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June 23, 2011

The Kitchen Table Guide To Social Media with Joe Sorge

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By eWEEK

Social media is particularly appealing to small and medium sized companies and in this Biz Advisor video blog, Eric Lundquist, VP of Editorial Content at Ziff Davis Enterprise, sits down with Joe Sorge, who’s a partner at Kitchen Table Companies to discuss how small and medium sized companies can and should be leveraging social media to achieve success and build a new customer base.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/The-Kitchen-Table-Guide-To-Social-Media-with-Joe-Sorge/?kc=rss

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Intel Demos Its Version of Future Supercomputing

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By: Chris Preimesberger, eWeek

At the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Intel outlined a plan to use its MIC foundation to provide widespread exascale-type computing for parallel applications within nine years. As mind-boggling as it seems, it’s only a matter of several years before enterprises will be dealing with exabyte-level data stores. That’s correct: storage of billions of billions of bytes in on-site disks and in the cloud. High-definition video and data cargo from scientific research projects, health care imaging, and oil and gas exploration data stores are leading the way here.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Intel-Demos-Its-Version-of-Future-Super-Computing-174706/?kc=rss

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Microsoft`s Skype Takeover Is Good for All Stakeholders: 10 Reasons Why

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By: Don Reisinger, eWeek

News Analysis: With approval by the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft’s $8.5 billion buyout of Skype is a step closer to completion. If the deal clears final regulatory review by the U.S. Department of Justice, it could deliver benefits for multiple stakeholders. The Federal Trade Commission recently approved Microsoft’s $8.5 billion bid for Skype, putting the software giant one step closer to finally closing the deal for the VOIP provider. As long as the U.S. Department of Justice approves the deal, Skype will become the Microsoft Skype Division and be led by its current CEO, Tony Bates.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Microsofts-Skype-Takeover-Is-Good-All-Stakeholders-10-Reasons-Why-319282/?kc=rss

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June 22, 2011

UK Government rural broadband plans attacked as inadequate

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by Richard Moss, BBC

We’ve all been there. You click on a web address, and the dreaded egg timer becomes stuck on the screen. But Mary Collard would give anything just to have that dubious pleasure. That’s because the internet connection in her County Durham home is not just slow, it’s non-existent. For a few years she did have an unstable dial-up connection through the telephone. That’s now failed, and her attempts to get broadband have repeatedly foundered. Broadband can be a lifeline for rural communities but many living there have a slow connection More than a dozen BT engineers have come and gone, and none has managed to get her connected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13810042

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Life as a bug hunter

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By Paul Coletti, BBC News

Bug hunting coders often compete to track down programming errors. Vulnerabilities or bugs are errors made when computer programmers write their code. They happen for the same reasons journalists make typographical errors in copy: weariness, inexperience and on very rare occasions malice. In the olden days of programming, code-reviews amongst departmental peers were a common way to catch these flaws before they hit production systems, much like a sub-editor on a national newspaper might proof-read a correspondent’s copy before it goes to the printers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13814395

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I Sing the Gadget Electronic

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by DOROTHY SPEARS, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Mr. Arcangel, 32, is known for work that imports a sense of humanity into the technological realm, in part by making sure the technology it uses is never too slick. Unlike electronic media artists who rely on state-of-the-art equipment to make their work, Mr. Arcangel collects outmoded computer games, decrepit turntables and similar castoffs that pile up in Dumpsters and thrift stores or are posted on eBay whenever a fresh crop of gadgets has rendered them obsolete. Through a bit of ingenious meddling, he reboots this detritus to produce witty, and touchingly homemade, video and art installations.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110522/ZNYT05/105223017/-1/news?Title=I-Sing-the-Gadget-Electronic

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June 21, 2011

Google Dashboard Gets Identity Management Tool

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By: Clint Boulton – eWeek

Google’s Dashboard gets Me on the Web, a sort of identity management tool to help Google users see and control what others are saying about them in social media Websites. Google June 15 added an identity management tool to its Google Dashboard Web services palette, a move to help users keep track of what others are saying about them online. Since November 2009, Google Dashboard has collected information on application data Google account owners generate from Web services such as Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and dozens of other apps. Me on the Web is the new Dashboard tool, sitting right under the Account details section.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Google-Dashboard-Gets-Identity-Management-Tool-173358/?kc=rss

