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European legislation covering the protection of private data is being dragged into the digital age in a potential threat for social networking sites like Facebook where users display foibles, often without a thought for consequences.

European legislation covering the protection of private data is being dragged into the digital age in a potential threat for social [...]

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The Troubadour, awash on a recent night in indigo light and chiming guitars, doesn’t look all that different than it did in the 1970s, when music history plugged in [...]

Australian Internet rights groups fear a piracy court case could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to become “copyright cops” and cut web access to customers who make illegal downloads.

(c) 2010 AFP

(AP) — New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” Andrew Young’s “The Politician” and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, apparently the biggest rift yet in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices.

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Think your commute is safer now that California requires drivers to use hands-free cellphones?
Maybe not.
A new study from the Highway Loss Data Institute released Friday found that the rate of crashes before and after the [...]

There’s an interesting little study that’s been done by security firm Imperva, which analyzed some 32 million passwords posted online in December by some enterprising hacker.

(c) 2010, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Google updated its Chrome browser’s developer’s builds to version 5 for Windows and Mac today, the first time any version of Chrome has reached that milestone. Google was expected to push version 5 out to the public before the end of the month. Unlike the more recent versions of developer’s build 4.x, the developer’s builds [...]

Mozilla has been steadily creeping towards it goal of releasing the first
Firefox browser for mobile phones. On Friday, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s Maemo–previously code-named Fennec–arrived.
Firefox for the Maemo 5 platform has a few interesting conceits that set it apart from other
mobile browsers, like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Mozilla is banking on the uniqueness of [...]

Google has clearly had enough with Internet Explorer 6.
As of March 1, Google will no longer support IE6 on its Google Docs and Google Sites services, it announced Friday. IE users will have to upgrade to at least version 7 if they want to use those products, as “many other companies have already stopped [...]

There are several excellent bookmark-syncing extensions for
Firefox, but Weave is the first major effort designed by Mozilla. The newest version of Weave is out of beta and supports more than just bookmark sync. It also supports syncing open tabs, history, passwords, preferences, and Firefox 3’s advanced Location Bar data.

The add-on lives in your tools menu, [...]