Twitter Users Not Subpoenaed in Conspiracy Case
Pennsylvania’s attorney general gave up an attempt to subpoena two Twitter users Friday.
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App of the Week: Seesmic
As you may have heard me say before I prefer Seesmic over Tweetdeck as a Twitter application. However it seems that I and other Seesmic users have been waiting forever for the cute little Seesmic Racoon to show up in theiPhone app store. Even the Blackberry has an app for it. But the iphone Seesmic app is finally here. Just like in the BlackBerry version, Seesmic for iPhone includes baked-in support for Ping .fm since it was acquired back in January. You can manage multiple Twitter accounts and your Facebook account within the app, along with saved searches, trending...
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Social Networks Caught Passing on Your Data to Advertisers
As reported last week by The Wall Street Journal, despite the fact that social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook say it ain’t so, they are sharing, without user consent,data with advertisers that may lead to the ad companies figuring out user’s personal information such as addresses, real names, etc… According to the Wall Street Journal: The practice, which most of the companies defended, sends user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being viewed when users click on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By...
Read MoreHP Developing Solar Watch For Military
HP Labs has announced that they are working on a solar powered watch for the military. The watches will all be linked together on a network and will be capable of displaying maps, communicating, and other strategic information. HP says that the prototype will be finished within a year. The idea of making it solar powered came from the thought that solar would make it more reliable in tense situations. The watch’s solar cells come from an ultra-thin sheet containing solar cells. The display for the watch is made from a new plastic display, rather than glass, which is similar to the kind of plastic used in e-book...
Read MoreHP Battery Recall
HP has issued a battery recall for 54,000 lithium-ion notebook batteries. The recall was first announced Friday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and adds on to an earlier recall of 70,000 of the same lithium-ion batteries. The first recall came after two reports of the batteries overheating. Since then, HP has gotten 38 additional reports of the batteries overheating, causing 11 minor injuries. The reports said that those people were burned when they handled computers whose batteries had ruptured. This recall for HP was fairly small compared to the 2006-2007 recall of 10 million Sony laptop...
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