U.S. Killed 181 Insurgents- WikiLeaks Founder

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Julian Assange's, WikiLeaks founder,
web site stirred up debates about
classified information the public
should/shouldn't know.

"WikiLeaks aims to achieve political
reforms by getting out information
that has been suppressed to the public,"
Assange explained to Voice of America.

WikiLeaks web site posted classified military
documents spelling-out U. S. failures in
Afghanistan.

The documents were first released to The New
York Times, British daily, The Guardian and
German magazine Der Spiegel. They point to
a worse picture of the Afghan war than the
official public account, and include information
that Pakistan's intelligence services have been
helping the Taliban kill U.S. troops. Both ideas
have been discussed in the past.

The report could put U. S. citizens in harm's way,
and hurt national security.

"We have with-held approximately 15,000 reports
for further harm minimization process," he informed.
"We don't see anything here that is of tactical
significance. What we see is a lot of reports of
evidentiary significance that describe the cut/thrust
of the entire war over the last six years."

President Obama found out about the posting of the
documents last week, Robert Gibbs commented Monday-
White House Press Secretary.

The public release of the information was "a breach
of federal law," Gibbs said.

"We authenticate everything," Assange made-clear.
"To our knowledge, we've never been wrong. There
are no allegations by the rest of the press that
we've been wrong. We've never lost a source through
the process we go through."

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100727093440writ.nb/topstory.html

Household Cleaning Products Increases Breast Cancer Risk

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A new study pointed out that using
house-hold cleaning products increases
breast cancer.

Brody and her co-researchers conducted
telephone interviews with 787 women who
had been diagnosed with breast cancer,
and 721 women who didn't have breast cancer.
"We asked women about past use of cleaning
products in the past year, their typical
use," Brody explained.

Air fresheners and mold/mildew controlling
products were connected to increasing breast
cancer, Julia Brody, PhD, executive director
of the Silent Spring Institute, Newton
Massachusetts. She led the study.

"We found links to breast cancer for combined
cleaning products used, many different products
taken together, and air fresheners and mold and
mildew control products," she continued.

"For combined cleaning product use, the risk
is about twice as high for breast cancer for
women who said they used the most compared to
women who said they used the least."

Listing exactly how much of exposure could raise
risk is difficult to say, she admitted.

"This is a first look and there are cautions
about interpreting it," Brody said.

The article is published in the journal
Environmental health.

AT&T Faults iPhone

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AT&T faults iPhone for slow upload
speeds on 3G wireless gear from
supplier Alcatel Lucent.

AT&T in a statement, Wednesday, said
the software problem in Alcatel Lucent
is restricting data upload speeds from
smartphones.

"AT&T and Alcatel Lucent jointly identified
a software defect- triggered under certain
conditions- that impacted uplink performance
for Laptop Connect and smartphone customers
using 3G HSUPA capable wireless devices in
markets with Alcatel Lucent equipment,"
explained Jenny Bridges, spokes-woman.

"This happens to less than 2 percent of our
wireless customer base," Bridges continued.
"White Alcatel developed the software fix-
we are providing normal 3G uplink and consistent
performance for affected customers with HSUPA
capable devices."

AT&T isn't using Alcatel Lucent gear in all
of its network. The glitch is in certain regions
of the country like: New York, Philadelphia,
Washington D. C., Salt Lake City and Seattle.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100708060647writ.nb/topstory.html

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will return.

Federal regulators found toxic metal
cadmiun in Shrek drinking glasses -
a definite health risk.

The $2 dollar per glass, at McDonald
restaurants, promotional campaign for
Shrek Forever After movie has sold
millions of glasses.

People are asked to not let children use
them, and return the glasses for a refund.

"We've had a good, constructive two-way
dialogue with Rep. Jackie Speier- D-Hillsborough
office - and with the Consumer Product Safety
Commission," Walt Riker, McDonald's spokesman.

The events surrounding the recall started after
Rep. Jackie Speier was informed anonymously.

"Our children's health should not depend on the
consciences of anonymous sources," Speier declared.
"Although McDonald's did the right thing by recalling
these products, we need stronger testing standards
to ensure that all children's products are proven
safe before they hit the shelves. Cadmium is a toxic
substance that is extremely dangerous to the
developmental health of children."


Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100604170421writ.nb/topstory.html

Facebook's Unique Security Feature

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Facebook's unique security feature
has the goal of stopping hackers
from exploring user's personal
information.

The feature will recognize computers/
mobile phones that are permitted access
to Facebook accounts.

In case of unauthorized activity, log-ins,
a user is sent an e-mail or text message so
he/she can take action- stop the hacker before
information is stolen.

Let's say you're not at home, but you want to
access your Facebook account. You jump-on aunt
Molly's computer, or cousin's Ada's cell phone,
but worry it's a new device.

You'll, still, be able to access your Facebook
account. You'll, simply, have to answer a security
question.

"We're confident that these new tools and systems
will do a lot to prevent unauthorized logins and
the nuisance they can cause," Lev Popov, a Facebook
software engineer, wrote in a company blog post.
"As always, though, the first line of defense is
you. We need you to help by practicing safe behavior
on Facebook and wherever you go online."

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100517090717writ.nb/topstory.html

"Facebook's Glitch"

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On Wednesday, users found a gate-way
to their Facebook friends private chat
conversations. Facebook closed the gate-
way, hole. This new glitch heightened
feelings of mistrust for the service to
safe-guard personal information.

"For a service that has grown as
dramatically as we have grown, that now
assists with more than 400 million people
sharing billions of pieces of content with
their friends and the institutions they care
about, we think our track record for security
and safety is unrivaled," explained Elliot
Schrage, company's vice president for public
policy. "Are we perfect? Of course not."

Readers can submit questions for Mr. Schrage
on Bits, The Times' technology blog.

This latest glitch puts Facebook in the middle of
talks about the use of personal information by web
sites. "While this breach appears to be relatively
small, it's inopportunely timed," declared Augie
Ray, an analyst with Forrester Research. "It
threatens to undermine what Facebook hopes to
achieve with its network over the next few years,
because users have to ask whether it is a platform
worthy of their trust."

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100507055441writ.nb/topstory.html

Twitter: To Send Forth A Paid Search

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Twitter, the micro-blogging and social
networking service, allows members to
send/receive a text up to 140 characters.

It's reported that Twitter is setting-up
to add a paid advertising system. The
search will be called Promoted Tweets.
Advertisers will use up to 140 character
ads on top of specific searches. An
advertiser's tweets will be located where
they can be seen easily, and not confused
with information about the company,
its products.

Best Buy, Starbucks and Virginia America
are ready to work with Twitter per reports.
This is Twitter's first attempt at
sending forth a paid search.

There's chatter about a narrowing interest
in micro-blogging.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100423160158writ.nb/topstory.html