Boot-up: Facebook buys e-book publisher, largest State cyberattacks, and more

Mark Zuckerberg... we know, he is an avid reader, but... Photo: Christian Alminana/WireImage

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This is a major problem for Amazon: "Amazon main function by far was their free app on the day promotion." Publicly say their terms, that they also pay developers, the 20% of the asking price of an APP, if they give it way free. For consumers and naive developers alike, this seems like a great opportunity, somewhat less frequently make the Android world: real money. "But here is the dirty secret of Amazon do not know they pay a single cent not developers."

"Security experts have the largest number of cyber-attacks to date, discovered, the penetration of networks of 72 organizations such as the United Nations, Governments and businesses around the world."

McAfee said it was only a State behind all the attacks show but rejected to the finger. A security researcher apparently informed on the study, said that the evidence on China shows. More than on you, China.

Still, the most plausible theory is that it is more about the talent behind the product as the product itself.

"Integrated even though Facebook is to launch digital books publishing not intended, the ideas and technology behind pop press push with Facebook, the people are even richer ways to share their stories." "With millions of people every day on Facebook to publish we think it will be a large house for pop press push."

"The Exec summary: an image resizing utility named timthumb.php is widely used by many WordPress themes." Google shows results over 39 million for the script name. "If your WordPress theme with an unmodified timthumb.php is bundled, how many commercial and free themes are, should you immediately either remove or edit and set $AllowedSites array to be empty."

"The results suggested that Internet Explorer surfer lower had an average IQ of the 1980s." Chrome, Firefox and Safari had a rating of 100, while minority browser "exceptionally higher" score Opera and Camino one of more than 120.
"AptiQuant stressed that use that does not, that you have low intelligence."What it really says is, if you have a low IQ, there are high chances that you use Internet Explorer "AptiQuant CEO Leonard Howard said.

No, not please it once again to explain him.

Health warning: This proved a false story.

Recalls that Microsoft protestations, (a good thing, because it really in the year 2005 began, everything what has happened was two rebranding projects since then) is in the long term in Bing not much mean, if you define "Success" or, if you enter 'long term'.

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Boot-up: LinkedIn leads, the mystery man behind MegaUpload and more

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Centre, applauded with CEO Jeffrey Weiner, right, as the opening bell is Stock Exchange sound during the company's IPO on the New York. Photo: Mike Segar/REUTERS

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"For the first time as a public company, professional social network LinkedIn its second quarter results today reports." LinkedIn's revenue for the quarter came to $121 million, the what an increase of 120% compared to 54.9 million $ for the second quarter of 2010 is. Net revenues for the second quarter amounted to $4.5 million, compared to $ 4.3 million in the second quarter of 2010; Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter was $10.8 million compared to $ 6.4 million in the second quarter of 2010. The company blew away that Analayst estimates quarter. "Analysts expected a loss of 4 cents per share on 104.5 million $."

Monitor feeds, to determine whether tweets had disappeared. No longer: "Unfortunately Undetweetable was asked to shut down and we can no longer work without Twitter support." This project was to a discussion on privacy and digital identity to start, and thanks to the overwhelming response from users like you, hopefully, that we have achieved this goal. "At the moment, you can continue browsing Undetweetable, but we are deleted not more tweets to gather."

Simple, really. Find out how long it would take the average desktop computer to crack your password. Or if you are one of the most popular passwords (in this case it changes). No user name or E-mail made, so that it is safe.

"MegaPorn, MegaVideo, mega live, MegaPix and Megaupload are all Kim Schmitz: entrepreneur, father, former hacker, former street racer and former outlaw."
"Depending on whom you, all these sites and brands made by Schmitz--issues a known hacker in Germany, who is said to have officially changed his name to Kim Dotcom--are either part of the simple and successful Internet file storage-business, which he founded in the year 2005, or they are an extension of a huge online piracy Empire, some of the most visited video sites on the Web-right there along with YouTube and Hulu."

Oh, Kim Schmitz. Again.

About the (wonderful) Wayback Machine, the original Jim Cofer blog post, the yesterday's link led. Worth reading, because there you realize does, that inclusion of a clause is "Brown M & MS" in a big contract really very good idea. Keep it next time, you have something important to sort.

"As soon as Swartz was drilled, turned down... to pursue charges against him in fact, JSTOR JSTOR immediately a public statement so that they have no beef with Swartz." There are two obvious reasons why the Feds decided to prosecute anyway. The first is that the Feds at Swartz pissed off and only one chance waited to go after him.
"In 2008, Swartz, automatically use a free trial of PACER, a database with Government, court documents, sent a download of the nearly 20 million documents." This was in response to the call details for donations of downloaded PACER documents, the usually eight cents per page cost the activist Carl Malamud. Malamud's position is that because the public has these documents, access to them should be simple and free of charge online. In the event, not Swartz had broken any laws, so that the Feds were forced to delete its investigation. "Perhaps one was specific resentment."

Dan Frakes had the smart idea of creating a physical graph of capacity of thumb drives in his possession. Where is yours?

"-Sie have a MacBook or MacBook Air with Mac OS X lion?"-Ever wondered why you lose GB of disk space each day? "-With time machine?"

It makes local backups while you are away from the computer's time machine. Don't worry, it is a Terminal command to diable.

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"Boot-up: LulzSec hacker known as Foxconn, ', to replace workers with robots", and much more

Microsoft Bing looks an unlikely outsider of the Internet - such as Muhammad Ali before his break. Photo: Russell Boyce/Reuters

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Is in the Court on Monday.

Going toe to toe with Google Microsoft will cost $5 billion + * per year *, depending on the industry execs, who talked to the NYT. And who says that it should axe Bing?

"Taiwanese giant Foxconn cut some of their employees with one million robots in three years of increasing work costs and the efficiency will replace, Terry GOU, founder and Chairman of the company late Friday said technology."

Know eh, Apple?

Be not ridiculous! The US reserve operating balance was more than 40 times larger than some piffling private companies.

Hang, only 40 time?

"How is it in US law (and keep in mind, U.S. it have provisions in the world, even if it is legal, or you not in decades) is the creator of an image of the copyright holder." Even if the resolution fall, or reduce the number of colors of easier gray tones, it is still considered by many among the original copyright.
"So, what is, when you create each can possible image?" What if you took is a relatively low resolution (say 500 × 500) and a relatively low color mixing (say 256 colors) and try, each create a single image? What then would be the State of copyright? It is the Visual equivalent of infinite monkey theorem.
"If you could do it, it would still not protected own then all copyright for each image." "In addition, because it is an independent body without external reference on use, works and similar as those already copyrighted images do not violate."

Solution: Get a quantum computer to do it. Take care of now.

"Looks like would the administrator saves the wallet.dat and the backups on an ec2 instance and then it shut down while a RAM upgrade without knowing that he will lose everything on the disk."

Ben Duchac: "my mother needed a new phone and she play for an Android - they had was my HTC incredible for about a year below and their aging function phone was tired." It is quite tech savvy – Gmail used has a Tumblr, most of their e-Mail to a iPad - so after some discussion, we decided that Android was the way to go. The integrated Google search Gmail, gChat and she seemed much richer maps functionality UI to outdo functionality and app selection of iPhone 4 for their needs. A trip to the Verizon store later, we came up with Samsung-free home. The huge screen was brilliant. 4 G was blisteringly fast. The camera had more megapixels was adequate. "The phone was an absolute nightmare to use."

He's like the Samsung phone won't work as the HTC incredible and is frustrated at a loss by his life of the battery and intransigence. Yup, sounds familiar.

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Boot-up: Google Android patent row hots up, online-dating-2011 and more

iPhones and Android phones send information about your whereabouts to Google and Apple. Photo: Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters

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"...But Android's success led to something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, led by fake patents.

