What is ACTA? Why Should You Care? (Mashable)
January 27th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - The technology community came out in force against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) before those two bills were shelved last week. With them gone, we can expect tech experts and Internet users to step away from politics. The battle has been won, right? Wrong. There's another fight heating up, and this time it's global.
Meet the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA.
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College Sports League to Stream Its Own Content Online (Mashable)
January 27th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - With television broadcast deals that reach into the billions of dollars, the delivery of college sports as entertainment has long been huge business.
Now the Pacific-12 Conference is aiming to create what would likely be college sports' largest and most futuristic mode of digital distribution yet -- a wholly league-owned and operated platform for streaming content to tablets, smartphones, computers and smart TVs around the world.
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Fresh iPhone Apps for Jan. 27: Frequency, Steam Mobile, RAGE HD update, Baseball Superstars 2012 (Appolicious)
January 27th, 2012 · Comments Off
Appolicious - Start your weekend with all the best videos the Internet has to offer with Frequency, an iPad app that makes finding and organizing great videos from all over the place a snap. It’s our top Fresh App today, followed by Steam Mobile, an iOS app that ties to the popular digital video game download portal and lets you impulse-buy during Steam’s crazy game sales no matter where you are. A big update with new levels to RAGE HD tops off our games picks for this weekend, followed by a new, free edition to the Baseball Superstars series from Gamevil.
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Viadeo vies for Arab expansion with Moroccan branch (Reuters)
January 27th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Viadeo, the world's second-biggest online networking site for professionals after LinkedIn, said on Friday it had opened a regional branch in Morocco as it seeks to expand its presence in the increasingly-wired Arab world.
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Google and Bing Searches Help Us Pirate Music? (Mashable)
January 27th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - Of course the public is going to pirate music when 80% of our search results for music direct us to illegal sites. That's the claim made by a coalition of entertainment industry groups in a private document sent to the U.K. government.
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Nintendo Announces Online Gaming Network (Mashable)
January 27th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - Nintendo users will finally soon have an online experience on par with Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. At least that's the message from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who broke the news in a meeting with investors yesterday shortly after the company released its quarterly earnings.
Iwata's presentation explained that the Nintendo Network would encompass the company's next generation of products, including the portable 3DS and the Wii U console, to be released later this year. The network won't just be a place where users can play games against each other online -- Iwata said it would also offer full downloads of game titles, some add-ons and access to other digital content. That would be a big upgrade from the limited network connectivity that currently exists on Nintendo's hardware.
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How Brands Can Manage Facebook Comment Overload (Mashable)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - Jason Keath is the CEO of Social Fresh, the leading social media education company for marketers. He works with industry leading brands, agencies and vendors to produce social media conferences and online social media training programs. Follow him on Twitter @jasonkeath.
Human beings are social by nature, and not surprisingly, we choose to spend much of our talkative time on Facebook.
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Facebook, Washington state target online spam (AP)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - Facebook is partnering with Washington state to combat a type of spam called "clickjacking" that is plaguing the social networking site, company and state officials announced Thursday.
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NZ court bails two associates of Megaupload founder (Reuters)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - A New Zealand court granted bail on Thursday to two associates of the founder of online file-sharing website Megaupload, accused of being involved in a scheme that allegedly made more than $175 million from Internet piracy and illegal file sharing.
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House lawmakers seek Google answers on privacy policy (Reuters)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked Google Inc on Thursday to provide answers about recent changes to the search engine's privacy policy.
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CNN behind on TV ratings, ahead of rivals online (Reuters)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - CNN may lag behind most of its competitors in the television ratings department, but digital is another story.
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Poland signs copyright treaty that drew protests (AP)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - Poland on Thursday signed an international copyright agreement, sparking more demonstrations by Internet users who have protested for days over fear it will lead to online censorship.
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ACTA ‘Is More Dangerous Than SOPA’ (Mashable)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - SOPA and PIPA are stalled (or dead) in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Yet, there may be a bigger, perhaps more dangerous threat to Internet freedoms on the way, called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. At least that's how U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R. - Calif., sees it, telling an audience, "As a member of Congress, it's more dangerous than SOPA. It's not coming to me for a vote. It purports that it does not change existing laws. But once implemented, it creates a whole new enforcement system and will virtually tie the hands of Congress to undo it."
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AP Interview: Wikipedia founder hails role in US (AP)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - The founder of Wikipedia hailed the online encyclopedia's role in helping halt U.S. legislation aimed at cracking down on Internet piracy, saying the proposed bills needed to be stopped because they were flawed.
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Netflix wins over Wall Street with subscriber growth (Reuters)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Netflix Inc won back Wall Street's affections on Thursday after adding more U.S. subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter, a rebound that prompted analyst upgrades and the company's biggest one-day stock jump in two years.
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Israel sets sights on next-generation Internet (AP)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - Israel is often referred to as "Startup Nation," thanks to its long history of high-tech breakthroughs produced by scrappy little companies. But in one critical area, the speed of Internet connections, Israel has fallen behind other tech-savvy countries.
