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• Megaupload: EFF sammelt Beschwerden, FBI-Ermittlungen werfen Fragen auf
  heise online News
  Zusammen mit dem Hosting-Dienst Carpathia hat die Electronic Frontier Foundation eine Support-Website für Megaupload-Nutzer auf die Beine gestellt, die durch die Abschaltung des Sharehosters am 20. Januar legale Dateien verloren haben. Am Montag war publik geworden, dass die Anbieter der von Megaupload angemeldeten Server nach Abschluss der FBI-Ermittlung planen, alle Inhalte zu löschen. Zeitg...
• Bionade-Gründerfamilie verkauft ihre Anteile an Oetker-Konzern: Ende einer Familien-Saga – Artikel / sueddeutsche.de
  Rivva
  Eine Limonade, nicht aus Zusatzstoffen gemischt, sondern ökologisch hergestellt, gleichzeitig irgendwie chic und trendy: Bionade wurde wie kein anderes Produkt zum Symbol dafür, dass Öko-Lebensmittel die Bioläden verlassen und in die Mitte der Gesellschaft vorgestoßen sind. Doch nun verkauft die Gründer-Familie ihre Anteile komplett an den Oetker-Konzern.
• Four short links: 1 February 2012
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.
  Cycles of Invention and Commoditisation (Simon Wardley) -- Explosions of industrial creativity rarely follow the invention or discovery of a technology but instead its commoditisation i.e. it wasn't the discovery of electricity but Edison's introduction of utility services for electricity that produced the creative boom that led to recorded music, modern movies, consumer electronics and even Sili...
• Spyshots Confirm Quad-Core iPad 3 Will Have LTE
  Cult of Mac
  We’re all hankering for Apple to announce its iPad 3, but some lucky so and sos already have their hands on the third-generation device. One of whom has revealed photographs of its internal specifications, which confirm it will feature a quad-core processor and global LTE capabilities. The images were provided by a source for Boy Genius Report, and were obtained from a development tool called i...
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #7
  Badass JavaScript
  Welcome back to the weekly Badass JS roundup!  As always, there is lots of JavaScript news this week, so lets dive in. Ehsan Akhgari has a neat blog post on automatically converting a native OpenGL application to run on the web via WebGL using Emscripten. Iced CoffeeScript is a fork of CoffeeScript that brings two new keywords to the language: await and defer, which make asynchronous programming...
• RIM's First BlackBerry 10 Handset Could Be Smaller Version Of Playbook
  paidContent
  Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) will be pinning its comeback hopes on the first generation of BlackBerry phones to run its BlackBerry 10 operating system, and it seems to have settled on a design. Leaked media images to a friendly outlet suggest that RIM wants to borrow cues from the Playbook tablet when...
• Fathoming Facebook
  parislemon
  Amidst my snark, there are a few high level things about Facebook’s numbers that I find interesting. First: So Facebook had nearly double the profits of Amazon in 2011… — MG Siegler (@parislemon) February 1, 2012 Second: Facebook revenue and profit are both about about 1/10th that of Google (which went public 7.5 years ago). They. Are. Coming. — MG Siegler (@parislemon) February 1, 2012...
• wirres.net redesign
  wirres.net
  wirres hat angefangen mit einem tabellen-basierten layout. ganz schreckliche konstruktionen waren das damals, aber so hat man das halt damals gemacht. vor ein paar jahren habe ich das layout dann ohne tabellen, mit CSS und HTML gebaut. jetzt fand ich es an der zeit, ein layout zu bauen das zumindest ansatzweise auf HTML5 basiert. ansatzweise deshalb, weil die konstruktion, glaube ich, nichtm...
• iPhone 4S Camera Made by Sony
  Daring Fireball
  That’s one way for camera companies to thrive in the face of declining point-and-shoot sales: to become component suppliers for smartphones and other devices.  ★ 
• Fanpages: ZDF sorgt sich um Werbefreiheit bei Facebook – SPIEGEL ONLINE
  Rivva
  Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk schlägt Alarm: Facebook will offenbar künftig für werbefreie Seiten in dem Netzwerk Geld verlangen. Bislang hatte das ZDF ein Sonderabkommen mit Facebook, weil dem Sender Werbung im Netz verboten ist.
• Lanyrd's Simon Willison on Today's Web Stack
  ReadWriteWeb
  Once upon a time, the default stack for a lot of developers consisted of the LAMP stack. Linux, Apache, MySQL and one of the P triumvirate: PHP, Python or Perl. Those days, however, are over. Sure, Linux is still powering a lot of servers. But above that, almost everything is up for grabs. Today at the Monki Gras conference in London, Simon Willison of held forth on the new Web stack. Willison wa...
• security by obscurity
  wirres.net
  in den db-lounges gibts neuerdings kostenloses wlan. wenn man sich allerdings in den wlan-hotspot einklinkt und die startseite (bzw. irgendeine seite aufruft), bekommt man nur den quelltext der login-seite zu sehen. im quelltext stehen freundlicherweise die logindaten im klartext, mit denen man sich auf der regulären hotspotseite (die eigenartigerweise funktioniert) einloggen kann. die log...
• Facebook's Status Update: $5 Billion IPO Filed
  paidContent
  It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that range: $5 b...
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• psd.js: You Guessed It - A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript
  Badass JavaScript
  Ryan LeFevre has been working on psd.js, which is as you might have already guessed, is a Photoshop Document parser that works in both the browser and Node.js. psd.js is a general purpose file parser for PSD files created in Photoshop. Given a PSD file, it can parse out information such as image size and color modes, image resources, layer info, image contents, etc. It is written in CoffeeScrip...
