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		<title>Nostalgia Overload: New Tumblr Challenges You to Draw Classic Video Game Maps From Memory</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What is it about video game worlds that etch themselves so vividly in our mind’s eye? A fun new user-generated blog aims to unearth the latent digital cartographer in you. Mapstalgia is the brainchild of Josh Millard , a self-described “nerd-type” from Portland, OR. It’s a Tumblr where readers submit video game maps they’ve drawn from memory. The idea for the site came out of idle discussion on the message board Metafliter, where Millard works as a moderator. “It occurred to me that there’s millions of people walking around with potent memories of common fictional game worlds,” Millard tells Mashable . “I asked a few friends to draw some maps, started up a simple blog for it, and here we are.” The response since he launched the site in January has been substantial. “I was banking on a few dozen [submissions] by the end of the first month. Instead, I’ve received more than three hundred so far and they’re still coming in,” says Millard. “Folks [realize] this is not just neat to look at, but something they can actively participate in. Total lightswitch moment: ‘Oh, hey, wow, I bet I could do a map of Mario/Zelda/Doom/Zork …’ ” SEE ALSO: 10 Classic Video Games You Can Play Online for Free The site currently has 3,245 followers on Tumblr, according to Millard, and the submissions — sometimes several dozen a week — keep coming in. And the content is varied. “Everything from the world maps to single-screen vignettes, from rough folk art to serious draftsmanship. It’s wonderful seeing all the different ways people can approach the same basic idea. And to approach what is essentially improvised amateur cartography at the same time — few of us are artists, but fewer still are mapmakers.” One might look at some of them more impressive offerings and question whether they were really produced from memory, as the terms of the site suggest. Right now, Millard is working on the honor system. “Someone certainly could pretend to remember … [but] I don’t lose sleep over it,” he says. “I’ve known enough people with remarkable visual or spatial memory (and spent enough time replaying specific video games myself) that I have no trouble believing the more ambitious renderings are the genuine article.” That may be why a project like this tickles the fancy of gamers. There’s something about world immersion that allows us to recall spatial details of games in very precise ways. “In a game, you’re not just going for a walk — you’re exploring with a purpose,” Millard says. “There’s an instinctive need to keep yourself oriented. And there’s a cost to getting lost or being surprised — you get hurt, you die, you have to start over and do it again.” “After the third rock is the bad guy, so you count rocks. The secret weapon is two screens over and one screen up, so you draw a map in your mind,” he goes on to explain. “You’re not just looking at a map, you’re living through it. That’s a potent experience.” If Mapstalgia continues gaining readership and submissions, Millard says it may outgrow Tumblr. “Tumblr has been great for the zero-effort launch of this, but it’s not really designed to accommodate the museum sensibility that I think would serve Mapstalgia well in the long run.” Millard is also thinking about options for creating posters or coffee table books, but acknowledges the hurdles in securing the rights to user generated content. For now, the Tumblr-based DIY museum continues to feed gamers’ appetites for nostalgia. What’s your favorite classic video game? Do you think you could draw the map from memory? Check out a few of Mapstalgia’s best submissions below for inspiration. 1. Metroid - Zebes The seminal sci-fi platformer for the NES was full of secret doors, passageways and hidden items. Click here to view this gallery. More About: Entertainment , features , Gaming , tumblr , video games For more Entertainment coverage: Follow Mashable Entertainment on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Entertainment channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad ]]></description>
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		<title>Apple, Foxconn and the FLA respond to ABC’s “iFactory”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Apple , Foxconn and the Fair Labor Association responded to ABC’s “iFactory: Inside Apple” special, which aired last night detailing the life of an Apple factory worker. iFactory tells the story of one Foxconn, one of Apple’s suppliers, and its working conditions, which have recently been criticized due to group suicide threats. Apple invited the Fair Labor Association, along with ABC’s Bill Weir, to take a look into its assembly lines . The factory, while clean and seemingly safe, still has suicide nets that scale the sides of its buildings, protecting employees from themselves. Top complaints at the factory are low wages, no benefits, and long hours. A shift at Foxconn is lasts 12 hours, with two hour-long meal breaks. But the three entities needed to make some clarifications on what was aired last night. They are as follows: Apple ABC caught up with a young woman who only makes enough to visit her family once a month. She explained that she eliminates extra material from the Apple insignia of 6,000 iPads a day, though Apple disagrees. ABC said: Zhou Xiao Ying admits, “A lot of times I think about how tired I am.” Around 6,000 times per shift, she grabs an iPad housing and files the aluminum shavings from the iconic Apple