iPhone 5, Bad Apple, Maps, FaceTime, Telcos, Google, Search Results, YouTube, Facebook, Tech Death

iPhone 5

• First Look: iPhone 5
• iPhone 5 Problems: Users' Biggest Issues With Apple's New Handset
• How AT&T paid me $173.82 to go to Verizon
• Verizon iPhone 5 Unlocked Thanks to FCC?--Their units have been confirmed to work with AT&T SIMs.
• UPS to iPhone 5 buyers: You're not getting it early--The stench of self-entitlement.
• Here's the Chip Apple Is Using to Stop You from Buying Cheap Cables--That's for the new "Lightning" connectors.
• 5,000 police sent to quell mass Foxconn brawl

Bad Apple

• Apple granted a patent to wirelessly disable cameras on iPhones in certain locations--"Recording, communicating during protests, political events could be restricted."
• Apple's secret plan to join iPhones with airport security
• Apple patents universal iBattery charging system, forgets all about USB--More proprietary lock-in.

Maps

• New iOS 6 Apple maps app angering users and upsetting business owners--Check out the amazing maps.
• Apple Maps App Takes Reality Distortion to a Whole New Level
• Why Apple pulled the plug on Google Maps--Why they didn't release the app as "beta" is a mystery.
• Google exec: not yet offered new map to Apple--Isn't this considered a duplicate functionality that has led to apps being rejected before?
• Google Maps War With Apple Is Over - Google Won--This was written before the troubles with iOS Maps started.

Facetime

• AT&T's FaceTime Blocking Hurts the Deaf
• Verizon to allow cellular FaceTime use across all data plans
• AT&T's FaceTime blocking draws formal complaint to FCC from interest groups

Telcos

• Verizon CFO buries his head in the sand, claims unlimited data is 'going by the wayside'
• Verizon must allow Android tethering apps, can't charge fee, FCC rules
• Google Fiber Issues Public Challenge: Get Up To Speed!

Google

• Meet the Man Who's Rewiring Google From the Inside Out
• Tech Confessional: The Googler Who Looked At The Worst Of The Internet
• Google is Planning to Penalize Overly Optimized Sites--Sites that have been SEO'd to death, that is.
• As Google Tinkers with Search, Upstarts Gain Ground
• Has your G+ account been suspended? Don't seek shelter from Google
• Banned From Google & No Support in Sight
• Acer pull device launch press conference following Google "concerns"

Search Results

• Google sued for not removing ugly photo of Miami Heat owner
• Tycoon sues Google on defamation claim
• Why Suing Google to Remove Results About Your Alleged Orgy Will Never Work
• Defamation Case By Bettina Wulff Highlights Double Standard At Google
• Japanese man sues Google over rape reference
• Plaintiff Unhappy With Search Results Can't Sue Yahoo
• Emma Watson Is 'Internet's Most Dangerous Search Term'

YouTube

• YouTube Brings Its Skippable Video Ads To Mobile
• How To Unlink Your YouTube Channel Name From Your Google Plus Profile
• Video: YouTube complaints

Facebook

• Is Facebook dying?--"Sure, it's got nearly a billion members. But I for one am dealing with a serious case of Facebook burnout. And I know I'm not alone."
• Facebook stock plunges 9.1% as doubts rise again
• Facebook Reveals the Sleazy Business of Fake 'Likes'
• Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brand' Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner
• Developers say Facebook could face mobile disruption--A survey may point to why Facebook bought Instagram and dumped HTML5.

Tech Death

• RIM's BlackBerrys Losing Shelf Space, Mindshare Among Carriers
• Oracle Makes More Moves To Kill Open Source MySQL
• The scale of startup ambition--Buzzword bullshit bingo.

Alan Turing Centenary, Resistance is Futile, Robots, Nokia, RIM, Passwords, Texting

Alan Turing Centenary

• Britain still owes Alan Turing a debt
• Alan Turing: Gay codebreaker's defiance keeps memory alive
• Crack the Alan Turing Cipher
• Alan Turing: why the tech world's hero should be a household name
• Remembering Alan Turing
• The highly productive habits of Alan Turing--"On the week of his 100th birthday, we celebrate the mathematician's life."
• Thousands back £10 note tribute to Bletchley Park hero Alan Turing--The petition is still ongoing.

Resistance is Futile

• The end of evolution--Goodbye homo sapiens, hello homo technicus
• Bionic Suit Helps Paralyzed Woman Complete Marathon--"Claire Lomas became the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic walk-assist suit."
• For Science, Nanotech Poses Big Unknowns
• Machine Man: a discomfiting novel about the antihuman side of transhumanism
• xkcd: Skynet

Robots

• Musicians Wage War Against Robots
• Canon Camera Factory To Go Fully Automated, Phase Out Human Workers
• Thingpart: "Congratulations, it's a beautiful baby robot."

Nokia

• Death of a Ringtone: The Rise and Fall of Nokia--Predicated year of demise: 2014.
• The Nokia torture--"Once the leader in the mobile phone field, Nokia is now in a tailspin – taking its employees into the ground."
• Microsoft Screws Over Nokia

RIM

• Former RIM CEOs Paid Millions and Millions for Ruining Company
• RIM manufacturing partner pulls the plug on BlackBerry phones
• RIM: What the hell happened?--"Research in Motion went from a sleepy Canadian backwater to the world's most innovative and fastest growing phone company in no time. Now, with its Blackberry business all but stalled, the company's future has never looked more uncertain."

