Saturday, January 26, 2013

[Technology] Facebook updates developer policy after Vine scuffle

Facebook updates developer policy after Vine scuffle
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Facebook-bars-Twitters-video-streaming-service-Vine-from-contacting-users/articleshow/18196991.cms
IDG News Service - Facebook has updated its policies for third-party application developers in a bid to explain why Twitter's new Vine video-sharing app is unable to access Facebook's friend-finder tool.

Don't like your cell network? Legal unlocking ends TONIGHT in US
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/now-illegal-unlock-cellphone/story?id=18319518
Unlocking a phone to use it with another carrier will be illegal in America from midnight tonight unless the cellphone is already in your hands.

Huawei's Smartphone Sales Eclipse Nokia, RIM
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/smartphone-sales-exploded-in-2012-surveys/articleshow/18186242.cms
China's Huawei Technologies Co. has jumped ahead of Nokia Corp., HTC Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. in the world-wide smartphone race, but steep challenges remain for the telecommunications firm as it pursues a bigger role around the world.

What the French war on anti-Semitic tweets says about hate speech in France
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/twitter-told-to-identify-racist-users-20130125-2dc0y.html
A new French court ruling will require Twitter to release the personal data of anyone found to be tweeting racist sentiments. AP. The ruling comes after a legal complaint filed in October by France's Union of Jewish Students, which argued that several tweets ...

France Bans Hashtags
http://www.fastcompany.com/3005099/france-renaming-hashtag
A French government commission responsible for protecting the French language from anglicisms has forbidden the Twitter term "hashtag" from all official correspondence.

Review: Dotcom's Mega Service a Work in Progress
http://www.cio-today.com/news/New-Mega-Service-Lacks-Versatility/story.xhtml?story_id=122007YOJUBM
Kim Dotcom's new Mega online storing and sharing service promises user privacy and a generous 50 gigabytes of free storage space for documents and other files you own or are authorized to share.

UN group okays new video format to save bandwidth
http://www.news.com.au/technology/un-group-oks-new-video-format-to-save-bandwidth/story-e6frfro0-1226562712432
U.N. telecommunications agency said its members had agreed upon a new compression format that could dramatically cut the amount of Internet bandwidth currently used by video files.

Video games diary
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/01/gamelife-podcast-episode-59/
"Xbox" hoax shows the dangers of next-gen rumours. Proof, if proof were needed, that the deluge of rumours surrounding next-generation video game consoles need to be treated with the utmost suspicion this week, as a disgruntled gamer fooled tech sites ...

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