iPhone Price Down $200, New iPod's Introduced

Apple freaks who waited in long lines in June to be the first to own hot new iPhones may have come to regret their purchases after discovering on Wednesday that Apple was cutting the price of the devices by $200. The market wasn't too happy either, as Apple's shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market fell a few dollars Wednesday following the news. They started the day lower on Thursday but began to slowly rebound.

Those who feel they were cheated, however, may find solace in one of the new or upgraded iPods that Apple also introduced this week, including the iPod touch and revamped iPod nano.

On a pace to sell one million iPhones by the end of the month, Apple ramped up the iPhone marketing machine a notch, lowering the price tag of its eight-gigabyte model from its introductory $599 to $399. The new price will be offered in the U.S. through Apple and AT&T retail and online stores.

For those itching to invest in another Apple music player, the company now offers an iPod with a touch user interface similar to the one found on the iPhone. The eight-millimeter (0.3-inch) thin iPod touch is the first iPod to include Wi-Fi wireless networking and supports use of the Apple Safari browser. The eight-gigabyte version is priced starting at $299; the 16-gigabyte version starts at $399. Both come with a 3.5-inch wide-screen display. Apple is now also offering the ability to access the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store over a Wi-Fi network directly from an iPod touch or iPhone.

Apple also unveiled a new iPod nano on Wednesday that has a larger, two-inch display with 204 pixels per inch that rivals the resolution of Apple's video iPod. The new four-gigabyte iPod nano comes in silver for $149; the eight-gigabyte model is available in silver, black, blue or green as well as a red special edition for $199.

Rival Microsoft is hoping to capitalize on the mixed reactions to Apple's news by cutting the price of its 30-gigabyte Zune digital music player by $50 to $199. While Microsoft has made no official announcement regarding the price cut, the move was reported on the Zune Insider blog written by Cesar Menendez, a Microsoft employee working on Zune.
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Apple Reveals Next Generation iPods

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Sep. 05, 2007. 08:12 PM EST

CEO Steve Jobs showed off the newest members of Apple's iPod family. Among the new products were the first iPod with Wi-Fi and the iPod Touch. Jobs said his company is also slashing the price of the iPhone by $200. (Sept. 5)

Facebook Giving Your Information To Search Engines

Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site, risks provoking anger from its users by opening up details of individuals to the web at large.

A new public search feature will soon mean that basic Facebook user profiles carrying names and photographs of the site’s members are accessible through search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

The move appears to be designed to drive more users to the privately owned site in an effort to boost advertising revenues, but has sparked privacy concerns.

Facebook attracted more than 30 million visitors last month, and is expected to make a profit of $30 million this year on revenues of $150 million. But analysts suggest that it is far from realising its earnings potential.

The network is regarded as a potential goldmine to advertisers because of the data it holds on its users, such as their birth date, interests, events they plan to attend, holidays and musical tastes.

In September last year Facebook users revolted when it unveiled a “news feed” feature, which informs everyone on a contact list when the user has made a change to his or her profile page. Hundreds protested against the move, but the feature was retained.

Security experts have also voiced misgivings over the amount of personal data available on social networking sites. Social networking sites should be a source of fun, not worry, but there are people out there who spend their time trying to exploit people through their private information.

Facebook users often provide details such as mobile numbers or employment history and these can be used to hack or steal a user’s identity.

A spokesman for Facebook said: “The Public Search Listing of a profile shows the profile picture thumbnail and links to interact with a user on Facebook. People will always have to log in or register to message or add someone as a friend. A user can also restrict what information shows in their public listing by going to the search privacy page.”
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Using Facebook To Look Up Roommates

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You've probably heard about employers looking up prospective hires on websites like MySpace and Facebook, and now parents of incoming freshmen at Syracuse University and colleges across the country are checking up on their children's dorm roommates.

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Steve Jobs Expected To Says "Can You Hear Me Now?" At The WWDC Smack Down

Look for Steve Jobs to cover three topics in his keynote speech Monday that kicks off Apple’s week-long Worldwide Developers Conference: Leopard, Leopard, and some more Leopard and a little iPhone.

Expect Jobs to spend most of his time on stage talking about his company's professional-grade machines and tools. He's been waiting a year to show off some secret features in the latest version of the Mac operating system, dubbed Leopard.

The surprise better be good. After all, the company said in April that it would be delaying the launch of Leopard from June until October. Apple's excuse that Leopard engineers were needed to get iPhone out the door by the end of June was plausible, but it's also going to raise the stakes.

