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In an unprecedented about face move, Facebook is standing up in favor of employee and job applicant privacy rights against bullying employers. The problem is festering, with an increasing number of employers demanding from Facebook the passwords of their employees and applicants for job openings.
AP reported earlier this week in detail many situations where job applicants were asked for their usernames and passwords. This is without a doubt an invasion of privacy. Even though we all realize that employers have long been investigating their employees’ activities on social networks, this is a new twist on it. Until now, employers have had to glean what they could from the publicly available information exposed by the employee by their own freedom of choice. Facebook announced that it might change its policy or even take the employers to court to stop them requesting such invasive information. +Continue Reading
Those who had the chance to watch “The Social Network” film can remember Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Zuckerberg; always wearing jeans, a t-shirt and regular sneakers. That’s exactly how the comedian Andy Samberg portrays him as well, especially in his skits on Saturday Night Live. Samberg was also pretended to be Zuckerberg at last year’s f8, where it took a few minutes for people to realize that it was Samberg and not Zuckerberg on stage.
What started as something small – Facebook – today can be translated to 3,200 employees and 845 million users and counting.
The problem that Zuckerberg has encountered is his age, which has contributed to him having an identity crisis. Perhaps not for himself, but for the rest of the world that saw him as a boy who could face difficulties dealing with the real world and real business. Many would point out his lack of experience since he didn’t have history of any stable jobs, and even though the internet was going strong, his actions could have destroyed Facebook. +Continue Reading
We will explore the model for the Windows Store app licensing. Microsoft hopes to strike a balance between clients’ needs for flexibility and simplicity, while simultaneously maintaining some level of protection for developers.
Windows Store makes it easy for customers to get any and all of their apps regardless of the Windows 8 device they use to access the store. Of course, perhaps the chief goal of the new licensing model is to counter piracy. However, Microsoft is placing more emphasis on the accessibility to purchased apps regardless of PC’s used over a period, and applying updates or reinstalling on a new system. The new thing is that they mention being able to share these apps with friends and family members. +Continue Reading
Online piracy is being viciously and ruthlessly battled by the United States government in an attempt to protect copyright holders and the entertainment industry from further losses. Illegal downloads are like tiny cuts being reopened again and again – one cut doesn’t hurt but when there are hundreds and thousands of them they slowly bleed the substantial profits from the big wigs.
For years now the US government has been trying to stop pirating, but only recently have they struck major blows. While many will argue that the entertainment industry and many other companies have a monopoly and that the prices they are charging for their products are outrageous and disproportionate, almost everyone will concede with the fact that pirating is still illegal (albeit justified). So of course the United States government comes running to aid the entertainment industry and is now shutting down sites with a fevered intensity – guilty and innocent sites alike. +Continue Reading
Every year, thousands of people make their way to Austin, TX to attend the very popular SXSW Festival. And this year, the festival brings lots of entertainment, news and more. Among the man companies that will be carrying out a demo is PayPal, which plans to give SXSW attendees a taste of the future digital wallet.
There is no doubt that PayPal is the king in its industry, and while others have attempted to compete, only a few have managed to stay afloat. Since it was founded in 1998 in California, PayPal didn’t carry out a complete redesign of its products until now. After all, their goal is to provide customers with the convenience of paying for their purchases online, which removes the hassle of having to carry paper money or even credit cards. +Continue Reading
Apple iOS and Android are experiencing issues with third-party apps that are trying to illegally access user photos, according to the New York Times. Some might say that no one is perfect, but this doesn’t work when Apple and Google are involved.
Privacy problems have certainly been trending upward this year: Facebook, Google, Apple, and many others have encountered issues.
On iOS, this security vulnerability is a problem on apps that require access to location information. If access is granted, the app can copy the user’s photo library, without informing the user. Normally, an app would alert the user whenever private information is accessed. The New York Times asked a developer to build an app that collected photos and location information from an iOS device. When they tested it, the d this app to access user’s location data, the app started to export photos and their location data to a remote server. +Continue Reading
While Windows is one of the most popular operating systems for desktops and laptops many will agree that Microsoft has done some real screw ups with Windows. Remember Windows Vista? That frustratingly obnoxious and buggy OS that almost everyone either downgraded from when they got it or just waited till Windows 7 was released. Well we all knew that Microsoft was heading in the right direction with Windows 7, but now Windows 8 is about to launch later this year – will it be another flop or will Microsoft continue on what Windows 7 had started and make it even more user friendly and innovative? Let’s find out! +Continue Reading
In an unprecedented about face move, Facebook is standing up in favor of employee and job applicant privacy rights against bullying employers. The problem is festering, with an increasing number of employers demanding from Facebook the passwords of their employees and applicants for job openings.
