Dutch media are reporting that of 1325 Dutch students surveyed:
34 percent prefers TV rather than the Internet when they want to be informed about the latest news tidbits
27 percent will visit dedicated newssites to do so
20 percent combines TV, Internet and newspapers.
Dutch language article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2314949/televisie-studenten-populairder-dan-internet.html
You censor, we post. Friends again?
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/08/18/technology-eu-afghanistan-wikileaks_7861292.html
Previously:
The size of a SIM card
http://gizmodo.com/5615722/this-tiny-thing-is-actually-a-64gb-ssd-from-sandisk
The service will allow you to store your music, photos, and videos on their servers and play them back on your phone, laptop, or other mobile device.
http://gizmodo.com/5615996/verizon-wants-to-stick-all-your-media-in-their-cloud
The Taiwanese-based Foxconn produces electronics for most of the major consumer electronics companies, including Apple and HP.
http://gizmodo.com/5615944/foxconn-holds-anti+suicide-rally-in-shenzhen
A Virtual Drive accessible from anywhere
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/the-gdrive-is-out-of-beta-for-google-apps-customers-at-least/2379
A Florida man who reportedly admits to violating a restraining order by sending his estranged wife a friend request on Facebook is arrested and jailed.
Search ads work, which is why Google also uses them to promote its products and services. But a law professor thinks Google has a major conflict of interest.
Maybe he should talk to Perfect 10?
http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-promotion-says-ceo-of-porn-multinational-100818/
What about the Hair Designer?
Fast Flux Surnames?
Big carrier subsidies to slash up-front price, says mole
http://www.reghardware.com/2010/08/18/google_chrome_os_tablet/
Users more likely to buy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/18/streaming_music_piracy/
At a rare on-the-record luncheon in Washington yesterday, the top EU negotiator said he saw no reason why the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement should be limited to, well, “counterfeiting.” Also, some Koreans want ACTA to include “Internet morality” language. What could possibly go wrong?
In 2008, Hungarian regulators forced ISPs to guarantee minimum speeds. ISPs responded by offering absurdly low minimums.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/08/the-federal-communications-commission-reported.ars
See also:
Dutch mobile operator KPN to guarantee minimum speed
http://vrritti.com/2010/07/28/dutch-mobile-operator-kpn-to-guarantee-minimum-speed/
As part of the Tourism Promotion Act, from September 8th 2010 on, all visitors using the Visa Waiver program will be charged $14 for filling out this immigration form. Out of this fee, $10 will be used for international campaigns to promote holiday travels and tourism in the United States, the other $4 is an administrational fee.
However, it is not surprising that it did not take long before opportunities to make money on this were identified, especially as the application and payment by credit card must be made online. A similar type of fraud has been observed in relation to Green Card application scams in the past. McAfee’s research has shown, that both types of fraud are related and it is likely, that the ESTA fee scam is run by the same organizations as the Green Card scammers.
McAfee has noticed, that most search results for ‘ESTA’ or ‘ESTA form’ or ‘ESTA online registration’, lead to fraudulent web sites, especially if the search terms are run in non-English languages. Even worse – most sponsored ads are leading to fraudulent web sites, too.
Dutch media are reporting that the Dutch regulator Agentschap Telecom did the necessary research and concluded that almost none of the ISP’s has put proper security in place in relation to their data retention obligations, if they are retaining any data at all. ISP’s seem to be waiting for the government to come up with the necessary technical standards. The Agentschap Telecom also concludes that law enforcement requests for the data are oftentimes not in accordance with the applicable regulation and the government has not yet taken care of the rules regarding the deletion of the stored data.
Dutch language article: http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/66894/data-bewaarplicht-slecht-beveiligd.html
Dutch media are reporting that the Dutch police will be scanning for Bluetooth connections during the upcoming Sail event to determine how many people are participating. Apparently, 14.7% of people carrying mobile phones have their Bluetooth signal activated. Law Enforcement is using special ‘gates’ for this purpose which are positioned at strategic locations surrounding the location of the event. Visitors can keep an eye on any relevant info via the Twitter account @politieaa, hashtag #SAIL2010.
Dutch language article: http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/66891/politie-meet-mensenmassa-sail-met-bluetooth.htm
Which Fortune 100 CEOs led their companies to outperform the S&P 500 last year — and collected the lowest pay for their efforts? CNNMoney has posted its list of 15 top CEO overachievers — those who had stocks rise and collected the lowest pay in the industry.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/steve-jobs-tops-list-of-ceo-overachievers/7987
eBay datacenter chief Dean Nelson says that with $2,000 of goods being traded every second on eBay, the company can’t afford not to have the fastest, most powerful and most efficient servers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/ebay-datacenter-chief-dean-nelson-we-are-living-moores-law/38127
Here’s an unsettling product: the iPhone Spy Stick. It’s a USB stick that, when plugged into an iPhone, can recover all sorts of info that you thought you deleted.
http://gizmodo.com/5614931/iphone-spy-usb-stick-slurps-up-deleted-data-from-any-iphone
1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.
http://gizmodo.com/5615213/a-strange-glimpse-into-the-world-of-todays-digital-youth
New technology could paradoxically delay the inevitable demise of rock ‘n’ roll. But before then, “some smart people, the China-Russians or something” may have already conquered America by hacking into the power grid and financial system, he warned during a public seminar at the Grammy Museum.
We’ve covered the Pioneer One and Yes Men video releases via BitTorrent, in combination with Vodo, and now BitTorrent Inc. is trying to ramp up similar efforts as well. This week it’s helping to promote a new album released via BitTorrent from the artist PAZ, as it kicks off an effort to help those who embrace BitTorrent for distribution.
A hack attack that can expose users to malware exploits has infected more than 1 million webpages, at least two of which belong to Apple.
