Submission + - Facebook used to catch heretic (msn.com)
forand writes: Using screen shots of a customer's Facebook profile, owners of a West Bank internet cafe helped Palestinian intelligence forces capture a man accused of heresy.
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 12 declined, 2 accepted (14 total, 14.29% accepted)
Submission + - News Corp. Shuts off Hulu Access in Cable dispute. (allthingsd.com)
forand writes: News Corp. has provided an excellent example of what can go wrong when corporations leverage their power in one market to affect another. By cutting off access to Hulu to Cablevision internet subscribers, News Corp. is making it clear to the market they they will use any means to get their desired outcome. In particular this brings up many questions relevant to net neutrality: is this evidence for the need for legal regulation? would regulation lead to a more dysfunctional marketplace? what recourse do consumers have when not offered any other providers of internet access nor traditional cable content?
Submission + - Apple Finally Publishes App Review Guidelines (apple.com)
forand writes: Apple has finally published the guidelines by which they will judge Apps acceptable for the iTunes App Store. They have also relaxed the restrictions on using outside development tools so it may be possible to make complied Flash apps.
Submission + - Amazon opens Kindle to developers (typepad.com)
forand writes: Amazon has just opened up the Kindle to a limited group of 'beta developers' paving the way to more integrated presentation of content.
Submission + - US Calls for Investigation Into Google Intrusion (bbc.co.uk) 1
forand writes: US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, has called for China to initiate a 'thorough' and 'transparent' investigation into the recent attacks on Google and other US companies.
Submission + - Google attackers identified (arstechnica.com)
forand writes: Researchers, examining the attacks on Google and over 20 other companies in December, have determined "the source IPs and drop server of the attack correspond to a single foreign entity consisting either of agents of the Chinese state or proxies thereof."
Submission + - Google Selling Phones Directly (google.com)
forand writes: After much speculation google has started selling a phone of their own from their own site. Looks like the cell phone industry might be info a shake up.
Submission + - Copyright as National Security (arstechnica.com)
forand writes: Both Arstechnica and Wired have called the Obama administrations recent dubbing of the specifics of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement as a 'National Security' issue, for what it is: the same old shenanigans. Wired's David Kravets further points out: "The national security claim is stunning, given that the treaty negotiations have included the 27 member states of the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand, all of whom presumably have access to the "classified" information."