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Facebook iPad App Reportedly in the Works

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By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek

Facebook is preparing an official app for the iPad, according to The New York Times. Facebook is reportedly prepping an official application for the iPad. According to a July 16 article in The New York Times, itself quoting unnamed “people briefed on Facebook’s plans,” the social network is prepping a free application for release in the coming year. The software has been under development for the past year. “One person who works with Facebook said Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive and founder, has been heavily invested in the process,” the article suggested, “overseeing design decisions and the app’s unique features.”

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Facebook-iPad-App-Reportedly-In-Works-578105/?kc=rss

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SoundCloud, an Audio-Sharing Site, Hits 5 Million Users

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By JENNA WORTHAM, New York Times

In the past, musicians who wanted to share their tracks online might have used MySpace Music. But SoundCloud, a popular audio-sharing service, is steadily gaining traction as a way for musicians to post their songs and for fans to discover them. The company is announcing on Wednesday that it is hitting a milestone: 5 million users.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/soundcloud-an-audio-sharing-site-hits-5-million-users/

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June 20, 2011

It’s a MOOC! Massive, Open, Online Course on Online Learning Today… and Tomorrow

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by the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service, University of Illinois Springfield

Join your colleagues for an open look at online learning trends, techniques, technologies and some great discussion panels with leaders in our field. All open! No charge. Great discussion. Links to hundreds of useful resources about online learning. Simply register with an email address at the site below and join in this worldwide collaborative event!

https://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/

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Netflix Helps People Cut Cable Cord, Report Says

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by Nick Bilton, New York Times

The report, the result of a survey of 2,000 United States adult broadband users, found that people who use Netflix to stream Internet video to their televisions are twice as likely to cancel, or slim down, their cable television options as they were a year ago. The report comes from the Diffusion Group, a Dallas-based media research firm. When the Diffusion Group surveyed Netflix members in 2010, they found that 16 percent of customers were planning to downgrade or cancel their cable television service. During the same survey this year, the number of customers planning to make that change had doubled to 32 percent.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/netflix-helps-people-cut-cable-cord-report-says/

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Google ramps up speed of search

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By Maggie Shiels, BBC

Google has made changes to its search engine as it strives to get consumers the information they want faster. Its new Instant Pages system will shave between two to five seconds off the time it takes for a web page to load, the company said. It is also planning to offer voice-activated and enhanced image searching. Google, which processes one billion requests every day, said search remained its core focus.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13775562

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June 19, 2011

Facebook Friends RockMelt Social Web Browser

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By: Clint Boulton, eWeek

RockMelt launches beta 3 of its Web browser with key integration and support from Facebook, one of the social networks it’s built around. Facebook June 14 finally gave the RockMelt social Web browser the time of day, some seven months after it launched to provide users an easy on ramp to the largest social network’s services. RockMelt launched last November backed by Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen. RockMelt frames the browsing experience with people’s contacts from Facebook, tweet streams from Twitter and other Web content to keep users from having to switch back and forth between those applications. Facebook contacts appear along the left edge of the browser window after users log into RockMelt via their Facebook e-mail and password. The right side of RockMelt includes buttons for accessing the Facebook News Feed, Facebook Profile, Twitter tweet stream and timeline.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Friends-RockMelt-Social-Web-Browser-820297/?kc=rss

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Solid Foundation for Future Apple iPad Rivals

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By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a solid Android tablet effort. If it’s a harbinger of Android tablets to come, then Apple’s iPad has serious competition in the pipeline. It hasn’t been the best year for iPad rivals so far. The Motorola Xoom sold 250,000 units in its first quarter of release, a solid number—until you compare it to the iPad, which managed to ship millions during the same frame. Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet received lukewarm reviews, and proved something less than a blockbuster on store shelves. Meanwhile, J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz suggested in a May research note that, in light of anemic sales numbers, manufacturers have begun reducing build plans for their respective tablet offerings.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-101-Solid-Foundation-for-Future-Apple-iPad-Rivals-576684/?kc=rss

