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After Investigation, French Data Protection Agency CNIL Concludes No Facebook Message Bug Top
facebook-securityOn September 24, French newspapers alerted Facebook that there could be a bug that would display private messages written in 2009 and earlier on users' timelines. It was then invalidated by Facebook. But the French data protection agency CNIL investigated on its own and delivered the same conclusions as Facebook. There was in fact no bug.
 
Confirmed: Google's Motorola Mobility Acquires Image and Gesture Recognition Company Viewdle Top
viewdleWe heard rumors about Google acquiring the augmented reality and image recognition firm Viewdle earlier this week. Turns out, those rumors were true. Google's Motorola Mobility unit just announced that it has indeed acquired the company.
 
New Advancement Gives ARM Weapon To Challenge Intel Dominance In Server Market Top
armThe x86 chip is an Intel crown jewel. It's the processor for millons of servers around the globe. But now it appears that software has invaded the land of hardware yet again with the news that a group of Russian developers are building an emulation capability to run x86 servers on ARM-based servers.
 
LG's Flagship Optimus G Slated To Hit AT&T And Sprint Shelves Later This Year Top
optimusgLG's last big (and I mean big) smartphone release around these parts was the Intuition, a funky phablet that many a critic panned. Thankfully, the company's straight-laced follow-up -- the nicely spec'd Optimus G -- was revealed earlier this month, and now both AT&T and Sprint have signed on to sell the thing when it launches later this year.
 
TC Makers: A Visit To The Brooklyn Factory Where They Make The Ultracool Blink Steady Bike Light Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-03 at 5.45.09 PMIt's rare to see the creation of a product from idea to implementation but Blink Steady, a unique, multi-sensor bike light, allowed us to do just that. Created by Benjamin Cohen, Stuart Heys, and Mark Sibenac, the Blink Steady launched in April on Kickstarter and shipped last month.
 
Pipeline, The Angel Investing Bootcamp For Women, Announces New Class Of Bay Area Fellows Top
nataliaThe fact is, the majority of tech industry investors are men -- that goes from the larger venture capital firms that fund companies in the mid- to late-stages, to the angel investors who help to get seed-stage companies off the ground. But an organization called the Pipeline Fellowship is working to deliberately change that, by putting on angel investing "bootcamps" for women.
 
YouTube Changes Its Content ID Appeals Process Top
YouTube peopleYouTube today announced that it is making some important changes to its appeals process for users who think their videos were falsely flagged for copyright infringements by YouTube's Content ID system. Previously, when users filed an appeal and the copyright owner rejected this appeal, the user was generally left without any recourse for certain types of Content ID claims. Starting today, copyright holders will get two options to handle appeals after a rejected dispute: release the claim or file a formal DMCA notification.
 
Apple Job Posting Hints At Major New System-On-A-Chip Design Effort Top
Apple_A6_ChipApple posted multiple job ads today, and one in particular is interesting given the company's recent decisions. The posting is seeking an "SoC Modelling Architect / Lead," or in the words of the job description, an individual who will be "at the center of a chip design effort interfacing with all disciplines, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly."
 
Mission Impossible: Seclore Can Now Make Your Email Self-Destruct Top
seclorelogoBombay-based security software company Seclore has developed a way for your email to self-destruct. This may be just the way for companies to get past the paradox that collaboration poses.
 
After Successful Launches At USC And UCLA, Flinja Brings Its "Airbnb For University Jobs" To Stanford Top
flinjaFlinja wants to create a peer-to-peer jobs marketplace based on student and alumni networks within various universities around the country. It seeks to differentiate itself from other marketplace startups -- the Taskrabbits and the Zaarlys of the world -- by tying user participation to their college affiliation. Like Facebook once upon a time, all users are required to log in with their .edu email addresses, as a way to prove that they are either currently attending a participating university, or had once done so.
 
Entelo Launches To Help Businesses Recruit The Best Candidates, Even If They're Not Looking Top
Screen shot 2012-10-03 at 8.24.14 AMIn July of last year, Jon Bischke and John McGrath co-founded Entelo to help companies large and small identify and recruit technical talent. Since then, the startup has been in limited beta, providing only brief glimpses into what they were building, but that officially ended this morning.
 
