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CEO apologizes after Path uploads contact lists (AP)AP - Social-sharing app Path has come under fire for accessing and uploading users' phone address books without their permission. The information has now been deleted, and Path has apologized. Sprint posts deeper 4Q loss on iPhone costs (AP)
Watch the contenders for DARPA?s flying robot competition take to the sky (Yahoo! News)Yahoo! News - DARPA was on the hunt for the best unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone designs, so it launched the UAVForge competition in late 2011. While helicopter and plane-like designs were expected, a few of the entries were actually rather unique. Take for example ? Relax, the PlayStation Network isn?t going anywhere (Yahoo! News)Yahoo! News - Any time you tweak the vocabulary surrounding a network that millions of people use every day, there is bound to be some confusion. That's just what happened earlier this week when Sony announced it would be renaming PlayStation Network accounts as Sony ? British Cabinet Warns of Possible Internet Outages During Summer Olympics (Mashable)Mashable - The British Cabinet Office has warned businesses in England that the country may not be able to fully accommodate a surge in Internet use during the 2012 Olympics in London this summer. Businesses have been told that Internet providers may be forced to ration access to the web during certain times of day and service may fall out altogether at other times. Hackers post W.Va. police officers' personal info (AP)AP - Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous obtained personal information for more than 150 police officers from an old website of the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted the data online. AOL hires chief content officer for troubled Patch (Reuters)Reuters - AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content officer at its struggling Patch hyperlocal news network. Washington Footing the Cell Phone Bill for Millions of Low Income Americans (Time.com)Time.com - Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts Gameloft releases new social platform app for Android (Appolicious)Appolicious - Mobile game maker Gameloft is responsible for some of the biggest-budget, biggest-name games on Google?s Android operating system (as well as Apple?s iOS), which is probably why it has 7 million registered players in its proprietary gaming network. Today the company released a new app that lets dedicated Gameloft fans access that network even when they?re not playing Asphalt 6 or Modern Combat. |
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