silhouette. Apple responded: “In manufacturing parlance this is called deburring. Her line processes 3,000 units per shift, with two shifts per day for a total of 6,000. A single operator at Ms. Zhou’s station would deburr 3,000 iPads in a shift.” Foxconn Thousands of Chinese hopefuls line the Foxconn gates during hiring season. Weir contended that the starting salary for Foxconn employees wasn’t enough to qualify them for regular Chinese payroll taxes. Foxconn says that, with overtime, 75 percent of its employees could hit the tax target. ABC said: “Starting salary is around $285 a month or $1.78 an hour. And even with the maximum 80 hours of overtime a month, the Chinese government considers them too poor to withdraw any payroll taxes. “ Foxconn responded: “We have over 75 percent of the employees in the category of earning at least 2,200 RMB ($349/month) basic compensation standard. That means they are earning 13.75 RMB ($2.18) per hour. If they work overtime on the weekend, they will earn 27 RMB ($4.28) per hour. In order to reach 3500 to be taxable, they will have to work 47 OT hours to reach 3,500.” “If the overtime hours are in weekdays, they have to work around 63 hours per month to reach that level of salary to be taxable.” “Your statement is only true when applying to the entry-level workers while over 75 percent are already over the probation and earning more than 2,200 RMB basic salary.” Fair Labor Association Suspicions around whether the Fair Labor Association will be too fair on Apple have flared up given that Apple is the first electronics company to join the FLA. Additionally, it is paying dues to be in the association, and is paying for the audits, which the FLA will perform. Bill Weir spoke with FLA president Auret van Heerden. ABC said: “Was Apple resistant to this idea when you first approached them?” I ask. “It was a long conversation,” van Heerden smiles. “We’ve been in this conversation for about five years,” he says. Apple joined the F.L.A. on Jan. 13, eight days before the New York Times ran a series examining the company’s labor practices. Fair Labor Association responded: “The discussions began in April 2007 but stalled in March 2008. We then resumed them in April 2009 and decided to do a small pilot survey so that Apple could get an idea of how our tools might add value to their program. That pilot led to a second activity that I believe contributed to the decision to join the FLA at the end of 2011. I, of course, cannot speak for Apple but I do believe that the decision to join was probably taken some months before (and therefore well before) the New York Times articles.” via ABC Filed under: VentureBeat ]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome New ‘Borderlands 2′ Trailer Gives September Release Date [VIDEO]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gearbox and 2K Games announced Wednesday that the sequel to the popular Borderlands will have a Sept. 18 release date for XBox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in the U.S., and on Sept. 21 internationally. The new trailer for Borderlands 2 released by 2K Wednesday showed off new playable characters, new skill tree selections, and environments that look radically different from the original game. Borderlands 2 will be a similar style to the original, with RPG character leveling combined with First-Person Shooter elements to make what the developers call a shooter-looter. The game will again be set on the planet Pandora, and should have a similar Western feel to the original, where players pick up quests through non-player characters and bounty boards. The sequel will also support four-player network multiplayer as it did in the past, as well as split-screen play for local players. Along with the release date, 2K announced Borderlands Premiere Club will be available to those who preorder the game from retailers. It will include a new Golden Gun Pack, a Vault Hunter’s Relic which will help boost a player’s loot, and a Golden Key that unlocks a mystery in game. Borderlands was originally released in 2009 for the 360, PS3 and through Steam for Mac and PC. It has sold 4.5 million copies since its release. The trailer also promises “870 Gazillion more guns,” and features Borderlands mascot/tutorial robot Claptrap dancing to dubstep, so it’s definitely worth a watch to fans of the series. What do you think of the Borderlands trailer? Let us know in the comments. More About: borderlands , Gaming , PS3 , Xbox 360 For more Entertainment coverage: Follow Mashable Entertainment on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Entertainment channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad ]]></description>
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		<title>Browser Shootout Shows Minor Variations In Performance – It’s Still A Matter Of Taste</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The browser wars are in a tense state of suspension right now. The once-obvious advantages of one and disadvantages of another can’t be counted on as much as they could a year ago, and fast-changing standards and interaction methods have produced a sort of uneasy détente while everyone awaits the browser equivalent of the Manhattan Project to catapult them into the atomic age. Tom’s Hardware just did a nice, thorough examination of the available browsers on Windows 7 and Ubuntu , and the findings are really mixed. It used to be that Firefox always won, and we could all make fun of IE. Then Chrome came and won all the speed benchmarks. And then there was Opera. Now it’s a mess. How do you pick the browser that’s best for you? Easy: you flip a