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Mobile Privacy Issues Come to Capitol Hill—Apple’s iOS4 to be Examined in Senate Hearing
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by Nancy K. Herther
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Apple's April 2010 press releases for iOS4 focused on the operating system's multitasking, threaded email, and "over 100 new features that make it easier to interact with apps, manage email, read books, and more." Apple's iAd, "a breakthrough mobile advertising platform," was also included in the announcements without any detailed descriptions for consumers. A year later, on April 20, 2011, technologists Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden set off a firestorm with their O'Reilly Radar blog post "Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves." The authors noted that Apple's iOS4 operating system for the iPhone and 3G iPad included software that is "regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. We're not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it's clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations."
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Wall Street Journal Launches 'SafeHouse' Submission Site
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The Wall Street Journal launched SafeHouse, a service that allows users to upload and submit tips, information, documents, or files directly to the Journal. SafeHouse is a stand-alone site located on secure servers and managed directly by Journal editors. Users can submit materials along with their contact information or remain anonymous.
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Recommind Forms Strategic Alliance With LexisNexis for Hosted eDiscovery
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Recommind announced a strategic hosting and sales alliance with LexisNexis to provide an advanced hosted eDiscovery review and analysis. The new solution enables rapid deployment of Axcelerate On-Demand, Recommind's end-to-end eDiscovery review platform with Predictive Coding capabilities. The alliance with Recommind provides LexisNexis clients with more options and greater flexibility in discovery. The U.S.-based service will enable enterprises and law firms to dramatically reduce the costs and timelines associated with document review and analysis as part of litigation and regulatory investigations.
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YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo!
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Delicious.com, the social bookmarking site, has been acquired from Yahoo! by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Yahoo! will continue to operate Delicious until approximately July 2011. Delicious will become part of AVOS, a new internet company that plans to build "the best information discovery service on the web."
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Book Recommendation Services
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by Paula J. Hane
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My family and friends have long been valued sources of recommendations for that next good read. We eagerly trade paperbacks, and we don't get bent out of shape if our preferences don't always match someone's recommendations. Amazon's recommendations have proven helpful to me over the years (Customers who bought this also …), and sometimes it highlights items I might not have thought of checking. But with the increased interest in ebooks and the phenomenal sales of e-readers, it's worth knowing about some other very helpful sources for book recommendations. There's a growing number of them popping up, and I was quite surprised to find so many when I started digging. Each has its own special strengths, so you might want to check out several.
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