Facebook Explains How App Center Recommendation Works. A Blueprint For Search? Top
Facebook App Center Featured App Ratings DoneFacebook says that today 220 million people are visiting its App Center every month, with 40% likely to return the day after they use it for more. But with thousands of apps available, and visitors looking for guidance on what apps to use, recommendation is a huge part of the equation both for consumers, and for developers hoping their apps are the ones to hit the big time. Today, Facebook took a step towards demystifying how all this works in a blog post explaining the building of the recommendation engine.
 
Amazon Sells Out Of New Kindle Paperwhite, Shipping Slips To 4-6 Weeks Top
Kindle PaperwhiteAmazon apparently underestimated the success of its newest e-reader. The company just updated its shipping estimate, pushing back the delivery date to four to six weeks after ordering. Both models, with or without 3G, are experiencing the same delay. And it's no surprise — the device is more than an incremental improvement.
 
Tapbots Founder Paul Haddad On App.net, Netbot, And What Twitter's New API Means For Tweetbot Top
screenshot_03App.net, the Dalton Caldwell startup that pivoted from being essentially an About.me for apps, and towards being a paid Twitter alternative, today got a boost on the software side thanks to the introduction of Netbot by Tapbots. Netbot, as any Tapbots fan will likely immediately recognize, is essentially a modified version of Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad, but one that works with App.net instead.
 
That's A First: NASA's Curiosity Rover Successfully Checks Into Foursquare From Mars Top
7981751198_92e414b3bf_zI love foursquare, I check in from pretty much everywhere I go. However, I would say that the Curiosity Rover on Mars is seeing cooler scenery than I ever have. Today, foursquare reported that the craft has checked in on foursquare for the first time.
 
500 Startups-Funded KeenFiles Makes It Easier To Share Huge Files Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-03 at 1.08.02 PMPhotographers and designers often have to face problems mortal men do not. More precisely, they need to share huge files - up to 2GB - with each other in order to send around high resolution photos and layouts for clients. That's what KeenFiles.com is for. It's a place for these gods among humankind to share those things that are largest on their hard drives. The service is simple: you paste some lines of code on your website (I set it up here) and people just drag and drop files into your KeenFiles account. Uploaders must log in before they can send files, thereby preventing spam to some degree. The uploads are fast and seamless and you get an email once something has dropped into your folder.
 
As HP Outlines 5-Year Recovery Plan, Its Stock Price Crashes To A 9-Year Low Top
Image (1) hplogo.jpg for post 346759Watch out below! HP's stock is tumbling to new lows as the company lays out its 5-year recovery program. Wall Street clearly doesn't like what it's hearing either. HP's stock opened at $17.35 and maintained this price throughout the day until it suddenly, nearly violently, crashed to where it sits now at 10% down for the day at $15.50, a 9-year low.
 
Amazon Quietly Begins The Long Road To Closed Captioning Its Streaming Video Library Top
closed captionAmazon has quietly started to add closed captioning services to its Instant Video library, following a September 30 deadline from the Federal Communications Commission that required online media companies to begin incorporating these subtitles for the hard of hearing into their video content. This regulation -- an implementation of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2011 -- has been long in the making, with companies like Amazon and YouTube but also Apple arguing that they will need extensions to fully comply, and those arguing on behalf of people with hearing disabilities saying that digital content needs to be just as accessible as what people can see in analog.
 
Study: Redfin Features 20% More Real Estate Listings And Fewer Sold Houses Than Zillow And Trulia Top
redfin_logo_smallAs the U.S. real estate market is slowly starting to gather some steam again, real estate portals like Redfin, Trulia and Zillow are again competing as important tools for prospective buyers who want to get an edge in competitive markets. According to a new study commissioned by real estate portal Redfin and real estate company Windermere, the quality of the listings on these different sites isn't always up to par. According to this study, which looked at 11 major U.S. cities, Redfin and Windermere.com feature about 20% more listings than Zillow and Trulia and almost two out of five listings on those two sites are no longer for sale.
 
Meg Whitman Outlines HP's 5-Year Recovery Plan, Promises Growth By 2015 Top
Growth 2015Hewlett-Packard was once the king of Silicon Valley. Not anymore. After years of executive turnover, the company has lost its soul although the money keeps pouring in. Meg Whitman intends to right the massive HP ship and just outlined an ambitious five-year plan that promises new products by financial year 2014 and finally growth by 2015. So three years from now. Gah. Whitman took over for ousted Leo Apotheker in September 2011. Apotheker replaced Mark Hurd in 2010. Today during HP's Securities Analyst Meeting Whitman blamed HP's current position on this constant turnover. She indicated it caused multiple inconsistent strategies. And she's right.
 

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