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UK legal claims served via Facebook

Written on February 22nd, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Legal authorities say a judge at England’s High Court has allowed lawyers to log on to Facebook to serve legal claims. The Judicial Office for England and Wales said Justice ...
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Web privacy tools to warn of internet tracking cookies

Written on February 18th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Internet users will receive a warning if sites do not respect their privacy thanks to new tools being developed by the web’s standards setting body. The World Wide Web Consortium ...
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Google cookies ‘bypassed Safari privacy protection’

Written on February 18th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Google has been accused of bypassing the privacy settings of users of the Safari web-browser. The Wall Street Journal said Google and other companies had worked around privacy settings designed ...
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SMBs Missing Opportunity to Integrate Email With Social

Written on February 14th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Although roughly 3 in 4 SMBs use email marketing tactics such as organic list growth and web-based sign-up forms to generate leads, just 41% include a sign-up form on their ...
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Google+ Making Strides Online

Written on February 13th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
The popularity of Google+ has showed dramatic growth recently, according to February 2012 analysis from Compete, which tracked the the landing page for the main feature of the social network, ...
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Microsoft slams new Google policy

Written on February 3rd, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Microsoft has taken out full-page newspaper adverts to criticise changes to Google’s policies. Google has touted the changes it announced last week as a simplification of detailed but obtuse policies ...
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Google reveals action over Mosley

Written on January 27th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life from its search results index, Britain’s Leveson Inquiry on press standards has heard. ...
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Twitter to censor itself in some nations

Written on January 27th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility is likely to raise fears that the short-messaging company’s commitment to free speech ...
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Facebook forces users to change profiles

Written on January 27th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find. Timeline is ...
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McDonald’s Twitter promotion backfires

Written on January 25th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
A McDonald’s Twitter promotion backfired after customers hijacked the hash-tag #McDStories, using it to share horror stories instead. The fast food giant launched the 24-hour promotional campaign last week to ...
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