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Is a new Facebook-centric phone coming?

CNET Update gets social:

Stories featured in Friday's tech roundup:

- Facebook expected to announce an HTC smartphone

- Path plots subscription service for 2nd quarter

- Amazon scoops up Goodreads social network

- New Windows 8 specs could open door for 7-inch tablets

- First look at the $99 Ouya game console

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Google Glass shows off its apps at SXSW

Google is showing off its wearable tech again, this time with an app-filled presentation at South by Southwest Interactive.

The presentation, which Engadget captured in Austin today, showed apps from The New York Times, Evernote, Skitch, and Path.

Of course, there was also a Gmail app. When an e-mail arrives, Google Glass wearers can use voice command to prompt Google's e-mail service to deliver the sender's image and subject line to the glasses' screen. Users can then tell the app what to write back.

The New York Times application will deliver an article in the form of an … Read more

Facebook's face-lift brings more feeds

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Facebook is rolling out changes to the News Feed, and Thursday's Update explains what's in store and why it matters.

But Facebook isn't the only social network with news. Twitter's app has a new search feature, Foursquare makes it quick to check-in, and Path adds new ways to message friends.

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Path rolls out 3.0 with private messaging and a sticker shop

The social-networking app Path, debuted a major upgrade today, adding on private messages, stickers, and the "Shop." The company says the goal is to boost personalized communication between users, but it looks like Path is also working to monetize the app.

The company describes its objective with private messaging in a blog post today -- the messages are not supposed to be like text messages or Facebook or Twitter posts, but rather aim to make users feel like they're truly interacting with friends.

"When we speak with friends, share a joke, a quiet word, or a … Read more

Tip: Use OS X services to reveal or open file paths

Apple's Spotlight offers a quick way to find user files and resources like applications or system preferences. However, it does not locate items in the system folder or in hidden folders, though at times you might need to access them. This limitation may be especially cumbersome to deal with if you are troubleshooting a problem in OS X or helping someone do so, meaning you may need to ask them to locate a specific hidden file and remove it or modify its contents.

For some system resources you can simply navigate through the Finder; however, in its default view … Read more

Privacy at risk as Path app lets location data slip

While on assignment for business recently, Jeffrey Paul posted a photo to the social network Path.

For business reasons, he didn't want to tell his contacts where he was at the time. He had already disabled Path's access to his location in iOS settings. After he took his photo, he had carefully cropped it to obscure anything that might have identified his location.

But when he hit publish, there it was: the name of the city he was in. He deleted the post immediately, but the disclosure shook him. In a subsequent post on his company's blog, … Read more

Path to pay $800,000 to settle privacy issues with FTC

Path, the social-networking startup, has agreed to pay $800,000 to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and take other actions to settle charges that Path deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent.

Along with the fine, the company also will establish a "comprehensive privacy program" and obtain independent privacy assessments every other year for the next 20 years. The fee is to settle charges that Path illegally collected personal information from children without their parents' consent.

The issue stems from a year ago when it was discovered … Read more

Path shows Facebook how to do social search right

There's been much talk this year about the future of search in social networks. Facebook processes more than a billion queries a day with a notoriously underpowered search engine. "We aren't even trying," Mark Zuckerberg has said. Not yet, anyway.

Today we're getting a good idea of what "trying" looks like. Path, the social-networking startup that brands itself as "the smart journal," is rolling out an update today that brings some innovative search features to its apps for smartphones and tablets.

Path consists of a series of saved moments -- photos, … Read more

Path privacy scandal leads to App Store changes

Sometimes it takes a little nudge to do what we know we should.

After a blogger disclosed that photo-sharing service Path was uploading and storing people's complete contacts lists without having asked permission, user outrage ensued. A month later, a group filed suit against Apple, Path, Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, and eight other sites for doing the same.

The scandal led to Apple saying any apps that collect user contact lists without permission are in violation of its app guidelines. It then rolled out a software change to begin actively enforcing stronger contacts protection.

At the time, Path founder Dave … Read more