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Facebook Agrees to Protect Young Customers

Following MySpace out of the penalty box of 50 state attorneys general, the social network Facebook is agreeing to a broad set of principles to protect young users from predators and inappropriate material.

Writing Facebook Applications Using Java EE

Facebook is a popular social networking platform where people connect with family, friends, and like-minded individuals and engage in a variety of possible online activities. A large variety of these activities are made possible through so-called Facebook applications. These applications make use of the Facebook web services and APIs to integrate with the Facebook site, access the Facebook user's social information, and extend Facebook's social platform.

Amazon Launches New Applications on Facebook(R) Platform--''Amazon Giver'' and ''Amazon Grapevine'' Let Facebook Users Share and Buy Products Their Friends Want from Amazon.co

SEATTLE - (Business Wire) Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today launched two applications on Facebook Platform, Amazon Giver and Amazon Grapevine, allowing Facebook users to see and purchase what their friends want through their Amazon Wish Lists, as well as recent public activity on Amazon. Amazon Giver allows users to see what their friends on Facebook have on their Amazon Wish Lists. Users can choose to purchase a gift for them from Amazon.com via the application, or view suggested items based on interests they have listed on their Facebook profile. Amazon Grapevine allows users to see friends

Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan

Facebook has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia to develop and enhance controls to protect minors from inappropriate content. This follows a similar commitment from MySpace several months ago. The lone holdout in each case was Texas. News.com notes: "In the deal, the social network has agreed to develop age verification technology, send warning messages when an under-18 user may be giving personal information to an unknown adult, restrict the ability for people to change their ages on the site, and keep abreast of inappropriate content and harassment on the site. While the agreement is with U.S. state authorities, Kelly said that the tools deployed will apply to Facebook's international users as well.

Media Alert - Best Buy Canada Announces Plan to Support Customers' Smooth Transition to Blu-ray

What: Since Blu-ray has now won the format war, Best Buy Canada wants all Canadians to be able to enjoy and purchase this technology. Best Buy Canada is pleased to announce that beginning this week (March 21, 2008), the company will offer customers $50 off on the purchase of any dedicated Blu-ray player. For customers who purchased HD-DVD players and attachments within the last year, Best Buy Canada will offer these customers an additional $50 Best Buy gift card. Best Buy Canada is dedicated to never leave its customers hanging so customers who have purchased an HD-DVD player from Best Buy Canada since January 1, 2007, need to bring their original receipt from their HD-DVD purchase into any Best Buy store in Canada to receive their $50 Best Buy gift card.

Media Alert - Best Buy Canada Announces Plan to Support Customers' Smooth Transition to Blu-ray

BURNABY, BC, March 19 /CNW/ - << What: Since Blu-ray has now won the format war, Best Buy Canada wants all Canadians to be able to enjoy and purchase this technology. Best Buy Canada is pleased to announce that beginning this week (March 21, 2008), the company will offer customers $50 off on the purchase of any dedicated Blu-ray player. For customers who purchased HD-DVD players and attachments within the last year, Best Buy Canada will offer these customers an additional $50 Best Buy gift card. Best Buy Canada is dedicated to never leave its customers hanging so customers who have purchased an HD-DVD player from Best Buy Canada since January 1, 2007, need to bring their original receipt from their HD-DVD purchase into any Best Buy store in Canada to receive their $50 Best Buy gift card.

Facebook announces tighter privacy controls

Facebook is rolling out tighter privacy controls that allow users to decide which friends can see their profile information and other personal details, the popular social-networking site announced during a news briefing at its Palo Alto headquarters Tuesday. Facebook's more than 67 million users will be able to better distinguish between friends, family and co-workers and share information accordingly, the company said. The changes will take effect Thursday. Facebook also showed off an instant-messaging, or chat, feature that it plans to launch in coming weeks. Unlike with other features on the site, users will be able to communicate with each other in real time. Privacy has been a touchy subject for Facebook. Although it offers more controls than most social networks, it twice has come under fire from users who didn't like the way their

Facebook hires Google's Schrage to head communications

Facebook, the second most popular social-networking Web site, hired Google's Elliot Schrage to head communications and public policy, at least the third senior Google executive to join the start-up in two months. Schrage, 47, will start May 14, Palo Alto-based Facebook said Tuesday in a statement. He joined Google in October 2005, where he was vice president of global communications and public affairs. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is bolstering management ranks as his closely held company seeks a larger share of the $41 billion Internet advertising market. In March, Facebook hired Google veteran Sheryl Sandberg as operating chief, as well as Ethan Beard, Google's former director of social media.

