The Glider

Facebook users like to get more information than they give on the world's leading social network, according to a small Pew Internet Project study. The question is how Facebook can boost user engagement beyond just power users. - Facebook's IPO will newly mint many millionaires, but many of the social network's 845 million users can't be accorded the same largesse. The majority of Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give, according to new information from the Pew Internet Project, which onl...

Motorola Mobility's troubles with the Android Honeycomb-based Xoom tablet continue as nearly 100 WiFi Xoom devices were accidentally resold with user data on them. - Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) Feb. 3 said that it failed to wipe some user data from roughly 100 out of a batch of 6,200 Motorola Xoom WiFi tablets that were refurbished and resold via daily deals Website Woot between October and December 2011. Original owners who performed a factory data reset...

According to an analysis by IBM and the University of Southern California, Eli Manning of the New York Giants has edged out the New England Patriots Tom Brady as the top QB in the Super Bowl. - If Eli Manning doesn't beat Tom Brady on the field on Super Bowl Sunday, he has at least thus far won the battle of public sentiment, according to an analysis of Twitter traffic by IBM. In a joint effort with the University of Southern California's (USC) Annenberg Innovation Lab, IBM used its analy...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Android Market was kind of like the Wild West until Google Bouncer showed up as the new sheriff in town. - As peculiar as the after-the-fact announcement of Google Bouncer may have been, it was still good news. Perhaps Google was ramping up, trying to make sure that its Bouncer would work as intended and be able to handle the flood of new apps submitted to the Android Market. Perhaps the company just...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Google and Facebook have their gun sights set on each other. As Facebook gains huge new riches with its initial public stock offering, the competition between these two giants is likely to become fierce and even nasty. - When Facebook first launched, it was looked at as a niche social network. The site catered to college kids and seemed to be destined to live in that world. But after an increasing number of people joined the site, and its CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to open it up to the general pu...

The VeriSign breach is an example of how no one is too secure or too big to be attacked. Security experts said targeted attacks on "high value" companies will continue. - Companies get breached. That's the lesson of 2011. Large or small, no organization is immune to attacks. The VeriSign breach was just another day of business as usual for the bad guys. Campaigns such as Operation Shady Rat, disclosed by McAfee, and Nitro, disclosed by Symantec, showed how eve...

Adobe wants researchers to focus on mitigation technologies that make it expensive for attackers to launch attacks, not hunting bugs. - CANCUN, Mexico Security researchers need to shift their attention away from hunting for vulnerabilities and start thinking about ways to make it difficult to create exploits, according to a security expert from Adobe. There is too much focus on vulnerabilities and defects in software, Brad Ar...

Amazon's Kindle Fire remains a popular Android tablet in early 2012, according to ChangeWave Research. The firm said 54 percent of Fire owners said they were "very satisfied" with the slate. - Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) may have missed its analyst estimates for the fourth quarter, but the company's Kindle Fire tablet remains a hot ticket item. Some 6 percent of 2,607 North American consumers surveyed in January claimed to own a Kindle Fire, double the percentage of a month ago, according ...

Despite public concerns from members of Congress and European data-protection authorities, Google isn't going to slow or stop its march to whittle its product privacy policies down into one big umbrella policy. - Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) plans to move forward with its planned privacy policy changes despite resistance from a handful of U.S. congressmen and a European data-protection group. The search-engine provider, battling Facebook for supremacy of user engagement and advertising on the Web, said it pla...

Scammers are using automated techniques to generate tons of fake profiles to trick users into joining scams and clicking on malicious links, Barracuda Networks found. - CANCUN, MEXICO Cyber-crooks on Facebook are creating fake profiles on the social networking site to launch their scams, according to data released by Barracuda Networks. The fake profiles are overwhelmingly women. About 97 percent of the fake profiles collected by Barracuda Networks turned out...