A burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team.
(And yes, we're calling it "Boot up" now rather than Newsbucket. Snappier. Starts faster. Caffeine-injected.)
(And yes, we're calling it "Boot up" now rather than Newsbucket. Snappier. Starts faster. Caffeine-injected.)
Exclusive: Yahoo Is About To Sell Delicious For $1-$2 Million >> Business Insider
"Yahoo is about to close a deal to sell bookmarking site Delicious for $1-$2m, says a source familiar with the discussions. "Our source isn't sure what company is buying it, but says it's a 'strategic partner', something like StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon just raised a fresh $17m round, so it could easily afford Delicious. We called StumbleUpon for comment and haven't heard back."
Price paid for Delicious in December 2005: reckoned to be between $10m and $15m.
"Yahoo is about to close a deal to sell bookmarking site Delicious for $1-$2m, says a source familiar with the discussions. "Our source isn't sure what company is buying it, but says it's a 'strategic partner', something like StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon just raised a fresh $17m round, so it could easily afford Delicious. We called StumbleUpon for comment and haven't heard back."
Price paid for Delicious in December 2005: reckoned to be between $10m and $15m.
Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn't Available to Apps Outside Mobile Safari in iOS 4.3 >> Daring Fireball
"The obvious question: Why? The cynical answer is that Apple seeks to discourage the use of home screen web apps. But if that were the case, why don't apps from the App Store get Nitro either? Many, many App Store apps use embedded UIWebView controls for displaying web content. "The real answer is about security."
"The obvious question: Why? The cynical answer is that Apple seeks to discourage the use of home screen web apps. But if that were the case, why don't apps from the App Store get Nitro either? Many, many App Store apps use embedded UIWebView controls for displaying web content. "The real answer is about security."
MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub >> Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT
Japanese nuclear news and analysis, but with facts. Sort of like RealClimate for nuclear emergencies.
Japanese nuclear news and analysis, but with facts. Sort of like RealClimate for nuclear emergencies.
Stephen Elop, Nokia talks with Geoff Cutmore, CNBC, Abu Dhabi Media Summit 2011 >> YouTube
Nothing dramatic, but 22 minutes of useful insight. Includes all the pronunciations - Noh-kee-ya, No-kya, Noak-ya - of the company name, sometimes within the same sentence.
Nothing dramatic, but 22 minutes of useful insight. Includes all the pronunciations - Noh-kee-ya, No-kya, Noak-ya - of the company name, sometimes within the same sentence.
Firm to Pay FTC $250,000 to Settle Charges That It Used Misleading Online "Consumer" and "Independent" Reviews >> FTC.gov
"The Learn and Master Guitar program promoted by Legacy Learning and Smith is sold as a way to learn the guitar at home using DVDs and written materials.
"According to the FTC's complaint, Legacy Learning advertised using an online affiliate program, through which it recruited "Review Ad" affiliates to promote its courses through endorsements in articles, blog posts, and other online editorial material, with the endorsements appearing close to hyperlinks to Legacy's website. Affiliates received in exchange for substantial commissions on the sale of each product resulting from referrals.
"According to the FTC, such endorsements generated more than $5 million in sales of Legacy's courses."
And now they have to pay back 4% of it. Something's not quite right about that.
"The Learn and Master Guitar program promoted by Legacy Learning and Smith is sold as a way to learn the guitar at home using DVDs and written materials.
"According to the FTC's complaint, Legacy Learning advertised using an online affiliate program, through which it recruited "Review Ad" affiliates to promote its courses through endorsements in articles, blog posts, and other online editorial material, with the endorsements appearing close to hyperlinks to Legacy's website. Affiliates received in exchange for substantial commissions on the sale of each product resulting from referrals.
"According to the FTC, such endorsements generated more than $5 million in sales of Legacy's courses."
And now they have to pay back 4% of it. Something's not quite right about that.
Xbox, Windows unite in internal Microsoft video >> GeekWire
"Is this the future of Windows PCs?
"ZDNet's Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft's 'Windows Gaming eXperience' team, showing the company's vision for PC gaming and communications. In short, it looks a lot like the current or near-term reality for Xbox Live and Xbox 360, signaling that Microsoft is increasingly aiming to blend it all together."
"Is this the future of Windows PCs?
"ZDNet's Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft's 'Windows Gaming eXperience' team, showing the company's vision for PC gaming and communications. In short, it looks a lot like the current or near-term reality for Xbox Live and Xbox 360, signaling that Microsoft is increasingly aiming to blend it all together."
