Plus Google tests infinite scrolling and London teen thought to be core LulzSec hacker
A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Foursquare hits 10m: infographic >> FourSquare
Nice animation.
More Windows Phone 7 customers are "Very Satisfied" than Android customers >> SplatF
Dan Frommer's new venture digs into the details of the ChangeWave research. iPhone satisfaction: 70%; WP7, 57%; Android, 50%; RIM, 26%.
Why arresting lulzsec won't change anything >> How the Media Gets it Wrong On Infosec Blog
"If the governments were truly serious about stopping this threat they would work to defuse the anger and outright hate people feel toward the government these days, they would take steps to show people that they are not the bad guys and stop taking such a hard approach. They would pay more attention to public perceptions and address the issues that people have in a honest and transparent manner, being answerable to the public when questions are asked."
Comments are interesting.
Google tests an interface optimized for infinite scrolling >> Unofficial Google Blog
"Alon Laudon spotted a new experimental interface for Google's results pages. The most important change is that most navigation elements continue to be visible even when you scroll down. The navigation bar, the search box and the search options sidebar have a fixed position, which means that you no longer have scroll to the top of the page to edit the query or switch to a specialized search engine."
Is it bad that a first reaction was "I wonder when that was patented?"
Microsoft vs. everybody else: The quotable Kevin Turner >> GeekWire
"Keep in mind that a major purpose of this conference is to energize Microsoft's network of partners, and Turner's rhetorical fuel of choice is hyperbole. But as a glimpse into Microsoft's competitive mindset, it's revealing -- and also pretty entertaining, if taken with a huge grain of salt."
Comments on Apple, Siebel, Salesforce, Google.. they're all there. (Thanks @rquick for the link.)
Teen thought to be core hacker >> FT.com
A 16-year-old South Londoner has been arrested: "Police hope that the teen and his computer, which was seized for analysis, could bring them closer to Topiary and the hackers Sabu and Kayla, who are credited by other hackers as the driving force in the attacks on security companies such as HBGary Federal. Lulz has also claimed credit for attacks on an FBI affiliate, Sony subsidiaries, the PBS television network and AT&T.
"The most recent arrest came on the same day that the US detained 16 accused hackers, all but two of whom were charged with participating in attacks against payment processor PayPal in an operation organised by hacking group Anonymous. Two of the US hackers were accused of connections to Lulz."
As Microsoft's monopoly crumbles, its mobile future is crucial >> ZDNet
Ed Bott, nobody's idea of a Microsoft-hater: "After nearly a decade, Microsoft's reign as a monopoly is over.
"The consent decree in U.S. v. Microsoft expired last month, officially removing Microsoft from antitrust scrutiny by the United States Department of Justice. And the latest real-world data on web usage confirms that Microsoft's once-dominant position in the world of personal computing is crumbling.
"For the past four years, I've collected semi-annual snapshots of web usage from Net Market Share. The data for the first half of 2011 tell an ominous story for Microsoft. See for yourself."
OK, false origin on the graph, but interesting.
Apple Lion - a roar deal for the PC >> ZDNet UK
"Apple's Lion is perhaps the real beginning of the end for PCs, in the sense of a computer that rudely, personally, puts its demands ahead of ours. Scroll bars? They're not natural and have no counterpart in the real world. We normally just touch a document directly and move it around with our fingers -- a tablet way of working that seems more natural and is now part of Lion. There's still that mouse or touchpad - working with large vertical screen needs compromises - but the interface is one that can start to work when there's nothing but a display of some sort. When the computer itself, in other words, has gone away.
"Combine that sort of move with, say, projectors built into walls and the sort of optics that let them throw an legible image anywhere; motion sensors that know where fingers and hands are; a connection into the cloud; documents you never need to explicitly save because they're just there, always... where, in this picture, is the PC?"
The growth case for open data >> Placr News
"If you look at data.gov.uk in detail you will find that it is stuffed with organograms and spending declarations, and that many of the datasets that started publishing have already ceased (e.g. A&E activity. Most government agencies still seem to be operating 'user pays' policies when you get beyond headline free data releases e.g. Meteorological Office data services. So while there are some notably early successes, there is clearly much more to do."
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