• Sony, Too
  Daring Fireball
  Athima Chansanchai, reporting for Gadgetbox: Sony’s Kate Dugan admitted that despite the natural disasters in Japan that affected production and shipment of its digital cameras, “true decline” has set in for digital cameras, in which sales are down 20 percent, the first time losses have hit in the double digits. The exodus is most pronounced amongst entry level users, who have turned to...
• Sensationelle Tonaufnahme: So klang Bismarck – SPIEGEL ONLINE
  Rivva
  Der Kanzler war begeistert! 1889 wurde Otto von Bismarck ein Phonograph vorgeführt - und er plauderte munter auf das revolutionäre Gerät. Mehr als ein Jahrhundert galt die wohl einzige Aufnahme seiner Stimme als verschollen. Nun wurde das historische Tondokument entdeckt, Forscher sprechen von einer Sensation.
• Midem: Globale Datenbank für Musikrechte kommt
  heise online News
  Bis Ende Februar soll die Entscheidung für eine gemeinsame globale Datenbank für Musiktitel fallen, die so genannte Global Repertoire Database (GRD). Dass das Projekt noch scheitern könnte schlossen die verschiedenen Partner der Initiative, darunter Rechteinhaber, Verwertungsgesellschaften und Provider, auf der Musikmesse Midem in Cannes praktisch aus. Allenfalls über das "Wie" könne man sic...
• Windows 8 für ARM-Tablets kommt für Entwickler ab Februar
  tabtech.de - Tablet News und Testberichte
  Wie CNET berichtet wird Microsoft im Februar damit beginnen die Beta von Windows 8 für ARM-Prozessoren an Entwickler auszugeben. Damit wird das Betriebssystem in Zukunft nicht nur auf x86-Tablets, sondern auch auch auf Tablets mit ARM-Chips laufen.   Wann wir die ersten Windows 8 ARM Tablets sehen werden ist allerdings weiter offen. Erfreulich wäre eine Vorstellung auf dem Ende Februar stattfin...
• Put this way, it sounds so simple. And actually, it should be...
  parislemon
  Put this way, it sounds so simple. And actually, it should be this simple. Unfortunately, this discounts the fact that Hollywood is run by people with their heads up their asses. Like this guy. It’s a fucked up nightmare of politics and greed. It’s amazing that anything good comes out of the system at all — it’s a testament to the true creative talent behind the films themselves.  You can...
• RIM Creates Four Cartoon Characters to Spread ‘Be Bold’ Message
  Daring Fireball
  Someone at RIM is even nuttier than those two guys who got drunk on that airplane and chewed their way out of their restraints.  ★ 
• 'Hot News' Returns In Hollywood Publisher Catfight
  paidContent
  For decades, publishers have tried and failed to use the law of “hot news” to chase competitors from their stories. This hasn’t dissuaded Penske Media and its controversial editor, Nikki Finke, from trying again. In a court filing last week, Penske said it may invoke the “hot news” rule as par...
• Don’t like the iBooks Author EULA? Use something else
  The Apple Core Blog RSS | ZDNet
  A lot of people are up-in-arms over Apple’s license agreement for iBooks Author. It’s been called everything every superlative in the book from mind-bogglingly greedy, to unprecedentedly audacious, to — my personal favorite — crazy evil.Somehow I don’t think that the iBooks Author team got together and settled on “let’s be crazy evil” as their team slogan. (Apple Legal maybe, but n...
• Coming to Paris, London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Lisbon
  leebrimelow.com
  Later this month I will be embarking on a small European tour with Mike, Thibault, Deepa, Michael, and Adam. The goal of the tour is to talk with the community about the future direction of Flash and to get you up to speed with the new stuff we are working on. As part of the tour we will be attending and speaking at FITC Amsterdam. My comrade Tom Krcha and I will be doing a great workshop on buil...
• Amazon Feels The Profit Squeeze
  parislemon
  Amazon Feels The Profit Squeeze: Just to follow up, Amazon has released their numbers. As expected, net income doesn’t look great — $177 million, down 58 percent year over year. But at least it’s not a loss (which Amazon had warned it might be). That $177 million is on sales of $17.4 billion. Crazy. That’s what low margins — and selling hardware at a loss — will do to you. Speaking of...
• Tesla Motors Model S Options and Pricing
  Daring Fireball
  Looks great, and less expensive than I expected. I like my friend Nat Irons’s quip that the $50,000 40kWh model is “the white plastic MacBook of the product line”.  ★ 
• PhoneGap Build Support Comes to Version 1.4.0
  ReadWriteWeb
  When it comes to the pace of mobile app innovation, there are a couple leaders in the field that need to be watched on a regular basis. Foremost among them is the PhoneGap, also known as Apache Cordova these days. Call it the leader of the leaders. Today the company announced the newest version of its platform, PhoneGap 1.4.0. In addition to fixing many of the bugs found in version 1.3.0, the Phon...
• "Sorgen um den Journalismus überhaupt" – Meedia
  Rivva
  Welcome to the Shitstorm: Ausgerechnet Wolf Schneider, 86, Hüter aller Journalistenschul-Marken und Papst des lebendigen Deutschunterrichts, hat es im reifen Alter erwischt. Gegen die Neuauflage seines Standardwerks, die nun auch den Online-Journalismus dogmatisiert, tobt im Wilden Web der Widerstand. Für Schneider sind vornehmlich "Altlinke" und "Durchgefallene" bei der Henri Nannen Schule die...
• App Engine 1.6.2 Released
  Google App Engine Blog
  Some of you may think of dragons as ferocious, treasure-hoarding, fire-breathing monsters. But the App Engine team is embracing the dragon as a symbol of fortune and good luck, and we are excited to announce our first release in the Year of the Dragon. Experimental Datastore Backup/RestoreUsing the Datastore Admin functionality in the Admin Console, you can now use the experimental Datastore Back...
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