Hulu Plus Headed to Roku and TiVo This Fall

Hulu Plus, the premium subscription service from Hulu, is coming to a bevy of new devices this fall, including Roku and TiVo Premiere set-top boxes.Hulu is following Netflix’s successful strategy of integrating with a wide variety…

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Verisign Details Rising Demand for Domain Names

The total number of domain registrations tops 196 million, but why a drop off in China?

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'Cyber Storm III' tests US on cyber attack

US keyboard warriors were doing battle Tuesday with a simulated cyberattack on government and private computer networks that undermines basic trust in the Internet.

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Asians muscling into social media world

Asians are muscling their way into traditionally Western-dominated social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Internet blogs, prompting major players to sit up and take notice.

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Bank functions should be split, Lord May advises Bank of England

Lord Robert May, former government chief scientist, advises Mervyn King to spilt retail and investment arms of UK banksThe Bank of England is being advised to go ahead with the splitting of retail banks from their investment arms by the government's former chief scientist, Lord Robert May ? who has based his analysis on classic studies of how infection spreads through ecosystems."There's an idea that some banks hold that there's an invisible hand which protects them, through market action, and not too much regulation, from bad outcomes," said May. "They're on very shaky theoretical ground there."Instead he says that the banking system functions like a network whose complexity and inter-reliance can be compared to the structure of the internet, or infection spread in livestock, or how HIV spreads among humans.May, an expert in infectious diseases who is a professor at Oxford University and Imperial College, is one of a team of scientists brought together by the Bank chairman Mervyn King since 2006 to try to apply theoretical studies to the question of how best to protect the banking system.He has written a scientific paper on the topic with Andrew Haldane, the executive director of financial stability at the Bankof England, which is now being considered for publication by the science journal Nature.May said that the failures of large banks can put the entire system at risk just as the failure of key internet sites, or HIV-infected people who have sex with multiple partners, can damage their respective networks."There's a paradox that actions that might make sense for each bank individually might not make sense when they're all together at all," May told the Guardian. A key example of those actions, he said, is where a bank has both a retail and investment arm."The studies from other fields show that if you want to maximise the vulnerability of the system, then you mix those two together. It's like the spread of infectious disease," May said. "And if you look at the models, it's not surprising that you find that the system would be more stable if the banks held bigger reserves in boom times, and smaller ones in lean times."King is the first non-banker to head the Bank of England ? and Lord May praised his "more academic" approach to the issue of ensuring stability by calling in scientists: "He's very concerned about the dynamics of the system. Above all, we don't want regulations based on feelings; we want an understanding of what does what before we change the rules."Haldane clearly thinks along similar lines: he has previously compared the effects of the failure of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008 to the effects of SARS, the flu-like respiratory illness that almost turned into a pandemic in 2002.May said that he has been working on a committee with the Bank of England since 2008 to try to apply existing scientific knowledge about topics such as ecosystems to the banking system.May said that he had commented to Haldane that if the financial system were like natural ecosystems, it should be robust: "I said to him 'in nature, it's survival of the fittest'. He said to me: 'No ? with banks, it's survival of the fattest.'"Bank of EnglandMervyn KingEconomic policyBankingBanks and building societiesInfectious diseasesInternetCharles Arthurguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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Top 3 Stories in Tech This Morning

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Twitter feeds and blogs tell hidden story of Mexico's drug wars

