Confusion

Michael Gorbachev in the New York Times:

Yahoo's recently launched Fire Eagle has privacy advocates burning up about the new open platform that allows users to show their location on the Web and also allows developers access to users' locations.

Yahoo officials insisted control is in the hands of the users. Users may decide how much they want to expose about their location, including the country, state, city and even street address.

Yahoo's recently launched Fire Eagle has privacy advocates burning up about the new open platform that allows users to show their location on the Web and also allows developers access to users' locations.

Yahoo officials insisted control is in the hands of the users. Users may decide how much they want to expose about their location, including the country, state, city and even street address.

The company trying to speed travelers through airport security lines said it found its laptop containing the personal information of 33,000 people about a week after reporting it stolen.

But the Transportation Security Administration suspended any new enrollments in the fast-growing program because of the failure of Verified Identity Pass to encrypt customer data stored on its computers.

The New York-based company said a software fix will take a matter of days and it sought to ensure customers the missing computer didn't contain any data such as credit card or Social Security numbers.

Reports from IT directors and major IT suppliers indicate that the security hole in Internet Domain Name System servers is being patched -- but not everyone, nor every company, is responding quickly.

News of the flaw in some DNS servers was leaked to the public on July 8, catching many server administrators by surprise. The hope was that most servers could be patched and ready before the public became aware of the problem. But as a result of the leak, many servers worldwide remain vulnerable to attack.

Police launched a massive manhunt in India's financial capital Tuesday, believing that the serial blasts that rocked the western Indian city of Ahmadabad over the weekend, killing 45 people, were hatched in a Mumbai suburb.

Four cars used in the weekend bombings were stolen from in the suburb of Navi Mumbai -- "New Mumbai," police said.

Meanwhile, police on Tuesday found 10 unexploded bombs in Surat, a city 280 kilometers (175 miles) south of Ahmadabad, said H.P. Singh, a senior Ahmadabad police officer.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [ICANN] has voted to allow--in addition to more traditional top-level domains [TLDs], such as .com and .org--theoretically any TLD at all, as long as it is no longer than 64 characters long. The application process for such custom TLDs looks set to be arduous and the criteria reasonably rigorous, but observers say the new system will create confusion.

Consumer grievances against wireless companies are taking on a new dimension. For more than a decade, mobile-phone customers have griped vociferously about what they consider unfair billing and inadequate wireless voice calling. But the advent of mobile data services -- from texting to gaming to social networking to Web surfing -- has given subscribers a whole host of new beefs to complain about.