Facebook co-founder calls it quits
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz said he's leaving the company, along with engineering manager Justin Rosenstein, to start a new software business, reports The Register.
Moskovitz was Mark Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard University when they founded the social networking Web site while still students. His work at Facebook has mostly been out of the public eye - although he'd occasionally show up for various project debuts like the Facebook for BlackBerry app.
In a message left on his Facebook page, Moskovitz said he and Rosenstein have been working on business software for Facebook.
Obama wins support with iPhone
US Democratic candidate Barack Obama is set to turn the iPhone into a political recruiting tool with an application aimed at getting the vote out, says The BBC.
The software has a "Call Friends" option to help organise contacts in swing states.
A note about the software on Obama's blog says: “The tool is designed to help you become more directly involved in our campaign to change the country." The free application was developed by volunteers in less than three weeks.
UK considers eavesdropping
Ministers are considering a £12 billion plan to monitor the e-mail, telephone and Internet browsing records of every person in Britain, reports the Telegraph.co.uk.
The huge eavesdropping programme would involve the creation of a mammoth central computer database to store hundreds of billions of individual pieces of communications traffic.
Supporters say it would become one of the security services' most comprehensive tools in the fight against terrorism, but critics described it as "sinister".
Skype unaware of security issues
Skype's president said the company was largely unaware of a major security breach affecting Skype users in China, says CNet.
Josh Silverman, Skype's president, said he did not realise that Tom-Skype, Skype's partner in China, was logging and storing users' instant messages that were deemed offensive by the Chinese government.
He said the company knew instant-messaging chats were monitored by the government, as all communications in China are. And he explained that Skype disclosed this to users in 2006, explaining that a text filter was being used to block certain words in chat messages.
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