"They are this put together by banding, Novell's old patents (the"Cptn"group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel get old (that group including Microsoft and Apple)"Rockstar"patents to ensure that Google are not given them;" Development of $15 license fees for all Android powered devices; Try phone manufacturers license Android more expensive make (we free make that available for free) as Windows phone 7; and even suing Barnes & noble, HTC, Motorola and Samsung. "Patents were intended to promote innovation, but in recent times is used as a weapon, to stop it."

"How is Google argument here other than simply to call for Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, et al. should just sit back and let Google do what it wants with Android, regardless of the patents, which hold them?" "And let us not forget be Android way for free."

A little late, but: "by the end of March 2011, Windows 7 was 20.9 per cent of the company's PCs, according to a new report by Forrester Research, turn on during Windows XP to 60% of business PCs-a year ago was down 69%."
"The report" desktop operating system and browser trends, Q2 to Q2 2011 Forrester, corporate 2010? Analysis of more than 400,000 client PCs on 2,500 companies include results for Forrester. "16 June report includes 2010 data collected by the end of the first calendar quarter 2011 12 months between the start of the second calendar quarter."

The table is interesting: that's worth clickthrough.

Simply brilliant. It is just us laugh at the image, which is "Yes!" Page Mrs Robinson "[sic], or enjoy any of it to?" "For the Cougar pairing their prey". In fact. And much more that still manages to remain SFW.

So put the DCMS from a blackened PDF. Turned from the editor easy was to undo. "The complete, unredacted version is now on Scribd." As you can see from this document, all incorrectly removed the material that was edited. "The tactics discussed, to avoid blocking all known, even to mere lawyers like me, and the revised theater seem for security reasons as more will be motivated."

Todd Bishop: "more evidence: registered AptiQuants website was on 14 July, less than a month ago, despite the company's statement that it was founded in 2006." This morning I associated with the phone number called AptiQuant of domain registration, but the man who answered running speak a different language, once I identified myself as a reporter, and he finally hung up after we were not able to communicate.
"News agencies, on the students-including the BBC, business insider, CNN, and many new - reported are now reporting it was a hoax."

Oh, hell. Who is to say that Opera users?

"Above, before Twitter and blogs, as USENET was one of the centres of net.influence, I have many, many years on the David LaMacchia case." I finally turned directly via the legal results. But I personally was not worth all the flaming about "Theft" and similar. I need experience not to this experience, I am trying to learn from my mistakes.
"""As, say started something, people haven't heard messages only to the last Friday in circulation, that in addition to the Federal Government charges in the amount of"Wire Fraud","Computer Fraud","illegally information from a protected computer"," recklessly damaging a protected computer", there are also two State Government fees".

No one knows how you stories about hacking to illustrate. In fact, they fight with stories about technology in General.

Clever: Why would you such arcane and trivial element specify "No Brown M & MS" in your contract? Think about it for a bit. (Original article, which it connects is gone, but explaining it.)

And you thought they were stupid rock musicians.

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Boot-up: Google buys Dealmap, Apple blocks Samsung Galaxy tab down under, and much more

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Question: what took it so long?

Plus the title text, of course.

Tomi Ahonen, ex-Nokia EXEC, always with the happy: "Nokia handset unit generated EUR 8.5 billion (b $) sales in the fourth quarter by around 1 billion euros profit." So if we don't ignore Nokia's network unit of NokiaSiemens networks - was initially a group that Nokia has tried, for six months now nobody willing sell, but, if the price of the loss-making unit to pay - business phones from Nokia, smartphones, and 'Featurephones' the size of 44 billion dollars at the annual level six months ago.
Now where are they? The handset unit reported total revenues to €5.5 billion (US$ 7.5 billion) and a loss of 247 million euros ($321 million). ..'Leadership under Stephen Elop called' and his foot-in-mouth disease... Nokia has already shrunk - 32%! In five months! When was the malaise only in one of the three great departments of a company, the other two can tolerate it. "But right now, Nokia disappears before our eyes!"

"" [RFL] spoke by e-Mail with Oxblood Ruffin, a Canadian hacker (just), joined the cult of the dead cow a hacker group, the the word "Hacktivism."He coined is also founder and Director of Hacktivismo. I asked him about anonymous of recent operations and the ethics and the rules for the use of hacktivism.
RFE/RL: How would you define "Hacktivism"?
Ruffin: "Hacktivism uses technology to improve human rights." Also employed nonviolent tactics and leans on the original intent of the Internet, which is to keep things and run.
"Things like DDoS attacks, Web happened, malware and network are violations of restricted area relating to tactics." "These generally limit speech and are a violation of first amendment went out and contrary to article 19 of the ICCPR [International Covenant on Civil and political rights] and UNDHR [Universal Declaration of human rights]."

Oxblood Ruffin. Make room, game of Thrones.

"Adobe today a new tool called Adobe edge of creative professionals, animated Web content with Web standards like HTML5, starts to design CSS, and JavaScript." Does not Flash.
"Is aimed with Adobe Flash can be used, but not replaced, the Web design software is Adobe's big bet on how it will continue to consolidate its position as a top player in the infrastructure of the modern Web, especially as increasingly mobile going on the Web." "In this new mobile context in the Web has become a more hostile environment for Flash, which is no place on Apple mobile devices, and probably never has."

"I have technology products for 20 years was review." I've seen everything from products, which were those astonishing of the get-go (the first Palm pilot mind comes), were the downright dangerous (a mouse, the fire caught on). But it has never been a time, when I look so much of the new stuff, so much is long not ready for mass consumption. Sometimes it is a bit quirky; Sometimes I can get it work. "And when I call the manufacturer for help, they are often aware the problems I experienced."

You imagine new released products for which this could be true?

"Apple Inc. won an agreement from Samsung Electronics Co., that the South Korean company is not the latest version of their Tablet PC in Australia sell, until a patent infringement lawsuit of the country has been resolved."

"The Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1 violates 10 Apple patents, including the"Look And Feel"and touch screen technology the iPad, Steven Burley, a lawyer for Apple, Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett in Sydney said yesterday." "One in Cupertino, California-based company Australian injunction and also wants to stop the sale of the tablets in other countries Samsung searched, said Burley without."

It is an interesting way to keep the market share. Apple is Samsung damage numbers, if the patent suit fails.

Paul Carr skewers the issue with the promise. "And therein lies the real problem of Web 2.0-whether it related accommodation takes form of SEO-driven"news"or amount." To money-real money-attract millions or millions of users have in this game. And if you have to do with this kind of numbers, it is literally impossible to treat not the user as part of the data. "It is but depressing not surprising that Web 2.0 is faux socialization and democratization create a world in which everyone to a number in a spreadsheet is reduced ironic."

Ed Bott provides for bad times: "even if Apple Adds a definition for this piece of malware, I suspect that the next iteration of Mac malware authoring Kit contains a feature parity with its Windows counterparts to put on it." These days, malware on Windows side use usually polymorphic code that makes each sample unique. The technique makes detection systems, such as Apple's XProtect, essentially useless it signature-based malware.
"" The bad guys have many options to the distribution of malware: booby trapped porn sites, counterfeit audio and video codecs, pirated copies of the software, with "a little something extra", coming also fake security updates. "The increasing success of the Mac platform and its relatively weak security ecosystem easy prey for means enterprising crooks."

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Boot-up: Intel on Apple's app store, demand media lawyers feisty get, and much more

Are there more than 300,000 apps available in Apple? App store alone, but many of those are created by retailers? fake?. Photo: Robert Galbraith/Reuters/Corbis

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"If you tweet even if you see a Pseudonym--tweet - do, how much you reveal about yourself?" More than you realize, argues a new paper from researchers at the MITRE Corporation. The paper, "Them gender on Twitter," which presented this week at the Conference to the empirical methods in natural language processing in Scotland shows that machines often sex on Twitter find a person can read only by their Tweets. And those know is making: the results for advertisers and others could be useful. "

Gender biased words for men: "http" and "Google". For women: "Chocolate" and "Man", among many others. Can an algorithm stereotype? Then again, it is currently correctly about 75% of the time.