What might Leopard deliver? Apple-watchers are hoping, as always, for the dramatic. Some imagine a new system that, because it was developed in tandem with the touch-centric iPhone, allows for touchable Apple display screens. Others want a new interface that departs from the window-pane format embraced by the entire PC industry (especially Microsoft's Windows). A few go so far as to predict Jobs will announce a Mac operating system that runs Windows Vista, or better yet, runs Vista programs without running Vista itself.

Whatever Jobs has in store with Leopard, he doesn't want to disappoint his developers; he needs each and every one of them. Though Apple has been ramping up its Mac sales in recent months the company's U.S. computer sales market share increased from 4% to 5% between April 2006 and April 2007, according to Gartner machines running Microsoft's Windows, from hardware vendors Hewlett-Packard and Dell , maintain near total control of the market.

And though Vista is receiving knocks for a clumsy interface and security issues from reviewers, Microsoft still managed to sell more than 20 million copies of it in its first month out. Apple sold 1.5 million computers in the first three months of 2007.

8 States Ask Myspace For Names Of Sex Offenders

STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL

A Communication From the Chief Legal Officers
Of the Following States: Connecticut – Georgia – Idaho – Mississippi – New Hampshire – North Carolina – Ohio – Pennsylvania

May 14, 2007
Mary Ellen Callahan
Hogan and Hartson, LLP
Columbia Square
555 Thirteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

Dear Ms. Callahan:

As our states' chief legal officers, we are gravely concerned that sexual predators are using MySpace to lure children into face-to-face encounters and other dangerous activities.

We write to you regarding MySpace's December 2006 announcement with Sentinel Tech Holding regarding the identification of registered sex offenders on MySpace.

It is our understanding that the data from Sentinel reveals that thousands of known registered sexual offenders have been confirmed as MySpace members.

If true, this dramatically exceeds the report from Wired magazine, which found 744 registered sex offenders with MySpace profiles. Perhaps thousands more sexual predators - not registered or using fictitious names - are lurking on your web site.

We remain concerned about the design of your site, the failure to require parental permission, and the lack of safeguards necessary to protect our children.

We therefore request the following information:

First, how many registered sex offenders in the Sentinel database have been cross-referenced against MySpace's membership?

Second, what is the exact number of known registered sex offenders who have been identified as members of MySpace to date? Please forward a list of the names of the registered sex offenders that you have identified with profiles on MySpace and the states in which they reside.

Third, what steps has MySpace taken to alert law enforcement officials as well as MySpace users of such sex offenders? Finally, what steps has MySpace taken to remove sex offender profiles and how many have been removed?

We request a response by Tuesday, May 29, 2007. We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Roy Cooper
Attorney General North Carolina

Richard Blumenthal
Attorney General Connecticut

Thurbert Baker
Attorney General Georgia

Lawrence Wasden
Attorney General Idaho

Jim Hood
Attorney General Mississippi

Kelly A. Ayotte
Attorney General New Hampshire

Marc Dann
Attorney General Ohio

Tom Corbett
Attorney General Pennsylvania


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May. 15, 2007. 07:45 AM EST

The Attorney General of Pennsylvania, along with his counterparts in more than a half-dozen other states is, asking the popular networking website "myspace.com" for names of registered sex offenders who use the service.

U.S. Soldiers Banned From Myspace & YouTube

U.S. soldiers serving overseas will be banned from using many popular websites including YouTube and MySpace used to keep in touch with family and friends, a U.S. Army Commander said in a memo.

The Department of Defence "will block worldwide access" to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular websites on its computers and networks, according to the memo sent by General BB Bell, the US Forces Korea commander.

The policy is being implemented to protect information and reduce drag on the department's networks, Gen Bell said.

"This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network and bandwidth ability, while posing a significant operational security challenge, " he wrote.

The new policy creates a blanket ban on several sites used by military personnel to exchange messages, pictures, video and audio with family and friends, while also viewing nude photos and strip teases done by love ones back home.

Members of the military can still access the sites on their own computers and networks, but Defence Department computers and networks are the only ones available to many soldiers and sailors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The move is in addition to the general policy of banning members of the military from sharing information that could jeopardise their missions or safety.

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Military Bans MySpace

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May. 15, 2007. 10:03 AM EST

For soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, contacting family and friends back home, just got tougher. The Department of Defense is banning MySpace, PhotoBucket, YouTube and ten other popular websites.

Sentencing For Myspace Murderer

Sentencing begins this week for the so-called "MySpace killer."

Former UMBC student John Gaumer was convicted of killing a woman he met on the internet.

Last week a jury found Gaumer guilty of pre-meditated murder and first degree rape in the death of Josie Brown.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.


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Myspace Murderer/Rapist Gets Guilty Verdict




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May. 14, 2007. 10:00 PM EST

Convicted John Gaumer Was Brought To Tears During Sentencing