The week has been dominated by a batch of security fixes from Microsoft, Google and Adobe covering several key products, as well as growing concerns over the security of the much hyped iPad. Vulnerability research firm Goatse Security claimed to have found a security flaw in AT&T's protocols that exposed the personal data of more than 114,000 iPad buyers, according to reports earlier this week. The company ran an open script on AT&T's web site which passed on the email addresses of owners based on the ID number of their 3G iPad. The situation then appeared to escalate, and the FBI confirmed that it is investigating the breach.

Transport for London has said that it is 'aware of some problems' with the IBM-managed system used by fleet companies to pay the congestion charge. Customers have reported issues with the autopay system, including being overcharged and receiving wrongly issued fines. The online service is used by companies that regularly send vehicles into the congestion zone. London's mayor Boris Johnson has said he plans to extend autopay to private vehicles. The system enables fleets, lease companies and vehicle rental suppliers to receive a £1 discount off the £8 congestion charge if they register their vehicles online so they are automatically charged when they enter central London at specified times.

THE US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has warned that the future of the Internet in the US is "under siege" by a conspiracy of powerful interests. According to the BBC, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps wants every household in the country to have high speed broadband Internet access by 2020 based upon net neutrality principles. The term 'net neutrality means that all Internet resources, connections and data are treated equally. The FCC recently decided to reclassify Internet services from information services to telecommunications services, which gives it greater authority to impose regulations.

Research firm Nielsen has partnered its social monitoring service BuzzMetrics with management consultancy McKinsey to form NM Incite, a social media consultancy. The new company will aim to help businesses harness the full potential of social media intelligence and focus on measuring the impact social media has on businesses. It will be led by Dave Hudson, who was previously executive VP of global client services at Nielsen’s telecoms arm. At present NM Incite has only launched in the US, but Nielsen said it would be looking to expand into other core markets based on client needs.

Former Glu Mobile boss Greg Ballard has been appointed as CEO of mobile video advertising firm Transpera.

He's been joined by former Glu chief technology officer Alex Galvagni, who'll take up a role as COO at Transpera.

Company founder Frank Barbieri is stepping back to a role as chief product officer, overseeing product marketing strategy. The appointments follow Transpera's recent announcement that it had raised $9 million in its third round of financing. "I'm thrilled to join Transpera at this exciting stage in the company's growth," says Ballard.

You knew it was coming, right? Hot on the heels of getting leaked a wee bit early Microsoft has made official the rebadging of a device desperately seeking a new name: "Project Natal" is no more, replaced by Microsoft Kinect. At a circus- and celebrity-filled affair, MS wrapped everyone in high-tech panchos (pictured after the break courtesy of Joystiq) and then took the wraps off of the new title. Quite a few game demos were shown, ranging from Star Wars to tiger petting, the Kinect interface to the Dashboard was shown (said by some to be Minority Report-like), and a video chat app called, wait for it, Video Chat. Through here you can naturally talk to friends (up to four total people at once was "shown"), and also share photos.

The Turkish president has used his Twitter account to condemn the country's ban on YouTube and some Google services. In separate tweets, Abdullah Gul said he did not approve of the bans and had instructed officials to examine legal ways of reopening access. Courts have blocked access to YouTube since 2008 after Greek users posted videos alleging that Ataturk was homosexual. Last week Turkey extended the ban to some Google pages using the same internet protocol addresses as YouTube. In January the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe urged Turkey to abolish or reform a law allowing it to block around 3,700 Internet sites. 

Personalised websites will be the future of the internet as people willingly share more of their information, Mark Zuckerberg predicted as he was grilled over Facebook’s approach to privacy. The 26-year-old Facebook co-founder and chief executive had sweat running down his face as he faced questioning on stage at the ‘All Things D’ conference over a tide of protests about the service’s complex privacy controls and usage of its users’ private information. He said Facebook was based on a certain level of sharing and that some basic information needed to be public and available for all to see so that users could discover one another. “There’s some serendipity that can only happen if you are sharing,” he said.

So the free lunch - otherwise known as the unlimited data tariff - is over. O2 said on Thursday that it will no longer be offering new or upgrading customers its "unlimited" tariff for smartphone users - principally, it's believed, the iPhone users, whose numbers connected to O2 have grown from 1m to 2m in a year. O2 isn't the first: Vodafone ended its "unlimited" offering last month, and Steve Jobs had barely sat down after delivering his WWDC speech before AT&T announced that it too was ending its "unlimited" offering, replacing it with a tiered set - $15/month for 200MB, $25/month for 2GB. Orange is expected to follow suit in the next few weeks, though when asked the company simply says that it "constantly reviews its pricing". However the noises we're hearing from parts of the company suggest that a review will see it follow O2 to dump the "unlimited" offering.

Twitter is beginning to roll out its ad platform, which allowsadvertisers to insert messagesinto users’ streams. But the microblogging service already has an idea for a new product: Selling some of the real estate dedicated to its “trending” feature, where it highlights topics Twitter users are chattering about. Twitter is describing the product to advertisers as “Promoted Trends,” an extension of the “Promoted Tweets” program announced in April. The messaging service has been talking about it in vague terms and has yet to test it. But the basic gist seems to be this: Advertisers will be able to insert their own terms into the list of trends Twitter displays on users’ homepages (see image below; click to enlarge) and on its login page. Clicking on a term would call up a Twitter search results page, which would feature the associated advertiser’s “promoted tweet” at the top of the results.

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