The Italy anti-trust authority has filed a 900,000 Euro ($1.2 million) fine against Apple Inc. for misleading consumers on assistance services and guarantees on their products. Supposedly Apple had given “unclear information” on payments for additional assistance offered to their customers. They also had not fully implemented a two-year guarantee by the producer. [AFP
Former Windows Phone general manager Charlie Kindel started a debate in the blogosphere today about why Windows has not grown as fast as Google Android. The primary argument that Kindel makes is that Google makes too many concessions with carriers and device manufacturers at the expense of end-users while Microsoft has a draconian approach with their hardware partners. Since the device manufacturers control the cost and strategy of marketing the devices, they have more of an incentive to promote Android phones. In my opinion, Kindel is right in some ways and wrong in some ways. Below is what Kindel wrote on his blog and I wrote my opinion about it below that:
GoDaddy.com has been at the forefront of controversy when they showed their support for the Stop Online Copyright Act (SOPA), but changed their mind after a call-to-action campaign launched from social news website Reddit.com. Users on Reddit asked the community to transfer domain names from GoDaddy.com to other domain name host companies on December 29th. GoDaddy started to panic and tried to convince their customers to stay by retracting their public support of SOPA and actually calling customers to convince them in staying. However Namecheap.com said that GoDaddy may have done something illegal to maintain their customers.
DJ Earworm is one of the most well-known mash-up DJs on YouTube. At the end of every year since 2008, he has been releasing a mash-up music video. Here is his latest video with a mash-up of 25 songs. Below is a list of the songs that are mashed up.
The U.S. government is pushing Twitter to delete accounts that are linked to the Taliban. Chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Joe Lieberman, and his aides are leading the social media censorship crusade against Twitter. Some of the Taliban’s tweets include information about attacks, accurate accounts of unfolding attacks, and fabricated reports of casualties.
Google and Mozilla have renewed their search partnership. Google will end up paying Mozilla about $300 million per year to be the default search engine for the Firefox web browser. This seems odd because Google’s own web browser, Google Chrome, is growing at a rapid pace. CrunchFund partner, MG Siegler, wrote a blog post speculating that the reason why Google is funding a competitor is because of antitrust issues. However, Chrome engineer Peter Kasting said that “Google is funding a partner.”
Marquese Scott is best known for dancing to dubstep. His videos have gathered millions of views on YouTube. In this video, Scott is dancing to Butch Clancy’s “Russian Lullaby”. His last popular video has received over 22 million views and he danced to “Pumped Up Kicks” remixed by Butch Clancy. Scott appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show to perform a dubstep dance after being noticed in the Pumped Up Kicks video.
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