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Facedeals that produces facial recognition camera systems, developed a new technology that ties its system to automatically tag your photo on Facebook. The system at the moment being trialed in the US state of Tennessee, and users need to opt in to a third party service via their Facebook account to be part of the …

Microsoft’s IT department today in a blog post offers some of its own tips and tricks and the lessons learned from its internal roll-out of Windows 8 and IE 10 Release Preview– highlighting three areas from its deploying experience: “support, security and user experience.”

Written by Patrick O’Rourke, director within the strategy, planning …

Google in a letter to the UK’s Information Commissioner, confirmed that it had located additional payload data collected by its Street View cars prior to May 2010 and the ICO, which has repeatedly asked Google to delete the extra data, has thrown a few choice words in Google’s direction.

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Microsoft Office 2013 comes with a “Read Mode” that is designed from the ground up with the unique aspects of reading in mind. “Just as Word already helps people create and share information, the new Word makes consuming those documents on any screen a great experience,” Microsoft stated.

The new Reading Mode essentially …

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Trust Center, unveiled today is a website that delivers to customers and potential customers high-level information about the privacy, transparency, independent verification and security features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

Designed to offer the performance, scalability, security and service levels organizations expect, “Dynamics CRM Online has built-in capabilities for …

Microsoft unveiling initial improvements to the look and feel of many of its “online privacy statements” to make privacy information easier to locate and use for many consumers.

Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer, Brendon Lynch stated, “We are not “condensing our privacy statements,” just making them easier for people to find the information they …

A Microsoft commissioned research in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the United States reveals that data protection policies and practices of cloud providers are figuring prominently in U.S. SMBs’ cloud-purchasing decisions.

Among the survey’s noteworthy findings which involved, “Seven hundred and sixty-nine privacy professionals in the U.S. with …

YouTube’s new “face blurring” tool launches today, allows users to obscure faces within their videos with just a click of a button.

With face blurring technology, YouTube taking its first step towards providing visual anonymity for video on YouTube. “This is emerging technology, which means it sometimes has difficulty detecting faces depending on …

In a press release, Microsoft stated that they fixed a technical error that prevented the Browser Choice Screen (BCS) from displaying on roughly 28 million PCs running Windows 7 SP1 in Europe where Internet Explorer is the default browser.

“Sinc 2009, under a agreement with EU, Microsoft is required to …

Federal Trade Commission and Google have reportedly reached an agreement to settle charges regarding the proble over Google bypassing the privacy setting in Apple’s Safari web browser.

As per the settlement, Google agrees to pay a record fine of $22.5 million, the Wall Street Journal first reported on the looming deal …

Mozilla outed Firefox 13 with a number of new features, including support for Google’s SPDY protocol, a new homescreen, an update “New Tab” page offering easy access to frequently visited sites with thumbnails, and also a ‘Tabs on demand’ which aims to speed up your browsing experience.

However, the convenient speed dial look …

U.S. Senator Questions Google and Apple About their “Spy Planes”; Google to YouTube MP3 Conversion Site Stop Services

“Not my job,” this is the declarations of Google engineers when it came to the Wifi data collection done by Google’s Street View project — revealed through a trove Google documents related to a federal investigation of its Street View.

Although the project was intended to photograph the world’s …

Facebook launched a few improvements to its safety and security products for its nearly half billion mobile users.

First Code Generator, an addition to Login Approvals feature, making it easier to confirm logins made on new devices. Using Code Generator, users will be able to receive Login Approval codes through their Facebook Application, …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Named and Numbers (ICANN) today revealed a massive list of what companies had applied to take control of top-level domain names. Google had recently applied for .doc, .google, .android, .chrome, .cloud, .lol, .vip, and .wow etc.

Now, according to the list, Microsoft has applied to own …