Cadreon, a buying plat...