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		<title>Obama to Veto Anti-Net Neutrality Bill if it Passes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some bad news for opponents of the FCC Net Neutrality rules that will come into effect at the end of the month: Even if Congress passes a resolution of disapproval tomorrow that could overturn the rules, The White House has announced that President Obama will likely veto whatever is sent his way. In a statement released yesterday, the White House boasted &#8220;Federal policy has consistently promoted an Internet that is open and facilitates innovation and investment, protects consumer choice, and enables free speech,&#8221; adding that &#8220;[d]isapproval of [the FCC rules] would threaten those values and cast uncertainty over those innovative new businesses that are a critical part of the Nation’s economic recovery.&#8221; (MORE: Net Neutrality Proponents Sued by Net Neutrality Proponents?) The Senate is expected to vote on Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison&#8217;s S.J. Res. 6, also known as &#8220;Disapproval of Federal Communications Commission Rule Regulating the Internet and Broadband Industry Practices,&#8221; tomorrow. The resolution requires 51 votes to be sent to the White House, which would mean that nine Democrats would have to support it, but the White House statement made it clear that even that wouldn&#8217;t be enough to get it past Obama: &#8220;If the president is presented with S.J. Res 6, which would not safeguard the free and open Internet, his senior advisers would recommend that he veto the resolution.&#8221; As it stands, the FCC&#8217;s Net Neutrality rules will come into effect November 20th. MORE: FCC Passes Ruling to Protect Net Neutrality [via AdWeek] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102400&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Number of the Day: 56</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/08/number-of-the-day-56/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new Cisco study, 56% of college students and recent college graduates would refuse to work for a company that banned social media like Facebook and Twitter, demonstrating their awareness of just how important YouTube links and pithy updates from your favorite Adult Swim-friendly comedians are to actually getting through your work day. The survey also revealed that 70% of college students now believe that an office is unnecessary to being a productive worker, with 25% of respondents saying that they think their productivity would increase if they worked from home. Not if they keep tweeting and checking Facebook, it won&#8217;t. Cisco Connected World Technology Report [Cisco.com] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102239&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Blether&#8217; Brings Private, Instant Group Chatting to Twitter</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/07/blether-brings-private-instant-group-messaging-to-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever engaged in a bit of back-and-forth with another Twitter user and you realized you needed to take the conversation off of everyone else&#8217;s timeline, you may have had to resort to multiple direct messages, e-mail, Skype, or any number of alternative communication methods. Even the dreaded &#8220;telephone&#8221; you&#8217;ve seen in the movies. New startup &#8220;Blether&#8221; (it&#8217;s technically written &#8220;!blether&#8221;) provides a dead-simple way to quickly initiate a private chat room with other Twitter users. You begin a tweet with &#8220;!b&#8221;, add whomever you want to chat with (you can add multiple people), and your message. Basically, your tweet would look something like: !b @person-one @person-two Hey, do you guys have a quick second to chat? (MORE: Two Bickering Chatbots Video: Artificial Intelligence Gone Awry) Moments later, everyone who&#8217;s involved with the chat will get a Twitter mention from the &#8220;Bella Blether&#8221; account with a link to a freshly-built private chatroom. Wait for everyone to pop inside and—boom—you&#8217;re chatting. I had some initial trouble with the chat stream not auto-updating in the Google Chrome web browser, a glitch Blether CEO and founder Kevin Bradshaw attributed to &#8220;an issue with a certain extension in Chrome&#8221; that &#8220;maybe one in 500 people are seeing,&#8221; but once I switched over to Firefox, everything worked as advertised. I&#8217;ll be sending the team a list of my Chrome extensions to see if they can pinpoint which one is causing trouble. The interface itself is clean and simple, and it works without the need for a special app, so smartphone users can hop right into a chat with desktop users without missing any of the action. And with that, let&#8217;s move on to five questions with Blether CEO and founder Kevin Bradshaw. article continues on next page&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102147&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/the-internet-weighs-about-as-much-as-a-strawberry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the world was shocked—shocked!