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In a scenario privacy advocates have warned about, MySpace has started selling user data to third parties—and you may be surprised to hear what a low price your private data goes for. A whopping 24 hours of MySpace’s data stream is sold for a mere $30 by one firm, a sign of how hard up MySpa... read more
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A California start-up is launching a new iPhone application called TigerText that allows people to erase text messages after they have been sent out! (Guess who the app is inspired from).
When one recieves the text, they are prompted to download the TigerText application for free in order to ... read more
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A popular game for the iPhone may have had the best rollout ever with more than $1 million in sales in just 9 days.
Plants vs. Zombies, already a hit on Macs and PCs, has sold more than 300,000 copies at $2.99 a pop through the App Store. Developer PopCap calls it a record, though Apple has y... read more
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Three Google executives were today convicted in Milan of “violating privacy” by allowing a video of an autistic Italian schoolboy being physically and verbally abused to be posted online.
The charges were brought by Vivi Down, an advocacy group for people with Down’s syndrom... read more
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Nothing can really prepare you for the latest online phenomenon, Chatroulette.
The social Web site, created just three months ago by a 17-year-old Russian named Andrey Ternovskiy, drops you into an unnerving world where you are connected through webcams to a random, fathomless succession of s... read more
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Most of us wouldn’t hesitate to visit a shortened URL link on Twitter or Google these days–but how about http://5z8.info/add-worm_u0m8n_killgays? Come on, click it. It’s safe, we promise. It’s just the latest creation of ShadyURL, or as we like to call it http://5z8.info/kill... read more
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Apple appears to be cracking down on sexually explicit applications for sale in its App Store as one and then another racy app becomes unavailable.
TechCrunch has what a developer says is an email describing the decision to pull his program. “We have decided to remove any overtly sexual con... read more
