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• Online services increased their effort to protect user data, EFF says

  By Loek Essers | 01 June, 2012 12:13

  While some online services are stepping up their efforts to protect private user data from government requests, there is plenty room for improvement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday. It is time for all companies that hold private user data to make public commitments to defend their users against government overreach, the foundation said.

• Analysis: How Facebook could integrate with iOS, OS X

  By Lex Friedman | 31 May, 2012 19:45

  Speaking at the All Things D conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook essentially sent Facebook a friend request. "I think the [Apple-Facebook] relationship is very solid," Cook said. "We have great respect for them. I think we can do more with them."

• Phones are distractions during catch-ups

  By AAP | 23 May, 2012 08:15

  Sick of your friends tweeting during dinner or constantly texting on nights out?

• yARN: Facebook's disappointing IPO puts other Web businesses on watch

  By Rimin Dutt | 22 May, 2012 15:26

  It should have been a revival of sorts for Web 2.0 public floats. Instead, the social networking giant Facebook’s IPO is turning out to be a dampener, raising questions about its knock-on effects on the fortunes of other social media hopefuls.

• Pakistan's block on Twitter over blasphemous content reversed

  By John Ribeiro | 21 May, 2012 13:50

  Pakistan late Sunday reversed a block on Twitter in the country over material it considered anti-Islam, the country's interior minister said.

• Twitter jumps on Do Not Track bandwagon

  By Computerworld Staff | 19 May, 2012 06:01

  True privacy can be hard to come by in the socially enabled online world, but Twitter on Thursday announced that it has joined Firefox maker Mozilla in taking a big step forward for users.

• Mobility tops business technology focus in 2012-13: Sage

  By Hafizah Osman | 18 May, 2012 12:32

  Mobile technology and computer hardware will be the core investment priorities for businesses in the next 12 to 14 months, according to software vendor, Sage.

• Facebook sets IPO share price at $US38

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 07:09

  With Facebook's long-anticipated IPO expected to hit on Friday morning (US time), the company has set its initial share price at $US38.

• Doctors warned not to use social media with patients

  By Ellen Messmer | 18 May, 2012 05:31

  Doctors are being cautioned by hospitals they work with to avoid interacting with patients on social media, and that they reject any overtures by patients to interact on the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

• Social media bring business, but add security quagmire

  By Ellen Messmer | 18 May, 2012 04:27

  Social media - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth - has become a way of life for companies and their employees to interact with the public, but beating back the fraudsters that try to prey on customers, not to mention keeping employees from spilling sensitive data, is becoming a full-time job for many.

• Twitter will deliver weekly highlights via email

  By Cameron Scott | 15 May, 2012 10:41

  Twitter will begin delivering a weekly email digest to highlight for users the tweets they are most likely to be interested in, the company said Monday.

• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 on sale Sunday for $400

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 May, 2012 06:11

  Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is set to go on sale at retailers nationwide Sunday for $399.99, furthering the variety of tablet sizes from the vendor.

• Microsoft Bing goes social in search war with Google

  By Sharon Gaudin | 12 May, 2012 04:25

  Microsoft's move to boost Bing's social networking feaures could finally give it an opportunity to truly take on Google's dominant search engine, analysts say.

• Twitter acquires email marketer RestEngine

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 11 May, 2012 20:29

  Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a two-and-half-year-old company that has helped social app publishers send emails based on a user's social graph, RestEngine said on Thursday.

• Study: iOS surpasses Android in enterprise usage

  By Colin Neagle | 11 May, 2012 06:31

  Consumerisation trends in the enterprise shifted dramatically in the first quarter of 2012, with mobile devices running Apple's iOS operating system showing more activity in the workplace than those running Google's Android, as well as end users migrating from Facebook and toward Twitter.