Study comparing Android to iPhone Web browsing speed flawed >> Loop Insight
Those 45,000 web pages? "Their testing is flawed because they didn't actually test the Safari web browser on the iPhone," Apple spokesperson, Natalie Kerris, told The Loop. "Instead they only tested their own proprietary app which uses an embedded web viewer that doesn't take advantage of Safari's web performance optimizations. Despite this fundamental testing flaw, they still only found an average of a second difference in loading web pages."
"Obviously someone is looking to make a mountain out of a molehill," Gartner analyst, Michael Gartenberg, told The Loop. "It's not an apples to apples test."
And: a second? Latency on sites and transmission speeds will make a bigger difference in real life.
Those 45,000 web pages? "Their testing is flawed because they didn't actually test the Safari web browser on the iPhone," Apple spokesperson, Natalie Kerris, told The Loop. "Instead they only tested their own proprietary app which uses an embedded web viewer that doesn't take advantage of Safari's web performance optimizations. Despite this fundamental testing flaw, they still only found an average of a second difference in loading web pages."
"Obviously someone is looking to make a mountain out of a molehill," Gartner analyst, Michael Gartenberg, told The Loop. "It's not an apples to apples test."
And: a second? Latency on sites and transmission speeds will make a bigger difference in real life.
Japan a robot power everywhere except at nuclear plant >> Yahoo! News
"Japan may build robots to play the violin, run marathons and preside over weddings, but it has not deployed any of the machines to help repair its crippled reactors. "While robots are commonplace in the nuclear power industry, with EU engineers building one that can climb walls through radioactive fields, the electric power company running Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has not deployed any for the nuclear emergency."
There's a great temptation to talk of fiddling while the reactor core burns... but we'll resist it.
"Japan may build robots to play the violin, run marathons and preside over weddings, but it has not deployed any of the machines to help repair its crippled reactors. "While robots are commonplace in the nuclear power industry, with EU engineers building one that can climb walls through radioactive fields, the electric power company running Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has not deployed any for the nuclear emergency."
There's a great temptation to talk of fiddling while the reactor core burns... but we'll resist it.
iPhone vs. Android – 45,000 Tests Prove Whose Browser is Faster >> Blaze.io
Comparing an iPhone 4 and Nexus S: "First of all, we found that Android's browser is faster. Not just a little faster, but a whopping 52% faster. Android's Chrome beat iPhone's Safari by loading 84% of the websites faster, meaning Safari won the race only 16% of the time. While we expected to see one of the browsers come out on top, we didn't expect this gap. "Secondly, we saw that despite the optimized JavaScript engines in the latest iPhone & Android versions, browsing speed did not get better. Both Apple and Google tout great performance improvements, but those seem to be reserved to JavaScript benchmarks and high-complexity apps. If you expect pages to show up faster after an upgrade, you'll be sorely disappointed."
Comparing an iPhone 4 and Nexus S: "First of all, we found that Android's browser is faster. Not just a little faster, but a whopping 52% faster. Android's Chrome beat iPhone's Safari by loading 84% of the websites faster, meaning Safari won the race only 16% of the time. While we expected to see one of the browsers come out on top, we didn't expect this gap. "Secondly, we saw that despite the optimized JavaScript engines in the latest iPhone & Android versions, browsing speed did not get better. Both Apple and Google tout great performance improvements, but those seem to be reserved to JavaScript benchmarks and high-complexity apps. If you expect pages to show up faster after an upgrade, you'll be sorely disappointed."
Thousands of Twitter users hit by classic Facebook scam >> Naked Security
"Over 9,000 Twitter users clicked on links posted by fellow Twitter users, claiming to be about a girl who killed herself after her dad posted a message online:
"OMG: This GIRL KILLED HERSELF after her father posted THIS on her wall: [LINK] "Find the wording familiar? Well, you might very well do if you're a Facebook user, as the 'girl kills herself after her father' meme has become one of the most popular methods by which scammers on the social network have tricked people into clicking on their links in the last year."
The fact that a Facebook scam can already be described as "classic" is faintly worrying in itself.
"Over 9,000 Twitter users clicked on links posted by fellow Twitter users, claiming to be about a girl who killed herself after her dad posted a message online:
"OMG: This GIRL KILLED HERSELF after her father posted THIS on her wall: [LINK] "Find the wording familiar? Well, you might very well do if you're a Facebook user, as the 'girl kills herself after her father' meme has become one of the most popular methods by which scammers on the social network have tricked people into clicking on their links in the last year."
The fact that a Facebook scam can already be described as "classic" is faintly worrying in itself.
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