Following over a year-long review by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Facebook announced changes to its privacy policy this morning in response to recommendations made by the Commissioner - improvements and technical changes it says will provide users with greater transparency and control over info they provide to third-party apps. In terms of increasing the understanding and control a user has over the information accessed by third-party applications, Facebook is introducing a new permissions model that will require applications to specify the categories of information they wish to ...

Just like the iPhone and iPod Touch, which are becoming increasingly games-focused as they mature, so too is Apple's next "big thing" - rumoured to be a tablet computer - getting into games in a big way.

According to Barron's, who cite an analyst that's claiming to have already touched the device, the Apple Tablet will be a system designed with two things in mind: media playback and games.

It'll feature a 10-inch touchscreen, cost around $800 and be built to play music, videos and games on that big, ...

Nickelodeon's AddictingGames, the source of free online games and the youth-gaming Web site, will extend to the iPhone this month with the launch of several games and a cross-promotion publishing network for iPhone game developers called the AddictingGames iNetwork. Games based on properties from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and other divisions of MTV Networks will also be part of the AddictingGames iNetwork. The first AddictingGames available on the iPhone include: "iParkinglot," based on the popular "Parking It" game series on AddictingGames.com; "50 States," a geography duel; and the ...

Welcome to the FanTrust guide to digital success – Setting Your Digital Resolutions for 2009. December is traditionally a time for reflection and goal-setting, both personal and professional. Though you know what it takes to reach your goals for, say, losing weight (less eggnog, more yoga) or having fun (more eggnog, less yoga) –what if you’re venturing into uncharted business terrain? Every Thursday and Monday for the next two weeks,  we’ll walk you through short, simple exercises – complete with case studies and success stories – intended to spark transformation in ...

People crave community. We are social creatures. Today, we are social networking creatures. We do loads of things communally. We edit content communally on Wikipedia and we play multiplayer online role-playing games with a global community of “friends”. One of the most fascinating talks I attended last winter was at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (read prior FanTrust blog coverage here) -- on the topic of How Wikipedia is Like a Multiplayer Game: it is addictive to its core community, has its own ...