—to discover that downloading an electronic book to a device such as a Kindle actually increases the weight of the Kindle. Not by any truly measurable amount, said the New York Times, but still: adding data to a device apparently results in trapped electrons which &#8220;have a higher energy than the untrapped ones.&#8221; And though the amount of data contained in a tiny e-book file is so miniscule as to render it almost irrelevant, the results become more meaningful when you measure a much larger set of data. In that spirit, how much does all the information on the entire internet weigh? The conclusion: about as much as a strawberry. Check out the above video for the explanation, which includes details about the Kindle stuff, too. How Much Does The Internet Weigh? [YouTube via Buzzfeed]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101652&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Officially Starts Rolling Out New Gmail Design</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/01/google-officially-starts-rolling-out-new-gmail-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We got an official early peek at it this summer, an accidentally leaked (or was it?) demo video less than two weeks ago, and today, official word from Google that the newly redesigned Gmail will begin rolling out shortly. Among the highlights, there will be a simpler conversation view—it looks sort of like a text messaging thread—with pictures of your contacts &#8220;so it&#8217;s easier to keep track of who said what,&#8221; according to Google. Notice that in the above conversation, Meredith Blackwell called shotgun in Peter&#8217;s car via e-mail. That&#8217;s not how shotgun works, Meredith. Is this your first time in a car? You have to be within LINE OF SIGHT to call shotgun. Gmail will also get &#8220;elastic density&#8221; which is a fancy way of saying that if you have a narrow monitor, things will automatically rejigger themselves to fit without you having to resort to horizontal scrolling. I have my e-mail up on a vertically-oriented monitor with a paltry 1280&#215;720 resolution all day, so I like this. (I keep my e-mail up on my worst monitor because I can&#8217;t stand e-mail.) Also new to Gmail: &#8220;completely rebuilt&#8221; high-definition themes, a resizable left navigation panel, and an optional drop-down advanced search box for finding old messages based on an array of criteria. If you fear change, you&#8217;ll be able to stave off these new features for at least a little while. For the rest of you, a &#8220;Switch to the new look&#8221; link in the bottom right-hand corner of Gmail will appear over the next few days. Click that, and you&#8217;ll be able to access the new features early. MORE: New Gmail Accidentally Revealed in Video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101565&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Threatens to Take Down Fox News Next Month</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/27/anonymous-threatens-to-take-down-fox-news-next-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#8217;s certainly one way to complain about news coverage. Hackers claiming to represent Anonymous have announced plans to take down Fox News&#8217; website on November 5 in protest over the network&#8217;s coverage of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. Calling the Fox coverage &#8220;continued right-wing, conservative propaganda against the occupations,&#8221; the hackers explained in a new video that &#8220;since [Fox] will not stop belittling the occupiers, we will simply shut them down.&#8221; Sean Hannity, Bill O&#8217;Reilly and former Fox News personality Glenn Beck are named as &#8220;primary targets&#8221; for the attack, according to a caption. (MORE: &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Forces 40+ Child Pornography Sites Offline) The attack is planned for November 5th, the same day as a previously announced (and potentially fake) Facebook takedown is scheduled to occur. More importantly, it&#8217;s also Guy Fawkes&#8217; Day in the U.K., in honor of the terrorist who tried to blow up parliament in the 17th century, and whose likeness has been adopted via the comic and movie V For Vendetta, by Anonymous and its supporters in public appearances. Fox News has not officially responded to the threat but, let&#8217;s face it, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before the issue is raised on air. MORE: Anonymous Attacks Just Political Protests, Say Lawyers Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101127&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google: U.S. Gov&#8217;t, Police Make More Requests for Private Data in 