This week, the European Commission proposed new online privacy rules that give users among other protections the right to ask for the deletion of information about them on sites such as Facebook and Google. The proposal, which if passed into law would go into effect in 2014, would have global implications. “Companies will have to […]
Jan 31 2012 | Posted in
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Simpson is working with the World Wide Web Consortium on a “do not track” standard. Giving that sense of control back to users might just be a wave that could catch on. This week in the wake of Google’s new privacy policy, an informal Washington Post survey of nearly 14,000 readers showed nearly 66% were […]
Jan 31 2012 | Posted in
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Google, Apple and Microsoft are regarded as the most popular companies or amongst the most successful companies due to their higher income, higher profits and higher stock market value. They have the best technicians and they also have the best accountants. Google, Apple and Microsoft save billions of dollars a year to pay their taxes through […]
Jan 30 2012 | Posted in
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Twitter had earlier announced their new policy to withhold publication of messages, containing illegal and offensive thoughts, in certain countries and restricted their freedom of expression. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the limits of freedom of expression." The social network revealed their policy in a short note. […]
Jan 29 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Apple’s Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee’s job, according to a court filing. The 2007 email from Jobs to Schmidt was disclosed on Friday in the course of civil litigation against Apple Inc, […]
Jan 28 2012 | Posted in
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There has been a prejudice that if you want to successful you have to be outspoken, blunt and audacious. The 20th century made way for this very concept to reach the metamorphosis of a prerequisite for success. Urbanization, corporation and modern enlightenment have played their vital part in the process. However, if taken a glance […]
Jan 28 2012 | Posted in
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“A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious,” says Cain. “Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.” The terms “introvert” and “extrovert” were first made popular by psychologist Carl Jung in the 1920s and then later by the Myers-Briggs personality test, used in […]
Jan 28 2012 | Posted in
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If we all lose in this situation, introverts lose more—with skills that are more likely to be overlooked and underappreciated. “Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women living in a man’s world,” says Cain. “Our most important institutions are designed for extroverts. We have a waste of talent.” Cain is not seeking introvert […]
Jan 28 2012 | Posted in
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A tweet is a 140-character message, which you can send through Twitter if you are a user of this network. A twitter user had every right to write anything inside the message box until yesterday. Twitter has now announced that from now onwards they could block messages that falls in the "unauthorized entity" of any particular country and […]
Jan 27 2012 | Posted in
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Apple’s products expectations were always high but without the figure of Steve Jobs, analysts have had doubts about whether Apple would exceed sales or not. But Apple has returned to destroy all the odds as they ended the first quarter of the fiscal year on a high with 117% rise in profit, up to 13.061 […]
Jan 26 2012 | Posted in
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Motorola Mobility Inc did not violate Apple’s patented technology in making its Droid, Cliq, BackFlip and other smartphones, a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a preliminary decision issued on Friday. The full ITC will issue a final decision in March. Apple had filed a complaint with the ITC in October of […]
Jan 26 2012 | Posted in
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Who wouldn’t have been surprised to see advertisements of travel agencies in your Gmail inbox just when you were planning your vacation? It is no accident as Google’s mail server utilizes the information it has to offer users personalized ads. However, such situations will become more common as of March 1. Google announced that […]
Jan 25 2012 | Posted in
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