YouTube Video Quality Report Shames ISPs

YouTube publicly shames internet providers - Google's video site is following in Netflix's footsteps and showing alerts on slow-loading videos, shaming service providers for poor play quality, Quartz reports - The alert reads: 'Experiencing interruptions?' and includes a link to a new website from Google that shows playback quality for ISPs - much like Netflix's monthly Speed Index. The website is: https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport The alerts are one of the first public moves from Google as the FCC takes on new net neutrality rules. Google's relative silence on the issue contrasts the prominent role it played pushing for an open Internet in 2010 - a surprising change, given the company's increasing work on fiber deployment.

Google Fights Back Against Facebook By Shutting Down Orkut - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: ".... Successfully converting Orkut users to Google Plus and winning the Brazil and India market shares are significant milestones in Google Plus' evolution. Orkut still has substantial market share in Brazil and India, which could be used by Google to increase its market share worldwide. If Google is successful in turning Orkut users to Google Plus, it will come very close to Facebook's market share and will be able to drive companies and advertisers in these markets to increase their use of Google Plus and increase revenues."

How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will
Wired
Rene Bertagna blames Google for the death of his restaurant, Serbian ... It turned out thatGoogle Places, the search giant's vast business directory, ...

Google's Larry Page On The 40 Hour Work Week; JM Keynes Got There First
Forbes
Google's Larry Page has been talking about the 40 hour work week and how it might be about time that we abandoned it as the standard that we live ...

Google's $600 million real estate shopping spree in Mountain View
San Jose Mercury News
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Google has quietly spent $600 million over the past several years in a real estate shopping spree centered on this quiet suburban ...

Google Glass wearers can steal your password
CNNMoney
They tested the algorithm on passwords entered on an Apple (AAPL, Tech30) iPad,Google's (GOOGL, Tech30) Nexus 7 tablet, and an iPhone 5.

While Amazon Dreams Of Drones And Phones, Google Attacks With Trucks And Bucks
Forbes
Amazon's Jeff Bezos has been called “the ultimate disrupter” by Fortune ... GoogleShopping Express orders being loaded onto a truck at Costco in ... be going after isApple's, but that strategy only works if you gain market share. ... You can find me onFacebook, Twitter and Google+ You can e-mail me at ...

Amazon becomes latest target in Europe's 'sweetheart' tax probe
ZDNet
In June, it began a probe into whether Apple's low rate of tax in Ireland ... Europe has also questioned Luxembourg about its treatment of Microsoft and ...

Apple poaches Tag Heuer's sales chief ahead of iWatch launch
ZDNet
While Google has jumped ahead of Apple with the recent launch Android Wear, Applehas spent the past few months bulking up on talent to bring ...

Apple ordered to revise App Store refund policy, may make changes global
Apple Insider
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission on Sunday ordered Apple and Google to make changes to their respective iOS and Android app stores policies ...

Facebook's 'research' turns users into guinea pigs
Boston Globe
Social networks like Facebook know a lot about their users and deploy the data to target advertising. The vast majority of people on Facebook accept ...

Google Services Among 472 Sites Blocked For World Cup 'Piracy'
TorrentFreak
A TV network operated by Sony has obtained a sweeping High Court injunction compelling Indian ISPs to block hundreds of 'pirate' sites. However, in ...

Amazon.co.uk launches wearable technology store (Wired UK) - Wired.co.uk
By Katie Collins
Online retail giant Amazon.co.uk has seen fit to open its own wearable ... Subscribe to; RSS · Wired Podcast · Magazine · Newsletter · Twitter · Google+ · Facebook · Tumblr ...Google Glass rendered irrelevant by Android Wear ... a wearable made by Apple, you're out of luck for the moment we're afraid.
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Google Maps' enduring security holes put businesses at risk - Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow
The problem isn't limited to Google, of course -- reputation-trashing fake Yelp reviews and ... “The bottom line was the jeweler put five-star reviews on his Google reviews, and he ...
Boing Boing

Earth's violent volcanic past preserved in Antarctic ice sheet
New Zealand Herald
Some of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the last 2,000 years have left their indelible mark deep within the pristine ice sheet of the Antarctic, a study has found. Scientists have been able to trace the most complete history of volcanic eruptions since the birth of ...

