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Bank of America may finally support Firefox
News The largest bank in the United States has officially ignored the second most popular Web browser--until recently.
Tags: Web browsers, Open source, Banking, Web sites, Bank Of America Corp., Web Browser, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, bank, customer service
Flickr co-founders depart Yahoo
News Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, co-founders of the photo-sharing site, are the latest executives to leave Yahoo.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Yahoo! Inc., Jeremy Zawodny, co-founder, Flickr, TechCrunch, network, Internet, strategy
Microsoft scales back its Live Labs effort
News The group is being "restructured", with half the folks being sent to Microsoft's product teams. Gary Flake, hired away from Yahoo three years ago, will remain head.
Tags: Search, Leadership, Organizational structure, Microsoft Corp., Stacy Drake, Yahoo! Inc., Worker, software, talent, spokeswoman
Facebook acknowledges access problems
News Some members of the social network claim to have been unable to access their accounts for several days now; it's a database problem, Facebook says.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Database management, Databases, Facebook, Database, CBS Interactive Inc., Web 2.0, Web sites, e-mail
Facebook disables 6 rogue phishing apps, but 5 more appear
News Rogue applications keep cropping up that are sending Facebook users to a phishing site, stealing passwords, and then spamming users' friends.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Phishing, App, Spamming, Trend Micro Inc., Phishing Web Site, photograph, Facebook, researcher
Symantec pulls Norton patch after error reports
News Security company offers fix after faulty patch prompts error messages for Norton users.
Tags: Security applications/tools, Antivirus software, Norton Co., Norton Internet Security, antivirus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Hardware, Symantec Corp., spokeswoman, Security applications/tools
Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000
News Downed Facebook database left a small but vocal percentage of its userbase without access to the social network for as long as 10 days.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Facebook, Social Networking, Database, Phone, network, Web sites, Web 2.0, photograph
UK online bank fraud doubles to US$76.5M
News According to figures from payments industry association Apacs, online banking fraud in the United Kingdom registered a 132 percent increase on 2007's figure.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Data security, Phishing, Malware, Fraud, online banking, Apacs, payment, Silicon.com, retail company
Apple selling used products online in China
News The company has launched an online store in China selling refurbished products in an aim to boost its business there.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Sales strategy, Web sites, Apple Inc., Product, Yuan, Apple iMac, Apple iPod Shuffle, Apple iPod, News.com
Panasonic to shed 15,000 jobs
News Half the redundancies are in Japan, with the rest of the cuts being made globally. The company also plans to close 27 factories worldwide
Tags: Layoffs, Hitachi Ltd., Electronics, Sales, Japan, Panasonic, financial, job, U.K., R&D
Opera Unite turns browser into door to PC
News The Opera Unite alpha lets people invite others to use a browser to see content on their PC, but security experts have called its reliance on simple passwords an "avenue to disaster".
Tags: Web browsers, Data Management, Opera Software, Web Browser, Password, spokeswoman, intellectual property, Web browsers, Data Management, PC
High costs kill off London Underground mobile plans
News Mobile phones on the London Underground are not commercially viable.
Tags: Network infrastructure, O2 Plc., Mobile, Cell Phone, Wireless, Glasgow, Waterloo, Transport For London, Tube, phone
Craigslist beats MySpace as top search term
News Top search term since March 2006, MySpace bows out to Craigslist, which Hitwise says gained in popularity as ailing economy prods consumers to look for bargains.
Tags: Web sites, MySpace, Sales, Advertisement, San Francisco, Hitwise, Craigslist, U.S., spokeswoman, Web
BT to expand 2010 fiber rollout
News The U.K. telco plans to double the rate of its next generation broadband fiber rollout, to help it safeguard jobs.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, British Telecommunications, Fiber, Broadband, performance, job, U.K., network, telecommunications company, spokeswoman
UK pilots to bail out on ID cards
News A survey of 10,000 pilots by the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) found 60 percent were opposed to ID cards. Balpa has pledged to battle the rollout of the cards to pilots "with every lawful means at our disposal".
Tags: Biometrics, Security, Survey, Card, ID Card, Manchester, Worker, job, U.K., spokesman
