Author: IIP

Privacy matters to users. It matters a lot. That should be obvious, except that many times what seems like a small issue for us, may actually be a much larger issue for our users. An anecdote: Today on their blog, business web app maker 37signals...

05 Novembre, 2008

Late Monday a small, yet big Firefox feature was released to testers of Minefield, Mozilla's testbed application for new browser innovations. The new feature is private browsing, also known in some circles as "porn mode." When toggled, it takes your Web history, user names, passwords,...

05 Novembre, 2008

NEW YORK -- Perhaps the biggest threat to Google Inc.'s increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google's broadening reach is giving it unchecked power. This scrutiny goes deeper than the skeptical eye that lawmakers and the...

05 Novembre, 2008

Enterprises invest a sizable portion of their IT budgets in ensuring that sensitive data remains secure and inaccessible to individuals in the outside world. However, a tool that most enterprise  employees use daily -- e-mail  -- can easily become a leak in company's defensive dam....

05 Novembre, 2008

Leaping onstage with characteristic showmanship, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff kicked off his Dreamforce conference Monday surrounded by projections of clouds in a bright blue sky, flashing white lights, swirling fog and rock music blasting from the speakers. He used his keynote address to outline a...

05 Novembre, 2008

The Global Network Initiative has been launched. The Initiative is a code of conduct for corporations on privacy and free speech created by a coalition of human rights, media development and research organizations, and Internet and communications companies such as Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Its...

05 Novembre, 2008

In an effort to publicize what it claims are the privacy failings of Google's new Chrome browser, Consumer Watchdog is airing its grievances through Google's YouTube and urging viewers to use its e-mail form to submit a message to Google's board of directors demanding better...

05 Novembre, 2008

L'arrivo in Italia di Google StreetView - il servizio che consente di vedere on line le immagini reali delle strade nelle principali città - presenta aspetti critici ancora da chiarire secondo Luca...

04 Novembre, 2008