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Gaming developer Storm8 has been sued for allegedly collecting phone numbers of iPhone users who downloaded the company’s popular games from the iTunes app store.
“The wireless telephone numbers of users’ phones are not used or necessary to play any of Storm8’s games, yet Storm8 has written the software for all its games in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game,” states the lawsuit, filed on behalf of Lynwood, Wash. resident Michael Turner.
Turner alleges that …
Nokia on Friday said it acquired “certain assets” of “micro-social networking” start-up Plum Networks. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquired Plum assets will become part of Nokia’s Services unit, according to the phone maker. “Plum will complement Nokia’s Social Location services,” a Nokia spokesperson said. Co-founded several years ago by serial entrepreneur Hans Peter Brøndmo and engineer Margaret Olsen as a social-bookmarking site, Plum has since sought to carve out a niche for itself in the saturated social networking market.
“Plum Groups is a service for those of us that want to share the more private parts of our lives
As much time and effort that marketers put into improving visibility within search results, not all search engine ranking pages (SERPs) are good. Increasing numbers of companies are experiencing the sharp edge of the sword from disgruntled employees or customers taking advantage of the amazingly simplistic process of publishing content to the web.
You may recall such situations as “Dell Hell” or Googlebombing “miserable failure” for examples.
Because these references occur within the search results, many companies percieve search engine reputation management as a SEO problem. But displacing negative search results only …
