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Facebook's S-1 Language: Lots Of "Control"--But Not Much "Privacy"

Facebook's S-1 document is the hottest read since Harry Potter put down his wand. We gaze into this word cloud and parse the language to find hidden gems. READ»

Who Owns Your Personal History?

In an era when nearly everything we do is recorded, we have less control over what we choose to remember, and perhaps more crucially, what to forget. Of all the changes in the digital age, the automatic creation of exhaustive digital personal histories that lie only partially within our oversight may be among the most important in the long run.READ»

How To Claw Back Privacy Under Google's New Policy

The step-by-step guide to using Google's best offerings, but spreading your online eggs into more than just one big basket out in Mountain View, California.READ»

How To Get The Most Out Of Google's Share-Happy World

If Google's going to keep tying all their services together, you may as well know how that will work, and how you can benefit from it.READ»

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Rubinstein Leaves HP, Twitter Can Block Tweets By Country, Cook Defends Apple On Worker Standards

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Disaster Alerts Help Google Grow Its Competitive Ad-Vantage, Strengthen The Brand

Late yesterday Google revealed it would be issuing "Public Alert" disaster warnings using Google Maps. Sounds great, but combined with other recent news it adds to bigger worries that Google is diluting its brand. Here's why that's not the case.READ»

Use An iPhone? Yup, The Government Tracks That

Last week, an Indian hacker crew successfully broke into a secured Indian military government network. The group posted documents that infer Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion gave the Indian government backdoor access to their devices in exchange for mobile phone market rights. Are the docs forgeries or real?READ»

Personalized Health Data, Tailored Medicine, And The End Of Illness

Dr. David Agus, one of Steve Jobs's oncologists and a medical researcher at USC, argues in his new book "The End Of Illness" that the key to a radical reduction in illness is to systematically prevent the unhealthy lifestyles that allow diseases to thrive, and to tailor medical treatment to each individual.READ»

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Facebook Testing "Listen" Buttons?, LinkedIn's India Membership Rises To 13 Million, Yahoo May Cut Its Alibaba Stock

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Why Facebook Fiercely Protects The Privacy Of One Group--Facebook Stalkers

Whether you looked up someone you wanted to meet, perused the pages of an old friend or foe from high school, or spied on the kids, everyone has likely Facebook-stalked at one time or another. And Facebook protects us while doing so, allowing us to stalk in anonymity. I’ll bet it’s a feature you may not have thought about but would really miss if it went away. Here's why it never will. READ»

Microsoft's Envisioning Lab Reveals The Future Of Productivity

Microsoft's Envisioning Lab has a vision of the future, and you can watch it in HD. Learn how the lab sees the future of contextual data, smarter interfaces, and a "five-minute mode" on your phone.READ»

Skype's Huge, New Security Headaches

Major security flaws in Skype, newly verified by an international academic research team, leave users vulnerable to stalkers, blackmailers, and other hackers. How long until Skype, under new ownership at Microsoft, fixes this?READ»

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Anti-Social Media: "Take This Lollipop" Is Your Facebook Profile Through A Psychopath's Eyes

A creepy interactive video demonstrates the downside of Facebook using... Facebook. It also demonstrates the potential of socially enabled interactivity.READ»

Facebook's 880 Pages About You!

The social network is watching your every move, and your friends. And while it isn't as nefarious as Big Brother, do we really want our profiles to become another marketing space?READ»

How Your Business Can Better Promote Itself--And Avoid Pitfalls--On The New Facebook

For businesses, Facebook especially just got exponentially more complicated, because there are now issues around your brand's visibility in the new timelines, as well as around the training you must offer your employees, who are all on Facebook in their personal lives. Here's how to get started.READ»

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How Facebook's Privacy Upgrades Stack Up Against Google+

A one on one cage match to determine which social network handles privacy-plus sharing better.READ»

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Facebook Revamps Privacy, Pictures, And Purchases On Its Way To IPO

This week Facebook revamped its privacy settings, adjusted its location based services, gunned after Instagram and indicated it was in a rabidly acquisitive mood. Something is up.READ»

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Taming the Google+ Privacy Concerns

There has been tremendous buzz surrounding Google+ since it's launch a months ago. Most has been positive, but there are concerns popping up that have people starting to flinch a bit. Is privacy on Google+ becoming a problem? If so, how does one go about alleviating the concerns?READ»

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Obama's Twitter Townhall, AP To Open N. Korea Bureau, N. Korea To Open Photo Exhibit In NYC

The White House takes to Twitter for a townhall. Plus: AP news agency would be the first permanent Western-run photo and text bureau ever to operate in the North Korean capital and 100,000 reasons to buy an iPad. Breaking bits from our news-obsessed editors, updated all day. READ»