2011</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/26/google-u-s-govt-police-make-more-requests-for-private-data-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, not only is Big Brother watching you, he also really would rather that you weren&#8217;t watching him online, thank you very much. According to Google&#8217;s most recent transparency report, the first half of 2011 saw a 70% rise in requests from U.S. government and law enforcement to remove videos from YouTube, as well as a 29% rise in the number of U.S. government requests for private data about Google users. The new report makes it easier to find this information, with the creation of a special section that deals specifically with requests from government bodies around the world. &#8220;We&#8217;ve created Government Requests to show the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests to remove content from our services,&#8221; explains the opening of the report, adding &#8220;We hope this step toward greater transparency will help in ongoing discussions about the appropriate scope and authority of government requests.&#8221; (MORE: Google+ Will Soon Offer Pseudonyms, Anonymity) Google characterized the U.S. government and law enforcement requests as including &#8220;a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which we did not remove and [separate] requests from a different local law enforcement agency for removal of videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials.&#8221; None of the requests were complied with, according to the company. Overall, the U.S. came third internationally in terms of all requests for Google to remove content, with 92 requests leading to 757 items removed, behind Brazil (224 requests, for 689 items) and Germany (125 requests, for 2405 removals). MORE: Which Government Asks Google to Remove the Most Info from the Internet? Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100944&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: New Taiwanese Animation Explains Rumored Yahoo Buyout</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/24/watch-new-taiwanese-animation-explains-rumored-yahoo-buyout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, is Google trying to buy Yahoo or what? It&#8217;s all so confusing! Fear not, people of the Internet, because Taiwan&#8217;s Next Media Animation explains the entire situation in its latest video. Here is the gist of what&#8217;s happening: An unnamed source told the Wall Street Journal that Google has been talking with two firms that are looking to help fund the company&#8217;s takeover bid of Yahoo. If it turns out to be true, it&#8217;ll be quite the surprise considering people assumed that anti-trust issues would discourage a takeover attempt, seeing as Google is the world&#8217;s most popular search engine while Yahoo is the second. (PHOTOS: The Evolution of Corporate Logos) Regardless of whether such a bid is feasible, Yahoo&#8217;s stock rose around 3% after the word got out. Of course, reading up on the potential deal is such a drag. Why not learn about it via awkward computer animation? You see, the whole fiasco is a circus, which is why Jerry Yang is dressed up as a ringmaster and unceremoniously shot out of a cannon in tears after his company&#8217;s stock takes a nosedive. In the end, a surfer dude in cargo shorts who for some reason represents Google is seen exchanging giant pots of money with the two unnamed firms. The lesson: When someone hands you a wrapped gift with the words &#8220;$44.6 billion&#8221; printed on it, accept it, or you&#8217;ll be shot out of a cannon. MORE: Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: &#8216;These People F&#8212;ed Me Over<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100771&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Gmail Accidentally Revealed in Video</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/20/new-gmail-accidentally-revealed-in-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Gmail is getting a makeover. The brand-new version of Google&#8217;s popular, free email service features plenty of user-friendly upgrades: a cleaner design, improved search functions, high-resolution themes and more. All of this was revealed in a new video that wasn&#8217;t meant to be seen yet. Google produced a slick presentation featuring Jason Cornwell (Gmail&#8217;s user experience designer) and accidentally released it on its YouTube channel. Before they could take it down, a quick-thinking YouTube user reposted it. It was only a matter of time before it was spotted by blogs like Google Operating System and Mashable. (PHOTOS: A History of Google Doodles) Users who switched over to Gmail&#8217;s Preview theme during the summer probably already have a decent idea of what to expect, at least when it comes to the clean, minimal design. Still, a lot has changed, almost all for the better. Profile pictures will be bigger, giving conversation