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Adobe: Row with Apple over Flash is over | Programming | Macworld

June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has drawn a line under his company’s row with Apple over the lack of Flash on the iOS platform.

Speaking on stage at the D9 conference hosted by All Things Digital Narayen also said that Apple’s dominance of the tablet market would soon come to an end with tablets based on Google’s Android coming to the fore.

Narayen was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, who asked him if Adobe and Apple were “done having the argument” over Flash. His response: “Absolutely”.

In fact, the argument was never really about Flash technology itself, said Narayen, but Apple’s control over the iOS platform. Last year Steve Jobs had blamed Flash for being the most common cause of crashes among Mac OS X systems and said that it was unsuitable for mobile devices.

via Adobe: Row with Apple over Flash is over | Programming | Macworld.

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Twitter reportedly buying TweetDeck for more than $40 million | Technology | Los Angeles Times

May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Twitter has been rumored to be in takeover talks with Tweetdeck for more than a month, but the deal is now finalized, according to a report from CNNMoney.

“Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, an application for organizing the display of tweets, for more than $40 million in a mix of cash and stock, according to sources close to the deal,” CNNMoney said in its report.

“The deal has yet to be announced, but papers finalizing the deal were signed Monday.”

The Wall Street Journal and the blog TechCrunch reported last month that Twitter was going to buy TweetDeck for as much as $50 million.

Twitter has yet to comment directly on any of the reports of a deal, and officials at the San Francisco-based social network declined to comment on the latest report.

via Twitter reportedly buying TweetDeck for more than $40 million | Technology | Los Angeles Times.

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Wall Street Journal launches WikiLeaks rival ‘SafeHouse’ – The China Post

May 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Wall Street Journal launched a WikiLeaks rival called “SafeHouse” on Thursday, calling for online submissions to help uncover fraud and abuse in business and politics.

 

“If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence, e-mails, financial records or databases from companies, government agencies or non-profits, you can send them to us using the SafeHouse service,” the Journal said at wsj.safehouse.com.

The newspaper said SafeHouse’s security features include file encryption and the possibility for a contributor or whistleblower to remain anonymous.

It said the SafeHouse site was located on secure servers managed directly by Journal editors.

The Journal said SafeHouse’s interests include “politics, government, banking, Wall Street, deals and finance, corporations, labor, law, national security and foreign affairs.”

“SafeHouse will enable the collection of information and documents that could be used in the generation of trustworthy news stories,” Journal managing editor Robert Thomson said in a statement.

via Wall Street Journal launches WikiLeaks rival ‘SafeHouse’ – The China Post.

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Report: Twitter deep into talks to purchase TweetDeck – FierceMobileContent

April 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Twitter is in advanced talks to acquire social networking management solutions provider TweetDeck for about $50 million. The Wall Street Journal reports Twitter is targeting TweetDeck in an effort to simplify its microblogging services and broaden the appeal of its platform for both new and existing users. TweetDeck effectively serves as a personalized browser spanning across a user’s social networks and contacts, offering customization tools to simplify tweeting and sharing photos, videos and links. Twitter declined to comment; TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth could not be reached.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Twitter’s plans to enhance its overall appeal include welcoming new users with tweets from individuals in their specific geographic region, in part to dispel the image that the platform serves as little more than a soapbox for celebrities to broadcast their opinions.

via Report: Twitter deep into talks to purchase TweetDeck – FierceMobileContent.

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Apple, Once the Scrappy Outsider, Beefs Up Its Antitrust Team – Law Blog – WSJ

February 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

For years, Apple relished its reputation as a scrappy outsider, fighting to stay alive in a world dominated by Microsoft Corp.’s Windows monopoly. But a quiet recent hire by the Cupertino company suggests it realizes how much that picture has changed.

A few months ago, Apple hired Kyle Andeer, a top former litigator at the Federal Trade Commission, to be its first in-house antitrust counsel. The hire wasn’t publicly announced at the time and has gone largely unnoticed.

Andeer will likely have his hands full: Apple is facing a proliferating number of antitrust investigations by both the FTC and U.S. Justice Department.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month  that both the FTC and Justice Department are interested in looking at Apple’s recently-announced media subscription service, to see if it runs afoul of antitrust laws. The two agencies must now decide which one of them will take the lead.

via Apple, Once the Scrappy Outsider, Beefs Up Its Antitrust Team – Law Blog – WSJ.

