Saturday, May 14, 2011

Survey Shows American Workers Are Very Reluctant To Share Their Sex Lives or Salaries Details Online

Image representing Facebook as depicted in Cru...      Image via CrunchBaseAccording to a very recent large scale survey, it is found that regardless the American workers being pretty much expressive all the time over the social media websites like Facebook or LinkedIn, they’re still very much tight when it comes to share few specific kinds of information. Firstly, the workers totally avoid discussing their sex lives and secondly salaries.
This survey consisted on the opinion of a total of 2,118 adult workers. The information collected indicated that almost every third out of four person in America is a user of at least one social network site, but they are more inclined for posting stuff like restaurant reviews or vacation photos rather than sharing their sex life or salaries. Rusty Rueff, the career expert of a website company who funded this poll said, "In this era of over-sharing, people tend to clam up on a couple of topics, one of which is salary."

A Father Files A Lawsuit against Apple for Child 'Exploitation' Through its In-App Purchases

A father of two daughters, residing in Pennsylvania, has officially filed a court case against Apples, as he alleges the company tricks the immature kids into paying real-world currency with no notices and enough authentication through its ‘in-app purchases’ of the free games of iPhone and other iOS devices.
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The name of the father is Garen Meguerian, who belongs to Phoenixville, and has launched this court case for not only himself only, but he claims to be represent all the suffered parents and guardians whose children’s have been tricked. Apple Insider looks into the brief detail of the documents of the case, which it says is accusing Apple for permitting the unauthorized charges for any content within the gaming experience, as it amounts to “unlawful exploitation” of children. It was also mentioned that the documents precisely targeted the games which are designed on the iOS platform devices, i.e. iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, provided they are facilitating the selection of digital merchandise. The games which were highlighting examples of the documents ranked from Zombie Cafe to City Story.

iPhone 4 On Its Way To Become ‘The Most Popular Camera’ Used By Flickr Community

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It is already being greatly presumed as more and more cell phones with latest and advanced cameras are declining the sales and reason for any extra point-and-shoot cameras. Now Flickr has disclosed that iPhone 4 will soon be makings its way to turn out to be the most popular camera by the huge photo-sharer’s of Flickr community.
According to the statistics of Flickr, the trend is shown in the form of a graph, which indicates about the most or least popular cameras being used in the Flickr community. The dSLR camera model of Nikon, D90, is currently leading the charts of not only Flickr, but it also enjoys the lead role in the statistics of PCWorld's charts as well. But now the new trend, which shows the steeply growing popularity of iPhone 4, moreover it is being predicted that, considering the speed of rise of the graph, iPhone 4 might even take over Nikon D90. Analysts have predicted this time to be not far, and maybe in the very next month even.

RIM Puts Up a Competing Bid against Google for the Nortel Wireless Patents


Recently, the company, Research In Motion (RIM) has tried to beat the bid of the search-engine giant Google Inc, which posted the price of a total $900 million to buy the patents of Nortel Networks Corp. These patents include not only wireless technology but also wired technology patents, as informed by a story of Bloomberg, which claims to have brought this information from to unique sources very close to the situation.
Image representing Research In Motion as depic...Image via CrunchBaseNortel despite being an unarguable leader of both wired and wireless technology had to actually face bankruptcy protection, back in January 2009.  All the possessions of the company had to eventually be put up for auction, this included an approx. amount of 6,000 patents related to the company’s applications of wireless, data and optical networking, voice, Internet, semiconductors and other technologies.

Match.com Decides To Cross Check Its Users Database With Any National Sex Offender Registry After A Lawsuit

The famous dating website, Match.com, gave an official statement on Sunday, announcing that it has decided to start cross checking its large user’s database for any national sex offender registry identification. This decision has come very soon after a court case was filed against the company which reported a women being assaulted by someone who she trustfully met from the services of the dating website.
The president of this website, Mandy Ginsberg, informed The Associated Press via an e-mail message, that she had been already considered to do this cross checking since several years from now. But she claimed that every time she intended to begin, she cried that "their historical unreliability has always led us to conclude against it." Ginsberg announced that now she has talked to the providers and advisers in the past few days, and now the company is ready to finally make the change and implement the plans.

Irani Military Claims That Computer Worm in Their Nuclear Facility Originated from U.S. and Isreal

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The news has been cited from an Iranian military official who has been actively looking into the mystifying computer worm which was aimed at the Iranian nuclear facilities along with the relevant industrial sites too. This information was revealed on Saturday, and it was also alleged that this malware might have ended up harming on a very large-scale resulting many lives lost.
It was explained that the initial discovery of the worm was observed in September, which was making its way to the powerful Iranian computer system, this worm was called Stuxnet. This worm was apparently designed specifically to steal the centrifuges, which are used in nuclear fuel production, rotating on a very uncontrollable frequency. The military related the origins of the suspicious worn to Israel and the U.S., as they were also the main suspects to be interested in a secret effort of destroying the nuclear capacity which the West fears, as to be aimed for weaponry production.

iPad Exclusive Social Magazine, Flipboard Collaborates With Oprah To Launch The New Oprah Experience

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In a collaboration of Flipboard, earliest social magazine exclusively for Apple’s iPad, and Oprah Winfrey, a new official section of the electronic magazine was announced last week, titled “Oprah.” This section of the e-magazine is exclusively identified to be only representing the content related to all about Oprah and her team. This includes the information on Oprah herself, Oprah.com, The Oprah Winfrey Show, OWN, and O, The Oprah Magazine as well.
This is the biggest deal that Flipboard has been able to close so far. This media partnership has got a great response from all the fans of either side, on Facebook and Twitter social media statuses. The Senior Vice President of digital OWN, Glenn Kaino, even looked forward to this collaboration and said that “This is a great way for Oprah’s audience all over the world to have access to and share content from Oprah’s various platforms.”
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