"Steam is on a monthly survey to collect data our customers use what types of computer hardware and software." Participation in the survey is optional and anonymous. "The collected information is incredibly helpful for us as we on what types of technology investments to make and to offer products decisions."

It's also really interesting to see the range of steam users.

"Apple can iOS app store ecosystem will have phenomenal success with his, but Intel says it's about the online app sales in the wrong direction."
"As expected, Intel preferred his app-store in-a-box-AppUp program, which allows world + dog to create their own app stores with its software tools, then let the messy details how Intel collect payments to treat and deployment of software for customers, all for a 70/30 revenue split."

Essentially Intel franchise build would like to make, but you take the same cut as Apple or Google is doing. Hard to see the real benefits of franchising your own app store.

"Microsoft was its 12,000 or so participants his annual sales Conference Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) by tweeting and blogging secrets last week keep." But at least an enterprising participants managed to one of the infamous sales videos to take that like to show the company on these events.
"On 20 July during the MGX softies showed their spoof of"Google mail man"is due to open meetings, inspire the troops selling Office 365 against Google apps, and in particular gmail." In the video to find for serving up riffles Google mail man by post, keywords-map. The news: Google cares more for advertising revenue as privacy. "

Searches Google for context? Yes, by computer. Looked Microsoft risks as it is desperate to smear Google. But mud can remain.

"There is something perverserweise flattering an entire site dedicated to your supposed Terribleness." But demand media is apparently not the attention of demand Studios sucks, a blog, refugees, unhappy and enjoy other critics of so-called content farm. "This week, as the demand of the market capitalisation fell below $1 billion for the first time, as it was in January, the company's lawyers stop a letter and refrain from holders of demand sucks Studio and managed temporarily take down some their Internet service provider to the internal documents that it was not written."

But the site soon returned - but without the content. Demand media need to be careful on this.

"Spend some time at the Ottawa Hospital and it probably form is not long to take a look at an e-health digital revolution."

"Doctors use check-ups, a diagnosis with digital images of X-rays, to explain MRIs or other test results iPads for interactive at the bedside." "Full of patients medical record can be drawn up on the iPad as the pages of reference works and other medical resources, a physician from a bookshelf could once have considered."

Yes, but a House?

"Recently, the FDA cleared a Radiology app for the iPhone and the iPad, the doctors, which display medical images including MRI, CT and PET scans."

"While the Agency sagt-the app - called Mobile MIM, made from MIM software-was approved for the production of medical diagnosis, it is called ' is intended to replace any full workstations and is for use only if it no access to a workstation.'"

We have heard, a seller of health doctors in the United States, iPads take business meeting, because it is a good bet that is the doctor.

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Boot-up: Hacker fool on LulzSec and privacy, Google + 1s are sold, and much more

NET tightened to hacker group LulzSec. Photography: Reuters

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"Hacktivism for good", which calls itself the jester comments about the difference between data protection, privacy and anonymity online after the arrest of anyone claimed to LulzSec Member Topiary on Wednesday.

The jester identity is not publicly known.

"A Crusader from Attrition.org has determined that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts almost 100% from other sources are copied." "What says about the industry?"

He..., that his power can have learned their craft, by copying others? (We have the link of Kevin Mitnick, by the way.)

"A report by the Atlantic turned a light on a new"social media service"which allows users, Google + 1 purchase?" s in bulk. "The site in question, Pluseem, has a variety of different Google + package sizes by 50 points to 2,000, the prices range from $0, 18$ 0.38 per plus."

Breaking, Google quality guidelines, as you might guess. But the presence of spam shows an ecosystem that spammers to think in the value of hunting.

"Strange the error in iOS one was far widespread errors in the Web Kit and Microsoft's CryptoAPI nine years ago." It can sign purchased from a certificate authority, a different certificate valid certificate which then the client device considered valid.
"This enables who to win, can from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with man-in-the-Middle techniques to catch traffic and read all encrypted SSL traffic in the background, and without notice to the user."
"This patch should be applied immediately when you sign up for a service on your device, in particular things your bank or PayPal like." Users are especially vulnerable to these attacks, often using public/open WiFi.
"The really bad news?" If a generation of iPod touch a or you'll be constantly susceptible to two, or an iPhone, that use older than the 3GS. "Owners of these devices use it for a particular purpose, for the security or privacy is required."

A developer who is specialized in the digital currency, that he was sent back to China last week says, after he came to the Sea-Tac Airport with only $600 in cash and not in a position to convince US Customs and border protection agents that he would be able to finance his two months, visit bit coin with bit coin."
"The developer which alias"Doctor Nefario"by the, identifies Exchange itself as founder of the global bit coin."

Would have loved, during this interview be a fly on the wall.

"It turns out it is a method behind the FBI raids of suspected anonymous members of the country." The Office works from a list of handles under the condition of PayPal, 1,000 Internet IP responsible for the most protest traffic during anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal in December last year.
"FBI agents served 40 search orders in January on persons suspected, threaten PayPal during"Operation Payback"-anonymous ' retaliation against companies, on the black WikiLeaks list." "On 19 July the Feds charged the first 14 defendants under the computer fraud and abuse Act, and raided an additional 35 suspected for evidence."

So, just 960 to go. "" Also: "it was easy to distinguish the packages from the '" low orbit ion Cannon "-anonymous ' fire-and-forget DDoS tool-strings such as"Wikileaks,""goof", and in lieu of oath notes include"Goodnight,"insurance."

Oh love.

"We hold on one of the 10 things are true, that here is on Google, that quickly better than slow." We speed note in all things we do, and the button "+ 1" is no exception. Since the button start we have hard, improving your load time. "Today we are proud to announce two updates, the button" + 1 "and it, load the page more quickly make."

File under "almost immeasurable improvements to your life".

"We thought it would be interesting, a Microsoft Xbox Kinect work include association with our control maps on screen with simple gestures." "This video that reveals how we have and all I'll say is that with movements as follows, the GeoDoctor have a real girls on the dance floor..."

Clever, clever, clever.

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Boot-up: Cybercrime ' easier than ever before ", why dump Microsoft Bing and more will not"

Mac OS X lion... Launchpad makes your Mac to in fact a huge iPhone

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Brian Krebs, reliable as ever and per: "An explosion of online was tools and services online makes it easier than ever for beginners in computer crime entry." "At the same time suggests a growing number of prove, that much of the world of cybercrime activity may be the work of a core group of villains who have been there for many years."

Clever use of the nature of the FireWire. But: "Mac users who want to rule out the threat of forensic software can change the default from their accounts so that they no longer automatically log at startup." Mac antivirus vendor Intego has this here step by step instructions for action. Requiring a password to unlock or waking up a Mac prevents that X OS save the login password in your computer's memory. "Macs is the other way to help prevent them clear, if they instead of locks they or contact they are not used in sleep mode,."

You are warned.

Mary Jo Foley: "I wouldn't be surprised, to see more closely coupled with Windows 8 be Bing." Given, it will need to be a Windows-8-app store, users search the new marketplace for apps.
"While the world sees as a distant No. 2 search engine Bing, see Microsoft brass and bean counters bing as a reusable component and capital, which is more and more to create products." "Microsoft Bing will reject those who think, or to sell to the highest bidder dead false-, that now happen is not or anytime soon."

Baking Bing in Windows 8 sounds like a recipe for a competitive process. If Google has no sense, at least, a lawyer, the preparation has on it a case why consumers - which damage based on the Sherman antitrust cases.

A single page from John Siracusa enormous review of the Mac OSX 10.7 ("lion"), located on the dangers in the heart of Apple's OS file format references.

"Without my involvement with Windows and as was the prospect of me purchasing a Mac go a ridiculous concept in a huge history lesson until not that long ago long history I am short, a happy Windows user who decided it was time to acquire the latest MacBook Air." And I wonder how all out about it, despite my initial reservations on almost 2 large they Dole out (maxed out 13?) Model + taxes).
"Now, before I postulate my questions, I would like to questions that you please try to alleviate you."

