Week of May 13th, 2011

[Troy King]

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May 13th, 2011

Apple should clarify iOS subscription policy
Apple gets 30% cut for subscribes in-app / Apple gets 0% for outside-app
Jobs says all digital subscription offers available outside app must be available in-app
print subscribers get free access to Time, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune via iPad apps
no option for non-print subscribers
obvious ply to subscribe to print
Apple is catering to big publishers

Blogging Worst Practices: Obscuring the Source Link
Article on Engadget with poorly formatted source link: black and not underlined
Scummy move tweeted by reader, then link color changed


BOOM! Goes the Dynamite Under Facebook’s Google Smear Campaign
Facebook hired scummy PR firm Burson-Marsteller
portray an obscure Google Gmail feature called Social Circle as a violation of “the personal privacy rights of millions of Americans
trying to weaken Google’s poor social media attempts
deflect bad press about Facebook’s own privacy problems
firm contacted well-known internet-privacy researcher, but ws denied

The World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse’s Battery Lasts for Nine Months
HP's new Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse uses no USB ports
five customizable buttons
30 foot range
I’ve never had a wireless mouse battery last more than 1 month

Serious hole in critical-infrastructure software, says U.S.
serious hole in software used in oil and gas; water; electric utilities; and manufacturing plants around the world
Genesis32 software by ICONICS – 55% in US, 45% un Europe, 5% in Asia
use social engineering to lure a user (they must be tricked!) into visiting a web page with malicious Javascript

Reuters: a failed takeover of T-Mobile would cost AT&T as much as $6 billion
Even if the merger fails, AT&T to owe T-Mo
$3 billion in cash
some spare AWS spectrum
roaming agreement
Reuters claims spectrum and roaming agreement equals $3 billion
I hope it falls through and AT&T goes under!