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A quick burst of 15 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Building the Simple Enterprise >> TechCrunch
Linked, because it's wrong in so many ways. It begins: "In the enterprise, simplicity simply doesn't sell. Complexity, on the other hand, justifies costly software licenses and a swat team of consultants and systems integrators." It reads like someone who has never considered that the needs of an enterprise - the laws to be obeyed, disclosures to be considered, procedures to be followed - are orders of magnitude more complex than an individual's. Enterprise software often stinks, but it's not because it's unnecessarily complex. It's because it's trying to deal with complexity in a limited time and budget.
Google points finger at Facebook hypocrisy, blocks Gmail import >> Ars Technica
"Facebook has long been a one-way valve. You put data in so you can connect with friends, and then you can't get it out and use it the way you would like to, even as the company is trying to corner the market on your identity.
"And Thursday night Google called out its rival on such data-portability hypocrisy: It banned the huge social network from allowing its users to connect their Gmail contacts to see who among them are also on Facebook to get the friending frenzy started."
The closing of diplomatic relations often presages war.
Generation Why? by Zadie Smith >> The New York Review of Books
"I can say (like everyone else on Harvard's campus in the fall of 2003) that "I was there" at Facebook's inception, and remember Facemash and the fuss it caused.." And now she examines The Social Network. A fantastic piece. Bring a long drink.
New browser RockMelt oozes into beta >> CNET News
"RockMelt is indeed a "Facebook browser," if only because Facebook is the social-media service that's best integrated into it at launch. It's clear that ultimately the browser's team plans to make it more customizable with other services. The ultimate goal, you could say, is revamping the traditional browser many of the Web-browsing behaviors that have popped up in the past few years--social-media sharing, Twitter clients, RSS alerts, and speedier search--and works them into an interface that aims for convenience rather than confusion."
Ohh, you mean like Flock.
The last Windows ever >> BankerVision
James Gardner, who writes this, is the chief technology officer at the Department of Work and Pensions. The DWP has just done a deal to get Windows 7 (it's presently "struggling along" on XP), but "Personally, I think it likely this is the last version of Windows anyone ever widely deploys, though."
Why? Because "I think they'll be fewer workloads that actually require a heavy deskop stack. Today, of course, we have all this legacy that's coupled to the desktop, but in a decade, I really doubt that will be the case. Most stuff will arrive via the browser."
Microsoft's Linux Patent Scare Trumps SCO - InternetNews:The Blog - Sean Michael Kerner
From March, but interesting: "Microsoft convinced Japanese hardware vendor I-O Data to sign up for Microsoft patent licensing to protect against Linux patent issues. Over the last three years Microsoft has been successful at getting multiple vendors including Amazon, Novell, Brother International Corp, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd, Kyocera Mita Corp., LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and TomTom International BV to buy into their argument that they need protection from Linux patent infringement."
Researcher outs Android exploit code >> The Register
Relies on flaws in WebKit that have been fixed in Android 2.2, but only 36% of users have that. Its effects are limited to what the browser can read - thuogh that could include the phone's SD memory card.
Investors back #TechCity – Concentration of startups "will attract" capital >> TechCrunch Europe
I'm not sure that the headline is completely supported by the quotes that appear, though: there's a lot of doubt that governments can really create the hubs.
Xserve will no longer be available after January 31 >> Apple
Lots of people sang its praises, but Apple's servers never got the market traction: if you're savvy enough to set up a server, you're probably savvy enough to load it up with Linux instead. So that's the second time Apple has tried to get into the server market and given up.
HTML5 Testing >> W3C Blog
"..it seems that people are trying to draw conclusions from the tests or from the results, including whether one browser or another is better.
"An increase of 135 tests isn't meaningful. It's way far from making the results significant in fact. We'll need several dozens of thousands of tests to make those results indicative. Still, while working on the HTML5 specification, there is an advantage to figure out where we have interoperability issues already."
Is this the W3C version of "yes but no but yeah but no but.."? (Thanks @DerekJohnson for the link.)
Bank of America, Citigroup Said to Test IPhone for Mobile E-Mail >> Bloomberg
"The banks are testing software for the iPhone that's designed to make it secure enough for company messages." The two banks employ 524,000 people, though not all will shift away from BlackBerrys. Even so, I'd expect that BoA and Citigroup will be getting some earnest calls from RIM's top people in the near future...
Viral Spiral: most shared video ads of 2006-2010 >> Unruly Media
From the makers of the Viral Video chart: see who has been topping the video ads. (Flash required.)
Dell to Ditch 25,000 BlackBerrys in Bid to Promote Own Service [and WP7] >> WSJ.com
Big win for Windows Phone 7, which will run on the Dell Venue Pro that will do the replacing: "In a direct shot at BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., Dell Inc. plans to move its 25,000 employees over to its own line of smartphones and then aggressively market a service to help other companies do the same."
How one company games Google News >> CNET News
Ever heard of Red Label News? Probably not: "Upon clicking on any of the Red Label News stories, it became instantly clear that all of the stories were pure spam: ads from Google's AdSense and Amazon's affiliate program wrapped around barely cohesive sentences of SEO-friendly keywords along with a few links to other stories about the news." Does Blekko do news yet?
First RS-232 to dock connector interface approved by Apple, controls telescope >> The Unofficial Apple Weblog
When iOS devices are being used to control hardware like this... things are getting interesting.
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