Ping! This is the popcorn ready.

More seriously, he does not employ, why he moved, and is the more interesting question.

"RIM on Friday said it had bought JayCut in what is a likely attempt counter iMovie on the iPad." The agreement allows access to a mix of video edit it and cloud services. The BlackBerry maker made it clear to strengthen the acquisition was video editing textbook, as well as future BlackBerry phones.
"Conditions of the transaction were not assigned but were probably small enough that RIM do not have to report their conditions."

Amateur Director hour has begun.

Boot-up: Mac malware "Explosion" missing social breakthrough Google +, and more

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"Dignity the hacker-win and Apple are overwhelmed, or they would be killed by Apple's vigilance?"
"Two months ago I had a way come tried, that we could answer this question definitively."

"I wrote a small script download to save each hour and each unique version of Apple malware definition file permanently." I started this script running on 2 June, recording of version 2 of the file; Since then were 22 more versions, each add new malware definition signatures to the scanner. "I have all data now what at my fingertips."

It is an interesting data.

"Andreas Kluth from the Economist:" you tell me: in real life, how often you someone go and request, "Friends", then "sharing" pictures of you start naked baby?
"Wonderfully warm and fuzzy feel like you if someone (oh yes, he was not in my football team 30 years ago?)" (Or maybe I vomited on him at the keg party in 1989?) keeps you on the road, "Friends" asks to be, then shares his baby pictures with you?
"Mark [Zuckerberg] asked to exactly this sort of thing all of us." I thought it was strange at the time, and I said so in our pages. (The image at the top of this post is from this old piece.) Superstition-did I mention? -That was in 2007. A different era, as I have said. "

He likes Google + and circles however.

Before you, yes questions, they had similar as those of the Oslo murders. No case is also terrible not to use for a con artist.

On a prediction system using crowdsourcing is: people "buy" or "sell" a decision before it happens. Keep bookmark this one. Was on Sunday night happened on 21% chance.

Killian Fox: "Africa has experienced an incredible boom in mobile phone usage in the last decade." In 1998, there were fewer than four million mobile phones on the continent. Today, there are more than 500 m. In Uganda alone, 10 million people or around 30% of the population, have a mobile phone, and this number is growing rapidly every year. For Ugandans, these ubiquitous devices are more than just a practical way of to communicate on the fly: they are a way of life.
"It may seem unlikely, given his track record in technological development, but Africa is at the heart of a mobile revolution." In the West have we phones were more like our computers to adjust... In Africa, where the current worldwide use only 4% one billion people, many can make calculating a computer, let alone buy. "This led mobile phone users and developers more resourceful and African mobile phones are things to do, which only now begins the developed world take up is used."

You have to do very nice console for all API work or to test. (Thank you @ Artesea on Twitter for the link.)

Microsoft deep throat, an anonymous Manager: "the iPad remains in consumer love and money..." Suck money, which we prefer, send it our way, but there is nothing quite like for them to buy. Windows 8 ARM tablets? At some point next year, but what we showed to all things D is our take the squeeze an elephant in a VW bug. Here is some deep respect and chops to the people that this work to do, but it is a subtraction game, followed by many frustrating talks about why it is okay to work not certain obvious things... have obviously....
"An analyst question mean today: when the hell of bing is to stop, to lose money?" It seems, that the internal hiring spree finally has cooled so that well - the urging of warm body has finished.... Seriously but now is the time to start shaking the structure of bing and let the quality of the eco-system carry on and employs shed remaining work. If Xbox have made it, so can! "

What is puzzling is the dip and then jump in the period 2009. We would like to a statement.

Boot-up: Microsoft is nonsensical, search and Syrian hackers ' target anonymous'

Display Microsoft Bing... a sign of the times? Photo: Public domain

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"Microsoft must focus on a different kind of search: finding a buyer for Bing, the online search business." Bing is the industry's distant No. 2 after Google. It is a distraction for the software giant-one become expensive costing shareholders. The Division, the Bing houses lost $2.6 billion in the past year. May provide Facebook or even Apple a better home for Bing. "A sale would be a boon to Microsoft investors."

"Reports might buy Apple's staggering Q3 Dell twice and can a boatload money still in reserve, but they have a real ecosystem and strategy problem."

Apparently part of the problem is not search engine, who each quarter loses flows of money, and have made no LinkedIn in iOS5.

Mary Jo Foley: "as Microsoft's fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 profit made clearly, Windows 7 sales-with the glaring exception of Netbooks--are good, but not as it once was so good." Given it is still a year (give or take) s start up Windows 8, what is Microsoft's game plan to bottom drop out of the Windows PC market hold?
"The market for enterprise is chugging probably Windows 7 sales, keep many larger companies Windows 7, until finally after months of planning and testing provide." "And as Microsoft execs said during the yesterday's earnings conference call, the new market countries a lot of Windows 7, click though to lower prices - and with much higher piracy rates-as"developed"countries."

Interesting words on tablets. And this confirmed that Microsoft makes the worst PowerPoint decks in the world.

"Anonymous that hacker group, which saw some of their alleged members arrested last Tuesday had yet another blow to deal with on Wednesday, albeit less a: a dedicated social network page was hacked and defaced."
"The Group had announced earlier this week that it has started only AnonPlus, after his" your Anon "Newskonto of Google's new social network, Google +, was rejected for violating the website standards."

Syrian hackers apparently guilt. Ironic?

Sam Bowne of the 'ethical hacking' at the City College of San Francisco interviewed informed:
"RFE/RL: you see moral or ethical differences between what" news of the world "done has entry in" the Sun"for instance hacking into the individual phones or LulzSec, is there a moral equivalence here or are these different cases?" Bowne: "well, I mean, they are both wrong." They are both illegal. I think that they both be caught and punished. I think so, only that two wrongs make a right. And I do not see also, a real attack of the LulzSec purpose because I do not think there was some secret hidden things over which the news of the world have, would never come without them have hacking. Thus, it has not me clearly that she achieved nothing hacking. It was mostly just a trick, so she could laugh, that is, what about LulzSec always was. "
Thoughtful about the ethical differences between, for example, one physical sit-in and a DDOS "Visibility" staged.

"Yes, it grows further with five times the rate of the PC market (and 7.5 times the rate of only Windows PCs), but the iPad phenomenon is in fact affect the Mac."

Fascinating.

"The Android-based models Samsung Electronics Co., which can Nokia OYJ (NOK1V) world's second largest handset maker, and Apple Inc. (AAPL) smartphone sales in the second quarter exceeded have estimated driven due to the popularity, according to Boston-based strategy becomes Analytics.Samsung, that between 18 and 21 million smartphones sold worldwide iPhone's habenNeil Mawston in the period compared with 16.7 million for Nokia and 20.3 million", a London analyst at research said in an e-mailed response to questions on 22 July.

"The Galaxy device maker is passing in the Smartphone sales for the first time to Apple's on the next rival Google Inc. (GOOG) Android system on the way, Nokia and research in motion Ltd. (RIM) as consumers flock to devices." "Samsung, which is more than the double smartphone sales this year should aim at, and rivaled Apple replace use computer-like mobile phones Nokia as the biggest Smartphone seller and rising demand."