? Death threats and murders silence traditional reports? Catalogue of horror posted by bloggers and on TwitterA small army of bloggers and tweeters is filling the gaps left by traditional media in Mexico that are increasingly limiting their coverage of the country's drug wars because of pressure from the cartels."Shots fired by the river, unknown number of dead," read one recent tweet on a busy feed from the northern border city of Reynosa, #Reynosafollow. "Organized crime blockade on San Fernando road lifted," said another. "Just saw police officers telling a group of narcos about the positions of navy checkpoints," ran a third.Nothing of this kind appeared in the city's papers which, along with most media outlets in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, have become better known for what they do not publish than for what they do.Tamaulipas is one of the most intense battlegrounds of the drug wars being fought in Mexico between the federal forces and at least seven cartels.Gun fights lasting hours, grenade attacks in shopping streets, military swoops on suspected kingpins ? all ignored. Six local journalists in one city disappeared in two days, and there was hardly a word from their terrified colleagues.One editor on a regional paper ? who does not want to be named for security reasons ? has meticulously followed directives from the dominant local traffickers ever since a story she published about a shoot-out, based on an official report, earned her a death threat a couple of months ago.She does not even dare complain too openly about this to colleagues, in case they are in the pay of the gang. But every now and then she cannot resist tweeting. "Sometimes the emotion of a story gets to me and I put it on Twitter," she says. "Especially when I know it won't get out otherwise."Earlier this month, she revealed the kidnapping of a former local mayor who is also a cousin of Mexico's biggest media magnate.This reporting is not just the preserve of citizen journalists and frustrated reporters, all too aware that at least 30 Mexican journalists have been killed or disappeared since the drug wars began in December 2006. There are also plenty of rumourmongers, official sources, and cartel propagandists.El Blog del Narco was set up in March and posts the information, photographs and videos it receives unedited and without comment.The result is a catalogue of horror absent even from the national press, which still covers the violence from the relative safety of its headquarters in the capital.Offerings last week included a video of the interrogation and execution of four alleged hit men, photographs of a car found in a Pacific coast resort with two heads on the roof ? the headless bodies were on the back seat ? and the army's discovery of a torture house about an hour's drive from Mexico City. Much of the material comes from the cartels themselves, but in an email interview with the Guardian, the anonymous administrator insisted he has no direct relationship with them."We just publish the information," he wrote, adding that the blog sometimes receives 4m visits a week."Blog del Narco grew because the media and the government are trying to pretend that nothing is happening in Mexico."This is not quite true. At least not yet. Although regional media in all the hot spots are resorting to some degree of self-censorship, the extent varies from front to front.Journalists in the infamously violent border city of Ciudad Ju�rez have long ago reduced their investigations, but they still cover the daily murders and massacres in detail.Some say the unusually high number of outlets in Ju�rez are just too hard to control, others point out that the city's warriors are often happy to publicise their crimes. But many wonder whether the rules of the game are now changing even in Ju�rez.The city's biggest paper, the Diario de Ju�rez, responded to the recent murder of one of its photographers with a front page editorial appealing to organised crime for advice on how to avoid more deaths among its staff."We need you to explain to us what you want us to publish and what not," it said.If the answer turns out to be silence, the experience elsewhere in Mexico suggests there will be plenty of twitter feeds and blogs ready to occupy the information vacuum they leave behind.MexicoDrugs tradeTwitterBloggingInternetNewspapersJo Tuckmanguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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Red Hat's Fortunes Rise on Cloud, Virtualization

Linux vendor Red Hat reports a healthy balance sheet for its second quarter of fiscal 2011 buoyed by solid revenue from its emerging cloud-computing and virtualization businesses.

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Survey Reveals No Customer Loyalty in Mobile Market

Oracle's survey of 3,000 mobile customers reveals that 77 percent would switch providers. But why?

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'Going Dark': Feds Seek Broader Internet Wiretap Authority (Fox News)

Obama administration reportedly is crafting plans to require all Internet communication services such as BlackBerry e-mail, Facebook, and Skype, to be capable of intercepting messages, as officials say terror suspects are increasingly 'going dark' online.Source : Fox NewsExplore : BlackBerry, Mobile Computing, PDA, Technology

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A second day of technical troubles at Facebook

Some Facebook users were temporarily shut out of the social networking service on Thursday as the website was beset by technical troubles for the second day in a row.

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Charity auction lets you buy celeb Twitter friends

(AP) -- If you've ever wished celebrities like actress Demi Moore or skateboarder Tony Hawk would follow you on short-messaging site Twitter, now's your chance - but you'll have to cough up some cash for the privilege.

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iPhone Wins Beauty Pageant But Gap Narrows

Apple's cash-cow smartphone held on to the top spot in a survey of smartphone customers' satisfaction but a bevy of competitors are snipping at its heels.

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Asians muscling into social media world

Asians are muscling their way into traditionally Western-dominated social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Internet blogs, prompting major players to sit up and take notice.

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What Is a One-Time Pad?

A one-time pad is a type of encryption algorithm used in cryptography, where the key that encrypts and decrypts the message is used only one time. Obviously, a one-time pad, sometimes shortened to OTP, is not the most efficient use of resources. The one-time pad requires just as many resources to create it as a multiple-use key, but it must be destroyed after one use...What Is a One-Time Pad?

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Facebook inches past Google for Web users' minutes

(AP) -- U.S. Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc.