threads a visually dynamic social media vibe. Gmail will also automatically adjust to fit the size of the browser window and let you modify the display density. You&#8217;ll also be able to adjust the size of the labeling and chat boxes, a nice move that should let neat freaks and social butterflies maximize what&#8217;s most important to them. Perhaps the most exciting development is the new search box; advanced search options will now pop down unobtrusively instead requiring you to click through to a clunky set of search fields. Overall, it looks like it&#8217;s going to be a huge improvement, although we won&#8217;t know for sure until we actually get to test it out. [via Mashable] MORE: How to Free Up Space in Gmail<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100502&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MC Hammer Launches &#8216;WireDoo&#8217; Search Engine for Some Reason</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/19/mc-hammer-launches-wiredoo-search-engine-for-some-reason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please Hammer, don&#8217;t hurt &#8216;em. Those competing search engines know that your new search engine, WireDoo, is too legit to quit. Stop. Hammer time moves much faster than standard technology product development time. Don&#8217;t stop, actually. After all, they put you in the mix. Now everyone keeps saying, &#8220;Here comes the Hammer!&#8221; This is the way you roll, though. It&#8217;s all good. You had no other choice but to pump it up. Here&#8217;s the news: WireDoo does &#8220;deep search,&#8221; says Mashable. Have you seen her? Nobody has. She&#8217;s not available to the public yet, but when she is, we&#8217;ll all say, &#8220;Yo!! Sweetness.&#8221; We&#8217;ll just pray you officially turn this mutha out. Until then, we&#8217;re all in the same gang—we can&#8217;t touch this. [via Mashable] MORE: The 10 Most Dangerous Celebrities on the Internet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100337&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Giving &#8216;Buzz&#8217; the Axe</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/14/google-giving-buzz-the-axe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone&#8217;s favorite Twitter clone that never really went anywhere is being put to sleep sometime in the next few weeks. Google Buzz was launched in February of 2010, immediately ran into trouble for opting every Gmail user into the service, and ended up paying out an $8.5 million settlement later that year. It&#8217;s seen a lot of hoopla for a service nobody uses, in other words. And then there&#8217;s Google+, which now pretty well makes Buzz completely irrelevant. Says Google: &#8220;In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won&#8217;t be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout&#8230; &#8230;Changing the world takes focus on the future, and honesty about the past. We learned a lot from products like Buzz, and are putting that learning to work every day in our vision for products like Google+. Our users expect great things from us; today’s announcements let us focus even more on giving them something truly awesome.&#8221; While we likely won&#8217;t see any measurable outrage over Buzz&#8217;s closure, Google&#8217;s also closing down Code Search, Jaiku, iGoogle&#8217;s social features, Google Labs, and the University Research Program for Google Search if you want to try to find something in the list to get whipped up about. Other than that, the old &#8220;fail fast&#8221; adage appears to be alive and well. MORE: A Brief History of Google&#8217;s Social Networking Flops<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99910&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s iCloud Launch Off to Rocky Start for Some</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/13/apples-icloud-launch-off-to-rocky-start-for-some/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy iCloud day, or day after, or maybe still day-to-come for those of you having trouble getting the darned thing to work. Apple&#8217;s iCloud technically launched alongside iOS 5 yesterday afternoon, but some of you seem to be having a heck of a time unlocking the silver lining. What kind of major Apple update transpires without a few technical glitches? To paraphrase Giancarlo Esposito in the mind-blowing season finale of Breaking Bad, no kind of Apple update at all. (MORE: Whoops, Apple&#8217;s iCloud Mail Service Goes Kaboom) The irony: Steve Jobs spent much of this year&#8217;s WWDC talking up iCloud and claiming &#8220;it just all works.&#8221; He followed that with a comedy gold &#8220;You might be saying &#8216;Why should I believe them? They&#8217;re the ones that brought me MobileMe&#8217;.&#8221; Because MobileMe&#8217;s launch was a mess, or in Jobs&#8217; words: &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t our finest hour.