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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online One social network is being called out for privacy concerns, and this time it isn’t Facebook. Path, the social app for smaller networks, has been busted before snooping into users’ smartphone address book and keeping these contacts without their permission. These allegations resulted in independent privacy assessments and an $800,000 fine by the Federal Trade Commission. Yesterday, one blogger called the “antisocial”...
Event to be Audio Webcast Live on the Pandora Investor Relations Website OAKLAND, Calif., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading Internet radio service, today announced that the company's Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Mike Herring, will host the Morgan Stanley Internet Bus Tour in San Francisco, California. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110615/SF20192LOGO) Mr. Herring will engage in a fireside chat on Monday, May 6, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Video phones like those seen in numerous science fiction movies and TV shows such as “The Jetsons” still haven’t actually arrived, but Skype and Apple’s Facetime have been the next best thing. However, Facetime is still limited to Apple devices while Skype has required a proprietary client that necessitated a download. The Skype program would also have to run in the background. Last summer Microsoft announced Skype video...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online True to form, Google has announced they’ll be killing, or “sunsetting” as they put it on the West coast, another one of their many services. This time the victim is Meebo Bar, a publishing tool from a company Google only acquired nearly a year ago. While the search giant put the axe to many of Meebo’s services after they bought the company last June, Meebo Bar made a comeback in December. According to the Meebo website,...
Local Click to Bricks is a marketing company that is now offering Foursquare setup solutions to business owners who want more social presence to attract new local customers. Brandon, Fl (PRWEB) April 26, 2013 Local Clicks To Bricks CEO Don Fawcett recently reviewed Foursquare as a marketing outlet for local business owners, and gave it a “thumbs up” only for certain local businesses. Don Fawcett commented, “Foursquare is great app. It’s like Facebook, Groupon, and Yelp! all...
App Inspired by Cover of National Geographic's May Issue WASHINGTON, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Geographic magazine has announced the launch of a new Facebook app created in concert with the May cover story exploring a possible genetic link to human longevity. The May issue, on newsstands from April 30, features four adorable babies on the cover. The new app, presented by Prudential, allows users to upload their own favorite baby pictures into a mock National...
Event to be Audio Webcast Live on the Pandora Investor Relations Website OAKLAND, Calif., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading internet radio service, today announced the company's fiscal year 2013 annual meeting of stockholders will be webcast live from Oakland, CA. on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 8:00AM (PT) / 11:00AM (ET). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110615/SF20192LOGO) The record date for the annual meeting is April 10, 2013. Stockholders...
New mobile app on the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone lets users privately photo-poll close friends LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Need your friends' help to make a decision? "Should I buy the red shoes or the black ones?" "Are we going to wine bar or the pub for happy hour?" "Which movie are we watching tonight?" "Who is coming to poker Friday night?" If these questions sound familiar to you, then you should take a look at Pingstr, a new social micro-polling app....
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google was fined over $180,000 by a Germany privacy regulator due to how the company collected data while it created the Street View mapping service more than three years ago. In 2010, Google acknowledged it collected personal data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi signals while it was creating the controversial mapping program. Street View was meant to give users a first-person perspective of the world, showing shops, sidewalks,...
A new mobile app released on appcatch.com offers virtual healing techniques through smartphones and tablets. (PRWEB) April 20, 2013 The GoldReiki app has earned Appsbar’s App of the Day nod for its innovative approach to virtual healing and its use of modern technology to approximate age-old techniques. The app is optimized for both iOS and Android smartphones and tablets and promotes wellness through reiki attunement, which is the passing of energy from a “master” to a subject’s...