coin. The benchmarks are what you’d expect: standards compliance, HTML5 stuff, Javascript speed, hardware acceleration. It’s such a mixed bag of victories and losses by various parties that you can barely draw any conclusions. In the end, the winner (Firefox) is far from decisive, and is often “weak” in things at which the runner-up, Chrome, excels. And vice versa. Meanwhile Opera takes a few wins home, IE is the best at memory management (but little else), and Safari cleans up in page load times (but little else). So why do I say you can flip a coin? Because first of all, don’t use Safari. It’s just not good enough, and unless you are compelled to use it for some purpose, it has no advantage over the rest and plenty of disadvantages. And don’t use IE (except for testing), because it still has trouble rendering properly, despite some interesting features. You can use Opera, but if you are, you’ve already made that decision and aren’t likely to go back on it any time soon. But for “regular” users who want to use popular plugins, ensure compliance with various webpages and apps that may or may not be built properly, and be sure of a very regular update schedule, Firefox and Chrome are really your only options. And which should you choose? If you really don’t know, flip a coin. If you try to argue against it when it lands on Firefox, install Chrome. If you don’t like it, install Firefox. Or use both. The fact is right now, for the average user, it doesn’t matter much, and both browsers are great. I use Firefox for reasons that are trivial, yet nonetheless more important than performance or under the hood differences. But I wouldn’t recommend it over Chrome for anyone but myself. Don’t get me wrong: there are differences between the browsers, and the results are worth going through if the browser is a mission-critical item for your work or you are seriously worried about a certain type of performance. Of course, in a couple months, all these positions might be reversed. So you’ll have to take that coin out again. ]]></description>
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		<title>Newly Launched PlayStation Vita Gets Twitter, Flickr and Netflix [PICS]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Vita Store Applications can be downloaded via the Vita store, under the Applications tab. Click here to view this gallery. If 15 games available at launch for PlayStation Vita wasn’t entertaining enough, early adopters of the game system are in for a treat. Free Twitter , Flickr and Netflix apps are now available for download at the PlayStation Store. The influx of social media apps brings this portable gaming system into tablet territory. The 5-inch OLED screen really steals the show and apps are easy to access with the impressive touchscreen. Vita gamers will have to wait longer for Facebook or Foursquare apps to surface. The Sony Twitter application is LiveTweet, built specifically for the Vita. It works as well as any other Twitter clients. Twitter streams run on the middle-right of the screen, with icons for mentions, lists and direct messages available next to it. The app also allows you to attach pictures taken from your Vita’s camera to your tweets. The Netflix application looks very similar to other mobile incarnations. It allows you to browse movies and access your instant queue. Vita users can also fast-forward and rewind with the analog stick. Simply, pause with the X button. Note: The movies will look bright on the system’s OLED, but drain battery significantly. SEE ALSO: PlayStation Vita: Everything You Need to Know Photography fans will be able to view Flickr pictures on a beautiful interface that allows you to view photos in full screen. The Vita’s huge screen makes photo viewing, commenting and tagging a breeze. The applications are accessible in the PS Vita store, under the “Applications” header on the left menu. The Playstation Vita connects to the system’s app store over WiFi and 3G networks. The wifi-only model is $249.99 and the 3G/wifi-capable model is $299.99. Tell us in the comments what you think of the social media apps on the PlayStation Vita mobile gaming system? Do these apps enhance your gaming gadget experience? More About: Facebook , flickr , netflix , PlayStation Vita , PS Vita , sony , Twitter , Vita For more Entertainment coverage: Follow Mashable Entertainment on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Entertainment channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad ]]></description>
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		<title>As Journalists And Video Bloggers Are Killed, SyriaPioneer Lives On</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It goes without saying that the death of veteran Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin and the French photographer Remi Ochlik – after an artillery shell hit their makeshift press centre in the Syrian city of Homs – is tragic. It’s also testament to the lengths to which journalists often go to get the story. But equally, the use of new technology by ‘citizen journalists’ has been equally significant in documenting the deadly acts of the Syrian government against its own people. Among those killed in yesterday’s attack on the journalists’ position were three activists. One of those was video blogger Rami Ahmad al-Sayed, who was also known as “ Syria Pioneer “. Ahmad al-Sayed had uploaded over 200 videos to various platforms of the killing and destruction in his area. We wrote about him and his video only this week when the Syrian government blocked Bambuser , the live video platform he was using. Colvin was a decorated foreign