"Description: online"Pads"are used by anonymous / Antisec, information about their current target (s) post attack." "The pads contain information on any URLs, IP addresses, contacts, WHOIS records, and potential vulnerabilities exploit, links, phone numbers, addresses, status, etc." "shared"none"="

Boot-up: Foursquare hit 10 m users, such as one with LulzSec and more

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Beautiful animation.
Dan Frommer new venture digs into the details of the ChangeWave research. iPhone satisfaction: 70%; WP7, 57%; Android, 50%; WHEEL, 26%.
"If governments really seriously stop this threat that they were to defuse the anger and hate people almost feel toward the Government these days work would, she would take, people show that they are not the bad guys and taking this tough approach." Would more public perception on attention and the problems that people have not address an honest and transparent way responsible to the public, if questions are asked. "
Comments are interesting.
"Alon Laudon discovered a new experimental interface for Google results pages." The most important change is that most navigation items be visible remains, even if you scroll down. "Sidebar options have a fixed position, the navigation bar, the search box and search which means that you no longer scroll to the top of the page, edit the query or a special search engine switch."
It's bad that a first response was "I wonder, when, which was patented in?"
"Remember, the one great purpose of this Conference is to liven up Microsoft's network of partners and choice is exaggerated Turner's rhetorical fuel." "But as an insight into Microsoft's competitive mentality, it is enlightening - and also quite entertaining, if taken with a huge grain of salt."
Comments on Apple, Siebel, Salesforce, Google... You are all available. (Thanks @ Rquick for the link.)
Arrested a 16-year-old South Londoner: "Police hope that that could bring they teen and his computer, which was taken for the analysis of Topiary and the hackers Sabu and Kayla, added to by other hackers as the driving force behind the attacks on security companies like HBGary Federal." Also credit for attacks on a FBI partner, subsidiaries of Sony the PBS television network, AT & T called for the Lulz.
"The most recent arrest came on the same day that the United States were 16 accused hacker, which all but two of those charged with noted organized participation in attacks against payment processor PayPal in an operation by hacking group anonymous." "Two of the U.S. hacker connections to Lulz accused."
Ed Bott, nobody's idea, a Microsoft hater: "after nearly a decade, Microsoft's reign as a monopoly is over."
"The consent decree in United States against Microsoft expired last month officially Microsoft remove from antitrust review by the United States Department of justice." And the most recent data on Web usage, is that Microsoft's once dominant position in the world of personal computing crumbling.
"For the last four years I have collected market share snapshots of your Web experience by net half-year reports." The data for the first half of 2011 say an ominous story for Microsoft. "See for."
OK, wrong source in the diagram, but interesting.
"Apple's lion is their demands of us perhaps the real beginning of the end for PCs, in the sense of a computer, which roughly, personally, is above." Scroll bars? They are not natural and have no equivalent in the real world. We touch usually only one document, and with our fingers bewegen-- a Tablet way of working, which seems more natural and is now part of the lion. It's still that mouse or touchpad - work with large vertical screen compromises - needs, but the interface is one that to work, if it can start nothing more than an advertisement of some sort. If the computer itself, in other words, went way.
"Combining this type of movement with, say, projectors in walls and the way of the lens by which they can integrated throw a readable image everywhere;" Motion sensors, who know where the fingers and hands are; a connection in the cloud; "documents, is that you must never explicitly store, because they just always... where, in this picture the PC?"
"If you find data.gov.uk in detail that it is filled declarations with Organograms and expenditure and many of the datasets, the publication started already have stopped (for example A & E activity.)" Most authorities seem always is "User pays" policy run, if you will also headline free data publications such as Meteorological Office data services receive. "While there are some particularly early success, there is clearly much more to do."
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Boot-up: Twitter strategy 'a mess', color spurns $200 m Google deal, and much more

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"When introduced was Twitter the last time a killer feature?" Photos? We know how the work should not once again. "And we entrepreneurs with Instagram see for what it's value to much, so there is obviously something broken with Twitter photos."

Arrington says that the color should have taken the deal.

Gruber says: "I'm not, pick data raisins." I'm just watching, based on Apple's sales and Google activation data that the Tablet market today not everything sees how the Smartphone market is ever did. The iPad to enter Tablet market. The result was the Tablet market. "The iPad role on the Tablet market more resembles the iPod role in the digital music player market than the iPhone's role in the 2008 mobile phone market a decade ago."

Separately, Oracle won permission to question Larry page about his knowledge of the Google's relating to alleged infringement of patents, the Oracle was so grave has the popcorn.

Oracle and Google inappropriate positions on the scale of the damage to a high-stakes patent battle Android operating system have taken over, said a US judge in court.

"Both of you ask for the Moon and should be more appropriate," US District said judge William Alsup in a testy hearing on Thursday.

Ouch. Search engine land chief tells it like it to be: "for one, you know that Twitter and Facebook, which support both brands and there were of course for this request." You do not, that implement the support. "To you bad."

"According to June 21 by Boston-based market research company of Strategy Analytics released, global Tablet shipments reached 15 m units in the second quarter of 2011. Apple of claimed first position with 61% share-down by 94% a year earlier." "Tablets, Android, now on 30% operating system share of 3% in the year before second quarter zoomed executed."

Note that is not revenue shipments. Mary Jo Foley points out just because it delivered is not meant that a retailer has left it to shelves.

"Fujitsu today announced that the new Windows ® 7 F - 07 C-are mobile in Japan by NTT DOCOMO Inc. from 23 July 2011 available."
"The F-07 C mobile phone with Windows ® 7, paragraph 1 is the world's smallest PC(2) that fits in the Palm of the hand."
"F-07 C is as standard with a two year license for Microsoft ® Office staff 2010-an important business tool and other basic PC functionality, in addition to cheap mobile phone functions such as such as Osaifu-Keitai." "The combination of PC and mobile phone functions, F-07 C door and gate for a number of new opens."

Contains images. (Go on, take a look) Need heroic vision and finger from secondary, to use one of these. Atom processor (natch). Claimed battery life: "~ 2 hours in Windows 7 mode." We'd like to see.

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Boot-up: Smartphone snakes, IOS provides, revealed patents and more

This is what hurt Apple's patents on HTC phones. Mobile phones other Android's next? Photo: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
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"Where you have been outbid, you have to you has been sleeping with spoke - secrets which people would share even with their closest friends are not in a device, you better than white spills each familiar."
"Apple may have publicly denied that it is tracking people via their iPhones but the police and private forensic experts have saved any contrition about unlocking the secrets in smartphones."
"Last year, the policing Agency placed improving cell phone teaches evidence in the top level of the training requirements for officers, evidence they secure put together by cell phones, with 3500 officers, expected in the year that take the course."
Shipping delay up to 1 to 3 days instead of one or two weeks, as they were in April.
"Q: which is still quite remarkable - get the most news sites almost completely trolling or offensive comments." What is transformed it over the Internet, the people of assholes? "A: I think anonymity;" They think that they can get away with it. Anonymous speech - like whistle-blowing - definitely has a role in the company, but any time you anonymity people can introduce free assholes. How I grew up in Los Angeles, and if you are in a car in Los Angeles with 8 million other people, you are completely anonymous; People drive horribly. And then you move to Oregon, and everyone is waving at people drive much nicer and other. I see that the online - is it as you can what level of anonymity, is as much garbage, you're going to get. "
"It turns out that two patents have already been confirmed in this way." A patent covers the editing of data structures with user input (that is, if you on a mobile phone display a number increments, which is patented tap). The second patent includes "Real time processing serial data transmitted" - Although that sounds at first like a patent, it may be all of the slides software level of abstraction of real time operations (such as driver) include hardware. For more information about the FOSS patents blog. "The result is that if it is formally approved, Apple could either be a license for all Android powered devices, HTC they sell fee (if you consider the HTC for exactly this reason already pay Microsoft royalties is) or prevent that HTC import Android powered devices at all in the United States." "The latter measure may be issued as little as three or four months."
"Friday's Apple won a round in his court fight against Taiwanese phone maker HTC, when an International Trade Commission judge ruled that HTC Android phones violate two Apple patents." "The verdict is HTC appealing."
It's all about patents at the moment.
Useful for any time Twitter for good should scratch anything.
Kootol of the software patent "universal knowledge management and desktop search system" - is now safe to pass through the US Patent Office (aptly a set) and be approved. The USPTO has been asleep for the last 10 years? Google Desktop Search? Anyone?
"44,49 Million units reached Taiwan-based notebook maker invoice in the second quarter of 2011 with a sequential increase of 8.5%, better than the 5.6% growth in the same quarter a year ago." The shipment growth in the second quarter of 2011 was above all that from one million units by the Intel Classmate PC Venezuela, while the demand from the consumer notebook market remained low and incident, the delays in the movement of new notebook models, did not significantly Intel's chipsets, broken the notebook manufacturers, according to DIGITIMES Research benefit senior analyst Joanne Chien. "
Also: Broadcasts of MacBook Airs grew by 300,000 up to 1 m, and 30% of Apple's total notebook shipments were. That is a lot.
Our story about developer a discussion on reddit about what is and not software pull through back causes of U.S. app store due to the software patent fears, patentable. Insightful.
Hockenberry like the Internet as a medium for the distribution; "But this advanced distribution is also our business at risk: there are people in this new market to claim the right to a part of our hard work." Either by patent or, developers are this new find copyright infringement costs of proceedings be too onerous.
"The scary part is that these violations with any part of our products or Web sites can occur: things that one would never imagine, is a violation of someone other intellectual property." It feels like coding in a mine field. "From our experience, it is quite possible that all revenue for a product of legal costs can be eaten." After years of pouring your heart and soul into this product it is devastating. It makes you question why the hell you are in the business: If you can pay salaries of sales of products, there is no point in building there are in the first place. "
All Revenue? Scary.
Long interview; We will cook time-starved it up on a few lines for that.
Stephen DeWitt: "corporate synergy..." Laser focused... excited... Possibilities... Channels... compelling... clientized... Take advantage of the experience... meaningful relationships... passionate... a few things that we have not right to clearly communicate... "Push-back... tethered relationship..."
Rubenstein: "I would focus of my time in the future, WebOS is more."
Only obvious to American readers: "Verizon has already started cutting down on tethering by removing applications from the Android market, but today it has a much larger step by releasing an update for the HTC thunderbolt that blocked it by unauthorized tethering." Droid free of charge and LG revolution next in line. avoid the update means not get gingerbread (Android 2.3) support later.
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Boot-up: Ordnance survey for Vince cable, reddit, and Twitter spam gold