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U.S. Takes First Steps Toward Internet Voting (Mashable)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - The 2012 Republican primary's first vote was not cast in New Hampshire, as most Americans would assume. An Okaloosa County, Fla., resident living in Thailand got that privilege in December, thanks to a new technology called LiveBallot.
LiveBallot, a new platform for accessing ballots built on the Windows Azure operating system, allows American citizens living abroad to access their official ballots from the cloud, 45 days before a state primary or national election.
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Facebook After Death: What Should the Law Say? (Mashable)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - When you die, your social media presence lives on. But should it? Lawmakers and lawyers are tackling the question of what should happen to your digital life after death.
The Uniform Law Commission recently approved a study committee on fiduciary power and authority to access digital property and online accounts during incapacity and after death. Uniform laws are created when there is little current legislation for states to follow.
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Monster Worldwide cautious on 2012 (Reuters)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Online recruitment firm Monster Worldwide Inc forecast a weak start to the year and said it will cut jobs, as it does not expect the global job market to improve drastically in the near term.
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Ferris Bueller at the Super Bowl? Online Tease Leaves Few Clues [VIDEO] (Mashable)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - We haven't heard much from Ferris Bueller since 1986, but apparently he's taken some time off to do a Super Bowl ad.
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These mobile apps should be music to your ears (Appolicious)
January 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Appolicious - There are hundreds if not thousands of high-quality music applications available to download on smartphones and tablet devices. From apps that stream Internet radio stations, to music detection and discovery tools, to concert video services, there is no shortage of apps that rock (and appeal to other genres). Also note that while some apps aren’t built specifically for iPads and Android tablets, they run perfectly well on the larger screens and if anything have better audio capabilities.
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Analysis: Wall Street puzzles over Google’s new direction (Reuters)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Google Inc, which revolutionized Internet searches with an easy-to-use website, has itself become an increasingly tricky business to grasp.
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Analysis: Zynga needs mobile to move away from Facebook (Reuters)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - David Ko, Zynga's chief mobile officer, has one of the most important and pressure-filled at the online gaming company -- he's charged with figuring out ways to get people to play Zynga's games on tablets and smartphones.
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O2 accidentally exposes customers’ phone numbers (AP)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - An untold number of U.K. residents may have unwittingly broadcast their numbers to sites across the Web while browsing the Internet with their cellphones during the past two weeks.
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European Lawmakers Want “Right to Be Forgotten” on Facebook, Google (Mashable)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - European Internet users may be getting better control over information posted online, thanks to some proposed sweeping reforms lawmakers proposed Wednesday designed to protect digital privacy.
The suggested law calls for a "right to be forgotten" and a "right to data portability." The former would require Internet companies such as Facebook and Google to completely wipe all of a user's info from their servers if such a request was made. The latter demands users be allowed to easily transfer data from one online service to another, a currently difficult task.
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10 Tips for Building a Strong Online Community Around Your Startup (Mashable)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - Megan Berry is Senior Marketing Manager for Klout, the standard for online influence. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and Brazen Careerist. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry.
Building a community around your startup can be one of the cheapest ways to create momentum for your product. A community is much more than a one-time marketing campaign, and can help you throughout your companyâs life cycle if you take the time to grow it right.
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Google Thinks I’m a Middle-Aged Man. What About You? (Mashable)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - I'm a woman who is too young to remember the Reagan administration, but Google has me pegged as a middle-aged man.
Given my habit of browsing technology websites, the search engine probably placed me in my father's demographic a long time ago. But it didn't break the news to me until Tuesday, when it rolled out a revamped privacy policy that drew my attention to my account.
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Breach of new EU online data rules to carry high fines (Reuters)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Europe proposed strict new data privacy rules on Wednesday, putting greater responsibility on companies such as Facebook to protect users' information, and threatening those who breach the code with hefty fines.
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Fifth Megaupload Arrest; No Bail for Kim Dotcom (Mashable)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - Authorities appear to be giving no quarter in their case against file-sharing website Megaupload. A New Zealand judge denied bail to the website's founder, Kim Dotcom, on Wednesday. Authorities in the Netherlands also arrested a fifth suspect in the case.
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Proposal made for sweeping data protection in EU (AP)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - The European Commission proposed sweeping reforms Wednesday to protect the confidentiality of personal data online including a "right to be forgotten," which would let people have information about themselves deleted if there was no legitimate reason to retain it.
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6 Ways the Media Is Using Digital Tools to Cover the Election (Mashable)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - Politicians have been deploying digital tools in new and innovative ways this election season, and the media outlets and journalists covering them have been doing the same. Throughout the 2012 battle for the White House, media outlets have been designing web apps dedicated to political coverage, while individual journalists have been tweeting and uploading photos nonstop.
These digital media innovations are giving readers unprecedented access to the election. Many of these online features are interactive, contributing to a two-way conversation between journalists and readers and changing the political journalism ballgame.
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Megaupload founder joked about his ‘hacker’ past (AP)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - Two years ago, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom joked in emails with his new neighbors in New Zealand about his bad-boy reputation before telling them his criminal past was behind him and he was coming to the country with good intentions.
