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| 1 | Pioneering voice-over-Internet-protocol provider Skype announces plans to go public, hoping to raise more than $100 million, according to a filing with the SEC. » | | 2 |  Macworld - As one of the nearly dozen people who still have one, itГўВЂВ™s with a heavy heart that I report the imminent demise of AppleГўВЂВ™s .Mac HomePage feature. Apple announced via e-mail this morning that pages created with the tool will no longer be accessible as of November 8. Yahoo! News: Personal Technology » | | 3 |  | | 4 | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com and eBay Inc are investing in local Internet services, jumping aboard the increasingly popular and lucrative business of catering to local shoppers and stores.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 5 | Firm awards search giant a major contract to power its email using cloud-based technology, leaving Microsoft, which is also vying for government dollars for its cloud services, crying foul. » | | 6 | Commercial sponsor Puppet Labs debuts Puppet Enterprise, a revved-up version of the flagship open source offering billed to compete with large IT systems management vendors. » | | 7 |  PC Magazine - The Commerce Department on Thursday unveiled a national broadband inventory map, which will allow the public to see where high-speed Internet is available throughout the country. Yahoo! News: Internet News » | | 8 | Ronald McDonald is alive, well and raising eyebrows in a new TV campaign that asks kids to download their photos to his Web site and create photos of themselves with him.
In a nation where kid-targeted fast-food spots have been panned as a cause of childhood obesity, there has been much media speculation that the world's most famous spokes-clown was disappearing from McDonald's advertising.
Far from it. Ronald McDonald never did get axed. And in a half-dozen ads to launch over the next several months, he's a chipper Ronald-in-motion: dancing, playing soccer, shooting hoops -- and nudging kids to visit his Web site and download photos and videos -- Ronaldgrams -- to share with friends.
"Kids today live in a digital world," says Dean Barrett, McDonald's global marketing officer. "You have to speak to kids in a digital language to connect."
Not everyone's a fan. "Parents are going crazy trying to deal with the Internet and social networking and their kids," says advertising and clinical psychologist Carol Moog. "Why would I want my kid to do this?"
But Paul Kurnit, founder of the KidShop consulting firm, says it will be a hit. The No. 1 activity that kids do online is interact with TV properties from their offline life, he says. "Online is where the world is going."
In one commercial that kicks off April 6 on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, a chatty Ronald greets folks on the street and poses with them for photos in an empty picture frame that he's carrying. "You can picture yourself with Ronald at Happymeal.com," says an off-screen voice. "Ask parents permission."
One watchdog group says Ronald McDonald is going too far with this campaign.
"I think it's interesting that the commercials remind kids to ask their parents for permission before going to play with Ronald on the Internet," says Deborah Lapidus,... newsfactor.com » | | 9 |  | | 10 | If you find yourself in New York for the first time and you are wondering where to go in order to eat something memorable in every sense, then Bonapp is going to act as your culinary guide to the famed city that never sleeps. This iPhone app can take care of gathering daily information about the best dishes at restaurants throughout NYC, and then deliver it to you the moment you check-in on Foursquare. This means that all the dishes which are going to be suggested to you are going to be dishes you will be able to enjoy without having to travel too far away - always a good thing when one is on a city that is not the city where he has lived all his life. Read more Learn more about Bonapp.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Bonapp.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 11 | Reuters - Jimmy Buffett has partnered with THQ to bring "Margaritaville Online" to Facebook and iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) this fall, but attendees of E3 in Los Angeles will get a first look at the game. The casual online video game is targeting Buffett's devoted followers, known as Parrotheads, along with the 45 million Facebook gamers who play FarmVille. Yahoo! News: Internet News » | | 12 |  RALEIGH, North Carolina (Billboard) - Jimmy Buffett has partnered with THQ to bring "Margaritaville Online" to Facebook and iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) this fall, but attendees of E3 in Los Angeles will get a first look at the game. The casual online video game is targeting Buffett's devoted followers, known as Parrotheads, along with the 45 million Facebook gamers who play FarmVille.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 13 |  Mashable - On Friday, the state of Alaska released 24,199 pages of email correspondence from former Gov. Sarah Palin's time in office. The partially redacted printouts, which were first requested nearly three years ago, are now being digitized and will be available online in a indexed and searchable database.
Research company Crivella West is working in conjunction with msnbc.com, Mother Jones and ProPublica to get the paper documents scanned and put online. Yahoo! News: Internet News » | | 14 |  AFP - Google released blockbuster earnings figures along with word that more than 10 million people have already joined its freshly-launched online social network. Yahoo! News: Internet News » | | 15 |  Reuters - EBay Inc's PayPal business has become one of the largest online payment systems, but its now heading offline, Chief Executive John Donahoe said in the wake of the e-commerce company's quarterly results on Wednesday. Yahoo! News: Internet News » | | 16 | Mashable - Google+ users may notice something new on top of their streams on Thursday -- a small icon signifying that Google+ Games had gone live.
