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Story of the Week: Posterous joins the “flock”

March 18, 2012 12:51 am by Maryam Nabi

As it turns its attention to making some serious money, Twitter recently moved to introduce ads on mobile apps. This week, however, the company decided to spend a little, with its acquisition of Posterous, a social blogging site. Posterous users worried about the future of the service and tech observers speculated whether Twitter would integrate the two services. Read more

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Story of the Week: Apple refreshes the iPad

March 10, 2012 5:54 am by Maryam Nabi

The iPad was on everyone’s lips this week, even if there was puzzlement over what exactly to call the third generation tablet. It was not the iPad 3 or iPad HD as expected, but “the new iPad,” according to Apple. Name apart, the latest version’s hardware divided fans into two camps: those who were disappointed by the modest changes and those who claimed the announcement was “truly huge” for Apple.

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Story of the Week: Google looks to the future of search. Literally.

February 25, 2012 9:24 pm by Maryam Nabi

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Gadget lovers may soon be adding glasses to their growing list of tech toys. This week, reports that Google will release “heads-up display glasses” by the end of the year spread quickly in the tech sphere.

Though Google did not confirm if it was working on glasses that will “be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time”, as the New York Times and 9 to 5 Google reported, many speculated that such a product could be the start of “wearable computing”. Read more

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Story of the Week: Google feeds Safari cookies

February 18, 2012 3:46 pm by Maryam Nabi

Google’s latest privacy breach? Late in the week, a researcher at Stanford University discovered that Google and several other advertising companies were bypassing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser.

Although Google admitted it “now started removing these advertising cookies,” the news brought a fresh example of the risks of online browsing to Internet privacy. Read more

Tags: apple, Cookies, do not track, google, privacy, Safari
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Story of the Week: Path’s privacy concerns

February 11, 2012 7:50 am by Maryam Nabi

This week, Path, the social networking app, faced criticism for storing users’ information after Arun Thampi, a developer, discovered his iPhone’s address book was uploaded to Path’s servers without his permission.

While Dave Morin, CEO of Path, apologised in a post and vowed to delete the contacts from Path’s servers, tech commentators debated how iOS developers and Apple should deal with access to user data. Read more

Tags: apps, ios, path, privacy, social media
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Story of the Week: Facebook’s IPO filing

February 4, 2012 4:21 pm by Maryam Nabi

This week, Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO filing gave a glimpse into the company’s financials and the thinking of its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.

For many commentators, the filing raised questions about whether Facebook can continue this pace of accelerated growth. Read more

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Story of the Week: Apple starts 2012 with a bang

January 29, 2012 8:18 pm by Maryam Nabi

Apple has done it again. For a brief moment last week, following the announcement that it beat quarterly forecasts with record numbers, the Silicon Valley company once again became the world’s most valuable company.

This time, though, things were different, with Tim Cook, who took over as Apple’s chief executive from co-founder Steve Jobs, now at the helm. Read more

Tags: apple, earnings, iPad, iphone
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Story of the Week: Online piracy debate goes viral

January 22, 2012 4:19 pm by Maryam Nabi

This week brought black outs, shut downs and online protests as online piracy was placed at the forefront of tech news. While Congress announced that it suspended the proposed piracy bills, SOPA and PIPA, commentators wrote that the debate over how to reduce online piracy was not over yet. Read more

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Story of the Week: Google turns to search to promote Google+

January 14, 2012 5:57 am by Maryam Nabi

Twitter’s displeasure with Google’s “Search plus Your World” may have been the most loudly heard reaction, but tech commentators also took to their blogs to criticise Google’s latest enhancement to personalised search this week. Read more