Facebook names Google's Sandberg to COO

Facebook has named Sheryl Sandberg its new chief operating officer starting 24 March. As COO, Sandberg will be responsible for helping Facebook scale its operations and expand its presence globally. Sandberg will manage sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy and communications and will report directly to Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Sandberg joins Facebook after six years at Google, where she served as VP of Global Online Sales & Operations. In that role, she built and managed Google's online sales channels for both AdWords and AdSense. Sandberg also managed global operations for Google's consumer products. Prior to Google, Sandberg was chief of staff to the US treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton.

Advice for the young Filipino scientist - STAR SCIENCE By Francis L. De Los Reyes III, Ph.D.

There is a classic book by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, “Advice for a Young Investigator,� that was published in 1897. In it, Cajal, the acknowledged father of modern anatomy and neurobiology, outlines the traits of young scientists, as well as the conditions conducive to doing scientific research. Given that it was written in the 19th century, some of the advice is downright funny (“the right temperament for the scientist�) to downright politically incorrect (“what kind of woman to marry to succeed�). Most of the book is sound advice, though, and should be considered required reading for budding (and old) scientists. Below, in an unranked fashion, is a list of unsolicited advice for the young Filipino scientist. While I feel too young to be dispensing such advice, one of the items is to “pay no heed to age or rank.

Best Buy to Help Pay Customers' DIRECTV(R) Bills

Beginning March 2, Best Buy will launch a relationship with DIRECTV(R) where Best Buy will pay $30 monthly on new customers' DIRECTV bills.(1) Designed to encourage customers to experience the best in high definition, Best Buy will actually pay a portion of customers' bills in the form of a credit appearing on each monthly statement. Customers can receive the credit through one of three new offers:

Best Buy to Help Pay Customers' DIRECTV(R) Bills

Beginning March 2, Best Buy will launch a relationship with DIRECTV(R) where Best Buy will pay $30 monthly on new customers' DIRECTV bills.(1) Designed to encourage customers to experience the best in high definition, Best Buy will actually pay a portion of customers' bills in the form of a credit appearing on each monthly statement. Customers can receive the credit through one of three new offers:

Defection Watch: Google's Director of Social Media Decides It's More Social at Facebook

If you are the director of Social Media at Google (GOOG), wouldn’t you rather be working at Facebook? That is what Ethan Beard decided to do. The Google executive turned in his resignation last week and will be joining Facebook. There he will join other ex-Googlers, such as Facebook’s new COO Sheryl Sandberg, CFO Gideon Yu (formerly YouTube’s CFO) and a slew of others. Both at the top ranks and at the bottom, Facebook is finding that the best place to recruit is Google. (It is doing to Google what Google once did to Microsoft).

LexisNexis(R) Expands Intellectual Property Solutions to Help Customers Protect Valuable AssetsX]

Designed to help customers protect valuable Intellectual Property (IP) assets, LexisNexis introduced a new solution called IP DataDirect-Patents and unveiled enhancements to its suite of IP services. Additionally, LexisNexis announced it received an award nomination for TotalPatent.

LexisNexis(R) Expands Intellectual Property Solutions to Help Customers Protect Valuable Assets

Designed to help customers protect valuable Intellectual Property (IP) assets, LexisNexis introduced a new solution called IP DataDirect-Patents and unveiled enhancements to its suite of IP services. Additionally, LexisNexis announced it received an award nomination for TotalPatent.

Facebook Commits To Stronger Safety And Privacy Measures

Facebook on Thursday said that it has agreed to work with the Attorneys General of 49 states and the District of Columbia to protect young users of its social networking service.

