Unsorted books at Brown University. Photo by quinn.anya on Flickr. Some rights reserved
A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Safely signing in on a computer that's not yours >> Omar Shahine's blog
If you're using a public computer and have a phone and are in the US (or UK?) and want to sign in to Live.com or Hotmail.com, you can request a single-use code to replace your password, just in case that public computer is riddled with malware. Which is a safe stance to take.
Facebook Uses BitTorrent, and They Love It >> TorrentFreak
"Large scale web-services such as Facebook need thousands of servers to manage the flow of updates that are sent out by their millions of users. As a result, keeping all these servers updated with the latest code can be time and resource intensive. "According to Tom Cook of Facebook's systems engineering group, the daily code updates for Facebook used to cause a lot of trouble until they discovered BitTorrent. Cook gave a talk at the Velocity Conference this week titled 'A Day in the Life of Facebook Operations' where he explained how effective BitTorrent is for server deployment."
Verizon Wireless Said to Start Offering IPhone in January >> Bloomberg
Apple and Verizon aren't confirming, but it would radically increase the number of iPhones that Apple sells if this goes through.
Brown University has gone Google > Official Google Blog
First it put 6,000 students onto Google Apps, and then the rest of the university wanted to join too. Brown reckons it will save $1m. And what did it use before? Here's your clue. Someone get Frank Shaw..
Data and addressing services >> Postcode Anywhere
Essentially a "free data in the cloud" service, where you pay for the "cloud" bit, and as much of the extra paid-for data as you want.
Map multiple locations by address or coordinates using spreadsheets >> BatchGeo
Fabulous resource. (And quite a clever way to get companies to hand over their data, if you were being suspicious.)
iPhone vs. HTC EVO & HTC EVO vs iPhone4 >> Laughing Squid
Fabulously coarse. The "you write the dialogue, we provide the animation" system is a promising step up from LOLCATS.
Sites that ban you from linking to them. Still. In 2010 >> malcolm coles
Or as Coles calls them, Link Clowns.
Windows 8: detailed plans leaked, show Microsoft cycle of invent, fail, copy >> Tim Anderson's ITWriting
Tim is a longtime Microsoft-watcher; he thinks that - if this is correct - we're looking at 2012 for Windows 8.
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