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Google Makes Google Buzz Privacy Controls More Visible

February 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Google Feb. 11 acknowledged the wicked backlash of privacy concerns over its new Google Buzz social service by improving privacy controls in the service. Users able to access Buzz in Gmail complained when they realized their Buzz contacts were visible in their public Google profile until they edited their default settings to make Buzz lists private in their profiles. Buzz’s latitude with user privacy drew more than a few comparisons to Facebook, whose disastrous Beacon service upset individuals.
– Google Feb. 11 acknowledged the backlash of privacy concerns over its new Google Buzz social
service by making privacy controls in the service more transparent.
Google launched Google Buzz in Gmail, offering a portion of its 176 million
Gmail users the ability to post status updates, links, photo…

Google Apps Adds Controls for iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile

February 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Beginning Feb. 4, IT administrators who license Google Apps Premier and Education Edition will be able to dictate security settings for their users’ iPhone, Nokia E series and Windows Mobile smartphones right from the Google Apps control panel. Admins will be able to: remotely wipe data from devices that are lost or stolen; lock devices after they haven’t been used for a certain period; delegate a password for each phone; set minimum password lengths; and require passwords that include letters, number and punctuation. Google will hardly be considered a viable messaging and collaboration software provider unless it supports all of the major devices running on all of the key platforms, including Google’s own Android.
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Google is making its Google Apps suite more attractive to
businesses that let their workers access their company data from the road, a
growing trend thanks to the rise of smartphones equipped with full HTML
browsers.
Beginning Feb. 4, IT administrators who license Google
Apps Prem…

Border controls

January 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Thanks to Poland, the alliance will defend the Baltics

IN A crunch, would NATO stand by its weakest members—the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? After five years of dithering , the answer now seems to be yes, with a decision in principle by the alliance to develop formal contingency plans to defend them.

The shift comes after hard-fought negotiations, in which, at American insistence, Germany and other countries dropped their opposition. …

Facebook Improves Privacy, Security Controls to Protect Users

December 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook has strengthened user privacy and security controls to help users keep a tighter grip on their data.
– Facebook is calling on its 350 million-strong user base to review and update their privacy settings as it rolls out new tools to enable users to better control their information.
The new features, which launch today, include: the ability to control who sees what piece of content on a users page,…

Check Point Acquires FaceTime Database for Application Controls

November 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Check Point Software Technologies acquired FaceTime Communication’s application classification and signature database. The technology will be brought to bare in the form of a new software blade sometime next year.
– Check Point Software Technologies has acquired FaceTime Communications application classification and signature database to extend its security control to cover more than 50,000 Web 2.0 widgets and Internet applications.

The acquisition, made for an undisclosed sum, is meant to bring more…

Pak overhauled nuke command and controls following 9/11: US report

September 10th, 2009 | No Comments

A latest US report has revealed that Islamabad, over the years, has overhauled its nuclear command and controls besides implementing new personnel security programmes.
The report also acknowledges that Pakistan has taken several steps to assure the international community regarding the safety of its nuclear facilities.
â€œPakistan has in recent years taken a number of steps to [...]