America’s top four Internet companies — Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft — promise they will protect the personal information of people who use their online services to search, shop and socialize. But a close read of their privacy policies reveals as much exposure as protection.
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I’m not going to say who I voted for in the tech news category, but you can probably guess.
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When AOL researchers released three months
’ worth of users’ query logs to a publicly accessible Web site late last month, Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell, downloaded the data right away. But when a firestorm over privacy breaches erupted, he decided against using it.
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Verizon Communications’ and BellSouth’s DSL customers won’t see a reduction in their broadband bills, even though a special fee that had been tacked on to bills to pay for a federal program has been eliminated.
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told CNET in an interview that the Germans are coming
—and they have a plan to save Wikipedia. The German-language version of Wikipedia will get an experimental overhaul in the next few weeks designed to cut down on vandalism, edit wars, and misinformation. How will it work? Through the magical power of trust.
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Google Inc., the world’s biggest Internet search engine, said on Wednesday it is opening the Japanese-language version of its email service to anyone who wants to sign up. In other markets, signups are limited to those who receive email invitations from existing users or access it via mobile phones.
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Best ways to deal with the online Goliath.
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Netscape came in waaay behind at #5.
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DivX, the video company well known for its coding and compression technology, quietly launched a YouTube-style online video sharing community, Stage6, a few weeks ago.
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