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Bits Blog: Regulators Say Social Network Violated Child Privacy Law

Zubosky Jeff — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:09:52 +0000

The Federal Trade Commission said that a site called Skid-e-Kids had agreed to settle its charges that it had allowed children under the age of 13 to register without their parents' consent, which is against the law. According to the F.T.C., the site collected the first and last names of its 5,600 underage users.

Media Decoder: With Sale Of MySpace, Some Relief

By BRIAN STELTER — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:30:05 +0000

In selling the Web site MySpace to Specific Media for $35 million, the News Corporation rid itself of a once promising but now unprofitable operation.

DealBook: A Myspace Founder Builds Again, Buying Game Companies

Zubosky Jeff — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:12:14 +0000

MindJolt has just acquired two game companies, Social Gaming Network and Hallpass Media, effectively doubling its staff and adding mobile games to its stable of Web offerings.

Qualcomm, HP, MySpace to join Symbian camp

Zubosky Jeff — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:42:21 +0000

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Qualcomm , MySpace and 12 more companies joined the Symbian camp on Thursday, giving the mobile operating system larger scale than Google’s Android in the handset software battleground.

The focus of the cellphone market has been shifting to software development since Google and Apple entered the mobile market during the past two years.

The market for software platforms on cellphones is led by the Symbian operating system but it has lost ground over the last year to Apple, Research in Motion and other newcomers.

Nokia , the world’s No.1 cellphone maker, last year bought out other shareholders of UK-based smartphone software maker Symbian and has pledged to make its software royalty-free to other phone makers in response to new rivals.

Since then, 78 companies have said they plan to join the Symbian Foundation to get access to its software.

Atelier, Bank of America , Gemalto, Imagination Technologies, Mobica, Nanoradio, Omron Software, SanDisk , SESCA, SiRF Technology and VirtualLogix said on Thursday they would join the foundation.

In December Google’s Android camp announced new members, increasing its membership to 47.

Nokia will contribute Symbian’s assets to the not-for-profit Symbian Foundation, uniting with leading handset makers, network operators and communications chipmakers to create an open-source platform.

Nokia has said it sees the Symbian Foundation as a faster way to bring new products to market. Foundation members also avoid having to pay fees to outside software developers.

Nokia expects to release the first Symbian Foundation software this year and introduce a new platform by June 2010.