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« Previous EntriesFacebook ‘gender policy’ has grammar in mind
Saturday, June 28th, 2008After years of grammatical “themself” limbo, social network decides to request that its members specify whether they’re male or female, still letting transgendered individuals opt out.
ConnectU founders score spots on U.S. Olympic rowing team
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Best known as the twins who sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss now make headlines for something else: the men’s straight pair event in the Olympics.
ICANN vote stirs worries of domain chaos
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Will decision to allow custom top-level domains, despite rigorous application process, trigger new cybersquatting battles?
Video: Great, big Apple expectations
Saturday, June 28th, 2008In two weeks, Apple fans will finally be able to get their hands on the iPhone 3G. In Friday’s edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com’s Kara Tsuboi and Tom Krazit discuss the phone’s new activation process and other rumors swirling around out there in the blogosphere.
Court enforces Facebook-ConnectU settlement
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Despite ConnectU’s allegations of fraud on Facebook’s part, a U.S. District Court judge has upheld the two social-networking sites’ February settlement. The court documents remain under seal.
Microsoft to acquire mobile-data company
Saturday, June 28th, 2008MobiComp, a Portuguese firm, will become part of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business division.
MySpace releases API for Data Availability
Saturday, June 28th, 2008News Corp.’s social network has said the code for its data portability project, which lets external Web sites’ users import their MySpace credentials, will go live later on Thursday.
Housing bill and fingerprint registry encounter Senate setback
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Vote likely to be postponed until next month. It’s unclear whether there’s sufficient interest in eliminating the section creating a national fingerprint registry.
Atom Films relaunched as Comedy Central sister site
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Short-form comedy, from sketch to animation to prank videos, is the name of the game at the new Atom.com, touted as “jukebox-style, proudly low-budget, (and) super-late-night.”
Tech giants put their heads in the clouds
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Cloud computing is much more down to earth than the term might imply. For Google, Amazon, and others, it’s about delivering bits to billions of devices–and users.
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