Taking The Pain Out Of Stains

CYBERSPACE (AP) -- Ah, the sights and smells of the season. But what happens when the stains of the season hit -- like a splash of egg nog on a white tablecloth or a dollop of gravy on your favorite shirt? The people who make Tide detergent are out with an application for the iPhone and iPod that gives you a heads up before you suds up on stains. The Tide Stain Brain tells you whether a particular stain is best treated by soaking or blotting -- and whether hot or cold water is the best way to attack. Have a good stain removing trick of your own? You can share it through the free app. Or you can ask users about a stain that is vexing you.

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Blackberry Users Hit by E-Mail Delays

TORONTO (AP) -- The company that makes BlackBerry phones says it's trying to find out what caused users in North America to have trouble getting their e-mail yesterday. It's unclear how many users were affected by the outage -- or how long it lasted. But Research In Motion says technicians have been able to pinpoint and fix the problem. During the outage, Blackberry customers were still able to make phone calls, surf the Internet and send and receive text messages -- but couldn't retrieve or send e-mail. The system Blackberrys use is usually reliable. But because it's centralized, if there are problems, they can affect millions of users.

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Facebook Gets New Complaint About Privacy Issues

NEW YORK (AP) -- Some organizations concerned with privacy want the feds to take another look at the new rules Facebook has for its users. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into the changes Facebook has made to users' privacy settings. The organization and nine others want Facebook to go back to its old privacy standards. The new changes were trotted out last week and they include treating users' names, profile photo, friends list, gender and other data as publicly available information. Such information had been restricted in the past. The FTC confirms that it has received the complaint -- but had no other comment.

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