correspondent. Ochlik had won a World Press Photo award. Obviously al-Sayed / Syria Pioneer had not had the chance to win such accolades. But his live broadcasts, using the startup video platform Bambuser did their part in showing the world what was going on in Syria. His footage of the bombing of Homs was aired all over the world by BBC World, SkyNews, Al Jazeera and many more. Live video from the roof where Rami and his friends positioned their camera was broadcast all over the world. We know from Bambuser that Rami was accompanying three people to a civil hospital when he died. The car was believed to have been the target of mortar fire. While the others died instantaneously, Rami was badly injured but died from his wounds later in the hospital. Born in 1985, father of a little girl aged a year and a half called Marym (pictured), his last message for his friends was sent to Bambuser: “Babaamr is facing a genocide right now. I will never forgive you for your silence. You have all just given us your words but we need actions. However, our hearts will always be with those who risk their life for our freedom. I know what we need! We need campaigns everywhere inside Syria and outside Syria, and now we need all people in front of all embassies all over the world. In a few hours there will be NO place called BabaAmr and I expect this will be my last message and no one will forgive you who talked but didn’t act.” But although a family has lost a husband and father, Syria Pioneer lives on, bringing live footage from inside Homs: because his friends and colleagues have resumed using the account. Rami’s pioneering work, using the platforms of the new technology world, will not have been in vain. You can get Syria Pioneer’s live channel on Bambuser right here. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bing to embarrass: Feature lets you link Facebook friends to search results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Bing and decide? How drab. Instead, you can now use the number two search engine to embarrass your friends. Microsoft’s search engine has today introduced a feature called “ Linked Pages ” that encourages searchers to connect to Facebook and start linking search results to themselves . Linked Pages, as their described, are all about helping people put their best face forward in search results, but a supplemental feature that gives (too much?) power to one’s Facebook friends could cause the opposite effect. Once a person has enabled the Linked Pages feature they can go on to link any search result listing to any of their Facebook friends. A Bing Linked Pages search for “idiot,” for instance, will return the usual results but with “Link to me” or “Link to other friends” options. Then, with a simple click of the “Link to other friends” button, you could make possible the realization of the expression: If you look up [insert insulting word here] in the dictionary, you’ll find a picture of [insert name of friend you want to punk]. And yes, I played prankster myself to test out the feature, and you can see the rather successful fruits of my labor below (though I did “unlink” my buddy shortly after testing). For all of ten minutes, a search for my friend Ben on my Bing yielded the following result: Of course, the feature was intended for good and is meant to be a way to help people showoff the best online attributes of their friends (as explained in this video ). Plus, users can always delete the links they don’t like after the fact. Still, the “Link to other friends” feature feels half-baked. It’s so easy to mess with that it almost begs the pernicious youngsters and pranksters among us to partake in a bit of afternoon tomfoolery. Let’s hope your friends are all well-intentioned — or Googlers. Photo credit: mloberg Filed under: social , VentureBeat ]]></description>
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		<title>Guy in ‘College Freshman’ Meme Now Stars in a New ‘College Senior’ Meme</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ "Successful College Senior" Meme He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has made an unexpected and triumphant return to web stardom as a senior this week. The new image immediately caught the attention of Reddit users, who cleverly wasted no time turning it into a " Successful College Senior " meme. A " Lazy College Senior " meme already exists. Click here to view this gallery. He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has made an unexpected and triumphant return to web stardom as a senior this week. Five years ago, a photograph captured University of New Hampshire student Griffin Kiritsy as a seemingly happy-go-lucky freshman. In mid-2011, the image got the familiar white-text-over-photo meme treatment on Quickmeme: “Hangs 20 beer signs in dorm. Only ever tasted Miller Lite.” The “ College Freshman ” meme has since been whipped into countless variations to poke fun at all things relating to first-year students. “The worst part is that 90 percent of those memes don’t apply to me,” Kiritsy recently told his school’s student newspaper, The New Hampshire . The newspaper’s story delved into the history of the original photo and featured a new picture of Kiritsy striking the same pose but this time as a senior. The new image immediately caught the attention of Reddit users, who cleverly wasted no time turning it into a “ Successful College Senior ” meme (see gallery above). A “ Lazy College Senior ” meme already exists. SEE ALSO: Bug-Eyed Student’s Basketball Face is Internet Famous Memes involving college humor tend to resonate universally as students and alums across the globe can easily relate to the content. This month alone, college-specific memes are spreading at an unusually rapid pace on social channels, particularly on Facebook where students are creating Facebook groups just to showcase their schools’ memes . “People feel plugged in to this production of laughs based off school culture,” Northwestern University student Gabe Bergado recently told Mashable . Can you create a funnier “Successful College Senior” meme than the ones in our gallery? Take a stab at making your own at Quickmeme and share a link to yours in the comments below. More About: college , humor , memes , reddit , trending For more Social Media coverage: Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Social Media channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad ]]></description>
