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Five Big Problems With the New Privacy Bill of Rights

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April 14, 2011
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Five Big Problems With the New Privacy Bill of Rights The new Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights aims to protect your privacy from evil data brokers. Unfortunately, it contains more wrongs than rights.
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They Don't Want You...They Want Your Data People may be at the center of the consumer social networking and enterprise social software phenomenon, but the current competitive environment is really about the behavioral data you bring with you.
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Car Tech: Electric Vehicles Get an IT Assist A new IT challenge is emerging: building a vast infrastructure for electric vehicles, or EVs.
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WordPress Hack Could Put Premium Users at Risk WordPress maker Automattic reveals that hackers may have made off with sensitive bits of source code
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Windows Vista: Microsoft Using IE 10 to Deliver Death Blow Internet Explorer 10 won't run on Windows Vista, a clear attempt by Microsoft to kill off the OS. But why bother? Vista has done a very good job of committing suicide itself.
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Gmail's 'Bob' Features Help You Avoid E-mail Blunders The features, which aim to prevent you from sending a message to the wrong person or forgetting to include someone on the senders list, are now available to every Gmail user.
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Toshiba's New Self-Erasing Hard Drives: The Ultimate in Data Security When one of these intelligent hard disk drives is connected to an unknown host, it can erase itself, or a variety of other protective functions.
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Apple Prepares 'Do Not Track' Feature in Safari Safari's Do Not Track feature appeared in the test release of Mac OS X Lion, which launches this summer, but it's not clear whether the browser will get the feature sooner, or whether it'll be available to Windows users.
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Spotify Slashes Free Music Streaming Spotify has finally buckled to economic necessity and announced plans to dramatically limit the volume of unpaid music than nonsubscribers can receive.
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Windows Phone 7 'Mango' Update: A Visual Tour How Windows Phone 7 will be improved in the coming months.
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Nag Screen Hall of Shame Take our tour of some of the worst software nag screens, reminders, and pop-ups from the past and the present.
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BlackBerry PlayBook Gets Panned by Reviewers The critics have weighed in with their early thoughts on RIM's device, calling its hardware impressive but its software glitchy.
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Display Tech To Watch This Year: OLED's Future Looks Bright The thin, bright, energy-efficient displays may outclass LCD and plasma TVs -- if manufacturers can scale up.
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Leaked BlackBerry Roundup: New Torch2, Storm3, Bold Touch Here's the latest leaked information -- technical specifications and images -- on three of the most interesting upcoming Research In Motion BlackBerry smartphones.
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World of Warcraft From Level 0 to 85 Without Killing a Thing How do level from naught to 85 in the world's most popular online roleplaying game without killing a single thing?
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Microsoft's Two-Front War for the Future From the edge to the core, Microsoft is feeling the heat from Google and Apple -- and the downside of being chained to the desktop.
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Flash on Android: Look but Don't Touch The sweeping deficiencies of Flash Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets can't all be chalked up to its 'beta' status.
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Windows Vista: No IE10 for You Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), will not run on Windows Vista, either now in its developer preview form or when the software ships.
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Hallmark Rebuilds Site, Reaps Rewards Hallmark increased its conversion rate by 30 percent and customers experienced a 370 percent improvement in site response time.
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Microsoft Says It Learned Key Lessons From Windows Phone Update Fiasco Microsoft did not realize how different smartphones are from PCs until recent software updates broke new Windows Phone 7 devices.
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