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Industry notes

Facebook gives mobile users full privacy controls. Facebook announced Wednesday that it has made its full suite of privacy controls available to mobile users at m.facebook.com. The site has drawn criticism in recent months over its increasingly complex and opaque privacy controls; in response the social network has rolled a new system designed to allow users to more easily control how much of their profile information is public.

Watercooler

Google announced Wednesday that it would be pulling the plug on its “Wave” project a little more than a year after its debut. Schmidt said the company will apply the technology’s features to future projects. We’re still trying to figure out what it does.

Said

“With Facebook’s announcement, it has irresponsibly chosen to double-down its bet on dirty energy while other IT companies such as Google are buying renewable energy because it is sound, long-term business investment.”

—Greenpeace climate policy analyst Gary Cook in response to Facebook’s announcement that it will double the size of its coal-powered data center in Prineville, Ore.