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		<title>Flickr Can&#8217;t Go Back To What It Once Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Flickr will launch a major makeover in its quest to return to its once young and sexy past, according to reports from BetaBeat . The new Flickr homepage will look more like the slick, image-only homepages of online visual pinboard Pinterest and photo-sharing app Pixable . There will be little white space on the homepage. In the new version, photos will appear four times their current size. They will lie on the page, scattered about like puzzle pieces slipped together without overlap. Flickr is repositioning itself to look more like an app, which is right in line with Yahoo's "mobile first" strategy . But this is a Web-only photo community - and if Instagram is showing us anything, it's that the future of photography is in smartphones. Sponsor Next week, users will be able to see changes to their contacts page, which includes the removal of some whitespace. In late March, users will notice significant changes to the photo uploading process. "This is an evolving design, one that will develop over time, starting with the redesign of the contacts page," a Flickr spokesperson tells ReadWriteWeb. "There will also be more changes to the site later in the year." Photography by Smartphone Users, for Smartphone Users Photo-sharing service Instagram is only available as an iPhone app, and it already has 15 million users . For more than a year, the Android app has been "coming soon," or so says CEO Kevin Systrom. According to data from Nielsen, Android users make up more than 46% of the smartphone market. Imagine all those Android users in addition to the already Instagram-obsessed iPhone users. And this is all without an existing Web version of the Instagram service. Plus, with a variety of third-party applications utilizing the Instagram API, the idea of a Web-only service doesn't feel very important at all. When Kodak announced that it was preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year, it became clear that the nature of photography was in for a major change. Indeed, point-and-shoots and SLRs were hardly in use; instead, people were taking photos with their iPhones, first and foremost. Kodak launched two Facebook-integrated cameras at CES 2012, but it might be too late even for that. But here's an interesting detail: Apple iPhone 4 and 4S, followed by the iPhone 3G and 3GS are the most popular cameras in the Flickr community . If Flickr can retool to focus on these users, who are most likely also Instagram users, there is a chance they can come back. But it will take some careful strategizing, and a product that's even more gimmicky fun than Instagram's tinted filters. Will Flickr's new layout for the Web matter, especially when photography is becoming mostly smartphone-focused? Here's a photo from my now-dormant Flickr stream . I just pinned it to one of my Pinterest boards and posted it to Facebook. It will drift downstream to other users, my friends and the Internet at large. Would that same thing have happened on Flickr? Lead image courtesy of Shutterstock . Sailboat photograph by Alicia Eler . Discuss ]]></description>
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		<title>Apple, Google, And Others Agree To Mobile App Privacy Policy Guidelines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Though Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, Amazon, and HP don’t always see eye-to-eye, the six of them have entered into an agreement brokered by California Attorney General Kamala Harris to take a tougher stance on the issue of mobile privacy. Going forward, the six companies involved must provide users with a privacy policy if the app in question collects personal information. Though the move will affect the app submission and downloading process for users the world over, it was designed to bring those six companies into compliance with California state law. “The majority of mobile apps sold today do not contain a privacy policy,” Harris said. “By ensuring that mobile apps have privacy policies, we create more transparency and give mobile users more informed control over who accesses their personal information and how it is used.” It isn’t just enough for these companies to provide app-specific privacy policies to their users; they must also do it before the user downloads it, creating a much-needed means for them to opt-in. Apple and company also need to be consistent in how they display that information, as the agreement Harris brokered called for “a consistent location for an app’s privacy policy on the application-download screen.” On top of that, users will also be given tools to help police their respective app stores. The terms of the agreement note that the platforms in question will