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Lunch. The Main Twit. Lesson's from WikiLeaks. Snowed In. Embed Trendistic chart in your site - Trendistic. Bread starter day 0. Tell Wired Magazine the Web is Alive and Kicking. Sticker. Cranberry Sauce. Turkey not served at First Thanksgiving. Turkey not served at First Thanksgiving. "A Little Help from My Friends" - Social Media, Not Search, Drives Sales of Beatles on iTunes. Billboard has released the sales figures from the first week of the Beatles in the iTunes store: more than 450,000 albums and 2 million individual songs have been sold via iTunes worldwide.
The Beatles were one of the best-known holdouts whose music was not available on iTunes, and while the response from consumers may or may not be what it takes to convince AC/DC (and a few others) to make their music available, the sales figures were still eagerly watched. By comparison, sales of the Beatles' music far exceeded those of Led Zeppelin when its catalog came to iTunes in 2007.
Led Zeppelin sold about 300,000 individual tracks in its first week in the iTunes store. Billboard notes Apple's aggressive marketing campaign that accompanied the release - prominent placement on the iTunes homepage as well as TV advertising that ran during the American Music Awards and Sunday Night Football. Finding the Beatles via Social Media, Not Search. Google and Money! by Charles Petersen. Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta Penguin, 384 pp., $27.95 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Norton, 276 pp., $26.95 Google plays such a large part in so many of our “digital lives” that it can be startling to learn how much of the company’s revenues come from a single source.
Almost everyone online relies on one Google service or another; personally I make semiregular use of Google Search, Gmail, Google Chat, Google Voice, Google Maps, Google Documents, Google Calendar, Google Buzz, Google Earth, Google Chrome, Google Reader, Google News, YouTube, Blogspot, Google Profiles, Google Alerts, Google Translate, Google Book Search, Google Groups, Google Analytics, and Google 411. Yet few of these services support themselves (YouTube alone has lost hundreds of millions of dollars per year). [The Yahoo founders] were impressed with [Google’s] search engine. Hence the emphasis on “page views.” Much of this story has been told before. For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing. “I’m doing fine,” he says. We had moved upstairs by then, to his office, a small room with a computer and walls lined with hundreds of eyeglasses in their cases.
These are all returns, he says wearily. Prada, Oliver Peoples, Cartier, Tiffany. Maybe $500,000 in inventory, he guesses. Each set of eyeglasses represents lost revenue and a brawl. He looks around the room with fatigue and disgust. Which gets to the real impediment to capitalism, Borker-style, and the reason it is unlikely to catch on: it is physically exhausting. “I’m sure this is taking a toll on my health,” he complains. Maybe he should find a more mellow job, I suggest — become a shepherd or something. “I love this,” he counters, brightening. The craziness is essentially a niche that would be impossible without the Internet. Mr. “Eyewear,” he answers. It is a friend.
“The customer is always right — not here, you understand?” We say our goodbyes, and I ask him to sit for a photograph. Business Day Published: November 26, 2010. Homeland Security Seizes 70+ Websites for Copyright Violations. The U.S. government's crackdown on file sharing and counterfeiting has taken a new and disturbing turn. Yesterday, we reported that the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office had seized Torrent-Finder.com, a site that linked to other sites that hosted and shared torrent files of copyrighted material. The news itself was not too unusual; what struck us as out of order was that the site had been shut down without the owner being notified and without a court conviction or, to our knowledge, any other legal proceedings.
At the time, we knew that several other websites had also been seized; however, today, we are hearing reports that as many as 77 different websites have been seized and shut down, all without any notification or warning to the owners. As the owner of Torrent-Finder.com said, the sites were seized “without any previous complaint or notice from any court… While I was contacting GoDaddy I noticed the DNS had changed. WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy. A Selection From the Cache of Diplomatic Dispatches - Interactive Feature. Confronting the Terror Warning: Merkel's Government Squabbles over Data Retention - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Signs that Germany is taking current terror warnings seriously are everywhere.