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Autonomy, HP -- the Apotheker mess Meg Whitman is trying to clean up

Can Meg Whitman save HP? - CBS News: ".... There aren't many tech companies that have been able to make this type of transition. "You're right," said Whitman. "You have to be willing to cannibalize your existing business. Frankly, I'd rather do it to myself than have someone do it to me." In Las Vegas this month, Whitman revealed that Hewlett-Packard is working on a radical redesign of computing, a project it calls "The Machine." "This changes everything," she said in Las Vegas. How? By building computers in an entirely new way, using light to move data instead of copper wires, and combining all forms of the computer's memory in the same place. What will The Machine be able to do? "It will be able to compute much faster with huge amounts of data," Whitman said. "And it will also take up a lot less space and pull a lot less energy."...."

Not many CEOs have the perseverance of HP CEO Meg Whitman -- if HP survives, she deserves a lot of credit --

Hewlett-Packard and shareholders reach settlement in suit over Autonomy deal - San Jose Mercury News: "...HP has  been widely criticized for ignoring red flags when it paid $11 billion for Autonomy in 2011. For years before that, analysts and others had raised doubts about the software company, and HP in November 2012 wrote down Autonomy's value by $8.8 billion. That prompted some of its shareholders to file suit, claiming the Palo Alto company's executives misrepresented how much prior checking they did on Autonomy, exaggerated the importance of Autonomy's technology and delayed publicly acknowledging Autonomy's problems months after learning of them. In its defense, HP claims it was misled about the British firm's worth because of "accounting improprieties, misrepresentation and disclosure failures" by Autonomy's executives. The U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office all are looking into HP's charges. In addition, Air Force investigators have filed similar accusations against Autonomy officials, seeking to bar them from doing business with the military...."

A look back:
Views under the Palm | johnmpoole.com: Apotheker's Legacy of Wrecking HP Continues: Jan 8, 2013 ".... If only HP had not hired Apotheker but a CEO who could have advanced webOS.... "According to a recent report in Fortune, HP CFO Kathie Lesjak tried to stop HP from buying Autonomy for nearly $12 billion last summer, thinking the price was too high, but she lost that battle to then-CEO Leo Apotheker."--$12 billion down the drain. What a waste!"

Facebook's Study Of Emotion Is About Keeping Us Addicted To Facebook
Forbes
Facebook made some errors of judgment in the way it handled its now-infamous, behavioral experiment on users. We now know it only added ...

Google Shutting Down Orkut
InformationWeek
After Monday, the Orkut mobile app will be removed from Apple's App Store and from Google Play. Those who have already downloaded the app will ...

Microsoft boosts anti-snooping protection in Outlook.com, OneDrive
PCWorld
Microsoft has added encryption safeguards to the Outlook.com webmail ... Cloud computing providers like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and many ...

Yahoo Picks Up 'Community' for Its Streaming-Video Site Screen
Wall Street Journal
Sony Pictures Television and Yahoo finalized an agreement Monday, the last day of the cast ... on Yahoo's site watching video could help the company lure ad dollars fromGoogle Inc.'s YouTube, by far ... Yahoo was the fourth-largest video site, with 52 million viewers, trailing Facebook Inc. and AOL Inc.

Google Is Locking Down The UI On New Android Wear, TV and Auto Spin-Offs
Forbes
This past week at its I/O event, Google disclosed a plethora of additional details regarding its plans for Android Wear and unveiled additional spin-offs ...

Amazon Web Services Introduces New Low-Cost General Purpose Instance Type forAmazon EC2
Wall Street Journal
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the availability of T2 instances, a new Amazon ...

Google Glass taking fans closer to the action
USA TODAY
CHICAGO (AP) -- Your favorite team is playing for the title, and you are in the middle of the field. You have a ticket in the very top row for an NBA ...

Apple patches iOS, OS X and Safari on Mega Monday
Computerworld
Nine of the 19 Mavericks vulnerabilities -- and 8 of the 11 critical flaws -- were reported toApple by Ian Beer, a Google security engineer. Along with ...

Enigmatic Disappearance Of Ocean Garbage Patch: "Millions Of tons. That’s how much plastic should be floating in the world’s oceans, given our ubiquitous use of the stuff. But a new study finds that 99% of this plastic is missing. Plastic junk is floating widely on the world’s oceans, but there’s less of it than expected, a study says"

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