Privacy concerns voiced by the Federal Trade Commission and a lawsuit from a closeted lesbian have prompted Netflix to cancel a contest to improve its movie recommendations.
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Wall Street Journal Digits
In this week’s tweets from the tech world, entrepreneurs check in from the SXSW festival, and the co-founder of SocialMedia is not amazed by the iPad.
In the latest tussle between Google and China, the country said that if search results weren’t filtered, a Google ban was imminent. Christine Glancey and Julia Angwin discuss on Digits.
The South by Southwest Interactive festival starts Friday in Austin, and it looks as though the buzz is all about location-based services.
After months of anticipation, Apple started accepting pre-orders for its iPad tablet device on Friday.
U.S. sales of videogames and consoles continued their decline in February, falling by 15% despite the release of new titles like “Bioshock 2.”
Google could stop censoring its Web-search results in China within weeks, Hearst is jumping into the business of developing iPhone apps, and more.
Plastic Logic, the maker of an e-reader targeting business users, told customers on Thursday that it would delay the delivery of its first Que readers until the summer.
Shopping might be a whole lot easier if the Internet knew whether the stuff you were looking for was available at stores nearby.
Apple plans to offer a “full-on solution” for multitasking in version 4.0 of the iPhone OS, according to AppleInsider.