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Sonos Review

A few weeks ago, I twittered about the demise of my Roku Soundbridge music player, and how I was now having to deal with using an old iPod to play my music. The folks on the Sonos twitter account happened to see my situation and agreed to send me two Sonos ZP120′s to review. To [...]This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review. Sonos Review
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The Colors of the Web?s Superbrands [INFOGRAPHIC]

Which colors do the web’s most powerful brands use to distinguish themselves from others? The folks from COLOURlovers have decided to find out, producing the beautiful infographic below as the result.As it turns out, web brands love…

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Bing's Share of Search Market Passes Yahoo

Microsoft's Bing search engine jumped slightly ahead of Yahoo to gain second place in the U.S. for the first time. There was little change at the top spot however

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Video: Bing and HTML5 in Internet Explorer 9 (Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog)

In addition to releasing the Internet Explorer 9 beta today, Microsoft showed off work the Bing team is doing to incorporate HTML5 into the search engine and optimize it for the new Web browser.Source : Todd Bishop's Microsoft BlogExplore : Browsers, Internet Explorer, Software, Technology

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Microsoft gets legal might to take down spam botnets

With a judicial assist, Microsoft has perfected a new superweapon to shoot down botnets, the engines cybergangs use to deliver malicious Internet attacks.

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Agatha Christie's 120th anniversary marked with Poirot Google doodle

It is 120 years since the queen of crime writers Agatha Christie was born and search engine Google is celebrating with a doodle on its home page depicting her fictional detective Hercule PoirotGoogle has marked the 120th anniversary of the birth of the queen of crime fiction Agatha Christie this morning with a doodle on its home page. The search engine's letter G has been transformed into the author's moustachioed detective, Hercule Poirot.Christie is not the first author Google has honoured ? the search engine has also created sketches on its home page for HG Wells and The Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry ? but she is undoubtedly the most prolific and bestselling. Born on 15 September 1890, the crime novelist is, with sales of over 2bn books worldwide, outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible, her publisher, HarperCollins, says. Christie's 80 novels and short story collections have never been out of print since her death in 1976 ? when all of London's West End theatres dimmed their lights for an hour to mark her passing ? and still sell a million copies a year, according to HarperCollins.The Google doodle shows Poirot ? the only fictional character ever to receive a full-page obituary in the New York Times ? and a cast of characters standing around a body (the search engine's letter "o", in this case wearing a set of pearls), as the Belgian detective undoubtedly explains exactly whodunit to his less perceptive observers.Christie never set out to be a writer, but she rose to the challenge when her sister Madge dared her to write a detective story. Her path to publication wasn't easy: six publishers initially rejected The Mysterious Affair At Styles, and it took five years for the Bodley Head to get in touch and offer her a deal ? for �25.She moved to Collins for perhaps her most famous book, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, in 1926, and stayed with the publisher from then on, publishing a "Christie for Christmas" every autumn from 1936 until her death 40 years later.In 1976, William Collins recalled meeting Christie as a young author shortly after publication of the genre-twisting novel had made her famous, over 50 years earlier. "The blurb of her new detective novel gave away a vital clue, and my uncle sent me, young and innocent, to break the terrible news," he said. "I was received with the greatest kindness, but little did I think that this was the beginning of a long and very special personal friendship with one of the most wonderful and modest people I have ever met."As well as the Google doodle, Christie's 120th anniversary is also being commemorated with Jane Asher's creation of a chocolate cake inspired by the Miss Marple tale, A Murder is Announced, and with "Christie Week" celebrations around Britain. HarperCollins, meanwhile, is marking the occasion with a new book deal to become the author's exclusive worldwide English language publisher, with plans to push her sales to "even greater heights" around the world.Agatha ChristieGoogle doodleGoogleCrime fictionFictionInternetSearch enginesAlison Floodguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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Internet Explorer 9: Primed With Hardware Accelerated Browsing [And Ready For the Browser Battle] (Blogote)

As Microsoft prepares to launch the beta version of the Internet Explorer 9 two days from now, the marketing pitch is already reaching a crescendo. Both Microsoft and Intel are harping on the hardware accelerated graphics capabilities of the IE9, which will give you a web browsing experience like never before. When the browser is [...]Source : BlogoteExplore : Browsers, Hardware, Internet Explorer, Technology

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Microsoft's Elop Takes CEO Spot at Nokia

Struggling handset heavyweight Nokia shows Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo the door, replacing him with the president of Microsoft's Business Division, Stephen Elop.

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Two thirds of Internet users hit by cybercrime: Norton

Computer security firm Symantec on Wednesday reported that about two thirds of the world's Internet users have fallen victim to cybercrime and few think crooks will be caught.

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Top 3 Stories in Social Media and Mobile This Morning

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Twitter Bringing Photos and Videos to the Stream

At Twitter’s event later this afternoon, the company will announce new ways to embed multimedia into the stream — including the ability to embed and play back video content directly from the Twitter home page — according to sources…

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German court rules against YouTube over copyright

(AP) -- A German court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s subsidiary YouTube LLC must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of copyright laws.

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Where Does Search Go After Google 'Instant'?

Is Google's new search feature really that revolutionary? And if it does change the game, what's next?

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