Yahoo to Implement Do Not Track
Yahoo is being stylishly late to the Do Not Track party, but it's better than not showing up at all. Yahoo has announced that it will be implementing a Do Not Track option on all web properties system-wide and will be in place by early summer.
Yahoo officials said that their Do Not Track implementation has been in development since 2011 and that it will be a simple way for consumers to turn on the DNT option
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LG's 55-Inch OLED Arriving Early for the Olympics
If you have been waiting for the big screen OLED display TV and have a few extra bucks….well, maybe a little more than a few bucks, LG has just the screen for you. Rumor has it LG will be introducing the 55" OLED in May for the low, low price of $8K at the Cannes Film Festival. Sure, sell them to the movie stars….they are the only people who can afford them.
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April Fools' Roundup: Kodak Kittens, Gmail Tap, and More!
Today is the first day of April and as such it is April Fool's Day; Like you didn't already know that. We hope you had a pleasant one and didn't fall for too many of the Internet's pranks (and there were many). Instead of listing some of the better pranking sites ourselves, we have deferred to PCMag who did all of the footwork for us.
To spare you from having to hunt down the official websites of every product manufacturer or company you care for to see all the craziness they've posted for today, we've gathered up our favorite April Fools' gags
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Paul Allen Invests in Massive Wikipedia Project
Paul Allen has a new cause to help fund. He is supporting a new project called Wikidata, a program to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia information. Allen's contribution of $860k constitutes approximately half of the project's funding.
The team will start to work on the initial development for Wikidata in April. They will work on it for a year, and then give the project to the Wikimedia Foundation by March 2013.
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Foxconn Plans New Iowa Plant
According to several sources, Foxconn's founder announced a new Foxconn factory right smack dab in the heart of the US. The factory will be located in Guthrie Center, Iowa and eventually will employ 300k workers. Although this news story just smacks of an April Fool's joke, the sources check out. 10% of the state's population working for Foxconn? Impressive.
The plant will include dormitories for workers, multiple swimming pools and Internet cafes, and meal seating for 100,000 employees.
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Internet Activity 'to be Monitored' Under New UK Laws
If proposed legislation is passed into law next month, the United Kingdom will have Internet companies install hardware that will enable the government to monitor all forms of communication sent using the internet. The legislation is designed to curb terrorism and make the public safe.
"This is an unprecedented step that will see Britain adopt the same kind of surveillance seen in China and Iran.
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How Much is Each Facebook User Worth?
The buzz is all about the upcoming Facebook IPO and the astronomical $103-104 Billion evaluation of the company. With numbers comes statistics and the question here is with those kind of numbers how much is the average user worth to Facebook since the user (you) are their only stock in trade?
Because accumulating data about you isn't just a strange hobby for these corporations. It's their whole business model. And you are not their client. You are their product.
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Hallmark Greets Digital, Acquires SpiritClips
Hallmark is getting a little more personal with its digital greeting cards with the purchase of Spiritclips, an online subscription video production company. The process of sending personalized photo and video cards is about to become much easier.
Hallmark already has its own line of animated video e-cards, but they're not very personalized.
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AOL Launches Mandatory Web Site for Men
What's up with AOL and their new Mandatory web site? This is a giant departure from the AOL of old catering to the family environment and now launching a men's site. Maybe they should try a little harder to sell those patents and get out of the sex site business.
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Rovio to Launch a Weekly Angry Birds Animation Series
Now we know why the birds stay so angry: it's all of that overtime Rovio makes them work. The over-exposed Angry Birds are now going to be seen in a new weekly animated short feature series. The 52 short featurettes will be three minutes in length and be distributed through the same channels as the Angry Birds games.
Dorra said that its existing Angry Birds animations, some of which have clocked up tens of thousands of views, are a great way to connect with existing fans, and important for acquiring new fans
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The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Updated on PC Only
The latest patch has gone live for Bethesda's hot-selling role-playing game The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, but as to be expected, it is only available for PC players. For those playing on the Xbox 360 and PS3, the game remains at version 1.4. PS3 players in particular still have reason to be sore because that version still has some memory bugs.
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GPS Data Out, Warrantless Cell Phone Surveillance In?
Since the Supreme Court ruled that tracking by GPS device without a warrant violated the rights of the individual, the Feds are now pursuing different avenues to track suspects. The alternative is the use of warrantless cell-site data and is as controversial as the GPS issue.
The government has maintained in a different case on appeal that cell-site data is distinguishable from GPS-derived data
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