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Twitter tweaks terms of service

Stoned"Ownership--Twitter is allowed to 'use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute' your tweets because that's what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you."Mr. Stone,What, precisely, is the value of ownership in this context - beyond attribution?The concept of ownership implies authority/control....

Tags: terms of service, tweet, Twitter Inc., Twitterers, Stone

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

AT&T updates wireless plans, prohibits Slingbox

Public Knowledge's Robb Topolsky reports that AT&T Wireless quietly changed its service terms after a Chicago AT&T subscriber received a $28,000 mobile bill after watching a Bears football game on his notebook computer via Slingbox. The customer was waiting for his cruise to depart from Miami when...

Tags: Billing, AT&T Wireless, AT&T Corp., Video, Terms Of Service, Allowance, Slingbox, Wireless, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Facebook invites users to chime in on new Terms of Service

Facebook invites users to chime in on new Terms of ServiceReally not that great...Facebook isn't really giving anyone the ability to change anything. Here is a section from the new proposed TOS. 12. Amendments12.1 We can change this Statement so long as we provide you notice through Facebook (unless you...

Tags: Facebook, terms of service

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

Facebook invites users to chime in on new Terms of Service

Facebook today announced bold steps to recraft its Terms of Services agreement - the legal agreement between the site and its users - by inviting users to review, comment or even cast a vote to help simplify and shape the language of the new agreement. The company...

Tags: Facebook, Terms Of Service, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Facebook faces up to controversy, reverts TOS, turns to users for input

After much Internet uproar since the weekend over Facebook's updated terms of service, the social networking site stated tonight that it would revert to its previous terms of service TOS. In a blog post published late tonight by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder said that the TOS...

Tags: Facebook, Terms Of Service, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reason

Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reasonWhy I started the group on FacebookI just wanted to clarify why I started the Facebook group "People Against the new Terms of Service TOS" yesterday. Personally it wasn't so much about getting Facebook to change their TOS. If you read the...

Tags: INTERNET, Facebook, terms of service

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

More than cost savings alone, cloud computing will transform business, say HP and Capgemini

More than cost savings alone, cloud computing will transform business, say HP and CapgeminiMessage has been deleted.

Tags: Capgemini, cloud computing, cost savings, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Get those ToS sorted

The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...

Tags: Terms Of Service, Ning, E-mail, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Google Health launches; Read the terms of service

Google Health launches; Read the terms of serviceWow!!This is the era of minority report.Who would be foolish enough......to put all their health info on the web for the world to see and for Google to share with the rest of the world? Especially nowadays when potential employers are, ahem,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Companies, Google Inc., Google Health, health care, terms of service

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Google Health launches; Read the terms of service

Google Health has launched for the masses, but watch those terms of usage closely. Google Health, which is expected to officially launch at a Google event today (see Google Webcast, Techmeme and Google Blogoscoped coverage), is now available to the average bear. Marissa Meyer, VP search products...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Information, Terms Of Service, Google Health, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Update: Adobe reconsiders Photoshop Express TOS

You'll recall that Adobe last week announced Photoshop Express beta â€" a free Web-based tool that allows you to crop, rotate, tweak, twirl, correct, and show off photos on Photoshop Express or Facebook. For free. You'll also recall the ensuing flap that surround its onerous Terms Of Service TOS that,...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Terms Of Service, Content

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Did Scoble break EU law on Facebook?

Did Scoble break EU law on Facebook?Scoble and Facebook IssueWhile it is always good to report the news for those of us to learn from, what bothers me about your post was the comment, you were "itching" to write something about this affair.And I have to think ( and I...

Tags: Scoble, terms of service, OTTER, Robert, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

BULLETIN: AT&T tells me it will revise "damage our name" language in TOS

Just and I mean JUST- received this from a key AT&T spokesman I have communicated with before: Russell, I wanted to give you a quick update on the terms of service language you posted on last week (Note: link to that post is mine). ...

Tags: AT&T Corp., Terms Of Service, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-09

TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super Bowl reports

TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super Bowl reportsI like my DVR free and dongle-lessAnd to think I used to like TiVO...MythTV works nice for me.. at least I know who's watching.. ME! When will these companies learn not to mess with consumers! It doesn't matter if your personal info...

Tags: DVR, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, TiVo Inc., personal video recorder, terms of service

Discussion threads 2004-02-05

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Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

You'll be far better off in a future without enterprise software

As per usual...you give no concrete examples only ethereal ideas that go nowhere. You talk about services as though it is something other than software. Everything you propose goes back to the fact that you still have to have infrastructure and software before you can even get started. You use...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, SOA, software, hardware, enterprise software

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Google, Android 2.0 sticks fork in GPS devices

It would also be great if Android could automatically re-route you in real-time, when things like the Bay Bridge suddenly close. This means munincipalities automatically posting closures on a web site, that all providers can use in real-time. Munincipalities could also distribute traffic in real-time. Lots of possibilities to replacing...

Tags: Handhelds, Mobile operating systems, Smart phones, GPS, Google Inc., Google Android 2.0, GPS Devices, battery, Google Android

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27