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Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
Google Dashboard lets Google users review and delete personal data stored by the company. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Google is proving to be well aware of the uneasiness among the public over the increasing amount of data it stores from

Siemens Invokes Twitter to Lure Unified Communications Application Developers
SAN FRANCISCO -- Siemens is invoking the model of iPhone-application development by opening a site in Amazon's cloud to encourage creation of unified communications apps, priming the pump with a mashup it created that mixes its UC gear with Twitter.

Google, Nokia, Apple – who will win the mobile wars?
Apple's iPhone is still stunning; Nokia is most advanced. Google may yet make its mark with locational-based services At a recent event run by the Symbian Foundation, which makes most operating systems for mobiles, I saw some demos that reminded me the

Google embraces Wave's permission chaos
Enterprise 2.0 Google is embracing complete user-access anarchy in its new-age collaboration tool, Google Wave, so that early testers won't be tempted to fall into their old emailing habits. A puzzling attribute of Google's new open-communication sandbox

Ericsson calls on carriers to out-app-store Google
OpenMobileSummit Ericsson senior vp Jan Uddenfeldt has called on the wireless industry to build their own 'horizontal' mobile app stores that span operating systems and devices. Speaking this morning at an open-happy mobile conference in downtown San

Twitter fanatic glimpses dark side of OAuth
A mobile enthusiast and professional internet strategist got a glimpse of OAuth's dark side recently when he received an urgent advisory from Twitter. The dispatch, generated when Terence Eden tried to log in, said his Twitter account may have been

Amazon gets social with Twitter integration
Amazon Associates is the partner program the company uses as part of its affiliate advertising programs, allowing customers to make money advertising Amazon products. Associates can now simply click a link in the toolbar to send a link (replete with

Amazon's move mocks EU's fear of Oracle
The European Commission must be feeling a bit silly right about now. Despite to its requests for comment and concessions in its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems (and the open-source database MySQL), Amazon.com recently offered the EC all the proof

Microsoft releases unscheduled fix for Internet Explorer update
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Amazon stock: Priced for perfection
SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- Just about a year ago, in the crater that was the stock market, shares of Amazon were $35. After a bang-up third quarter, Amazon shares now trade at $119. That is a moon-shot of 240%. To put it another way, for the price of

EBay Comes Out of the Attic and Starts a Fashion Magazine
When the beautiful people list their favorite shops, eBay might not be on the tip of their tongues, but eBay hopes to change that. On Wednesday, eBay is unveiling The Inside Source, an online magazine about fashion trends, written and edited by glossy

How your internet knowledge can help African radio
Using mobile phones, digital technology and social media SW Radio Africa broadcasts information to the fugitives of Zimbabwe No one is more aware of the impact of new technology than journalists. But technology, often received as a threat, can also

Google Adds New Social Media Features to Friend Connect
Google's Friend Connect has expanded its roster of social networking and social media services that participating Web publishers can add to their sites. Friend Connect now has a new section called 'Interests' that lets Web publishers pose questions to

Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
Businesses thinking of switching to cloud computing should expect a bumpy probation period, if the experience of The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is anything to go by. The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of moving to the

Google opens up OAuth to tackle password chores
Google has opened up a technology designed to cut back on the number of passwords users need to access multiple websites to web developers, effectively moving the technology into the mainstream after a restricted beta lasting almost a year. Plaxo,

Prevx offers free security to online businesses
Security firm Prevx is giving free protection to customers of organisations that do business online. Customers of partner organisations, such as banks or government departments, will be able to download the SafeOnline software to protect against a wide

Google updates, improves, expands Street View images
Google is updating its controversial Street View service with high-quality images in the UK and elsewhere. The internet firm is refreshing images for its Street View online mapping service in around 22 countries, according to reports. The new images will

Facebook your way to a new job?
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Dear Annie: I enjoyed your , and readers' comments, about how to decide whom to 'friend' on Facebook. I recently joined LinkedIn, which I have heard is a terrific job-search tool, but I could really use some pointers on how to make

Google Friend Connect adds profiles, ads
Web site publishers using can now allow users to connect through profiles, and serve them targeted ads based on those profiles. (Credit: Google) is adding a few features that make it easier for Web site publishers to build their own social networks.

Sesame Street: Google celebrates 40 years of Big Bird and the gang
Big Bird and other characters are featuring in Google Doodles today to celebrate the Children's Television Workshop's ground-breaking series The Big Bird Google Doodle celebrates 40 years of Sesame Street It's somewhat shocking to discover from a Google

TwitterPeek: The First Twitter-only Device
Mobile has partnered with Twitter to bring you the world's first dedicated Twitter device: TwitterPeek. The new handset lets you send and receive tweets and direct messages, follow new users, and view images sent via Twitpic. TwitterPeek features a

BT squares up to Google Voice with Ribbit Mobile
Industry comment Carriers may be watching Google Voice with trepidation, especially as it goes mobile, but one unlikely telco is determined to make sure the search giant does not have it all its own way. British Telecom has extended its Ribbit internet

A Single Sign-in for All Your Websites? Google Hopes So
It's one of the basic tenets of online security: Never use the same password/username combo for every website that requires one. The logic is sound, of course. A single security breach could expose your most private information -- such as banking and

TwitterPeek: Twitter-Only Gadget Destined for Extinction
Gee willikers, have you heard? They've just that can let you use Twitter, even if you aren't at a computer! This could be the biggest thing in made-to-be-obsolete technology since the ! Okay, okay...I'll set my 50s-style faux-enthusiasm aside for a

Amazon Video vs. Netflix: Which Will Prevail?
Which business model for watching movies online will be the winner? Paying upwards of $8 a month for unlimited and instant online access to an older catalog of films and TV shows from a company like Netflix? Or forking over $2 to $3 a film for access to

Wallace and Gromit get the Google doodle treatment
*The world's first deep-level underground railway, now forming part of the Northern Line.

Rich internet applications come to the fore
When is a web application not a web application? When it's running on your desktop. But what if that desktop application needs the web to do anything meaningful? Rich internet applications (RIAs) are blurring the boundaries between web, browser and

Twitter's crowdsourced address book
A social media agency is asking Twitter users to help it create an area-by-area list of English, Irish and US twitterers Which counties of England would you expect to be the most active on Twitter? A project of the social media agency simplyZesty is

Open University talks clouds with MS and Google
The Open University is in negotiations with Microsoft and Google about cloud computing services for students and staff. Niall Sclater, the OU's director of learning innovation, told GC News that the university will shortly be taking a decision about