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Virus, Malware Activity Increased in May, Spam Levels Flat

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By: Fahmida Y. Rashid, eWeek

While email-borne malware and viruses increased dramatically in May, overall spam volumes remained flat, according to the monthly threat analysis from AppRiver. Virus and malware activity increased in May, sporadically hitting peaks of more than 10 million pieces per day, AppRiver researchers said in its monthly threat-landscape report. Scammers took advantage of major news events to push out new pieces of malware while cyber-attackers continued to target large companies in May, according to AppRiver’s latest Threat and Spamscape report released June 15.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Virus-Malware-Activity-Increased-in-May-Spam-Levels-Flat-822889/?kc=rss

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June 18, 2011

Should internet users ever be cut off?

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by Dave Lee, BBC

The internet is a tool which contributes to the “progress of humankind as a whole” and should be available to all. That is the view of Frank La Rue, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. Mr La Rue was tasked with writing a report looking into global access to the internet as a medium for freedom of opinion and expression. In the final document [PDF] presented to the Human Rights Council this week, he concluded that the removal of an individual’s internet access should only take place in “few, exceptional and limited circumstances prescribed by human rights law”. He went as far as to say that removing somebody’s internet access is to deprive them of a key component for the basic human right of freedom of expression.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9509215.stm

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Lulz attacks: US orders review as Senate site hacked

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by the BBC

US officials said they have ordered a security review after hackers managed to break into the Senate website at the weekend. An official said the incident had been “inconvenient”, but had not compromised the security of the staff. The confirmation came after Lulz Security, a loosely aligned group of hackers, said it had carried out the attack for fun and posted files online. Lulz has previously targeted Sony, Nintendo and Fox News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13758361

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Facebook denies losing users

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by the BBC

Facebook has denied that it is losing customers, saying it is “pleased” with growth. Figures from Faceboook monitoring site Inside Facebook suggested that during May, Facebook lost six million users in the US and 100,000 in the UK. But the social network, which does not usually comment on third party statistics, questioned how it arrived at this figure. Other net measurement firms said they had seen growth over the same period.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13760244

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June 17, 2011

IMF hit by ‘very major’ cyber security attack

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by the BBC

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it has been targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack. Officials at the fund gave few details but said the attack earlier this year had been “a very major breach” of its systems, the New York Times reports. Cyber security officials said the hack was designed to install software to create a “digital insider presence”. The IMF, which holds sensitive economic data about many countries, said its operations were fully functional.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13740591

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Is e-learning the food-bank of education?

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BY TONY BATES, e-learning and distance learning resources

We like to pat ourselves on the back for using e-learning to increase student flexibility, but one reason why our online enrollments are growing is because this is often an attempt by students to keep down their debt, by working part-time and ‘time-shifting’ their study to e-learning. One of many consequences of increasing part-time work to avoid large debts is that it takes longer to graduate as a result. In other words, online learning is becoming the food-bank of education – necessary, but often a second best alternative to dealing with the real problem, which in both cases is poverty. (Ironically, many online students are refused federal loans because they are not classified as full-time students – a double whammy).

http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/06/07/is-e-learning-the-food-bank-of-education/

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Learning to live with the Web’s insecurities

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by Dennis O’Reilly, CNET news.com

There’s is no such thing as a totally safe Web service. But that doesn’t mean you have to go to extremes to use Web services safely. The rules are different for businesses and families with children, who need the extra protection offered by such tools as encryption software, keystroke scramblers, and proxy services (I described the OpenDNS service in a post from May 2010).  The two pillars of PC security for every user are anti-malware software and automatic software updates. Microsoft’s free Security Essentials provides real-time protection from viruses, spyware, and other unwanted software. The company’s Windows Help site explains how to turn on automatic Windows updates.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-20069423-68/learning-to-live-with-the-webs-insecurities/

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