allow users to report non-compliant apps, which could bring about some welcome change in some respects — while the Android Market already allows users to flag questionable apps, the iOS App Store and the Windows Marketplace don’t give users that power. The past few weeks have made the mobile privacy issue a hot-button topic outside of the tech sphere, and the attention doesn’t just end with California’s AG — two congressmen sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook posing questions about user data privacy, and the White House will be holding an online meeting tomorrow to accompany the release of a white paper on online privacy. Regardless of how this privacy discussion began, don’t expect for the talk to subside any time soon. ]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Accuses Motorola of Being a Patent Bully [VIDEO]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Irony, thy name is patent law. Microsoft filed a complaint with the European Commission against Motorola for aggressively asserting its patents , charging that Motorola ignored commitments it made to support industry standards. The filing comes shortly after Apple registered a similar complaint. In a post titled “Google: Please Don’t Kill Video on the Web,” Microsoft says Motorola (which Google is in the process of acquiring) has broken its promise on the contribution it made to developing standards for streaming video and connecting devices to the Internet via Wi-Fi. The post alleges that Motorola is making unfair demands for compensation on the patents it holds for technologies like H.264, a standard video format. In a searing example, Microsoft says Motorola demands $22.50 on any $1,000 Windows laptop sold to satisfy its 50 patents on H.264. To use the standard at all, Microsoft says, it must satisfy 2,300 other patents, which costs the company a grand total of two cents. Microsoft says Motorola’s demands not even “remotely close” to reasonable, and it’s hard to disagree. Patent expert Florian Mueller of Foss Patents definitely appears to agree with Microsoft’s point of view, describing Motorola’s behavior as “FRAND abuse terrorism,” calling out Samsung on behaving similarly. (FRAND stands for fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory.) “I can see what Apple and Microsoft are complaining about,” Mueller wrote in a blog post . “If every owner of standard-essential patents behaved like Motorola, this industry would be in chaos, and grind to a halt.” SEE ALSO: Microsoft Wants $15 for Each Android Handset Samsung Sells There’s a lot of noise over this issue since the patents in question are key to industry standards, affecting potentially thousands of products and some of the fundamental abilities of those products (like accessing the Internet). That’s why Microsoft says Motorola broke a promise: that it would make its patents available on reasonable terms — basically, that it wouldn’t be jerk about them. That might sound more than a little ironic when you factor in that Microsoft holds many patents on the technology behind Android , and could be making as much as a $1 billion on all those phones Google sells every year. Google certainly sees the irony, with a spokesperson telling Mashable that “Microsoft’s complaint is just another example of their attempts to use the regulatory process to attack competitors. It’s particularly ironic given their track record in this area and collaboration with patent trolls.” Regardless, Mueller says he’s confident the European Commission will make clear to Motorola that its attempts to cash in on its standards patents won’t succeed: “As a European consumer, I don’t want to be held hostage by companies that use industry standards as a nuclear weapon and restrict choice,” he wrote. What do you think? Is Motorola behaving worse than others who have asserted intellectual property rights? Or is this just business as usual for patent law? Let us know in the comments. More About: apple , Google , microsoft , Motorola , patents ]]></description>
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		<title>Post-acquisition, SAP and SuccessFactors outline where marriage is headed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In what might be the most-jargon-filled press release ever, SAP has announced how it will incorporate and improve SuccessFactors’ enterprise cloud services, after completing its tender offer to buy the company last week. Enterprise software giant SAP agreed to acquire human capital management (HCM) company SuccessFactors for a staggering $3.4 billion back in early December. After that announcement, the HCM space exploded with other major buys that could impact SuccessFactors. First, Salesforce agreed to buy Rypple for an undisclosed sum in December. And just two weeks back, Oracle plopped down $1.9 billion to buy Taleo. As all this was unfolding the past few months, SAP and SuccessFactors have been plotting their own integration strategy to better compete against their rivals. The companies plan to find new ways to bridge SuccessFactors’ cloud-based Business Execution Suite (BizX) apps with SAP’s human capital management software. To do this, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard will begin leading SAP’s cloud software strategy. One of the first moves SAP will be making is “boldly investing” in SuccessFactors’ Employee Central product to establish it as “the go-forward core human resources offering in the cloud.” Unfortunately, I didn’t get to chat with Dalgaard about what’s coming next, but I did get to speak with two execs who explained what the two companies were brewing. Sven Denecken, SAP’s