The social network began offering a range of games from publishers including Zynga, Rovio and Wooga, but minutes after Google announced the offering on its Official Blog, it disappeared. It's likely to return very soon though. "Games will be gradually rolling out so you might not see it right away," a Google rep says. Yahoo! News: Internet News » | | 17 | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's increasingly effective patent war against rivals like Samsung Electronics may mask its real target: arch-foe Google Inc.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 18 | What's the social networking service we're all going to be using in one year to this date? Is Google Plus toppling Facebook? Or is there enough room for both in people's lives? Experts say that both services are going to coexist happily, that they have clearly-defined niches of their own. If they're right (and even if they're not), this means applications that can consolidate one's social activity are going to be more necessary than ever. Plusist is one such tool. Read more Learn more about Plusist.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Plusist.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 19 | You don't have to go to a gym every day for two hours to get in shape. As long as you've got the right kind of guide or assistant at home, you can get in shape there. And Vitogo definitely qualifies for "the right kind of guide or assistant". Read more Learn more about Vitogo.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Vitogo.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 20 | | | 21 | Husbands and wives take note: If Valentine's Day expectations aren't met, your mate might soon be looking elsewhere for a little romance and appreciation.
That may sound like a cautionary tale, but for Noel Biderman and others who have founded dating Web sites for married people, it's a lucrative business.
"The day after Valentine's Day is one of our biggest days of the year," says Biderman, founder and CEO of Ashley Madison, a 10-year-old site that unapologetically caters to "discreet" encounters for the married or otherwise attached. "People are disappointed by their spouses' lack of effort, and they feel especially undervalued when there is a societal expectation of romance. Certain days of the year act as litmus tests for many people in relationships."
Web sites designed to facilitate cheating appear to be thriving; some earn tens of millions of dollars a year, and competition is growing. In addition to Toronto-based Ashley Madison, there's a growing crop of copycats that equate affairs with romance, passion and adventure.
Whether these sites promote cheating or just facilitate it is up for debate.
"People are going to cheat regardless of whether Ashley Madison is there or not," says sociologist Diane Kholos Wysocki of the University of Nebraska-Kearney, who has surveyed the site's members for her latest research. "There's a bigger social issue going on -- people aren't taking care of their marriages.
"It's not so much that they're going to these cheating Web sites because the sex is greater or the person is more beautiful. It's because the person is giving them attention they're not getting at home."
Some of the sites are based in Europe and increasingly have become international, with their eye on the USA.
"American people are really hypocrites about infidelity," says Teddy Truchot, co-founder of Gleeden, which launched in Europe in 2009, moved into Australia and entered the... newsfactor.com » | | 22 | A bill to auction off pieces of the public airwaves currently used for broadcast television so that they can be freed up for wireless Internet is making its way to President Obama's desk. Members of Congress are promoting it, in part, as a jobs bill.
"With 13 million Americans still seeking employment, job creation is a driving force behind efforts to expand wireless broadband," wrote U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton , R-Mich., and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore.
Obama is expected to sign the legislation, which could ultimately mean faster connections for wireless devices.
Will Carriers Win the Bid?
The need is great. The decision comes just says after Cisco's Visual Networking Index forecast an 18-fold growth in global mobile Internet data traffic from 2011 to 2016. The forecast predicts an annual run rate of 130 exabytes of mobile data traffic, which is equivalent to 33 billion DVDs, 4.3 quadrillion MP3s, and 813 quadrillion short text messages.
Will AT&T and Verizon snap up the bandwidth? Should they be allowed to? Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, said the highest bidder is probably going to win -- and the wireless carriers will likely be among the highest bidders.
"When you are a government that's clearly well in the red, being too choosy about who can buy what probably isn't going to get you the money you want," Enderle said. "There certainly is going to be concern about too much bandwidth being concentrated in too few companies, but overall I think users will see at least initially a benefit from this bandwidth because carriers will have to do less throttling."
The Cost Benefits
The bill's authors expect the spectrum auctions to bring in more than $15 billion in federal revenue. It also helps the Federal Communications Commission save billions of... newsfactor.com » | | 23 | Недавно завершилась конференция GoingNative’2012, организованная компанией Microsoft. Она проходила 2 и 3 февраля в Редмонде, и главной темой был C++11. Мне показалось, что это замечательное событие недостаточно полно освящено, и захотел исправить ситуацию.
«C++11 feels like a new language» Bjarne Stroustrup
«We’re all learning C++11» Herb Sutter
«We broke every single book on the planet, and we broke every single programmer on the planet» Herb Sutter
Герб Саттер во вступительном слове посвятил конференцию Деннису Ритчи, создателю языка C, и ключевому разработчику операционной системы UNIX.
Это очень важное событие для сообщества С++, где выступали и отвечали на вопросы люди, ставшие легендами в мире C++, во многом определяющие его развитие. Доклады очень интересные, и я вынес для себя много нового. Дальше идёт обзор всех докладов и сессий вопросов и ответов.
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