&#8221; iCloud, or the third iteration of Apple&#8217;s .Mac online sync and storage service originally launched in 2002, is supposed to be Apple&#8217;s finest hour. It&#8217;s the company&#8217;s answer to &#8220;how do I keep all my devices in sync without really doing anything?&#8221; You create, iCloud stores like an invisible file clerk, handing off and redistributing silently and seamlessly. And so far, for those who&#8217;ve managed to get it working, it seems to do just that. But getting there isn&#8217;t for the fainthearted. For starters, just putting the software pieces in place to trigger the signup process can take hours sucking down a massive iOS 5 update, or another that&#8217;s over a gigabyte for OS X Macs. If you tried that yesterday, as the entire Apple-verse scrambled to grab Cupertino&#8217;s latest freebie, it probably took most of the afternoon or went long into the evening. If you had the experience my Techland colleagues did, you had to try more than once, as the process sporadically aborted. (MORE: It&#8217;s Out: Apple iOS 5 (and More) Downloadable Now) I was 50% luckier. My install of iOS 5 went off without a hitch (though I neglected to sync my local<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99707&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verisign Seeks Authority to Shut Down Websites Without Court Orders</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/12/verisign-seeks-authority-to-shut-down-websites-without-court-orders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Verisign, the company that manages all .com and .net domain registrations, is seeking the authority to cancel the registrations of “non-legitimate abusive sites” when asked by governments—with or without a court order. Law enforcement in the U.S. have recently begun using domain name seizures to shut down sites that allegedly host piracy or child pornography. Such seizures have been controversial. Although they require a court order, the targeted website owners are not notified before the seizure and don’t have an opportunity to present their side of the story to the judge. Additionally, thousands of sites have been mistakenly seized. In a filing with ICANN, the nonprofit that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, Verisign said this week that it wants to set up a system that would &#8220;allow the denial, cancellation or transfer&#8221; of domain name registrations to comply not just with court orders, but also &#8220;laws, government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement or other governmental quasi-governmental agency, or any dispute resolution process.&#8221; (MORE: Veteran Hacker Hired to Keep an Eye On Every Internet Address) A literal reading of that language suggests that a simple request from law enforcement will suffice to take down a website. In the filing, Veirisign notes that domain owners &#8220;may be concerned about an improper takedown of a legitimate website&#8221; and says it will offer &#8220;a protest procedure to support restoring a domain name.&#8221; The focus of Verisign’s filing are sites that maliciously host malware or that have been infected without their knowledge. However, there is no indication that the proposed domain takedown policy would be limited to such sites. The filing notes only that “The suspension service is offered to address non-legitimate sites that are abusing domain name services.” Verisign did not respond to a request for comment. “This proposal is either confused or deliberately misleading,” says Syracuse University School of Information Studies professor and ICANN expert Milton Mueller. A voluntary malware detection program may be a good idea, Mueller said. “On the other hand, the so-called anti-abuse policy embedded in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99632&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smartphones, Tablets Account for About 7% of Web Traffic Now</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/11/smartphones-tablets-account-for-about-7-of-web-traffic-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 7% of the web traffic in the U.S. is coming from smartphones and tablets. As of August 2011, &#8220;the share of non-computer traffic for the U.S. stood at 6.8 percent,&#8221; reports ComScore, &#8220;with approximately two-thirds of that traffic coming from mobile phones, and tablets accounting for much of the remainder.