Heavily armed police are everywhere in the center of Berlin and access to the government quarter is being strictly controlled. Security in other major cities has likewise been strengthened. German politicians, too, are discussing what might be done to improve security. So far though, the debate has merely revealed yet more fractures in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, a member of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), has requested a new law allowing for the retention of telecommunications and Internet data for six months.
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a member of the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP), Merkel's junior coalition partner, has, however, categorically ruled out such legislation. Went Too Far Since then, little progress has been made on drafting a replacement law. 'Indefensible' Keep track of the news. Is Climate Change Too Scary?: Scientific American Podcast.
When it comes to persuasion, doom and gloom doesn't work. If that wasn't clear from the morass that is international climate change negotiations starting this week or the constant reports of extinction of plant and animal species worldwide, new research [pdf] from the University of California, Berkeley shows it's so. The researchers canvassed 97 Berkeley students and found that the 25 young men and 72 young women largely believed in a so-called "just world".
That means they think the world is generally just, orderly and stable—despite appearances to the contrary. Those students who then read warnings of the apocalyptic potential of climate change were more likely to be skeptical of man-made global warming than those who read an article focusing on potential solutions. Dire warnings actually spurred climate contrarianism.
Of course, apocalypse isn't the only way climate change gets presented. And the key will not be making bad decisions scary. —David Biello. Michigan police searching for 3 boys: 'We need tips' 3 boys missing after dad tries suicide NEW: Police: father of missing boys has no relationship with a mystery woman he claimed he left his sons withTanner, Alexander and Andrew Skelton have been missing for several daysDad John Skelton told police he dropped them off with a woman before attempting suicidePolice still don't know whether the woman he mentioned is real or not (CNN) -- The father of three missing Michigan boys has no "established relationship" with a mystery woman that he claimed he left his sons with before unsuccessfully trying to commit suicide, a police chief investigating the boys' disappearance said Monday. John Skelton, the father, told police that he dropped the boys off Friday morning with a woman he identified as Joann Taylor, in part to ensure that they did not witness his suicide.
Authorities said Skelton's suicide attempt was not successful, and he is being held at a mental health facility. Father of missing boys lied to authorities "We need calls. Mment: The hypocrisy of the media attack on Wikileaks - politics.co.uk. The traditional media has become so toothless it is reduced to attacking Wikileaks for doing its job properly. By Ian Dunt With a regularity that's becoming almost traditional, the latest major release from Wikileaks has been accompanied by a chorus of disapproval from the establishment.
Politicians, analysts and, most worryingly of all, journalists, are lining up to condemn the organisation's eccentric founder, Julian Assange. The White House and the Foreign Office instantly sprang to action. Society is about roles, with groups pitted against each other in a bid to balance the outcome. The only difference between Wikileaks and other news organisations is that Wikileaks is doing its job properly. The simple ability to leak this much information is a result of radical advances in data storage. The central attack is that Wikileaks puts lives at risk, by potentially revealing sources. But America and its allies shouldn't be the only people with egg on their face. Just Tidbits, or Material Facts for Insider Trading? Rick Maiman/Bloomberg NewsRaj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group’s founder, has been accused of earning money from stock trades made with inside information.
On Wall Street, it is called the “mosaic theory.” Every day, professional investors and research analysts work the phones to ferret out information about companies that can’t be found by simply reading news releases. Some will walk through shopping malls interviewing store managers at Gap, for example, to gauge how sales are going. Others might monitor sales of certain component parts in Asia to determine how many iPads Apple might sell this quarter. Investors use multiple tidbits of nonpublic information from various sources to build a “mosaic” to try to get an edge on other investors. For better or worse, that is what passes as “research” in the finance world. “Throughout his career Mr. In other words, Mr. But is it? According to most white collar lawyers, the ultimate test is whether the information is “material.” Layer 8: AT&T goes after copper wire thieves | Network World. Copper thieves targeting Atlanta are now being targeted themselves by AT&T which is now offering $3,000 for information leading to their arrest.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that in one recent three day stretch, nearly 7,000 customers and two schools lost land line phone service. A cell phone tower also was temporarily knocked out. AT&T saw 11 thefts in a week in one location, including an incredible eight in one morning. Damage to telephone lines exceeded $500 in each case. Who wants to be a cyber-security warrior? The FBI has said in the past that the rising theft of the metal is threatening the critical infrastructure by targeting electrical substations, cellular towers, telephone land lines, railroads, water wells, construction sites, and vacant homes for lucrative profits. The FBI report shows that industry and local officials are taking countermeasures to help address the scrapper problem, but apparently much more needs to be done.
