Show #73
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Fun Non-Gas Using Activities a.k.a. News
- Google Caves to Pentagon Wishes
- Google's Street View removed images at the request of the Pentagon from public streets where anyone could walk and take the same pictures and/or video and post them to the Internet.
- Ostensibly, the government was concerned that the images, which included views of the entrances to military bases, were a threat.
- The question remains whether the government had the right to request that the images be removed.
- Will porn be the cause of a the shutdown of Tudou
- Tudou, a hugely popular streaming video site, think YouTube for China, has been instructed to shut down by the SARFT (The Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television)
[China Herald] [PoynterOnline] [Isaac Mao] [techblog86] - The rumor can be summarized quickly. China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) supposedly instructed Tudou to close its doors, and word is it's because the people responsible for taking down illegal material missed some porn.
As for its potential shutdown, Danwei, one of the most reliable sources on Chinese internet news, tracked down some facts but nothing conclusive. One unnamed Tudou source told a Chinese source that they haven't been asked to shut down.
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Meanwhile, Marbridge Consulting, whose staff watch the Chinese tech industry closely for a variety of clients claims to have confirmed with unnamed authorities that Tudou has been ordered to shut down, but they don't say whether the report they've translated is accurate in saying that the shut-down may be temporary.
- Apple iTunes is now fully integrated with facebook through a built-in music section
- Can see artists/preview their music
- purchase individual tracks and entire albums
- smart to partner instead of creating their own (more diversity for everyone)
- Apple Announces iPhone Enterprise Features & iPhone SDK (Development Kit)
- Enterprise Features
- Exchange Support
- Push Mail/Contact/Calendar with Exchange Servers
- Also coming are global address list, Cisco IPsec VPN, authentication and certs, enterprise class WiFi (WPA2 / 802.1x), security policies, enterprise configuration tools, and remote wipe
- Also Microsoft and Apple have partnered and developed an ActiveSync for the iPhone to allow better integration with Exchange
- iPhone SDK (Development Kit)
- This is a full fledged development kit
- Contains access to pretty much all of the iPhone's advanced features (multi-touch, accelorometer, video/audio layer, etc)
- Mac only development
- $99 "entry" fee, this gets a certificate to sign your applications with
- The App Store will be the only way to distribute your application(s) to iPhone/iTouch users
- Apple will monitor applications available in the App Store rejecting those that are malicious or adult in nature
- Both the enterprise features and third party application support will come in the iPhone 2.0 software
- Free iPhone upgrade. Again, Touch users are going to have to pay for the new features
- Available in June
- Suzy: Hulu opens it's doors
- hulu.com opening to public
- i checked it out and it seems cool but i don't understand how some of is drawbacks affect ME... derek?
- i like that they have all the superbowl commercials grouped together for you.. but then again i'm an advertising major...
- Web Browser Beta Bash!
- Improved platform features such as: support for HTML5’s window.postMessage and window.messageEvent, JavaScript 1.8 improvements, and offline data storage for web applications. (who cares)
- Performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization resulted in significant gains over previous releases in the popular SunSpider test from Apple, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run much faster, and continued improvements to memory usage drastically reduce the amount of memory consumed over long web browsing sessions.
- Internet Explorer 8
- Five things you'll LOVE or HATE about IE8
- WebSlices - Web developers have work to do, but sort of a neat idea. Think RSS feeds to clips of the main content from a page.
- New Favorites Bar - Links bar renamed, add RSS and WebSlices = New Favorites Bar
- Activities - Lots of options added to the right click menu on webpages: Map, define, translate, etc.
- Crash Recovery - Firefox has had tab/session storage for a long time, IE finally gets it
- Easier-to-Identify Domains - Domain portion of the address is black
- Wider release of IE8 planned for summer
- Anyone can download now
- Currently the build is targeted at developers
- Second beta slated for summer for a wider audience
- More information from InternetExplorer8.net
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