Vince cable cares ordnance survey photography: Steve Parsons/PA
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"The Prime Minister has announced today that the ministerial responsibility for ordnance survey, in addition to land registry office and met passed Office innovation and skills (BIS) to the Department for business."
"Move the Government to the ordnance survey and the Government of customer functions by the Department for communities and local government."
"BIS Permanent Secretary, Martin Donnelly, welcomed the movement, creation of a public data Corporation (PDC), marked a step in the direction have been announced for the Government in January of this year."
Ordnance survey was never quite useful within DCLG. It will be interesting to see who is his ministers.
"Basically, I think that Twitter priorities are wrong here." Twitter needs a far more aggressive, automated, proactive, heuristic-based anti spam system. And if someone has the price have trouble getting legally tweeting, is not a link without text up to 100 people in a row, who follow them precisely 1 minute intervals only we pay.
"In the meantime never feature 'report spam' again, I use because it seems, as I waste my time am exactly."
This however assumes that spam on Twitter actively annoys people. There is no amount of prove, that it does though, because in contrast to e-Mail has reached not to the point where it significant share of a timeline - and every single spam account has actually tweeted the same person twice?
"More than 48 m mobile users accessed cards on their device in may, marking by 39% over the previous year." "A comparative look at map use under fixed Internet users (i.e. access to from a home or work computer) found that visitation may 2011 compared with the previous year plunge into a slight drop in the total audience 2%, and at the same time a much larger audience of 93.8 m visitors saw this show."
Give him a few quarters and mobile desktop.
"I have been for the most part, she use Android phones and tablets since the beginning, and I love." They work fine most of the time and are a pleasure to use. This is the case, until something goes wrong, and as [ZDNet colleague] discovered Scott, it is usually the result of a Google partner something on a specific device to change traffic jams to the pipes.
"I suspected this was the case, and it was proven to me when I switched recently to the Samsung nexus S 4 G." The nexus-S Google's flagship phone, and as such it bypasses all Samsung adjustments in favour of the stock Android running. This has a user experience led better than I, with other Android devices have experienced. "The operation of the phone is perfect, and the performance is stellar in every respect."
Perfect? Wow, that's pretty benchmark.
"In a note to investors Monday repeated report that research in motion may be plans to stop production of the BlackBerry textbook Wi-Fi model RBC capital markets Managing Director Mike Abramsky an OTR global." The Wi-Fi version of RIM Tablet research in motion is the only version currently manufacturers. "The reasons for the setting of the Wi-Fi Edition, Abramsky says, could be used to a pullback in production, a move that would align channel inventory with slower than expected sell-through, with a focus on upcoming cellularly in addition to RIM playbook versions."
* May * be considered. But some commentators on the post to point out that you can get a used textbook for much less than the recommended retail price.
Note: RIM has this completely denied, tweeting: "Pure Fiction." No plan to cease. "In fact, WiFi PlayBook starts in new countries practically every week."
As soon as Wednesday what? Oh, you mean... sure. Wonder, whether it instead, delay on the day so that its financial results of the papers on Wednesday morning wash, and then press ENTER again on Thursday.
"According to British Etailer clove, which is ZTE Skate sale 19 go in the United Kingdom on September, and it is now for pre-order, up to a tantalizing £ 250 prize." "Has a solid £ 100 to £ 200 cheaper than similar in size to rivals such as the HTC HD desire and S2 of Samsung Galaxy, and it's probably cheaper to Orange, where it go on numbers like you for a still its subsidized price confirmed."
ZTE (a Chinese ODM enabled OEM) will be a force to reckon with in the Smartphone market. Microsoft and Apple, likely have dates already posted their patent attorneys.
"Today we can add one other strange planets to the list [of extra-solar planets, that perhaps we could up life]: 55 Cancri f, one of the five planets an orange dwarf some cancer orbit 40 light-years away in the constellation known."
"Institute of technology in Pasadena, California and a few pals have measured its orbit exactly for the first time Kaspar von Braun at the California." These guys are in a position to confirm that 55 Cancri f is a real candidate to support liquid water.
"they say, although this planet is much more elliptical than the Earth, it spends the most of the time (74 percent) in the habitable zone."
Cook so we would just freeze / to death three months of the year? Save us a seat.
A year ago, reddit introduced a subscription program "" reddit gold. Clear the show, more visible, to start some other interaction benefits, for $4 / month or $30.
So, how has it gone?
"SeaMicro built shook up the world of data center computing through energy-efficient server to Intel's low-power Atom chips, used in Netbooks and notebooks." "For the third time in nine months, SeaMicro leads to a different line of servers that and a quarter of the electricity can pack a lot of computing power in one-sixth of the usual place."
Impressive: the key is that it not only go on the CPU but also the other chips, that burn stream, to take the 2 / 3 of consumption.
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Boot-up: Facebook's MySQL meltdown, tech giants and patents and more

