[PN] Internet News RoundUp - 26/1/2012

**challapradyumna** · 26-01-12, 02:30 PM

Google Integrates 70 Services

In Google official Blog they said that they will be integrating the privacy policies of all the 70 services they are offering into a singe policy . This means that if you even signed up to a single Google service you will be automatically signed up to remaining 69 services. Recently they also made it mandatory for all the new Gmail registrations to have a Google + account. Also they have recently rolled out a new search called Google Search Plus which integrates Google + results into the search results which are obviously biased. They are also combining the data from all the services thus hoping to give a more "personalized" feel to their services. Why such hasty decisions ? To defeat Facebook.

Source: http://techcrunch.co...cross-services/

Zynga Inspired By Nimblebit

Another sad story of a Big company inspired(Steal) by the idea of a indie company. NImbleBit produced a game called tiny tower which was a success . It was also selected as the apple iOs game of the year . Seeing their success zynga wanted to buy Nimblebit but they refused. So Zynga created a game exactly like tiny tower and called it Dream Heights. -http://tctechcrunch2...pg?w=640&h=1693

Source: http://techcrunch.co...ook-alike-game/

Check This - Micro Publishing Site

Checkthis is a recently started micro publishing site. I would say this is something between pastebin and tumblr . It has the simplicity of a single page website but the customizabity aspect is also good. I has four basic sections , you can Tell,Sell,Hire & Custom. So to the site to know more.

Site : Checkthis.com

Source: http://techcrunch.co...ublishing-tool/

You just got Samsunged

Samsung has released 3 ads promoting their latest product Galaxy s 2 . The ads based on the 'fanboism' towards apple products and show it in a funny way . Take a look yourself

Source : http://techcrunch.co...il-i-saw-these/

WebOS 1.0

Hp has launched Web Os long back but has been awfully quiet after that , Now they have released a year long plan on how they want to develop this OS .

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Source: http://techcrunch.co...open-webos-1-0/

Android Vs iOs

Android is the latest buzz word in the mobile industry . It is the only competitor to iOs . Android got the industry excited but still it hasn’t got the numbers to seriously affect iOs devices . This is going to change definitely in the coming year.

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Source: http://techcrunch.co...-in-enterprise/

Facebook Down !?

Yesterday Facebook was experiencing some accessibility issues . @yourAnonNews tweeted "cough cough, uh, looks like http://facebook.com is having a slight accessibility problem. #Anonymous ". However @AnonOps denied that saying "#Facebook.com is NOT under denial of service attack. STOP LYING. " Later facebook said that the accessibility issues were due to a code push.

Source: http://techcrunch.co...book-anonymous/

AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon Cloud storage service debuted their new service Storage Gateway which creates a secure gateway for enterprises to send data to their Simple Storage Service where it is stored . The Gateway is priced at $125 per month per installed gateway and comes with a 60 day free trial. Snapshot storage pricing starts at only $0.14 per gigabyte per month.

Source: http://techcrunch.co...a-to-the-cloud/

Subscribe To Facebook

It has been four months since Facebook launched its Subscribe feature which is a similar to Twitter follow. This is a major threat to twitter. Facebook is trying to get worlds top individual content creators to use this feature. Here are some statistics that the posts from this feature has experienced .

25% of posts contain a question, these receive 64% more engagement

62% contain a link, and they receive 20% referral clicks if journalists include analysis with the links

30% contain promotional language such as “Read my link”, these receive 37% more engagement than the average post

12% contain photos which receive 50% more Likes than posts without photos, and 13% contain videos

Breaking news and current events coverage gets 3x as many Likes and 2x as many share, controversial stories see 2x the Likes and shares.

Including a shout-out to one’s readers ups feedback 4x, while asking for recommendations ups comments by 3x

Humor can increase Likes by 1.5x and shares by 5x

Source : http://mashable.com/...-journalists-2/

4th Quarter Earnings

Every company is busy announcing their 4th quarter earnings showing their enormous success. Here are some companies earnings in 4th quarter:

Apple - earned a$13.06 billion profit on revenue of $46.33billion.

Google - reported revenues of $10.58 billion .

Netflix - reported profit of $40.7 million, Revenue of $875.6 million.

Accenture - net revenues of $7.1 billion

Xerox -Total quarterly revenue was $6 billion.

Ebay - Revenue of $3.4 billion.

Peace ...............

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**ALPHA17** · 26-01-12, 02:46 PM

Okay for all those days of crying over SOPA / PIPA, I have further bad news ACTA has been ratified and signed by Poland today [26th January], immediately after this the websites of the Parliament of Poland and various government websites were subject to a concerted DoS attack. Over 39 countries have worked to put up this draconian law over our heads, India and Brazil have been active vocal opponents of this ACT, for more on ACTA --

http://www.stopacta.info/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzR...layer_embedded

Hope this proves informative.

**Saiyan** · 26-01-12, 07:39 PM

^Sad, so far 2012 haven't given any good news for us.

and as far as google search is concerned, we should have an option to turn of all the personalized search even when we are logged in ? or we have anything like that now ?

**challapradyumna** · 26-01-12, 08:07 PM

Excerpt From a Mail I get Form an anti-sopa site

Hollywood thinks Congress is on their leash: Motion Picture Association of America President Chris Dodd just threatened to cut off Hollywood campaign contributions to any member of Congress who doesn’t pass his Internet-censorship legislation.

After Congress shelved the controversial PIPA and SOPA bills, Dodd told Fox News:

“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.”

**thatsashok** · 26-01-12, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by ALPHA17

Okay for all those days of crying over SOPA / PIPA, I have further bad news ACTA has been ratified and signed by Poland today [26th January], immediately after this the websites of the Parliament of Poland and various government websites were subject to a concerted DoS attack. Over 39 countries have worked to put up this draconian law over our heads, India and Brazil have been active vocal opponents of this ACT, for more on ACTA --

http://www.stopacta.info/

Hope this proves informative.

I saw discussions in many torrent sites IRC channels and most of the european users are saying

"They just signed it. Thats it. For ACTA to become a Law there is lot of opposition"

**ALPHA17** · 26-01-12, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by thatsashok

I saw discussions in many torrent sites IRC channels and most of the european users are saying

"They just signed it. Thats it. For ACTA to become a Law there is lot of opposition"

Opposition cannot just stop the lobbyists behind the US Parliament [the only vocal opponents of ACTA are India and Brazil and we don't have an intranet so if the US steps on the pressure they might as well snap the cables], so until the world is ready for widespread disruption of services in protest [much more severe than what happened for SOPA / PIPA], also the fact is people knew about SOPA / PIPA, the ACTA has been on since ~2008 between 40 countries and has been ratified by several countries [latest Poland] and there hasn't been a lot of hullabaloo about this one.

So ACTA literally might just go under the RADAR and will be enacted as a law in most of the developed world. Just my point of view, Cheers!!