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Submission + - GoDaddy continues to bleed customers over SOPA (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by bdking
bdking writes: Despite a transparent reversal of policy regarding its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, domain registrar GoDaddy continues to lose customers to a reddit-inspired boycott. That GoDaddy was the No. 1 target of SOPA opponents — despite much larger companies also supporting the legislation — speaks to the Achilles heel of most Internet companies.
Businesses

Submission + - Israeli Spyware Sold to Iran 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Bloomberg reports that Israeli trade, customs and defense officials say they didn't know that systems for performing “deep- packet inspection” into Internet traffic, sold under the brand name NetEnforcer, had gone to a country whose leaders have called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Allot Communications Ltd., an Israel-based firm which reported $57 million in sales last year, sold its systems to a Randers, a Denmark-based technology distributor where workers at that company, RanTek A/S, repackaged the gear and shipped it to Iran. The sales skirted a strict Israeli ban that prohibits “trading with the enemy,” including any shipments that reach Iran, Syria and Lebanon. Although Allot officials say they had no knowledge of their equipment going to Iran and are looking into RanTek’s sales, three former sales employees for Allot say it was well known inside the Israeli company that the equipment was headed for Iran. ““Israel considers Iran quite possibly its greatest threat, and so the Israeli government would come down very strong against any company that exported to Iran,” says Ira Hoffman. “Iran is also considered by the U.S. as one of its most strategic threats.” Israeli lawmaker Nachman Shai has called for a parliamentary investigation and the country’s Defense Ministry has begun to examine the report."
Censorship

Submission + - GoDaddy Backs SOPA (ibtimes.com) 1

Submitted by
redletterdave
redletterdave writes: "Website hosting company GoDaddy has officially voiced its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Bill in 2012, which is designed to thwart movie and music piracy on the Internet by empowering copyright holders to effectively shut down websites or online services found with infringing material. If passed, the U.S. government could blacklist any website it deems in violation of copyright, which could range from a few posts in a Web forum to a few links sent in an e-mail. GoDaddy supports SOPA for "protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the harm that necessarily flows from the purchase of counterfeit products." Yet, of the 142 companies that support the SOPA bill, GoDaddy is the only Internet company on that list."
The Internet

Submission + - Boycott GoDaddy for Supporting SOPA (readwriteweb.com)

Submitted by
bhagwad
bhagwad writes: "We recently found out that GoDaddy was one of the companies supporting the SOPA legislation. Since then, there has been a call to move domains off GoDaddy with Dec. 29th being the "Move Your Domain Away From GoDaddy Day". Will Slashdotters take up the call?"
Open Source

Submission + - GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast (itworld.com)

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "Use of the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL set of licenses is declining at an accelerating rate, according to new analysis by the 451 Group's Matthew Aslett. In fact, the 451 Group projects that GPL usage will hit 50% by September 2012. Instead, developers are licensing projects under permissive licenses such as the MIT, Apache (ASL), BSD, and Ms-PL. The shift started in 2007 and has been gathering momentum ever since. Blogger Brian Proffitt posits that 'the creation of the GPLv3 and the sometimes contentious discussion that led up to it' may be partly responsible for the move away from the GPL."
The Internet

Submission + - Internet Explorer users have low Risk Intelligence (projectionpoint.com)

Submitted by benne2011
benne2011 writes: A hoax report earlier this year claimed that people who used Internet Explorer had a lower IQ than those using other browsers. Inspired by this bit of fun, Projection Point decided to carry out a real study comparing the risk intelligence (RQ) of people using different browsers. We found that Internet Explorer users performed worse than everyone else; they had lower RQ scores and were grossly overconfident.

Submission + - world's first webGL documentary (highrise.nfb.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: built entirely in open-source html5, webGl and Mozilla's Popcorn, One Millionth Tower is a web-native documentary created by the legendary National Film Board of Canada. The story of re-imagining our higrise planet — and the web.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft alleged anticompetitive practices agains (groklaw.net)

Submitted by andydread
andydread writes: We discussed the accusation against Microsoft by Barnes and Noble about their patent attacks on Android. The details are out on the extent that Microsoft has gone to make open source undesirable in the marketplace. Barnes and Noble says that this is not just about Android. According to B&N Its about all open source in general and they have filed a detailed complaint (PDF) with the ITC spelling out what they call "extortive practices" on the part of Microsoft against open source. Now we have a list of the actual patents in question and B&N explaining how each one of these patents are invalid.
Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - Microsoft Concedes Defeat in Browser War: Tries to (readwriteweb.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has a problem. It can't seem to compete with Chrome, Firefox, or Safari on features or release speed. It won't support IE9 on Linux, Mac OS X, or even Windows XP. What to do? Microsoft has decided thrown in the towel, and is now openly trying to buy users with a hilariously named campaign called "Where's the Love?" Silly Microsoft, you can't buy love.
Iphone

Submission + - Does the iPhone 4S have a battery-life problem? (itworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Many owners of Apple's iPhone 4S are complaining that the device's battery life is far less than advertised. What's the problem? More importantly, what's the solution? Apple's not talking — yet.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft plotted to stall Wordperfect (sltrib.com)

Submitted by microphage
microphage writes: A software developer testified Monday that a decision by Microsoft in the 1990s meant that Novell would have had to release an inferior product when Windows 95 was launched. Instead, Utah-based Novell contends its attempt to compete was severely damaged after it had to delay releasing a version of WordPerfect compatible with Microsoft’s new operating system ..
Apple

Submission + - Apple's iPad Dominance Fades (pcworld.com)

Submitted by PolygamousRanchKid
PolygamousRanchKid writes: On an earnings call earlier this week, Apple revealed that iPad shipments for the most recent calendar quarter rose to 11.12 million units, compared to 9.2 million in the previous quarter. That news, though, was offset Friday by a report from Strategy Analytics that the iPad's share of the global tablet market—previously a domineering 96 percent—had fallen to 67 percent. Meanwhile, Android tabs had grown their market share to 27 percent. "It is clear that the iPad is experiencing slowing growth," observed IDC analyst Tom Mainelli in a research note today. He reasoned that if Apple wants maintain past shipment levels, it's going to have to appeal to mainstream consumers. For them, he continued, $500 for a tablet is a hard sell, even harder in the face of the competition like Amazon's upcoming $199 Kindle Fire.So if Apple wants to compete in that mainstream market, Mainelli maintained, it's going to need to augment its media tablet lineup with lower-priced products. "Following this strategy," he explained, "we might see Apple offer the current $499 16GB/WiFi-only Apple iPad 2 at $399 or less after it launches the iPad 3 at $499 and up."
Android

Submission + - Galaxy Nexus, Ice Cream Sandwich get unveiled (examiner.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From the Article: "Today in Hong Kong, Google took the wraps off of Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich. Also, they brought out the first device to run the new OS, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which will run Ice Cream Sandwich without any additional modifications from Samsung. The Galaxy Nexus will be availible on Verizon's network to start, and then it will come to other carriers later. The Galaxy Nexus has only capacitive touch sreen buttons, similar to the buttons on Honeycomb. The curve isn't as much as the teaser video that Samsung put out a few weeks ago would lead you to believe. The back facing camera has a single LED flash."
Also note that it will be updating with more information as Google announces it.
Microsoft

Submission + - The Deadly Microsoft Embrace (tehelka.com)

Submitted by
Runaway1956
Runaway1956 writes: "The Tamil Nadu government is adding costly MS software to laptops meant for poor students. It could cost Rs 10,200 Crore and hamper student growth.

I'm reminded of Bill Gates saying, "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

Social engineering, at it's worst!"

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