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Video lambasting Google on privacy hits Times Square (AFP)
September 3, 2010
AFP - A video cartoon featuring Google's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square as a privacy group continued to hound the Internet giant.
A Guide to Today's Top 10 Linux Distributions (PC World)
September 3, 2010PC World - One of the most confusing things for the newcomer to Linux is how many distributions, or versions, of the operating system there are. Ubuntu is the one most people have heard of, but there are hundreds of others as well, each offering some variant on the basic Linux theme.
To Boost Security, Facebook Adds Remote Logout (PC World)
September 3, 2010PC World - Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts.
Ping's scheme is to sell more tunes (Appolicious)
September 3, 2010Appolicious - Do we really need another social network? That depends on how you view the purpose of social networks. The biggest, Facebook, is great for monitoring, from a safe distance, what your old high school buddies are doing. But don't put Apple's new Ping service into the same category.
Disk Storage Still Bouncing Back, IDC Says (PC World)
September 3, 2010PC World - The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought on by the economic slowdown of 2008 and 2009, research company IDC said on Friday.
ArcSight posts higher fiscal 1Q profit (AP)
September 3, 2010AP - ArcSight Inc. said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit tripled as the cybersecurity software and services company's sales jumped 39 percent.
Ping's scheme is to sell more tunes (Appolicious)
September 3, 2010Appolicious - Do we really need another social network? That depends on how you view the purpose of social networks. The biggest, Facebook, is great for monitoring, from a safe distance, what your old high school buddies are doing. But don't put Apple's new Ping service into the same category.
NASA Plans to Visit the Sun (Mashable)
September 3, 2010Mashable - If you've seen Danny Boyle's movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA's mission to visit the Earth's Sun won't include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun's atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch sometime before 2018.
Google (Investor's Business Daily)
September 3, 2010Investor's Business Daily - Google (NMS:GOOG) will continue to provide the search results on AOL's Web site under a new, five-year deal. The deal will put AOL video content on Google's YouTube site for the first time. AOL edged up 0.7% to 23.05.
Privacy in iTunes Ping (PC World)
September 3, 2010PC World - Ping is Apple's music-centric social network that is integrated into iTunes 10. From a privacy standpoint, it's pretty straightforward--as opposed to Facebook's multitude of privacy settings--but then again, Ping is also very limited as to what services it offers. In either case, here's a quick run-down of the privacy features present in Ping.
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