Top Items:
Mscorp / Microsoft On The Issues:
The Browser Choice Screen for Europe: What to Expect, When to Expect It — Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — Over the next few weeks, Microsoft will begin offering a “Web browser choice screen” to Internet Explorer users in Europe, as required by the European Commission.
Discussion:
paidContent, BBC, VentureBeat, internetnews.com, Electronista, All about Microsoft, Graham Cluley's blog, Computerworld, Mashable!, CNET News, Softpedia News, Webmonkey, Digital Trends, Sophos, Maximum PC, Ars Technica, AppScout, BetaNews, The Next Web, Erictric, The Official Microsoft Blog, ChannelWeb, DailyTech, TechSpot, Download Squad, The Microsoft Blog, iGeneration, Engadget, Digital Daily, The Toybox, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, The Register and Silicon Alley Insider
RELATED:
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Microsoft's Impartial, Antitrust-Friendly Browser Ballot Screen — You may have forgotten about it, but Microsoft got in to a bit of trouble with the European Commission for anti-competitive practices (including force-feeding customers IE). Microsoft's plea bargain was to add other browser options alongside its own.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple plans dual graphics enhancements on future MacBook Pros — One of the advances Apple plans for future MacBook Pro models is an improvement to the handling of the notebooks' dual graphics chips, AppleInsider has learned. — Dual-graphics auto switching
Discussion:
The Toybox, Electronista, MacRumors, Gizmodo, O'Grady's PowerPage, Erictric, Obsessable, I4U News, Macsimum News, Pocket-lint and LOOPRumors
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's War On Porn Is Just Getting Started (AAPL) — Apple means business this time — apps that sell sex are being tossed out of the App Store en masse. — For the past 12 hours, app developers have been getting notices from Apple saying that their apps have been taken down …
Discussion:
VentureBeat
RELATED:
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Why Apple's New Ban Against Sexy Apps Is Scary — Last night, we reported on a new restriction that was being applied to Apple's App Store: no more applications with “overtly sexual content”. At this point, the exact nature of that ban is unclear. But it's a policy shift that may alarm …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:Did Apple Just Ban Sexual Content From The App Store?
Discussion:
The Apple Core, NEWSFACTOR, PC World, Macworld, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, Gadget Lab, eSarcasm, Switched, EverythingiCafe, TheAppleBlog, Softpedia News, Marco.org, TUAW, I4U News, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Ars Technica, Gawker, Pulse2, Chillifresh, Neowin.net, TG Daily, TiPb, The Huffington Post, GMSV, GigaLaw.com Daily News, MacRumors, iPhone Savior, Google and iLounge, Thanks:jasonkincaid
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Sprint Says First 4G Handset Will Launch By Summer — Elizabeth Woyke is a technology writer for Forbes — How useful is a super-fast wireless broadband network if there are no super-speedy phones that run on it? — It's a question consumers have been asking since 2008 when Sprint Nextel launched …
Discussion:
Engadget, GigaOM, Digital Daily, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Unwired View, PreCentral.net, Pocketables, pocketnow.com, Boy Genius Report, Phone Arena, I4U News, DeviceMAG, DailyTech, IntoMobile, AndroidGuys, Erictric, FierceWireless, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans, MWD Tech News, Electronista, Obsessable, Softpedia News, Android and Me, DSLreports, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, Android Central, Phones Review, The Toybox, Tech Trader Daily, TG Daily, Gearlog and PhoneNews.com
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Will You Pay for Hulu on the iPad? It May Be Your Only Choice. — Will Hulu come to the iPad? Probably. One day. But you had better get ready to pay for it. — Hulu and its owners, three of the big broadcast TV networks, want to bring some version of the Web video service to Apple's device.
Discussion:
Mashable!, Gizmodo, iPadInsider, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Fast Company, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, Electronista, MWD Tech News, TiPb, DVICE, Edible Apple, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, I4U News, NewTeeVee, EverythingiCafe and Technologizer
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
School District Says It Only Turned Spy Cameras On 42 Times; FBI Now Investigating — More details are coming out about the case we wrote about yesterday concerning the school district that could (and did) turn on webcams on student laptops. The district is now claiming that, yes …
RELATED:
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:School backs off on laptop spying policy in wake of lawsuit
Discussion:
Financial Times, Computerworld, Electronista, TechSpot, Help Net Security, The Register and Between the Lines
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Dell Mini 5 prototype impressions — Dell's puzzled the world for quite some time with its outlandish Mini 5 — at first glance it's just another Android-based MID, but a quick fiddle with it reveals the full-fledged 3G phone inside. So will it fit in a pocket? Can we carry it around like a normal phone?
