Yahoo Inc. is planning to make its Web site more of a social gathering by hosting applications from other online services. This effort is part of a plan to increase its advertising opportunities.
Yahoo is seemingly following the same open platform idea that Google and social networks Facebook and MySpace have already adopted.
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A Texas woman is suing Blockbuster claiming they transmitted her personal information to Facebook through the website’s Beacon marketing program. Cathryn Harris of Dallas County, Texas, says Beacon received information through computer tracking programs without her permission.
Harris filed her complaint in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on April 9. She claims Blockbuster violated the Video Privacy Protection Act on the basis that it allowed Facebook to get information on her movie renting and buying habits.
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Microsoft’s Live Search Maps has a new system that has information about side streets. Also, Inrix just introduced a traffic alert system across the U.S. Together; the two companies will help drivers avoid heavy traffic and delays.
"ClearFlow," Microsoft’s traffic system, has sensors that take combined information about highways and side streets to help the driver know which routes and highways are best for them to take.
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Because data protection is very important for consumers, many companies are working on technology that would prevent that information from leaking out. Intel is one company that is working with this effort. Although details are scarce, reports say that Intel plans to release anti-theft technology for laptops during the fourth quarter of this year.
Dadi Perlmutter, the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, says that in the case of a theft, the Intel Anti-Theft Technology (ATT) will “basically lock the system, lock the disk, so people cannot be maliciously using and getting the data.”
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