Thursday
Chrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220396/Chrome_poised_to_take_No._2_browser_spot_from_Firefox
Wednesday
Amazon's Cloud Drive: First Impressions
We take Amazon's new Cloud Drive music-streaming service for desktop browsers and Android handsets out for a spin.
Cloud Drive, which Amazon announced Tuesday, lets users access up to 20 GB of their own music from any desktop browser or Android smartphone. Cloud Drive provides 5 GB of storage for free, but will upgrade that to 20 GB with the purchase of any album from its MP3 download store. How well does it work and is it worth the time it takes to set up?
Using my desktop computer, I navigated to Amazon.com. On the Amazon home page, it had a splashy announcement about the new service, with links that lead directly to it. There are several components needed to set up Cloud Drive.
From:
- Christian Ulvog
MySpace loses over ten million users in one month
Social networking website MySpace lost over ten million users between January and February 2011, according to comScore. In February 2011, the Internet website had less than 63 million users, down from a previous total of approximately 73 million. In the same month, 2.3 million individuals were on the site in the United Kingdom.
In the space of one year, MySpace has also suffered a number of user losses approaching fifty million. Earlier this year, MySpace announced their intentions to eliminate five hundred jobs around the world, which equates to half of its employee total.
From:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MySpace_loses_over_ten_million_users_in_one_month
- Christian Ulvog
In the space of one year, MySpace has also suffered a number of user losses approaching fifty million. Earlier this year, MySpace announced their intentions to eliminate five hundred jobs around the world, which equates to half of its employee total.
From:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MySpace_loses_over_ten_million_users_in_one_month
- Christian Ulvog
Windows Phone 7 Predicted To Beat Apple iPhone
Looking at the smartphone market today, it is hard to believe that Microsoft's still-brand-new smartphone platform will become the second largest within four years. But that's exactly the story IDC is selling.
This year, Android will own the market, with 39.5%. Second is Symbian at 20.9%. Third is iOS at 15.7%. Fourth is BlackBerry with 14.9%. Fifth is Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile with 5.5%. "Others" bring up the rear, with about 3.5%. ("Others" most likely consists of HP's webOS, Linux, et al.)
From:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal-tech/smart-phones/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400529
- Christian Ulvog
Monday
Is it a bird? No it's a robot
There are some developments that are too beautiful to miss, even if you are not interested in the hardware and so it is with Festo's collection of biologically inspired robots. To a programmer a robot is "just another platform", but to take control of a machine that literally flies like a bird is inspiring.
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/2183-is-it-a-bird-no-its-a-robot.html
- Christian Ulvog
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/2183-is-it-a-bird-no-its-a-robot.html
- Christian Ulvog
Can you really be traced from your IP address?
Davey Winder investigates if rights holder and the police can reliably trace suspects via their IP addresses
Identifying individuals using nothing more than their IP address has become a key part of anti-piracy and criminal investigations. But just how reliable is such IP address evidence?
British courts have recently begun to cast doubt over its validity. The use of IP addresses to tie individuals to illegal downloads was a tactic employed by ACS Law, which sent letters demanding up to £500 compensation on behalf of copyright holders whose intellectual property was said to have been stolen.
At a hearing where 27 of these cases came to court, Judge Birss QC suggested that ACS Law had "materially overstated the untested merits" of using IP addresses in this way, and questioned if the process of simply identifying an IP address could establish a copyright infringement by anyone related to it. "Even if it is proof of infringement by somebody," Judge Birss said, "the fact that someone may have infringed does not mean the particular named defendant has done so."
From:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/366349/can-you-really-be-traced-from-your-ip-address
- Christian Ulvog
Identifying individuals using nothing more than their IP address has become a key part of anti-piracy and criminal investigations. But just how reliable is such IP address evidence?
British courts have recently begun to cast doubt over its validity. The use of IP addresses to tie individuals to illegal downloads was a tactic employed by ACS Law, which sent letters demanding up to £500 compensation on behalf of copyright holders whose intellectual property was said to have been stolen.
At a hearing where 27 of these cases came to court, Judge Birss QC suggested that ACS Law had "materially overstated the untested merits" of using IP addresses in this way, and questioned if the process of simply identifying an IP address could establish a copyright infringement by anyone related to it. "Even if it is proof of infringement by somebody," Judge Birss said, "the fact that someone may have infringed does not mean the particular named defendant has done so."
From:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/366349/can-you-really-be-traced-from-your-ip-address
- Christian Ulvog
Rolltop - A futuristic laptop
The Java world got a bit of a surprise this morning when Java creator James Gosling revealed that he is now working for Google.
In his blog entry today, Gosling announced the news in brief fashion:
"Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today. One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities."
One can only imagine the opportunities Gosling has been offered since he left his former employer Oracle last year. But Google, it seems, is his next landing pad.
Ironically, since Gosling worked for Oracle, and Oracle acquisition Sun Microsystems before that, one of his patents (RE38,104) is being used by Oracle in their patent infringement suit against Google over the Dalvik Java machine. Which could make talk around the water cooler a bit interesting.
In his blog entry today, Gosling announced the news in brief fashion:
"Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today. One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities."
One can only imagine the opportunities Gosling has been offered since he left his former employer Oracle last year. But Google, it seems, is his next landing pad.
Ironically, since Gosling worked for Oracle, and Oracle acquisition Sun Microsystems before that, one of his patents (RE38,104) is being used by Oracle in their patent infringement suit against Google over the Dalvik Java machine. Which could make talk around the water cooler a bit interesting.
From:
- Christian Ulvog
Java creator hangs his shingle at Google
The Java world got a bit of a surprise this morning when Java creator James Gosling revealed that he is now working for Google.
In his blog entry today, Gosling announced the news in brief fashion:
"Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today. One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities."
One can only imagine the opportunities Gosling has been offered since he left his former employer Oracle last year. But Google, it seems, is his next landing pad.
Ironically, since Gosling worked for Oracle, and Oracle acquisition Sun Microsystems before that, one of his patents (RE38,104) is being used by Oracle in their patent infringement suit against Google over the Dalvik Java machine. Which could make talk around the water cooler a bit interesting.
From:
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/141640/java-creator-hangs-his-shingle-google
- Christian Ulvog
In his blog entry today, Gosling announced the news in brief fashion:
"Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today. One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities."
One can only imagine the opportunities Gosling has been offered since he left his former employer Oracle last year. But Google, it seems, is his next landing pad.
Ironically, since Gosling worked for Oracle, and Oracle acquisition Sun Microsystems before that, one of his patents (RE38,104) is being used by Oracle in their patent infringement suit against Google over the Dalvik Java machine. Which could make talk around the water cooler a bit interesting.
From:
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/141640/java-creator-hangs-his-shingle-google
- Christian Ulvog
Friday
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
From:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
From:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
Tuesday
40th anniversary of the computer virus
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010.
Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally used as academic proof of concepts, quickly turned into geek pranks, then evolved into cybercriminal tools. By 2005, the virus scene had been monetized, and virtually all viruses were developed with the sole purpose of making money via more or less complex business models.
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1668
Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally used as academic proof of concepts, quickly turned into geek pranks, then evolved into cybercriminal tools. By 2005, the virus scene had been monetized, and virtually all viruses were developed with the sole purpose of making money via more or less complex business models.
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1668
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