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google: “With Buzz We Failed To Appreciate That Users Have Differing Privacy Expectations” — Google scheduled a privacy discussion for reporters and bloggers at its San Francisco offices a couple of weeks ago. The timing turned out to be unexpectedly ironic.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Vook, Maker of Multimedia E-Books, Raises $2.5 Million — Brad Inman wants to bring books into the 21st century. His year-old startup, Vook (which we've written about here and here) mashes and mixes videos and photos with text to create multimedia books for devices like the iPhone and soon, the iPad.
James Niccolai / PC World:
Google Gets US Approval to Buy and Sell Energy — Google has received federal approval to buy and sell energy on the open market, giving it more options for the way it powers its data centers and opening the door to a potential move into the energy-trading business.
Discussion:
CNET News, Digital Daily, Earth2Tech, The Register, Maximum PC, Switched, The Next Web, Bloomberg, DailyTech, VentureBeat, Electronista and NBC Bay Area
Go Rumors:
Sony Develops A Universal Game Console Controller — In an attempt to tackle competition from the likes of Microsoft and Nintendo, Sony is reportedly working on a game controller that can serve as a universal controller; capable of also being used with Xbox or Nintendo.
Discussion:
Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Kotaku, Technologizer, Geekosystem, SlashGear, Electronista, Obsessable, Destructoid, DVICE, Electricpig and Pocket-lint
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Alpha-numeric Passcode on your iPhone and iPod touch — Today we've got something interesting for you security-minded folks with iPhones or iPod touches. You know how Apple only lets you use four numbers as your passcode to unlock your device? That's as weak as banks PINs and school lockers.
James Galbraith / Macworld:
Mac Pro firmware update cuts performance lag — A firmware update usually doesn't grab much attention—particularly if it's released in the midst of Macworld Expo. And yet, last week's release of Mac Pro Audio Update 1.0 brings welcome relief to many Mac Pro users.
Todd Hoff / High Scalability:
Twitter's Plan to Analyze 100 Billion Tweets — If Twitter is the “nervous system of the web” as some people think, then what is the brain that makes sense of all those signals (tweets) from the nervous system? That brain is the Twitter Analytics System and Kevin Weil, as Analytics Lead at Twitter …
Thanks:atul
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Facebook Acquires Contact Importing Startup Octazen — Octazen's contact importer helped Facebook make its userbase viral. — Facebook last week acquired a small Malaysian startup called Octazen Solutions, maker of a contact importer that the social network had already been using to grow …
Discussion:
Octazen Solutions
PewResearch.org:
Does Google Make Us Stupid? — Respondents to the fourth “Future of the Internet” survey, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center, were asked to consider the future of the internet-connected world between now and 2020 and the likely innovation that will occur.
Nellie Andreeva / Hollywood Reporter:
William Shatner in S**t My Dad Says — Twitter sensation turned into TV pilot for CBS — Twitter sensation S**t My Dad Says is becoming a TV pilot with William Shatner set to play the larger-than-life dad at the center of it. — The casting of Shatner lifts the contingency …
Lauren Goode / Digits:
No IPO in 2010, Yelp Says — Investors hungry for Yelp shares might have to dine elsewhere for now. … Jeremy Stoppelman, the co-founder and chief executive of the user-generated reviews site, said Thursday that it is unlikely to issue an initial public offering for “several years.”
Charles Starrett / iLounge:
Find My iPhone now accessible from iPhone, iPod touch — Apple has launched a redesigned version of its Me.com splash page for the iPhone and iPod touch, adding new download links for its MobileMe iDisk and Gallery applications, as well as access to the Find My iPhone feature.
Dan Kusnetzky / Virtually Speaking:
Citrix and Novell doing the VM certification dance — The virtual machine market for industry standard systems includes some big players. It includes suppliers of system software, such as Microsoft, Red Hat and Novell/SUSE, and suppliers focused more on the development of virtualization technology …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
New Chromium OS build brings full NVIDIA Ion acceleration, hope for the future — Chrome OS. Man, seems like Google has gotten its hands into quite a few things since we last heard of that, but the underground is keeping things lively with new builds of Chromium OS — you know, to keep us satisfied while we wait for the real deal.
Discussion:
Electronista
