Computerworld – With the launch of Facebook Places, users need to figure out if this service is a cool new tool or an overbearing feature best avoided. The social networking site’s new location-based feature, dubbed Places, was unveiled last week. The smartphone-based service is designed to let users tell their friends where they are,...
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Visitors to almost every major website are tracked online, a Journal investigation has found. But there are ways to limit the snooping. Web browsing activity is tracked by use of “cookies,” “beacons” and “Flash cookies,” small computer files or software programs installed on a user’s computer by the Web pages that are visited. Some...
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