VP of cloud strategy, told me that there is only a 14 percent overlap where companies are using SAP and SuccessFactors software side-by-side. Ideally, the company is seeking to better integrate SAP’s mostly on-premise software and SuccessFactor’s cloud-based software, so that large enterprise customers will want SAP and SuccessFactors software to get more from them both. Denecken also noted that SuccessFactors’ strong cloud products will help give SAP a framework for moving their local software experience to the cloud. While chatting with Denecken, I also got to talk with SuccessFactors Product Marketing VP Jeff Kristick, who proudly boasted that SuccessFactors was better than all of its rivals. But while he boasted, I decided to point out that its new parent SAP still had some shortcomings in the cloud. Workday , for example, offers payroll software completely in the cloud, where SAP’s payroll software is still on-premise only. which means you’re not tied to any single device with that important HR data. Kristick’s response: Workday is only available in two countries, whereas SAP is legitimately global. Touché. Married couple holding hands: szefei/Shutterstock Filed under: cloud ]]></description>
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		<title>Projector mapping morphs a mixer and turntables into a DJ’s dream GUI</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When the bridge was built that enabled DJs to use vinyl records in order to manipulate music on their computers, it was an historic moment in DJ history. But ever since that day, DJs have had to look at their computers in order to see what’s going on with their music. You see, DJ’ing might be heavily about sound, but there’s a visual portion which can’t be ignored. When DJs spun traditional vinyl records, the shape of the grooves could tell the DJ what was about to happen. When we moved over to digital vinyl systems, we lost the definitions in those grooves, and instead landed on a record that looks the same all the way across. In order to see what was coming up in the track, we had to look at the computer (or CD player) screen. But what if there was a way to take the UI of the apps that we use and to project that directly onto our mixing surfaces? If these guys have anything to say about it, that’s exactly where the next step of DJing will go: “It’s a user interface for Serato Scratch Live that is vinyl rotation reactive, as well as sound reactive, and makes it possible to mix using Serato without having to look at your computer screen whatsoever. We have real-time waveforms across our mixers, or our vinyl platters, and we have started to incorporate video effects that are controlled by wii remotes.” Take all of my money. ]]></description>
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		<title>The real Google TV: Google preps fiber pay-TV service in Kansas City</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Google is one step closer to launching a pay-TV service in Kansas City, Missouri — one of its fiber Internet testbeds — which would directly take on cable and satellite companies. The company filed for a video franchise license in the city last week, the New York Post reports , a move that would give Google permission to broadcast content to televisions. A Google pay-TV solution would give the company yet another source for advertising revenue. And unlike the current iteration of Google TV, which works in conjunction with your existing TV service, Google would have complete control of TV content (assuming it can bring aboard content partners). We first caught wind of Google’s pay-TV ambitions in November , when the Wall Street Journal reported that the company was in talks with media executives from companies like Time Warner, Disney, and Discovery. The service would run on Google’s high-speed fiber Internet service that’s now being tested in Kansas City, MO, and Kansas City, KS. The pay-TV service could launch within the next few months, a media executive involved in negotiations tells the Wall Street Journal . When asked for comment, a Google spokesperson told the WSJ, “We’re still exploring what product offerings will be available when we launch Google Fiber.” If Google does move forward with a pay-TV service, don’t expect it to look anything like existing cable or satellite offerings. With its fiber network, Google has the potential to offer an a la carte service that lets consumers choose the channels they want. Expect on-demand services to be heavily integrated as well, just like Verizon’s FiOS TV service. And you can bet that Google will make it dead simple to watch TV on your computers, smartphones, and tablets. Filed under: media , VentureBeat ]]></description>
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		<title>New privacy policy agreement forces apps to disclose data use</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has struck a privacy agreement with the top six companies she believes facilitate the creation of the most applications: Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, Microsoft, and Research in Motion. “Your personal privacy should not be the cost of using mobile apps, but all too often it is,” said Attorney General Harris in a statement. The agreement states that all mobile apps that collect any sort of personal information must create and distribute a privacy policy. Mobile apps have gone without much regulation for some time, but now Harris wants to bring it in line with the “California Online Privacy Protection Act,” which requires commercial websites, including mobile, to post privacy policies. The policy should