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In Preparation for the iPhone, Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users – NYTimes.com

February 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Some early reviews are in for the Verizon iPhone 4, which is available for pre-sale today. Many of these tout the ability to actually make a phone call – something AT&T customers have famously struggled with. But for those who plan to take advantage of the iPhone for its data and not its voice capabilities, the news isn’t so good. The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, for example, notes the device has much slower data speeds on Verizon’s network than on AT&T’s.

If that’s not enough to give you pause about the storied Verizon iPhone, then perhaps this news from Verizon itself might: the company has announced that it plans to start throttling the data of customers who “use an extraordinary amount of data.”

In a PDF memo on the Verizon website, the company states that it “may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically for the remainder of your then current and immediately following billing cycle to ensure high quality network performance for other users at locations and times of peak demand.”

via In Preparation for the iPhone, Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users – NYTimes.com.

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Mobile Enterprise: Are You Sharing Too Much Information?

December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Mobile Apps Share Identifying Information

How much information do you actively send via mobile apps without giving permission? According to a Wall Street Journal Study, of 101 popular mobile applications for both Android and Apple’s iOS platform, more than half transmitted a phone’s unique identifier to third parties without users’ permission, and 47 of the apps sent the phone’s location to third parties in some way.

Assisted by the consulting firm Electric Alchemy, researchers used an iPhone 3G and a Samsung Captivate (one of Samsung’s Galaxy S Android smartphones) to test applications.

Among the applications sharing the most user information with third parties were TextPlus 4 (an instant messaging client that reportedly discloses users ages, genders, and ZIP codes to multiple ad networks) along with Paper Toss, Grindr, and the music-streaming service Pandora. The study found that the most commonly-disclosed information was a mobile device’s unique ID number, rather than direct information about a user, which is commonly assumed.

via Mobile Enterprise: Are You Sharing Too Much Information?.

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Some Internet-Use Tracking Firms to Reveal What They Know – WSJ.com

December 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Seeking to head off escalating scrutiny over Internet privacy, a group of online tracking rivals is building a service that lets consumers see what information those companies know about them.

Seeking to head off escalating scrutiny over privacy, a group of online data and tracking firms are joining forces to build a service that lets consumers see what information those companies know about them. WSJ’s Emily Steel reports.

The project is the first of its kind in the fast-growing business of tracking Internet users and selling personal details about their lives. Called the Open Data Partnership, it will allow consumers to edit the interests, demographics and other profile information collected about them. It also will allow people to choose to not be tracked at all.

When the service launches in January, users will be able to see information about them from eight data and tracking firms, including BlueKai Inc., Lotame Solutions Inc. and eXelate Inc.

Additional tracking firms are expected to join once the system is live, but more than a hundred tracking firms and big Internet companies including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are not involved.

The companies involved represent some of the most aggressive trackers of Internet users, many of which have been profiled in The Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series about online privacy. (See related article on page B2.)

via Some Internet-Use Tracking Firms to Reveal What They Know – WSJ.com.

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Predictive Coding Software Helps Morgan Lewis Review Millions of Pages in 1 Month – News – ABA Journal

November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

As large companies spend increasing amounts of money on electronic discovery, their law firms are turning to specialized software to help find the relevant documents.

Large companies expect to spend about 7.1 percent of their litigation budget on e-discovery this year, up from 5.2 percent five years ago, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports, citing a study by BTI Consulting Group Inc.

But the right software can help reduce the number of documents needing attorney review, helping save money, the story says. The article cites an example: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius used “predictive coding” software made by Recommind Inc. to review millions of pages of documents in less than a month. The review was part of a corporate client’s response to a government investigation.

To kick off the process, lawyers at Morgan Lewis reviewed a smaller amount of records to identify the characteristics of relevant documents. For example, one corporate employee had written many relevant e-mails within a specific date range. The characteristics noted are programmed into the software, and the knowledge is used to scan a bigger batch of corporate records. Lawyers then review the documents deemed relevant by the search.

via Predictive Coding Software Helps Morgan Lewis Review Millions of Pages in 1 Month – News – ABA Journal.

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Facebook Says User Data Sold to Broker – WSJ.com

October 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice.

The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers’ blog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that The Wall Street Journal reported in October.

Some “apps,” the small programs that let users play games or share information with each other on the social-networking site, were sending users’ Facebook ID numbers to third-party marketing or data firms, in violation of Facebook’s privacy policies. An ID can be used to look up a user’s name and other publicly available information on the social network and link it to their use of the app. Such information can be used by companies that build profiles of Internet users by tracking their online activities.

via Facebook Says User Data Sold to Broker – WSJ.com.

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