Tweet New legislation to combat online piracy has created outrage in the tech community. Google ChairmanEric Schmidt, as well as a slew of bloggers and large tech companies, have spoken out against the proposed bill. The House’s Stop Online Piracy Act–as well as its Senate counterpart, the PROTECT IP Act–would give copyright owners broad new powers over their
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Tweet Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing director, has a fix for cyberbullying: stop people from doing anything online without their names attached. Facebook requires all members to use their real names and email addresses when joining the social network — a policy that has been difficult at times to enforce, as the prevalence of spam accounts
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Tweet Original Post at mashable . Author – Jason Taylor Jason Taylor is the vice president of platform strategy at Usablenet. Usablenet’s platform powers the mobile sites of 20% of the Fortune 1000, including Estée Lauder, Hilton, Delta, Victoria’s Secret, FedEx, ASOS and others. Follow @Usablenet on Twitter. Google’s Eric Schmidt recently noted that mobile
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Tweet Once again signaling his close ties with Silicon Valley, President Barack Obama plans to draft Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to his National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. In a White House statement released Thursday evening, Obama named Costolo, along with Scott Charney, corporate VP of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, McAfee President David G. DeWalt and
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