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• Sprint Moment and Hero to get Android 2.1 in “the coming weeks” [Updated!]
  20 Mar 10
  Found at: MobileCrunch
  See that image above? It’s notable for two reasons: I’m fairly confident it takes the much coveted title for “Hardest to read leaked document ever”. It, in all of its tiny text, confirms that the Sprint HTC Hero and Samsung Moment will be upgraded to...
• Staggeringly Wonderful Google Streetview Promo
  19 Mar 10
  Found at: www.youtube.com
• Craig Newmark on the Web’s Next Big Problem – GigaOM
  19 Mar 10
  Found at: gigaom.com
• Google Buzz widget in the market
  18 Mar 10
  Found at: Android Community
  Our awesome director, Simms22, has found the official Google Buzz widget in the market. Buzz was introduced by Google awhile back and has quickly became a popular way of sharing your location and it offers twitter like functionality. He also posted a few scr...
• Privacy Audits - A Business Need, That Needs Fulfilling
  18 Mar 10
  Found at: Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?
  One of those things I advise clients when looking at any new system is always engage an independent third party to conduct a privacy audit - it's a sanity check. Something to make sure you not only meet legal requirement but also don't overstep the very fuzzy grey line of what is socially acceptable.
  In theory, privacy audits are a sensible and useful thing. Regardless of whether they're conducted internally or externally, they can provide insights into data handling systems, identify shortcomings, and help prioritize resources. They can provide external...
• Police National Database will have audit trail • The Register
  18 Mar 10
  Found at: www.theregister.co.uk
• Consumer Privacy Cannot Be Run in Beta : FTC on Google Buzz
  18 Mar 10
  Found at: Mashable!
  Earlier today, FTC commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour cited Google Buzz’s “irresponsible conduct” at launch as an example of how companies are being too careless with consumer privacy and online data.The Wall Street Journal reports that the remarks were...
• New Mozilla Labs Project Wants to Give You Total Control Over Your Address Book
  18 Mar 10
  Found at: ReadWriteWeb
  Currently, your contacts live in address books that are distributed all over the Internet and your desktop. Because of this, chances are that you have numerous address books on the web that are often "inconsistent and disjointed." Contacts, a new Mozilla Labs...
• Google Maps 4.1 for Android brings multiple account support, trippy live map wallpaper
  18 Mar 10
  Found at: Engadget
  Google's been iterating its Maps client for Android devices at a positively ridiculous pace lately, burning through versions 3.4 and 4.0 in a span of just a few days last month -- but hey, March is upon us, which apparently means it's time for another fresh c...
• Podcast: How the Semantic Web Can Transform Business - IT Conversations
  17 Mar 10
  Found at: itc.conversationsnetwork.org
  Author David Siegel discusses his book Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business, in which he reviews the concepts for a future version of the web. He defines the idea of the semantic web and how Pull is a model for it. Siegel reviews how...
• Sweet merciful Jehosaphat! Microsoft stole the WinPho UI from KLM!
  16 Mar 10
  Found at: MobileCrunch
  Super sleuths at MS Mobiles (Motto: “Our small phone-shaped favicon is so outdated it’s popular again”) is accusing Microsoft of wholesale theft and battery in their new WinPho UI. KLM’s inflight whatsitcalled looks just like Microsoft’s whatsitcall...
• Will OpenID Transform the Enterprise Ecosystem?
  16 Mar 10
  Found at: ReadWriteWeb
  One of the most significant developments for Enterprise 2.0 happened last week when Google Apps Marketplace announced that it would be standardizing on OpenID. Google is leveraging its strength as an identity provider to create a single sign-on ecosystem for...
• Ads nauseam: The battle to save UK #privacy online
  15 Mar 10
  Found at: www.wired.co.uk
  Ads nauseam: The battle to save UK privacy online
• The Semantic Web & THE POWER OF PULL » The Acid Test
  15 Mar 10
  Found at: thepowerofpull.com
• Direct marketing could also be regarded as a privacy issue if it involved the use of personal details for an unwanted purpose. NZ ponders "do not call register" extensions #privacy
  15 Mar 10
  Found at: www.stuff.co.nz
  Direct marketing could also be regarded as a privacy issue if it involved the use of personal details for an unwanted purpose.
• Privacy is Not Dead, Just Evolving - PCWorld Business Center
  15 Mar 10
  Found at: www.pcworld.com
  Danah Boyd used her keynote address at the South by Southwest interactive festival in Austin to discuss the clash between social networking and privacy.
• Google got itself into trouble by confusing expectations - Danah Boyd #privacy
  15 Mar 10
  Found at: blogs.ft.com
  Google got itself into trouble by confusing expectations. By integrating Buzz with Gmail, Google tried to marry a social network — an inherently open system — with one of the most private spaces imaginable — the inbox.
• Info Commissioner pleads with Tories to jail data thieves • The Register
  15 Mar 10
  Found at: www.theregister.co.uk
• Hands on as new Dell Mini 5 details leak: Amazon deal, new colors, new name – Android and Me
  15 Mar 10
  Found at: androidandme.com
  If the new Dell Mini 5 "Streak" can use a HID BT Keyboard as well THIS is the replacement for my much loved Nokia N800
• ReputationCurrents » What are currencies?
  15 Mar 10
  Found at: reputationcurrents.com
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