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FTC and Facebook reach final privacy settlement, agree to 20 years of audits

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The FTC has approved a settlement with Facebook after charging it with misleading users about how private their information would be kept. Facebook agreed to the changes last year, and three Commissioners voted in favor of it after a period of public comment, with one dissenting and one not participating. Now, Facebook will be working to prevent what Mark Zuckerberg previously called "a small...

Outlook.com team hints at IMAP support, admits Mac client support 'isn't great'

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Microsoft launched its all-new Outlook.com late last month, but Mac users and fans of IMAP were left out in the cold. Although Microsoft has never officially supported IMAP in Hotmail, a large number of users have always called for its inclusion. Explaining its decision not to support IMAP in Outlook.com, a team member, answering questions on Gizmodo this week, says "IMAP is an old protocol that supports only mail syncing (not calendar and people)." Despite the lack of support, the Outlook.com team also hint that it may support the protocol in future.

"I expect we’ll support IMAP for Outlook sometime down the line," says the Outlook representative. The same rep also admits that Microsoft's "client support on the Mac isn’t great" and that the company is "working on it." Existing Hotmail and Outlook.com users are forced to use POP3...

"I expect we’ll support IMAP for Outlook sometime down the line." Outlook team, Microsoft

Craigslist doesn't want to own your posts, but it's still prohibiting third-party services

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New changes to Craigslist’s Terms of Use end its claim to a restrictive exclusive license over its users' posts. The news was first reported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which noted that the recently-added restriction gave Craigslist effective ownership of the copyrights to its user-generated content, leaving community members unable to republish their ads on multiple platforms, for instance. The EFF notes that because of the company’s about-face, it’s probably less likely...

WordPress app for iOS updated with sliding panels interface

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A long-awaited update to the Wordpress app for iPad and iPhone has just been released. Version 3.1 taps into the sliding panels trend that's become so common lately, allowing you to swipe over to see a sidebar offering the different features of...


Amazon Cloud Player music service comes to Sonos devices

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Amazon announced a wave of changes to its Cloud Player service in July, and one of the features it teased at the time has now arrived: Sonos devices now support Amazon's streaming music service. Users will be able to access their complete Amazon Cloud Library library directly from their Sonos devices, even if they have several devices set up in multiple rooms. The functionality fleshes out Amazon's redesigned service, which now allows users to...

Facebook teams with Sincerely to test snail mail photo postcards

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Facebook loves to test experimental new features with small groups of its users, and today brings another one: snail mail postcards made out of your Facebook photos. The social network is teaming up with Sincerely, the guys behind Postagram, to process and deliver the postcards. In order to place an order, you click the "Mail Postcard" button next to the "Tag Photo" button inside the Facebook photo viewer. You can write a message, attach an...