The Anonymous hackers targeted the CIA? s Web page in a number of high-profile cyber-attacks. Photo: Getty Images
Quickly to chew over, as picked by the technology team burst of 8 links for you
: Indictment members of anonymous > Scribd
Service of judicial documents is not sealed.
Nathan Myhrvold: Tech giant discover use of patents > Bloomberg
Former Microsoftie technologist Myhrvold has a number of patents.
Will you hear Steve jobs? > open abroad
An Apple retail store in China? No, fake: "I know you guys are laughing: an Apple store in Kunming?" Nobody who know me personally not ever of Kunming plans belongs. Kunming is the end of the Earth. It is true - everything but in earnest, China distorts your mind to believe that anything is possible if you stay here long enough. As we back to this store went 5 days later and could not find him, have exceeded by two blocks, I seriously thought that it had simply demolished and replaced with a bank in the meantime - hey, it's China. That could happen.
"You have already guessed the punch line, of course: this was a total Apple store ripoff." A beautiful ripoff - a brilliant one - the best ripoff stores we had ever seen (and we see them every day). But some things were just not right: the stairs were made bad. The walls had not been properly painted.
"Apple never writes" Apple store "is on it - it is just brilliant, iconic fruit."
Apple, Microsoft and the divergence of the PC market > GeekWire
"As the PC market, Windows is so." "Economic uncertainty and alternative device-including Apple iPad-- are in sales of traditional PCs cut."
Note that Apple's Mac sales growth been faster than Windows PC market growth for 16 quarters. This is no chance. Question is why.
Baidu browser pointed to Hat copied old Steve Jobs quote special chrome sauce > Engadget
Possibly chrome, Baidu - that is the huge in China search engine - by fork has an own browser that looks rather like chrome now. Live from the open, get forked through the open.
Microsoft and Apple, blah, blah, blah. Will someone please talk about Google's role in all this? ≫ the small waves.
Good point: Microsoft model licensing, Apple is not licensing and their approaches to Android reflect this.
Nokia Sea Ray again caught on video, > right mobile
That October introduction systematically examined.
Facebook caught in 'Fate worse than death' MySQL > GigaOM
""After database pioneer Michael Stonebraker Facebook a large, complex MySQL implementation follows active is"a fate worse than death," and the only way out is "bite the bullet and write everything."
"Not that it necessarily Facebook error, although is." Stonebraker says that the social network's predicament all too common among Web startups that start small and grow to epic proportions.
"During an interview of this week, Stonebraker told me that Facebook your MySQL database is divided into 4,000 fragments to the Web site handle massive data volume and is running, the database has must serve to keep the number of transactions the 9,000 instances of memcached." "I am testing with Facebook to check accuracy of these figures, but Facebook's history with MySQL is no secret."
She would not really worry that you might be the world's largest social network, if you first typed "create database..."
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Boot-up: iPad predicted, Google "knew Oracle violation", Flickr + Twitter =?, and much more

It's raining iPads! No, possibly not. Bert Foord during TV weather forecast by the Meteorological Office in 1963.
A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the technology team
""When you visit an unfamiliar location, Google maps is get a performance for mobile phones great for thereof, or only for getting you are as close to your destination, where streets and places of interest in relation to each other,"un-lost." But what if you do not have a data signal, or you are abroad and have no data plan? We say that if you use Google maps for mobile, you need never again to wear a paper card to. ""Download map area"lab in Google maps is 5.7 for Android a step in that statement true make, even if you are offline."
Neat.
"" It"is possible", that Google knew, that its Android mobile operating system would Oracle Java patents violate, but decided, with the effort anyway, head judge supervision of intellectual property entities said action in a letter Tuesday filed."Judge William Alsup gave the explanation in connection with the so-called Daubert motion, the Google in the hope of the results of Oracle has filed damage experts without. "Both sides have submitted briefs in relation to a hearing on the motion, which is scheduled for July 21."When reading the Daubert briefing, it is possible that Google would be recognized at an early stage that there patents protect hurting at least part of Java, entered into negotiations with Sun [Microsystems] a license for use in Android,? then the negotiations as too expensive and pressed home with Android without any license at all, given up, "Alsup wrote in the letter in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California filed. "Hmm."
Iconfactory (the Twitterrific does) already has an extension. This is all for good play.
"This is an artifact of population density and Flickr and Twitter users." What is more interesting but are outside of the city of blue and orange dominates. For example, will be in the North America map above, in the East of blue, while in the West seems more orange dominated. "What compels people Tweet about take a picture and vice versa?" "Or we see only a Twitter scratch, that happened early in the morning, before the West Coast woke up?"
"Google's"continuous beta"approach, which uses it to [Googlesuche and Gmail] is the customers of two new market segments, the Google will not satisfy victory: Smartphone software and enterprise software."Let me first say that Google's move to create their own Smartphone platform (Android) me a mystery from the outset was you. It was not necessary. "Google could have easily on great mobile software, and you are looking for products for all major smartphone platforms and it goal that was would have reached a mobile platform for AdWords creating."
Very entertaining to read slightly missed the point as well.
This is a pretty wide variety, but the average is 7.93 m (the median 8.09 m.) In any case, it more than twice the 3.2 m sold is its first quarter a year ago.
Is interesting, like HP, with its large company offers taken is worse than the industry average.
"We have never been wider than what we have to run dropbox interested in rights." We want this language right, so that you are comfortable with dropbox without a reservation: what is you is you. "Instead of trying to add clarification to the terms, we have rewritten this part from scratch..."
Suitable for those concerned about it?
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Boot-up: Google +-disks, Apple's patent poker, the Tablet slowdown and more

If you are the stronger player, important almost not the cards. Photograph: Alamy
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-Tell us what you look like the slightly tweaked. Better? Bad? (Here is how it looked on Friday.)

"Many Google + users saw an enormous amount of e-Mail notifications from the service this afternoon, and now Google has head of the social, Vic Gundotra, an explanation." "For 80 minutes we ran the space on the service, notifications, the ' Gundotra wrote about Google + tonight."Therefore our system continue to try sending notifications. Over and over again. Yikes.'""
If you confirm that this überhasteten a half-baked launch, then it is. Google + can have grown beyond expectations, but space is pretty cheap, Google way. And available-if you plan it.

Well look at the play-by-play of the mobile patents battle of Nortel.
"It was a subject of at least eight other news outlets, including VentureBeat ("Tablet sales slow"), the loop ("'Media Tablet' market not as strong as previously thought") and Forbes picked up (" sales dip notes media tablets will not replace PCs of any time soon ")."

"The source for these pessimist headlines?" 7.2 Million was an IDC report, that the number of tablet computers in sales channels delivered in the first quarter of 2011. "At first, that posted, sold me as absurd, given the fact that Apple (AAPL) alone reports next week is expected, that a good deal more than 7.2 million iPads last quarter."I also have a second look at the IDC report. What I missed first painting - and what this reporter, not berücksichtigen-- is that IDC Q1 2011, said that from January to March, 2011 leads not Q2 that ran from April to June. Course tablet sales after the October December dipped holiday quarter. We knew that months ago. "Is this news?"

"IPads be sold tablets for Android Smartphone users currently better than Android." So claims Canaccord Genuity Analyst Mike Walkley, the Apple Tablet market for quite some time dominate expected. "Walkley"our Smartphone handset review and indicate which iPads for Android Smartphone users better than the current Android sell tablets,"said in a Friday letter to customers (although he not numbers in support of the assertion provided)."

"There you have to only the list of people you have chosen on Google + follow hidden."My question is: If this setting is one that everyone on Google seems to feel is important for their privacy, why it is not the default for the rest of us? "

"It breaks my heart to say this, but Mac OSX Lion interface feels like a failure." Its stated mission was, the operating system, it with the clean experience of iOS to unify to simplify. That won't happen. "If it fast for the reliable Unix, graphics and networking cores, Lion Apple's own Vista would."

Could be not it be Apple's Vista even with UNIX, graphics and cores?
"Has anyone noticed that this week of published screenshots of the new Xbox Dashboard conspicuously omit the Zune logo?" If you look at the music experience shot below you see some generic music note graphics, but no Zune. "The Zune brand, is of course, gradually abolished." "This is just the latest public example of this slow migration."

More like a slow removal of Microsoft's history, Soviet-style.

"Perhaps is the biggest piece of news, we from Forsythe learned that is not free for the first time since its inception before seven years growl in the Mac app store." Talk devs of the project "still the final price, but"there are likely a dollar or two dollars at the most"according to Forsythe of". Some can pay their noses to appear nothing for the results of an open source project, but Forsythe says the reasoning behind the charge is simple: "I am an adult adults", he says, "and my wife wonder why I spend time working on my open source project and not with my two - month old." "For all the work of Forsythe and his colleagues have devs in Growl, a few dollars seems to ask."
Growl is a very fine piece of software. It's pretty hard to someone a few dollars below.

