Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Facebook Spearheads Resistance to Tough California Privacy Bill

Facebook Spearheads Resistance to Tough California Privacy Bill

Facebook Spearheads Resistance to Tough California Privacy Bill

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Facebook and other Internet sites have joined forces to oppose the Social Networking Privacy Act, pending California legislation that would require them to change the way they handle user privacy online. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Skype, Match.com, eHarmony and Yahoo are among the companies that signed an open letter to the bill's sponsor, Sen. Ellen Corbett. Meanwhile, Microsoft has further integrated its Bing search engine with Facebook. The hookup will allow Bing to deliver pages "liked" by a user's friends.

How Mobile Gadgets Can Tear a Hole in Breach Disclosures

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Take a moment to visualize a physician traveling home in a cab from a long day. Stuck in traffic, our hypothetical physician sees this as the perfect time to catch up on email and or to do non-care-related administrative tasks. At the end of the cab ride, he or she puts the phone down to pay the driver. Being tired -- in a moment of thoughtlessness -- the doctor accidentally walk away from the cab, leaving the phone on the seat. One more lost device. This scenario -- or one very much like it -- unfolds daily all over the country.

Who Gets to Decide How the Cloud Works?

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

A battle to set the model for cloud infrastructure is raging, according to Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat. "We're at a fork in the road," Whitehurst told a packed room of more than 200 people at the Open Source Business Conference Monday. "Now is the time that we're going to choose the dominant model for this next paradigm of computing." The battle lines have been drawn between large users of open source systems and software such as Facebook and Google on the one hand, and huge legacy vendors with proprietary systems on the other, Whitehurst said.

Impersonal Computing: 3 Apps for iPad Sharers

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

A cellphone is probably about as personal a device as you can get, aside from something like a pacemaker. Of any electronic thingy not sewn to or inside your body, a cellphone is typically the one most personalized to an individual user. That's your address book on there, your email, your Facebook page, your browsing history, your "Tiny Wings" high score. That's the number people call to reach you, nobody else. Tablets can be a different animal. For the most part, users don't carry them around every time they leave the house -- they're not part of the wallet/keys/phone power trio.
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