&#8221; Guess which tablet grabbed the lion&#8217;s share of traffic? Apple&#8217;s iPads accounted for a whopping 97.2 percent of tablet traffic in the U.S., and have even eclipsed iPhone traffic for the first time—46.8 percent versus 42.6 percent, respectively. (MORE: Apple Is a Software Company) Other notable stats: More than a third of phone traffic happened over Wi-Fi networks, 10 percent of tablet traffic happened over cellular connections, and about half of tablet owners have purchased things via their tablets. And though Android smartphones have passed iPhones in terms of market share, Apple&#8217;s iOS platform still racks up more web traffic—fueled in large part by the iPad, which runs iOS. Says ComScore: &#8220;The iOS platform also accounts for the largest share of Internet traffic, measured in terms of browser-based page views, in the U.S. at present. When measuring market share of Internet traffic by platform, iOS accounted for more than half (58.5 percent) of the share of total non-computer traffic in the U.S. Android OS ranked second, delivering 31.9 percent of overall non-computer traffic in August. With iOS having a significantly higher share of traffic (58.5 percent) compared to its share of devices (43.1 percent), it suggests that iOS users are heavier-than-average consumers of Internet content.&#8221; Two things that&#8217;ll be interesting to watch: How much, if any, will Apple be able to regain in smartphone market share now that the iPhone is available on Sprint, and how much will low-cost Android tablets such as Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Fire—which is already prompting other tablet makers to lower prices on their own tablets—be able to add to Android&#8217;s numbers? MORE: At Least One Million People Want Apple&#8217;s iPhone 4S<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99542&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Tablets</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/tablets/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Miramax CEO Says Monopolies Are a Bigger Threat Than Piracy</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/05/miramax-ceo-says-monopolies-are-a-bigger-threat-than-piracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piracy gets the brunt of the blame for media companies&#8217; dwindling profits, but Miramax CEO Mike Lang says that’s not necessarily the problem with media companies these days; monopolies are. Lang joined Netflix chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, at the MIPCOM conference, an entertainment conference frequently held in Cannes, where they expressed their opinions during a keynote. As long as you can give consumers what they want, it’s not really a problem, opines Lang. (MORE: Filesharing Lawsuits: Expensive, but Not Unconstitutionally So) The best way to deal with piracy (yes, even with college kids) is to “offer [a] legitimate and great service for them.” Lang has a point: Netflix and Hulu are good examples of successful business models that have offered streaming media to the masses, although illegal movie downloads obviously remain the most cost-efficient option. He then went on to express that he believes that the main problem indeed lies with digital monopolies using Apple’s digital music business—did you really think you’d be free of Apple news today?—as a prime example. (MORE: Does Cracking Down on Piracy Kill the Internet?) “Apple is the strongest company in the music industry because there was not enough competition, and still to this day there is not enough competition. As an industry it can’t then influence, packaging, merchandising – all the things that are vital,” Lang said. Sarandos chipped in, noting how important the distribution process is. To drive the point home, he suggested that Walmart changed the industry more than Napster ever did. The bottom line? You better figure out a way to give consumers what they want, which is hard to do in a monopoly-controlled industry, or they “will figure out a way to get it.” [via TorrentFreak] Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98953&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Troll Sues Businesses that Offer Wi-Fi; Individuals Safe for Now</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/04/wi-fi-patent-troll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A patent troll who could potentially sue any Wi-Fi user is broadening its attack to include hotels, but is leaving individual users alone for now. The firm, Chicago-based Innovatio IP Ventures, has already sued department stores, restaurants and coffee shop chains for offering Wi-Fi to their customers. The next wave of lawsuits targets individual branches of the largest hotel chains in the United States, including Marriott, Hyatt, Wyndham and Best Western, Patent Examiner reports. (MORE: Patents, Anyone? Gadget Makers Continue to Square Off in Court) Instead of seeking expensive fees, Innovatio wants payouts of $2,300 to $5,000 per infringement. In other words, the company is hoping many of its targets will cough up small payments to avoid costly litigation. Matthew McAndrews, Innovatio&#8217;s lead lawyer from Chicago-based law firm Niro, Haller &#38; Niro, called it a &#8220;systematic campaign&#8221; in an interview with Patent Examiner. As crazy as suing businesses over free Wi-Fi sounds, the really scary part is that Innovatio could eventually target residential Wi-Fi users as well. McAndrews didn&#8217;t give Patent Examiner a straight answer on that matter. He said Innovatio isn&#8217;t targeting American households for using Wi-Fi &#8220;at this stage&#8221; and the company doesn&#8217;t &#8220;perceive&#8221; that it will change its strategy of suing only businesses. But then McAndrews said Innovatio&#8217;s &#8220;plan is to license this portfolio to the fullest extent possible. That would include anyone who’s wireless networking.