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Facebook founder predicts personalised sites are the future
20 07 2010 Personalised websites will be the future of the internet as people willingly share more of their information, Mark Zuckerberg predicted as he was grilled over Facebook’s approach to privacy.
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Google and Apple at war over mobile advertising
20 07 2010 A bitter battle has broken out between Google and Apple over the burgeoning mobile advertising market that both are seeking to dominate.
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Pakistan court orders blocking of Facebook over Muhammad cartoon
20 07 2010 Facebook was sucked into a growing row over Islam and freedom of speech yesterday after a Pakistani court ordered the site to be blocked over a page advertising a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Google flicks on the TV that will not keep you away from the internet
20 07 2010 Google has unveiled its bid to bring the full world wide web to your television set.
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Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon wins extradition reprieve
20 07 2010 The extradition of a hacker who broke into the Pentagon's computer network has been put on hold after an intervention from the Home Secretary yesterday.
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Pakistan blocks YouTube in ‘sacrilege’ row
20 07 2010 Pakistan blocked access to YouTube yesterday, condemning “growing sacrilegious content” on the video-sharing website in the latest twist of an intensifying international debate over Islam and freedom of speech online.
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Facebook faces U-turn on privacy
20 07 2010 Facebook is poised to make a U-turn on its privacy practices following a backlash from users who believe that the site reveals too much of their personal information.
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Why the Dell Streak is more than a 5-inch iPad
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Why are video games important?
20 07 2010 Want to see the book jacket or the author's face? They are on our new site, www.thetimes.co.uk/technology
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Facebook forced to simplify privacy controls
20 07 2010 Facebook will today introduce “enhanced, simpler” privacy controls designed to appease concerns about safeguarding information at the social-networking service.
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Facebook heeds critics, alters privacy controls
20 07 2010 Facebook has overhauled its privacy controls to fend off escalating anger that it is betraying the trust of its 450 million users.
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Can soothing music give staff will to live?
20 07 2010 Foxconn appeared to be losing control of its spiralling suicide crisis last night after another employee of the world’s biggest electronics assembler attempted to take his own life.
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Steve Jobs predicts tablets to replace personal computers
20 07 2010 The era of the personal computer is coming to an end and the tablet will take its place, Steve Jobs predicted yesterday.
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Robots bring telepresence to stay-at-home workers
20 07 2010 Dallas Goecker works full time at robotics firm Willow Garage in Menlo Park, California. But he has only been in his office three times in the last year.
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Now Apple plans to let you stream your iTunes over the web
20 07 2010 Apple is to launch an online music service that, for the first time, will allow customers to listen to tracks streamed over the internet.
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BT to offer OnLive games via broadband
20 07 2010 British Telecom has signed a deal with OnLive of the United States to stream video games as part of BT’s high-end domestic broadband package, the company announced today.
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Zynga’s FarmVille at loggerheads with Facebook in row over money
20 07 2010 It was a union between two of the web’s coolest young things: FarmVille, among the world’s most popular online games, and Facebook, which has rapidly grown into the largest social network, in large part because users play FarmVille on the site.
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Adobe strikes back at Steve Jobs in war with Apple
20 07 2010 Adobe has hit back at Steve Jobs and Apple over his refusal to allow the company’s widely used Flash video product to run on the iPhone and iPad.
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‘Shoddy security’ leaves millions at the mercy of iTunes fraudsters
20 07 2010 Customers of iTunes are at risk of having their accounts hijacked, and thousands of pounds spent by fraudsters, because of poor security settings on the website, experts have warned. Apple has also been criticised for failing to help customers who have been victims of fraud and for refusing to publish sufficient warnings or information on how to minimise the risks.
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Google admits its Street View cars spied on wi-fi activity
20 07 2010 Google’s Street View cars have been spying on people’s internet use for three years, the search giant admitted last night. It had been scooping up snippets of people’s online activities broadcast over unprotected home and business wi-fi networks.
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Google aims to offer internet on your TV
20 07 2010 Google is set to move into the living room with a computer operating system that will bring the internet to home televisions.
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I-Fairy robot dressed in white is master of ceremony at Japanese wedding
20 07 2010 To her creators she is a high-tech symphony of semiconductors and solenoids, the pinnacle of Japanese robotic engineering. But you can call her the nuptialiser.
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Largest study of mobile phone use finds no link to brain cancer
20 07 2010 Scientists who conducted the largest study to date of the safety of mobile phones said that it offered no clear evidence of a link with brain cancer.
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Bankers trade their BlackBerrys for iPhones
20 07 2010 Thousands of Standard Chartered bankers will be able to swap their BlackBerrys for iPhones as Apple continues to make inroads into the corporate market.
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Eric Schmidt says Google should not be prosecuted for wi-fi records
20 07 2010 The chief executive of Google admitted to major privacy mistakes today as regulators prepare to launch probes into the company for recording personal communications sent over the unsecured wireless networks in people’s homes.
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