Facebook Names Google Exec As COO

March 5, 2008 (FinancialWire) Social networking site Facebook has named Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) global sales chief Sheryl Sandberg as the company s new chief operations officer. The news of a defection amongst Google s ranks sent shares of the search engine to a 52-week low for the first time since the company s IPO in 2004. Sandberg was instrumental in developing Google s online advertising business. Facebook was founded in 2004 as a social site for students at Harvard University and currently boasts over 50 million users. Sandberg will be responsible for helping Facebook expand its operations and its presence globally, the Palo Alto, California-based company said in a statement. Google's stock fell as low as $435.78 in heavy trade amid a broad drop in technology shares.

Facebook user profiles hacked, Wall feature relaying spam

MacBook Air hacked in two minutes Finjan steps up Secure Computing battle Google AdWords customers targeted in phishing scam Hackers attack Euro 2008 ticket website Cisco delivers five IOS patches on new schedule FTC settles with TJX over breach Hackers may have accessed Sony PlayStation network Protect your site from malware, warns Forrester Websense to tackle Web 2.0 Mozilla releases latest Firefox browser Facebook privacy flap should spark concern for business Information protection and control takes off Stolen credit card portal uncovered

Customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Company Can Now Enroll Online for Lower Energy Bills Through the CARE Program

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thousands of low-and fixed-income gas and electric customers who are eligible for the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) Program can now enroll faster and receive a 20 percent discount on their monthly energy bill, thanks to a new online enrollment tool announced by Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Qualifying customers can submit their application online and be enrolled in the CARE Program within 2 business days. The discount will appear on their bill after a full billing cycle. On average, CARE saves households $42 per month on their gas and electric bill. "Customers now have access to the internet via home, libraries, educational institutions and community assistance organizations," said Linda Fontes, PG&E's CARE Program supervisor.

Protect The Rights Of Patent Owners

For many of us, the word "patent" evokes an image of a legal document that protects useful inventions, like machines, pharmaceutical products and manufacturing methods. Called utility patents, these patents protect the functional or technical aspects of inventions. Another important, yet often overlooked, type of patent exists to protect industrial designs. These patents, called design patents, protect the way things look, rather than the way they function.

RIM: Facebook for BlackBerry downloads top 1M

SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - Facebook for BlackBerry downloads have topped 1 million, less than six months after the application was launched, Research in Motion Ltd. said Tuesday. The mobile software application was launched on Oct. 24. It allows users to send and view messages, photos, pokes and Facebook Wall posts, to upload photos to the site with captions and tags and to manage their Facebook accounts. RIM shares were trading up around 3.4% at $115.85.

New Facebook Features On the Way: Privacy Controls, Chat

Tonight or early Wednesday morning, Facebook’s 67 million active members will have new ways to control their privacy on the social network. They’re welcome additions for many people on Facebook who want more control over which friends (and others) see what kind of material and information on people’s Facebook profiles. The changes follow a number of privacy concerns that have flared up on the site since it opened up its membership to anyone, not just college students whose social life generally wasn’t quite so complicated.

Downloads of Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones Top 1,000,000

Las Vegas, NV,CTIA Wireless 2008 - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) today announced that downloads of the Facebook® for BlackBerry® Smartphones application have surpassed the 1,000,000 mark. The easy-to-use mobile software application, which leverages the push-based BlackBerry(R) service and Facebook(R) Platform to offer an unparalleled mobile experience for Facebook users, was launched at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2007 show on October 24, 2007.

Downloads of Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones Top 1,000,000

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA--(Marketwire - April 1, 2008) - CTIA Wireless 2008 - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM - News; TSX:RIM - News) today announced that downloads of the Facebook® for BlackBerry® Smartphones application have surpassed the 1,000,000 mark. The easy-to-use mobile software application, which leverages the push-based BlackBerry® service and Facebook® Platform to offer an unparalleled mobile experience for Facebook users, was launched at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2007 show on October 24, 2007.

1m users download Facebook for BlackBerry

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that downloads of the Facebook BlackBerry Smartphones application have surpassed the 1-million mark. The easy-to-use mobile software application leverages the push-based BlackBerry service and Facebook platform to offer a mobile experience for Facebook users.

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