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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
By James Kendrick
Microsoft has announced a licensing agreement with HTC for its mobile phone patents that gives HTC access to “broad coverage” under Microsoft’s patent portfolio. HTC will pay Microsoft royalties for the Android phones it sells. This agreement comes in the shadow of Apple suing HTC for patent infringement, a move widely believed to be aimed at Google and Android. Analysts are already stating that this deal between HTC and Microsoft is aimed at defusing the Apple suit, but…
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
By eCredit Daily
When Facebook first revealed it would share personal profile information with third-party partner sites, users and privacy advocates voiced concerns and anger.
Now a U.S. Senator wants the Federal Trade Commission, the agency that protects consumers from advance-fee schemes, deceptive marketing practices and credit card scams, to consider if federal guidelines are necessary to protect social media site users from privacy violations.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said he asked the FTC to examine the privacy disclosures of social networking…
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Mashable has now become the world’s largest blog that focuses on social networking news. It features new website and services reviews and all other breaking news on the web. The CEO, Pete Cashmore is a 24 year-old and one of the top most followed Twitter Users. He founded Mashable in 2005 at the young age of 19. In an interview, when asked why the name Mashable and what the word means to him; Cashmore replied, ““Mashable” comes from the “mashups”…
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
By Cris Evert Lato, Aileen Garcia-Yap
Cebu Daily News First Posted 07:39:00 10/20/2009
Cebu City once again clinched the top spot in the latest Global Services and Tholons survey on the top 50 “emerging global outsourcing destinations” worldwide.
The 2009 survey listed Cebu as No. 1 based on scale and quality of workforce, infrastructure, business catalyst, risk profile, cost and quality of life.
This is the second time Cebu City ranked first in the survey, which has been running since 2007. Cebu ranked fourth…
HTC Licenses Microsoft Patents for Android
