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CSO: Facebook has announced that it will partner with Websense to improve security on the social networking site. “When a Facebook user clicks on a link it will be checked against the Websense database,” Websense officials explained. “If Websense determines the link is malicious, the user will see a page that offers the choice to […]

Computerworld: At the Oracle OpenWorld conference, the company unveiled two new appliances. The Big Data Appliance supports both Hadoop and the Oracle NoSQL database. The Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine provides an “optimized BI foundation with advanced visualizations” and offers in-memory computing capabilities. The two new appliances were displayed alongside two existing systems that also […]

The Inquirer: Android developer Trevor Eckhart has identified a bug in HTC smartphones that could allow nearly any app to access sensitive personal information stored on the devices. The problem lies with a a recently introduced logging application that records email addresses, GPS history, phone numbers, SMS data and other information. Eckhart says he notified […]

Reuters: The founder of one of China’s largest e-commerce sites announced to an audience at Stanford University that he would be “very interested in Yahoo.” Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba.com, added, “We are probably one of the very few companies that really understand Yahoo USA very well.” However, the deal is far from a sure […]

Financial Times: In the wake of revelations about the company’s tracking of cookies after users have logged off, Facebook’s privacy practices will come under closer scrutiny in Europe and the U.S. The Irish data protection commissioner has announced plans to conduct an audit of the social network in order to follow up on complaints made […]

Bloomberg: On Thursday, IBM’s market value climbed to $214 billion, while Microsoft’s market value dropped to $213.2 billion. It was the first time since 1996 that IBM was worth more than Microsoft. The change also made IBM the fourth most valuable company in the world, and the second most valuable tech company. (Apple is still […]

PCMag: A new report from Goldman Sachs says that Microsoft stands to make $444 million this year by charging licensing fees to manufacturers of Android smartphones. Manufacturers that have agreed to pay those fees include HTC, Velocity Micro, General Dynamics Itronix, Wistron, Acer, ViewSonic and now Samsung, but not Motorola, which is being purchased by […]

TechCrunch: Universum has released the results of a survey that asked which company job seekers would most like to work for. It uses data collected from 160,000 people with either a business or a technology degree from the countries with the 12 largest economies. For both types of graduates, Google took the top spot. For […]

Wired: If you’ve ever wondered what kind of data your wireless provider has about you, now you can find out. An internal Justice Department memo titled “Retention Periods of Major Cellular Service Providers,” has been obtained by the ACLU through a Freedom of Information Act request. Surprisingly, the year-old document reveals that data retention practices […]

Time: The Department of Justice (DOJ) is conducting a more extensive review of Google’s proposed purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. The department has taken the somewhat unusual step of making a second request for information related to the deal. Despite the more extensive inquiry, Google senior vice president Dennis Woodside said “We’re confident […]

PCMag: One week after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially published the Net Neutrality rules in the Federal Register, consumer group Free Press has filed a lawsuit challenging those rules. According to the group, the rules do not do enough to protect wireless customers. “When the FCC first proposed the Open Internet rules, they came […]

Wall Street Journal: Google has announced that it will spend more than $200 million to build three new data centers in the Asia-Pacific region. The search giant has already purchased land for the facilities in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The company hopes the data centers will be operational within one to two years. Google […]