Monthly Archives: October 2012

UPDATE: GMAIL IS BACK

October 31, 2012
UPDATE: GMAIL IS BACK

UPDATE: Our long national nightmare (4 minutes) is over. GMail is back. EARLIER: Lots of complaints on Twitter than GMAIL is down. It’s happening for us too Also the site Down For Everyone Or Just Me confirms it’s widespread: Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/WuD_bFwE0AQ/gmail-down-2012-10

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Google Is Getting A Gigantic Tax Bill, According To Some French Humor Rag (GOOG)

October 31, 2012
Google Is Getting A Gigantic Tax Bill, According To Some French Humor Rag (GOOG)

Flickr/iambents See Also Here’s Why Twitter Is The Latest Web Giant To Head To Ireland Check Out All The Shell Companies Google Uses To Dodge Taxes How Google Dodged A $725 Million Tax Bill Reuters is reporting that Google could get slapped with a $1.3 billion tax bill in France. No laughing matter—until you...

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Facebook’s New Listings Could Target LinkedIn And Craigslist (FB, LNKD)

October 31, 2012
Facebook’s New Listings Could Target LinkedIn And Craigslist (FB, LNKD)

By Justin Sullivan/Getty Images See Also I Got The Best Job Offer Of My Life By Chatting With Someone On A Train Here’s LinkedIn’s All-New Profile Page How LinkedIn’s Dan Roth Became The Most Powerful Business Journalist On The Internet Facebook is making a big push to test new revenue streams. One idea it...

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Apple’s 2012 Annual Report: R&D up $1B, 12,400 more employees, 4.1M more sq. feet, Forstall gets a title

October 31, 2012

Apple has filed its year-end 10-K document with the SEC and, as usual, it gives a summary of the company’s growth over the last year. Among the more interesting numbers include the fact that it has grown research and development by $1B from 2012, increased employees by 12,400 and increased square footage of building...

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Malware authors quickly create fake antivirus just for Windows 8

October 31, 2012
Malware authors quickly create fake antivirus just for Windows 8

That was fast. Windows 8 was released on Friday and on Wednesday we’re already hearing about a fake antivirus for the new operating system. When it comes to fake security products that are really just malware, October has been a very hectic month. First, we reported on how the FTC managed to shut down...

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Microsoft’s R&D edge: It outspent Apple 2.8:1 last year, a $6.4 billion difference

October 31, 2012

Spend time around anyone from Microsoft research and you will notice several things all at once: They are happy, they love their job, and nothing they are working on will lead to a commercial product. Well, that last one is only nearly always true. I kid, but Microsoft has an enormous appetite to hire brilliant minds,...

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AirPlaying Hurricane Sandy: How One Cord Cutter Fared

October 31, 2012
AirPlaying Hurricane Sandy: How One Cord Cutter Fared

Miraculously, my block in northern Philadelphia was spared from Hurricane Sandy’s worst. As word of nearby power outages spread on Twitter, I was certain I’d wake up to a dark, powerless house on Tuesday. Fortunately for my mother – a last minute refugee from South Jersey who breathes with the aid of an oxygen...

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Can Google Sell Any Nexus Tablets Without Retail Stores?

October 31, 2012
Can Google Sell Any Nexus Tablets Without Retail Stores?

Google’s Nexus tablets are supposed to be credible competitors to Apple’s iPads and Amazon’s Kindle Fires. And they’re actually selling pretty well — approaching 1 million sales a month, Google’s partner Asustek recently told the WSJ. But it should be a lot easier to discover, try, and buy them. For example: Why aren’t there...

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The Streaming Video Market Is So Messed Up It’s Scary

October 31, 2012
The Streaming Video Market Is So Messed Up It’s Scary

Fanhattan just put up a somewhat amazing post on its corporate blog describing how hard it is to find specific movies or TV shows on various streaming video services. Sure, this is why Fanhattan exists – it’s an app that lets you scan a bunch of streaming sites to find what you want. But I...

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When does community action against an anonymous troll become a lynch mob?

October 31, 2012

If you’ve been following the progress of Hurricane Sandy and its impact on New York — and the way that Twitter was used as a real-time newswire for many of those affected by it — then you’ve probably heard of @ComfortablySmug, the anonymous account that was criticized for posting fake news reports. The person...

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