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Two women try out an iPad. US federal prosecutors are set to announce criminal charges linked to hacking into the AT&T network that may have affected 120,000 users of Apple’s iPad tablet computer. Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are announcing the arrests of two men accused of stealing e-mail addresses and other information from more [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–”We don’t think that a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a press conference this morning as it unveiled a hotly anticipated revamp of its messaging system that many pundits had characterized as a “Gmail killer.” But unveiling an e-mail product wouldn’t take into account all [...]

Alma Whitten is taking on one of Google’s most important and perhaps impossible jobs as the face of its commitment to privacy. Whitten, a seven-year Google engineer with a background in privacy and security, was named director of privacy for the company Friday in a blog post in which Google acknowledged that its Wi-Fi spying [...]

(AP) — The FBI said Thursday that it is investigating a data breach at AT&T that exposed the e-mail addresses of more than 114,000 owners of the Apple iPad, including government officials. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

User e-mail addresses on Facebook have come a long way. For years, Facebook converted them into a static image to keep potential spammers and data thieves at bay. As a result, it made copying them a serious pain, as you’d need to have whatever e-mail tool you were using in one window, and that user’s [...]

Google has acquired social-search provider Aardvark, right on the heels of the company’s Google Buzz announcement. Google declined to share financial terms of the deal, but TechCrunch reported that Google paid $50 million for the start-up. “We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aardvark, but we don’t have any additional details to share right [...]

Gmail on Tuesday introduced a new feature that lets users remove every single duplicate contact entry at once. Previously, users had to go through their address book one at a time–a process that could be both tedious and time-consuming. The new system runs a simple scan on your contacts, and provides a one-button solution that [...]