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A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Don't forget: Microsoft is (supposedly) working on a Windows app store, too >> Mary Jo Foley
It would be interesting to see whether it applied a similar testing regime as Apple does. The mechanics of how the store might be implemented are a bit dramatic.
DF traffic survey: total domination for Apple in mobile sector >> Dalton Firth
A survey of (not revealed, but surely European and/or US) sites shows that mobile viewing is ahead of Linux, and that iOS dominates mobile viewing utterly - as in, 70%-plus.
Intercept Modernisation Programme >> WhatDoTheyKnow
FOI requests are meant to be answered within 30 days, or have an explanation why not. This one about the government's (now-revived) plans to log every email, web visit and phone call was filed in August 2008. Overdue, much?
Facebook files three antispam lawsuits | The Social - CNET News
"Facebook announced today that it has filed suit against two individuals and a company that it says are responsible for propagating deceptive spam offers across the massive social network, including some that encouraged members to spam their friends in turn."
Welcome to the big bad internet, Mr Zuckerberg. Makes the Winklevoss twins seem like Harvard graduates. Actually, they are.
How does Google generate $1 billion in mobile revenue? >> Quora
Clue: it isn't through Android licensing, because those are free.
Ha. The MacBook Air's software restore "disk" >> Dan Frakes
If you're Apple, how do you restore a machine which doesn't have an optical disc, when your OS has always been distributed on an optical disc? Think before you click on this one: see if you can work it out first.
Google's Mobile Business To Hit $1 Billion This Year >> Mobiadnews
It's a small part of its overall revenues, but growing. And that's $1bn that Microsoft then doesn't have.
Opening up council accounts… and open procurement >> countculture
Councils' accounts could be available for close analysis; they just aren't yet. Here's how you could do it.
TV and The Digital Living Room >> Fred Wilson
The venture capitalist (who has money in Boxee) considers what's happening with TV and computers: closer, in parallel, merge?
ScraperWiki's Richard Pope on why scrapers are fragile >> Martin Belam
"Our developers have dark thoughts...
...not in an evil stalking serial killer kind of way, but in a Dr Pepper style way of imagining the worst that could happen. Quite a few of the questions that came from our software team at the Guardian had a focus on what could go wrong. How did Scraperwiki cope with people maliciously altering datasets, or the scheduling of a lot of tasks against a specific URL in a form of denial of service attack, or using the service to violate copyright and IP?"
Medal of Honor sells 1.5 million units in first five days >> VG247
That's a lot. And there's a new multiplayer mode coming next month.
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