&#8221; In all seriousness, I can&#8217;t imagine Innovatio ever going after individuals, partly because it&#8217;d be hard for the company to determine which private homes are using Wi-Fi, and partly because it would create hysteria. I&#8217;m more concerned about a possible shakedown of small businesses, such as local coffee shops and restaurants that offer Wi-Fi to their customers. Small businesses would be an ideal target for a firm like Innovatio, because they&#8217;re in no position to spend lots of money on litigation but can probably manage a small settlement. Motorola Solutions and Cisco Systems are suing Innovatio in retaliation. Hopefully that&#8217;ll stop the madness and ensure that we can all enjoy Wi-Fi without<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98825&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Move Over, Twitter: &#8216;Occupy Wall Street&#8217; Activists Feel the &#8216;Vibe&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/03/move-over-twitter-occupy-wall-street-activists-feel-the-vibe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the classic good news/bad news situation for Twitter. The good news: It&#8217;s looking less likely that the company is going to face accusations that its platform is being used by activists such as the &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; protesters to organize, and therefore face legal action as a result. The bad news: It&#8217;s because activists seem to be moving onto an entirely new messaging system altogether. The new system in question is called Vibe, according to the New York Daily News, and it was built as an intentionally-anonymous alternative to Twitter by developer Hazem Sayed. The app allows users to share messages with users within certain distances—160 feet to worldwide—that will be automatically deleted within a set amount of time that they control, from 15 minutes to 30 days. (PHOTOS: Occupy Wall Street) According to Sayed, Vibe may be perfect for activists and protesters, but it came from a very different intent: &#8220;It seems to have a use case in a gathering like this, but initially it was designed for students and colleges, for people at outdoor events at the park [or other events where you could post] the kind of things you wouldn&#8217;t post on Twitter, because it wouldn&#8217;t make sense to your followers &#8211; it&#8217;s very local.&#8221; The anonymity is important, he says, as a reaction to other social media: &#8220;The Internet, when it started, had this promise of anonymity. That&#8217;s largely lost because almost everything is now connected to Facebook or Twitter &#8211; even magazines and newspapers and websites use that as a mechanism to sign-in in order to leave comments.&#8221; That anonymity is perfect for protesters, of course; the Daily News quotes an Occupy Wall Street activist, Drew Hornbein, as saying &#8220;Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re protesting and someone up ahead sees that the cops are getting ready to kettle people, they can set out this vibe that only lasts a few minutes that says, &#8216;Cops are kettling&#8217;&#8230; It&#8217;s anonymous too, so not only are you able to send out relevant information to a small radius, but it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98777&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft &#8216;Accidentally&#8217; Deleting Google Chrome from Windows</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/03/microsoft-accidentally-deleting-google-chrome-from-windows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh no they didn&#8217;t (but oh yes they did): Microsoft&#8217;s antiviral software&#8217;s been &#8220;accidentally&#8221; wiping Google Chrome off the face of the map, or at least from the hard drives of several users&#8217; Windows-based computers. The trouble stems from a bug in the company&#8217;s antiviral security suite, an inconspicuous slice of software dubbed Microsoft Security Essentials. It&#8217;s a freebie utility that bundles realtime antivirus and malware scanning under one rooftop. In the splashy marketing slides on the product site, Microsoft calls it &#8220;anti-annoying.