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Boot-up: 1-click patent rejected more open data, why is Ballmer at CES and more,

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Nice try, Amazon: 'single click'-payment to obviously, patent-> > the register
"By the online-retail payment system giant Amazon patent, the European Patent Office (EPO) has decided, too obvious."Amazon had hoped for, how, who their customers for products by a single Web page-click numbers patent logged. The company was granted patent rights to the payment system in the United States.

"An Appeals Board to the EPO decided that the"one-click"method was too obvious, as it left called on existing inventions,"State of the art"in patent law." "Inventions need new, take an innovative, which is not obvious, and useful, patent protection can be applied to industry."

Maybe could we give the EPO at the US patent system in the form to come?
Cameron is the transparent society > UKAuthority
"Is pass data about the performance of GPs, schools and information about sets of individual courts, in the open, standardized format under latest transparency initiative of the Government on Thursday announced to be released."A letter about the new number promises 10 Downing Street website, on Thursday, "the most ambitious data open agenda of every Government in the world." "

Other events may have overshadowed this, but it is very important.
A pun on Google plus and the circles of hell > Terence Eden

"This is something Nik Butler and I discussed."Google must follow, so that the people choose the districts. "I can imagine a user interface that allows me to set a circle as a private ("working","Family",)"political rant") and some quarters as public (" kitten pictures "," industry news "," political thoughts ") set."If you follow me, you can say "I hate kittens, but I love policy - I follow a circle and the others ignore." "At the moment, I don't have the time, categorize 200 people in what I think that they are interested in." And she bombed want not with QR codes are, when all they really want is LOLCATS. "" So, come on Google, sort it out let people who select circles they want its inch "Please RT!"

The irony of this last application for Twitter are not lost available, hope we.
DNA is now DIY: OpenPCR ships worldwide > OpenPCR
"The price of a traditional PCR machine is around $ 3,000." So, do people in garages have large PCR machines? Not really. Howabout high school or middle school teachers? Nope.

Howabout of smaller medical test labs or Labs in India or China? Nope. Even some large bio-labs try their luck on eBay. We set out to change. "Josh and I OpenPCR a prototype in about 4 months ago - it was a lot of fun." In May we the first prototype of the OpenPCR all a bunch of crazy people on Kickstarter introduced, 158 people gave us a total of $12,121. With, that we developed and produced a repeatable, works all-the time device - it has a lot of hard work. "Now we are ready and willing to share!"
PCR is polymerase chain reaction - the method you use to enlarge a small sample of DNA. Now, everyone can play.

Currys.co.UK and the missing call > Sarah Parmenter
The strange case of how could not oven are purchased because the confirmation calls do not come through their iPhone kept. Strange as it looks at first glance.
That is why keynotes by Steve Ballmer at CES > CES Twitter account
CES noticed, what we are talking about and makes his statement.
China-based white box vendors expected to send to 8 million Tablet PCs in 2011 > DIGITIMES

"China-based white box vendors have developed mainly equipped with low-cost processors many models of low-cost Tablet PCs by Qualcomm, NVIDIA and via technologies for domestic sales and exports to emerging markets, with total shipments estimated at 2 m units for the first quarter of 2011 and expected 8 m for the year reach sound sources from Taiwan-based makers started."

"White-box laptop players targeted in particular the entry-level segment with price level than US$ 250 started cutting in China Tablet PC market beginning 2011. [even if] their weak operating system options only Android 2.2 / 2.3 or Windows 7 as compared to the mainstream operating system choices for the availability of software or applications are still demand from some consumer groups consider their low prices."
Not quite the "50 %" market share that said DisplaySearch, and DIGITIMES seems to know the suppliers.

Browse your Oyster travel and fare history > GitHub
Requires that you have your own server and written for Linux (or Mac OS X). Clever, you have the chops to make it work.

How to take screenshots of your Android phone without roots - Recombu
"We have reviewed recently a handful of Android phones allow you to screen Tomb, photographs of what also always on the phone display is currently simultaneously, through the power and menu button - simply press." At last! "You might think, a big deal." Apart from the fact that it is - it is a really useful feature. As well, our life here a little easier if we write app stories, it has many uses. "Conquer incriminating texts from friends/colleagues/ex-partner (ideal for the upload in Facebook, if you are feeling angry) to prove that you have three each angry birds level played (including all seasons and Rio), there are plenty of ways that this can be useful."
Confirmed that the work on the Samsung Galaxy S II, for a start.
Mein summer an Indian call center > Mother Jones

' While we in endless traffic where idle, I am of my colleagues Nishant asks. ' America? "he says.""I'll tell you about America." ' I must carefully, look, because he quickly explains that after years of the 50-hour WorkWeeks, probably spoken with more of my fellow citizens than I have. "America is not all honey and Roses which they say way" he informed me. ' " Truth is, that 90 percent of the people there find you, she'll do the dumbest things, impulsive things. I know for a fact. At the same time, Americans are generous people, and the remaining 10 percent of them are smart. Bloody smart. "This is, why they the world prevail.'"

Fascinating insights. They - including one from someone who admits that she comments the idiot customer from hell would be - are also enlightening.
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Boot-up: Apple's secret service call, androids ultimate summer, Twitter view come and more

U.S. agents accompany Barack Obama. He has put the software on machines in an Apple retail store. Photo: Jason Reed/Reuters
A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the technology team
"Artist Kyle McDonald a program installed on computers in two New York Apple store locations, the a photo makes automatically every minute." "Now have his computers were confiscated by the US secret service."

Artist has a bad idea. Has the quality of the idea been violent to him. Perhaps you ask first next time?

"The innocent-looking"1 tip"display is actually the tip of something much larger: a variety of diet and weight loss companies hawking everything from pills, between African mangoes and potions made from exotic Acai berries produced." Federal officials have claimed that their products of companies map after the inflated claims about and make fraudulent funds use them to market. "Take this so far: at least $1 billion and counting."
The "1 tip" map independent promoters that ultra lean plus place them on behalf of small diet product seller named HCG are the work of armies of 'connected undertakings'. The promoters will benefit every time when someone clicks through on the ordered product seller Web site and a free sample. "The example, but not always so free."

"This is a crucial summer for Android." It rose to prominence as the anti-iPhone, but has managed to combine Apple, Microsoft and research in motion in a consortium of competitors trying, Google in its most vulnerable point taken. "Like [Andy] Reback years ago, modern related patent litigation is not really everything, what other than a protection racket: you pay or get hurt." "If Google wants to keep rolling the wonders of the Android, it will need to find a way, provide protection to the own brand before its partners for peace of mind over loyalty opt."

The question, what is?

Read it, and then write your own punchline.

"How Twitter raises more money, it is more serious about money to get." The service will show set to launch, which display in users "Timeline" within the next month after by using plans that it spoke for more than a year.

"Twitter is a new ad product called" promotes tweets, followers, "from early August press start."

This will either go very well (no one will notice them) or Catastophically (everyone will notice it).

"The day would simply without a spicy rumors about the next iPhone feel incomplete, and today is a spicy indeed." "According to a photo, popped up yesterday on the Web that next iPhone iteration will be known, as the iPhone 5, but more interesting part is that the Smartphone dual cameras on the back, is probably for the collection of 3D photos and videos pack."

It reveals a lot of games with Photoshop as a forgery. There is no a website where you can upload photos to see their fake-ness?
Fascinating, read detailed.

"From Brazil to France to Australia to India, new laws and platforms citizens provide new means to request, demand or create more transparency of the Government." The open data movement is truly global, with 19 international open data Web site around the globe live gone. "This week, the world see go live any other open government platform in Kenya." Amazing.

"Omar Khan, the Samsung CTO working Android-powered Citibank responsible for the rise of the GalTab and other mobile devices, the company's to handle global digital banking initiatives." He is replaced by Nick Dicarlo and Gavin Kim in ' product and the speaker responsible for Samsung mobile.' "

TechCrunch suggests that this a certain "political infighting" shows. Or may be not a big enough raise?

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