Layer 8 Extra. Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions. An aerial view of Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz.AP In the 20th century, this would have been a job for James Bond. The mission: Infiltrate the highly advanced, securely guarded enemy headquarters where scientists in the clutches of an evil master are secretly building a weapon that can destroy the world. Then render that weapon harmless and escape undetected. But in the 21st century, Bond doesn't get the call. Instead, the job is handled by a suave and very sophisticated secret computer worm, a jumble of code called Stuxnet, which in the last year has not only crippled Iran's nuclear program but has caused a major rethinking of computer security around the globe. Intelligence agencies, computer security companies and the nuclear industry have been trying to analyze the worm since it was discovered in June by a Belarus-based company that was doing business in Iran.
And finally, after the job was done, the worm would have to destroy itself without leaving a trace. Byres is more certain. Microsoft exec says Google is 'failing' in the enterprise. Computerworld - Raising the stakes in its war of words, Microsoft today said Google simply doesn't understand what businesses need and is failing at pushing its way into the enterprise. In an interview with Computerworld, Tom Rizzo, senior director of Microsoft Online Services, talked about the company moving its popular Office apps into the cloud, as well its competition with main rival Google. Rizzo wasn't pulling any punches. The verbal sparring between the two companies has only heated up in recent months, now that they're battling on many different fronts -- including cloud-based apps, search, browsers and operating systems. Just late last month, Microsoft leapt into territory Google has tried to stake out, launching a beta of Office 365 that officially took its ubiquitous Office suite to the cloud.
That move turned up the heat on Google, which has been trying very hard over the past few years to move from the consumer realm into the lucrative enterprise market. How Comcast became a toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra. Wharton Business School professor Kevin Werbach dubs Comcast's actions this week a "turning point in US Internet policy. " Law professor Susan Crawford calls Comcast a terrifying, hat-wearing hydra—and she's looking for a Hercules to cut it down to size.
Harold Feld of Public Knowledge says that Comcast has set up a new "toll booth" on the 'Net and is now operating like Ed "use my pipes free" Whitacre. And broadband analyst Dave Burstein says Comcast has just deployed "the nuclear option. " Just what is going on here, why does it matter, and why is Comcast calling backbone operator Level 3 a big fat liar for starting the whole debate? The facts as we know them Comcast found itself in the middle of a renewed argument over its "evilness" yesterday afternoon as an interconnection dispute blew up into public view.
On November 11, Level 3 inked a deal with Netflix to serve as the streaming media company's new CDN starting January 1, 2011. So is there something new here? FCC chief previews proposed Net neutrality rules | Signal Strength. The Federal Communications Commission is set to finally vote on rules this month that will keep the Internet open, but the fight may continue as neither side in the Net neutrality debate is expected to be completely satisfied with the outcome. As expected, early Wednesday, the FCC staff circulated an agenda for the agency's December 21 meeting stating that it would be voting on an order that adopts "basic rules of the road to preserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free expression.
" Chairman Julius Genachowski gave a preview of the new rules during a brief press Wednesday. Genachowski proposed a set of rules for Net neutrality over a year ago . In that proposal the chairman suggested making the four basic principles already outlined by the commission official rules and he suggested adding two rules. Consumer groups oppose these measures. Wireless service providers will also be subject to the transparency requirement.
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