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Twitter Will Become Available in Right-to-Left Languages This Spring (Mashable)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - Twitter announced languages read right to left would be coming to the Twitter Translation Center, beginning with Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Twitter will become fully available in those four languages later this spring, once volunteer translators have completed their work.
The company said in a blog post Wednesday it has made sure tweets and hashtags will work in right-to-left languages. It also says it's "made changes behind the scenes to give right-to-left language speakers a localized user experience," although it doesn't specify the changes.
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“Come for coffee, don’t forget the cocaine,” Dotcom joked (Reuters)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Kim Dotcom, the founder of file-sharing site Megaupload.com who faces a lengthy jail term in the United States if convicted of racketeering, money laundering and Internet piracy, seems to have a mischievous sense of humor.
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Megaupload founder faces lengthy extradition battle (Reuters)
January 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Efforts by the United States to extradite the mastermind of an alleged Internet piracy scheme from New Zealand to face copyright infringement and money laundering charges are likely to be long and complex.
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Yahoo delivers another listless performance in 4Q (AP)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - Yahoo slipped further behind in the online advertising race during the fourth quarter as the Internet company entered the fourth year of a revenue slump.
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Megaupload founder refused bail in New Zealand (Reuters)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - A New Zealand judge ordered the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com to be held in custody for another month Wednesday, saying the suspected Internet pirate posed a significant flight risk.
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Google to merge user data across more services (AP)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - Google announced a plan Tuesday to link user data across its email, video, social-networking and other services that it says will create a "beautifully simple and intuitive" user experience. But critics raised privacy concerns like those that helped kill the search giant's Buzz social networking service.
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New Yahoo CEO says company needs to “do better” (Reuters)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson said reviving the company's flagging display advertising business was his "highest priority," even as he crafts a broader plan to bring the struggling Internet company back to fighting form.
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Google to unify privacy policy across products (Reuters)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Google Inc plans to unify its privacy policy and terms of service across its online offerings, including its flagship search, Gmail and Google+ products, to make them easier to use, but the move could attract greater scrutiny from anti-trust regulators.
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French brand Courreges takes retro fashion online (Reuters)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Courreges, the futuristic fashion brand of the 1960s, is poised to bring its vinyl boots and A-line mini-dresses back into vogue, relaunching the French name online.
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Entrepreneurs bring Internet coding skills to everyday users (Reuters)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Reuters - Not too long ago, Web coding was the rarified realm of computer geeks, but a new crop of entrepreneurs is making this valuable computer skill available to just about anyone with an inclination to learn.
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Poles protest ACTA online and on the streets (AP)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - Hundreds of people waged a street protest in Warsaw on Tuesday to protest the government's plan to sign an international copyright treaty, while several popular websites also shut down for an hour over the issue.
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How the new Facebook Timeline will affect your mobile experience (Appolicious)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Appolicious - If you haven’t turned your Facebook profile over to the new Timeline setup the company has been slowly rolling out for about a month, your time has just about run out. Timeline is coming to your profile, be it online or on your iPhone or iPad.
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Get More from Wikipedia: 10 Tips and Tricks (Mashable)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - The English version of Wikipedia currently boasts over 3,854,000 articles over more than 25 million pages. That's an awful lot of content to navigate when you're trying to find something specific.
Maybe you visit Wikipedia several times per week, but how much do you know about the world's leading online encyclopedia? We spent some time exploring the site in order to offer you 10 useful tips and tricks to help you get the most out of the site. Learn how to change the way the main page looks, how to use special characters in searches, how to view page stats, etc.
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The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store (AP)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
AP - iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending Jan. 23, 2012:
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Talking Social Media At the Oscar Nominations [LIVE VIDEO] (Mashable)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, and Twitter and other social networks are already reacting to the news and the surprising new Oscar nominees.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is aiming to tightly integrate the whole affair within the social and digital world. Today, Oscar.com is kicking off the first of five live digital specials looking at the awards and the social commentary taking place online.
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Talking Social Media At the Oscar Nominations [LIVE VIDEO] (Mashable)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, and Twitter and other social networks are already reacting to the news and the surprising new Oscar nominees.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is aiming to tightly integrate the whole affair within the social and digital world. Today, Oscar.com is kicking off the first of five live digital specials looking at the awards and the social commentary taking place online.
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Super Bowl Ads Will Get a Second Life on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - If you were a Super Bowl viewer in 1984 who left the room during Apple's famous "1984" ad introducing the Mac, you would have soon discovered you made a massive mistake.
In those days before YouTube, if you missed a Super Bowl ad, you really missed it. That was especially true for Apple's ad, which ran only once. In 2012, of course, it's a different story. With about two weeks before the big game, some ads are already available online. As for the rest? Try not seeing them after the game.
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Super Bowl Ads Will Get a Second Life on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)
January 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Mashable - If you were a Super Bowl viewer in 1984 who left the room during Apple's famous "1984" ad introducing the Mac, you would have soon discovered you made a massive mistake.
In those days before YouTube, if you missed a Super Bowl ad, you really missed it. That was especially true for Apple's ad, which ran only once. In 2012, of course, it's a different story. With about two weeks before the big game, some ads are already available online. As for the rest? Try not seeing them after the game.
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