Friday, June 17, 2011

Drums of War Pound as Facebook Musters Spartan App Army

Drums of War Pound as Facebook Musters Spartan App Army

Drums of War Pound as Facebook Musters Spartan App Army

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 11:53 AM PDT

Facebook is working on an HTML 5-based platform code-named "Project Spartan" that will seek to distribute apps to iDevices, TechCrunch has reported. The project purportedly has about 80 outside developers, including people from Zynga and Huffington Post, creating a variety of apps for the upcoming platform. The apps are reportedly scheduled to be rolled out in the next few weeks. If the reports are correct, Facebook may be seeking to dominate the mobile app space. "We've been waiting for Facebook to do this for a while," Josh Martin, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, told TechNewsWorld.

Senators' Bill Would Muzzle the Tracker in Your Pocket

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 11:02 AM PDT

Federal legislation aimed at eliminating loopholes that allow companies like Google and Apple track users using GPS location-based technology was proposed by Senators Al Franken, D-Minn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Wednesday. If signed into law, the Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011 could force companies to obtain explicit consent from smartphone users before gathering their personal data and would have to notify consumers on how that data is being used.

No Time Like the Present for Detecting Data Breaches

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT

For almost a year, service providers and their clients have been the focus of spear-phishing and other intrusions that have resulted in large-scale direct and indirect data breaches. It's scary stuff, and the worst of it is far from over. Largely, these breaches have come in two flavors: system intrusion with direct compromise of data; and client credential compromise, whereby a bad actor gains control of a valid and trusted account at an email service provider and uses it to send malicious content.

Ubuntu Gets Some Love

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Say "Linux" these days, and most people automatically think, "Ubuntu." Such is the level of mainstream awareness and success Canonical's distribution has achieved, even as such goals have proven more elusive for other distributions. Of course, it can't be denied that the fact that mainstream users think *anything* when they hear the word "Linux" is a good thing -- and an improvement over how things stood not so very long ago. One could certainly say that Ubuntu has helped Linux in that respect, then. But what's been its overall impact on the open source operating system?
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