&#8221; (MORE: Google Snatches Over 1,000 IBM Patents) Except for the part where it&#8217;s been annoying the heck out of Google Chrome users, since it&#8217;s been disabling or outright zapping the browser from Windows PCs, mistaking Chrome for a trojan horse. Oops. &#8220;I have been using Chrome on my office PC for over a year. This morning, after I started up the PC, a Windows Security box popped up and said I had a Security Problem that needed to be removed,&#8221; wrote one user on Google Chrome&#8217;s official message board last Friday. &#8220;I clicked the Details button and saw that it was &#8216;PWS:Win32/Zbot&#8217;,&#8221; continues the user. &#8220;I clicked the Remove button and restarted my PC. Now I do not have Chrome. It has been removed or uninstalled. The Chrome.exe file is gone. Was there really a problem, or is this just a way for Microsoft to stick it to Google?&#8221; Microsoft&#8217;s not mincing words about the screwup, admitting that &#8220;On September 30th, 2011, an incorrect detection for PWS: Win32/Zbot was identified and, as a result, Google Chrome was inadvertently blocked and in some cases removed from customers PCs.&#8221; The company says it&#8217;s &#8220;already fixed the issue,&#8221; so there&#8217;s that. All&#8217;s fair in love and occasional incompetence? Browse on, Chrome users, browse on. MORE: Surprise, Google Plus Adds Games Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98753&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New U.S. Post Office Ads Warn Us About the Dangers of Email</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/30/new-u-s-post-office-ads-warn-us-about-the-dangers-of-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Brito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Postal Service, near bankruptcy and losing billions of dollars every quarter pushing a product no one wants, unveiled today its new strategy to regain some relevance. That strategy involves scaring consumers about the dangers of email and online bill payment in several new 30-second TV commercials. The ads tell consumers that unlike email and online services, paper mail delivered door to door can’t fall prey to a virus. (Lets not count the anthrax scare of 2001, since anthrax is technically a bacteria.) “A refrigerator has never been hacked,” the ad’s voiceover says as a happy mail recipient pins a paper bill to her fridge. Another ad tells us that USPS customers can be sure that “important letters and information don’t get lost in thin air, or disappear with a click.” For the record, security researchers have hacked fridges since at least 2005. But more to the point, the ads are a pathetic attempt to stem the tide of digital innovation and convenience that is washing away the Post Office’s dead tree business model. It’s like buggy-whip makers warning about the dangers of those newfangled horseless carriages. And lest we forget, while the Post Office is now trying to convince us that e-mail is unsafe, in 2000 it proposed a plan to assign everyone in the U.S. an email address based on your postal street address. Mail sent to that address would have been printed out–limit two pages–and hand delivered at a higher(!) rate than first class mail. With that kind of innovative pedigree, it’s a wonder the service hasn’t gone bankrupt sooner. [via Washington Post] MORE: Ask Techland: How Can I Clear Up Space in Gmail? Jerry Brito is a contributor to TIME. Find him on Twitter at @jerrybrito. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98701&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Women Better at Using Social Media to Keep in Touch</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/30/study-woman-better-at-using-social-media-to-keep-in-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If women are from Venus and men are from Mars, then it seems as if Venusians are much better at using social media to stay in touch with those who are closest to them. A recent study has revealed that more women than men use social media like Facebook and Twitter to update friends and family about their lives. According to the survey, 68% of women use social media to connect with friends, as opposed to just 54% of men. For both genders, it&#8217;s a lower number when connecting with family: 60% of women, and a much smaller 42% of men, with work colleagues falling even further for both—just over a third of the women polled against just over a fifth of the men. (MORE: Study: 18- to 30-Year-Olds Say Internet as Important as Food, Water and Air) The study was carried out by telecommunications company Rebtel, which polled 2,361 U.S. adults about the methods they used to keep in touch with people. Perhaps unsurprisingly, email topped all other forms of communication, with 83% of all participants using it, compared with 74% using the phone, and only 61% using social networks. Least popular forms of communication were microblogging and, surprisingly, video chat. Looks like you still have some way to go before you hit the real mainstream, Skype. MORE: Jaw-Dropper: 18 to 24 Year Olds Average 110 Text Messages per Day [via Mediabistro] Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98578&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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