Passwords

• Lessons learned from cracking 2 million LinkedIn passwords--It's gotten Dickensian. Here's a top ten list of hacked passwords.
• Passwords are dead! Now what...?--eHarmony and last.fm were also hit.
• MD5 password scrambler 'no longer safe'
• Older Internet Users Pick Better Passwords Than Teens
• Your brain could become your password

Texting

• Texting While Walking Banned in New Jersey Town
• NJ judge: Texter not liable for driver's car crash
• Massachusetts teen sentenced to prison for texting while driving

User Privacy, Facebook, Oracle vs. Google, Patents, Fail-book, Tech Death

User Privacy

• Anti-SOPA, PIPA lawmakers want Internet Bill of Rights--"Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Darrell Issa say they want a Bill of Rights to protect Web users against censorship and those that would limit their online freedoms."
• Online privacy: Home Office to write blank cheque for 'snoopers' charter'--"Internet and phone companies will be forced to track email, Twitter, Facebook and other online data under new legislation."
• IE10's 'Do-Not-Track' Default Dies Quick Death
• Airtime curtails privacy for the sake of safety
• Worst Companies at Protecting User Privacy: Skype, Verizon, Yahoo!, AT&T, Apple, Microsoft
• Credit agency causes outcry over data privacy--"Germany’s biggest credit assessment agency has stirred public concern about data protection. It announced plans to gather information from social media websites such as Facebook to measure users’ creditworthiness.".
• Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'

Facebook

• Facebook ordered to unmask online 'trolls'--The anonymous tormentors have stepped up their game.
• Facebook privacy policy vote in: users don’t press 'Like'--"Despite voters’ overwhelming preference for the former policy, Facebook said the number of users who voted was too small to be representative of the entire Facebook community and said it would go ahead with the proposed changes."
• Judge says bank can’t use Facebook to reach defendant — try local paper instead

Oracle vs. Google

• Jury: Google did not infringe Oracle patents with Android
• Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle’s case decimated
• Judge William Alsup: Master of the court and Java
• The Oracle v. Google aftermath: APIs stay free, cost of business soars
• Oracle must pay Google’s costs after Java complaint fell apart

Patents

• Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold defends patent trolling, calls tech industry immature
• Apple scourge Lodsys continues patent rampage against developers, corporations
• Oracle sues Lodsys, hopes to invalidate all its patents
• Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed With Thousands Of Nortel Patents
• U.S. Judge Cancels Motorola, Apple Patent Trial

Fail-book

• How Facebook panicked and botched its IPO
• Henry Blodget: New Details On How Morgan Stanley Is Blaming The Facebook IPO Scandal On Me!
• 40% of accounts on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are spam
• Why Facebook may soon cost you money
• Facebook 'boring'? 1 in 3 users are tuning it out
• Why Facebook Doesn't Have Mobile In Its Founding DNA - and Why That Spells Disaster
• Wising Up to Facebook NYT

Tech Death

• How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
• RIM halts stock trading, will 'likely have an operating loss' in Q1--They've asked J.P. Morgan and RBC to evaluate their business.
• Groupon now worth less than the $6 billion Google offered
• Goodbye to Windows Live (and Whatever It Meant) NYT
• R.I.P. Zune NYT

Net Neutrality, Netflix, RIM, Twitter, Apple

Net Neutrality

• Senate Set to Vote on Neutering Net Neutrality--They were set to to take effect on November 20, and, unsurprisingly, Verizon sued to halt FCC's net neutrality rules. Looks like the corporations win again. Update: Obama threatens to veto Net neutrality repeal
• Make a documentary about Net Neutrality and this is what you get: "We had a huge problem programming you because Comcast is a major sponsor."
• The Netherlands first country to anchor net neutrality in law

Netflix

• 800K fewer subscribers humbles Netflix
• Netflix lost 800,000 U.S. subscribers in third quarter
• Netflix Abandons Plan to Rent DVDs on Qwikster --And gets its customers angry again.
• Netflix's folly and the imperial consumer Salon
• Report: Netflix hogs 32 percent of peak Internet bandwidth
• What’s Really Behind The Netflix/Qwikster Split?
• The Angry Drunk: It's the Content Providers, Silly.
• How Netflix is Destroying Blockbuster--Those were the days.

RIM

• Apple and Android, the slow pall bearers to RIM's eventual demise
• BlackBerry Outage Made Roads Safer for Everybody
• RIM, you're dead to me now

All A-Twitter

• Decoding Our Twitter Chatter
• New Twitter Algorithm Could Out Dudes Pretending to Be Lesbians
• Remember When Twitter Was A Joke? No One Is Laughing Anymore
• The Twitter Hulks
• Twitter Movie Trailer

Apple

• "Wolf!"--Proclaiming Apple's impending failure these days is almost a surefire to draw hits.
• Apple patents mobile camera that other people can shut off--Nope, this "feature" will never ever ever be abused.
• How I learned to stop worrying and love the App Store