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Monday, January 30, 2012

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• Achtung, Google! U2 boss blasts 'monopoly' for free-for-all
  But Spotify is fine Music manager Paul McGuinness has previously used the annual MIDEM show to chastise ISPs – but this year it's the Chocolate Factory that has earned his ire. "Why are they not trying to solve the future in a more generous way?" he
  
• Facebook preps for public showtime with $100bn price tag
  Reports suggest huge IPO is imminent It's difficult not to mention Google in the same breath as Facebook these days – and that's especially true when one considers the initial public offering the dominant social network is reportedly planning later
  
• Google spews out 'privacy' email to Sky punters too
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• Google, what happened?
  Google, it used to be I couldn't wait to see your cheery face in the morning. Now I'm not sure I can even get a straight answer from you. When you first showed up out of nowhere, I was charmed like everyone else. You dressed simply. There was nothing
  
• Hands on with Amazon Storage Gateway
  Amazon's new Storage Gateway offers a twist on cloud-based backups, but beware of the rough edges Print | Last week, Amazon announced the most recent addition to its AWS product portfolio: The Amazon Storage Gateway, a simple, powerful way to back up
  
• Jailbreaking the Internet: For freedom's sake
  Last week, I talked a bit about the history of the Internet and its original goal of enabling the free flow of information . I also talked about the fact that moneyed interests the world over are scrambling to turn the Internet into something closer to
  
• What if Facebook Timeline was read instead of your CV?
  Unless you want future employers to know your entire history, you need to change your privacy settings, and fast It's all change at Facebook in the next few weeks as its timeline feature is rolled out to all users – whether they want it or not. This
  
• Facebook IPO seeks to raise $10bn, says WSJ
  Sign up to ZDNet UK's daily newsletter. Topics Facebook, IPO, Mark Zuckerberg, Social media NEWS Get ready for the hottest initial offering of 2012. Facebook is set to file its IPO as early as Wednesday, seeking a valuation between $75 billion and $100
  
• Antiphishing standard in the works from Google, Facebook, others
  Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal and others are working together on a standard that can be used across the Internet for blocking phishing e-mails. The 15 companies will be announcing on Monday DMARC.org, which stands for Domain-based Message
  
• Google Teams With Facebook and Microsoft To Phight Phishing
  It's very rare occurrence. But even the worst of tech enemies can agree that phishing is bad. On Monday, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and eleven others outfits announced they had formed a new alliance to combat phishing -- a way of fooling email
  
• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 30
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  

Sunday, January 29, 2012

• Facebook will need lots of friends to justify a $100bn flotation
  Analysts are in a frenzy as indications grow that the social network is about to go public. But it's going to be difficult to live up to the hype Another week, another rumour about a Facebook IPO. Stories that the social network is about to go public
  
• Fletch becomes daddy of online safety
  Opposition launches online safety cabal The federal opposition has launched an Online Safety Working Group to be chaired by former Optus head of regulatory affairs and current Liberal MP Paul Fletcher. The group, designed to shield us all from the evils
  
• Google's Google+ gambit: The madman theory
  Let me tell you a story about Richard M. Nixon and the cold war--and yes, I promise that it's relevant to a blog post about Google's controversial move to integrate its Google+ network deeply into the Google search engine. President Richard M. Nixon
  
• Will Google have to start a patent war to get $9bn of value from Motorola?
  The financial performance of handset, tablet and set-top box maker Motorola suggests that it won't add $12bn (including $3bn of cash) in value to Google's business. But how can Google possibly earn its money back from patents? Google intends to buy
  
• Is Facebook run by sociopaths?
  It's never healthy to patronize a European. In Europe, they view looking down from a cultural perch as exclusively their own domain, given that they believe history will always be on Europe's side. It was, therefore, less than deft of Facebook COO Sheryl
  
• Indian Site Offers Reward For Googler Vandal
  An anonymous reader writes "Indian website Techgoss, which offered a reward of Rs. 10,000 to get photos of Facebook founder in India, did manage to get photos of Zuckerberg attired in Indian clothes at an Indian wedding. They have followed up the success
  
• How Will You React To Twitter's Regional Censorship Plan?
  Despite (and probably partly because of) its much-touted role as a communications link in the Arab Spring protest movements of the last year, Twitter announced a few days ago that it could be (which I take to mean "will be, and probably are") selectively
  
• Facebook Expected To Go Public Next Week
  First time accepted submitter foozie writes "Many credible sources, including Forbes and CBS, say that Facebook will finally IPO next week, raising about $10 billion and valuating at $75 billion, almost three times the valuation of Google at the point of
  
• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 29
  Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time
  
• Apple, Google under scrutiny over no-poaching charges
  They're known to attract the best and brightest minds. But this week, a federal judge ordered Google, Apple and five other high-tech companies to court over accusations they violated antitrust laws by conspiring not to poach each other's employees. CBS
  
• Facebook, Washington State Sue Firm Over Clickjacking
  Trailrunner7 writes "Facebook and the state of Washington are suing an ad network they accuse of encouraging people to spread spam through clickjacking schemes and other tactics. The company at the center of the allegations, Adscend Media, denies the
  
• Social-network update: Facebook up; Twitter slow?
  (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) Turns out it's pretty much business as usual today in social-network-land, despite earlier claims hackers would take down Facebook and an ongoing boycott of Twitter by users accusing the company of censorship. Twitter did not
  

Saturday, January 28, 2012

• Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life
  PALO ALTO, Calif. IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg, the ones that the
  
• Google doodle animates world's biggest snowflake
  The role of Google's doodles is very simple. It's to make you think that Google is not a monstrous gargantuan entity keen on owning you, but a cute, cuddly company just trying the help you through the chilly winters of life. Talking of gargantuan
  
• Google+ Officially Open To Teens
  hypnosec writes "Google+ made a landmark move and opened itself to users who are over the age of 13. Google+ did not initially target the younger crowd and kept itself available only for users above the age of 18. Besides, opening up to youngsters over
  
• How Amazon Could Split Netflix and iTunes to Win Streaming Video
  Everyone knows that Amazon wants to extend its digital media offerings. Its executives know the long-term trends for sales of DVDs, Blu-Rays and their players. The company that dominates e-book and e-reader sales was already ?beaten first to digital
  
• Google Doodle Celebrates the World’s Largest Snowflake!
  I’m not sure how they measured it, but according to Google’s animated Doodle , January 28 is the 125th anniversary of the world’s largest snowflake. According to The New York Times, Giant Snowflakes as Big as Frisbees are certainly possible, if not
  
• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 28
  Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time
  
• Twitter boycott looms with censorship accusations
  Twitter users announcing they will participate in the January 28 Twitter boycott. (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) Some Twitter users are trying to wield the organizing power of the social-networking site against the site itself: they're using the hashtags
  

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