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Stanford researcher Elie Bursztein says Microsoft should adopt the same location-privacy protections that Google implemented last month. A CNET article last night provided details about Microsoft’s extensive database at Live.com, which is not protected by the same privacy safeguards that competitors Google and Skyhook Wireless have adopted. Bursztein says he created the Web page [...]

Announcing the new policy today, the company said that revealing such information may present risks to its business in the face of increased competition. However, analysts believe the move is also related to the company’s legal skirmish with Apple, says today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Releasing its second-quarter earnings today, Samsung said that its mobile [...]

Announcing the new policy today, the company said that revealing such information may present risks to its business in the face of increased competition. However, analysts believe the move is also related to the company’s legal skirmish with Apple, says today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Releasing its second-quarter earnings today, Samsung said that its mobile sales [...]

Panoramic 6.5GB masterwork incorporates 750,000 Photoshop layers Bert Monroy paints with pixels. His canvas is a monitor, his paintbrush is a stylus, and his art looks like you took an HDR-panorama photo of a vivid dream. When you look at his paintings, you can see every tiny detail in the scene without depth of field or frame distortion—the effect aims to be more true-to-life than mere photographs. As [...]

caption: Examples of HTC device locations that CNET extracted from Microsoft’s Live.com location database. (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) Microsoft has collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world and makes them available on the Web without taking the privacy precautions that competitors have, CNET has learned. The vast database [...]