be viewable before downloading an app, as opposed to after, when an app has first been opened. This means app marketplaces will need to have a separate area for each application to show that particular company’s privacy statement and any other information they would like to disclose. This was already recommended by the Federal Trade Commission in a study on parents, privacy, and downloading apps for children. Users will also soon be supplied avenues to report companies who are not following the agreement. Those found in violation could be prosecuted under California’s Unfair Competition Law and/or False Advertising Law. In the last few weeks, social photo app Path spurred a conversation around mobile privacy when a developer found it transferring people’s address books to its servers. Soon after, a number of other companies were discovered doing the same thing, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and others. Apple released a statement saying these companies were in violation of its guidelines . Explicit prior permission is required in order to transfer such information, though it doesn’t specify the need to encrypt it. The guideline itself reads, “Apps cannot transmit data about a user without obtaining the user’s prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used.” With this new agreement, companies like Apple must go beyond just setting guidelines. Now, they must impress the obligation to create privacy policies on the more than 50,000 app developers currently active n their platforms, in addition to any newcomers. Currently, the companies are working to deploy the agreement’s guidelines across their mobile app ecosystems. Attorney General Harris will meet again with these mobile leaders in six months to consider more ways of making mobile privacy more transparent. VentureBeat is holding its second annual Mobile Summit this April 2-3 in Sausalito, Calif. The invitation-only event will debate the five key business and technology challenges facing the mobile industry today, and participants — 180 mobile executives, investors, and policymakers — will develop concrete, actionable solutions that will shape the future of the mobile industry. You can find out more at our Mobile Summit site . App store photo via Shutterstock Filed under: mobile , security ]]></description>
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		<title>Open Knowledge Releases Open Data Handbook 1.0</title>
		<link>http://eskobo.com/2012/02/22/open-knowledge-releases-open-data-handbook-1-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) announced the 1.0 release of the Open Data Handbook today. The 1.0 release is the culmination of a project that started in October 2010 at a book sprint in Berlin as the Open Data Manual. The Open Data Handbook provides the introduction to what open data is, why organizations (particularly government) would be interested in providing open data, and how to go about it. Sponsor Open data proponents will find the Open Data Handbook pretty basic stuff, but it's an excellent resource to pass on to others. It's also the starting point for a lot more work. Specifically, the OKF is looking for feedback on the text, contributions for the next version of the handbook, and help translating the handbook into different languages . Currently the handbook is only available in English. The OKF is also working on additional guides and handbooks , like the data journalism handbook and data patterns handbook. If you're interested in contributing, check out the mailing list . Discuss ]]></description>
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		<title>Hack Makes Nook Touch E-Ink Display Almost As Responsive As LCD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As you probably know, bistable or passive displays like the E-Ink ones in e-readers focus on battery life and readability rather than color and interactivity. The latest devices have been optimized for fast page refreshes and touch operation, but generally you’re still waiting a half a second or so for the screen to flip over to the next page, menu, or what have you. But that’s not all they’re capable of. We’ve seen hacks before, but this one definitely takes the cake. Check out this video of a Nook Touch from XDA hacker marspeople : Bear in mind this is strictly a hack and not a full-on release or commercially developed product. Most people wouldn’t want to use the device in this state: it’s not consistent in how fast it responds, there are graphical glitches, and it probably drains the battery like crazy. But the fact is they’ve got a passive display refreshing ~15-20 times per second and responding to touches instantly like a normal tablet. The possibilities for this generation of readers are limited: few people are going to install a hack like this, and even if they did, not much content is really designed to be consumed this way. Pages are a natural way to read books, and scrolling constantly is kind of a pain. But it’s amazing to see these displays, usually so slow and static, being used so actively. Here’s hoping the next displays from E-Ink (or Bridgestone , or whoever) are capable of even more. Despite what people might say, the passive display still has a lot of potential to grow and evolve. [via The Digital Reader ] ]]></description>
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		<title>Apple, Google and Other App Sellers Cut Privacy Deal with California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Your favorite mobile apps should soon be making it a lot more clear when they intend to use your data. The Attorney General of California, Kamala D. Harris, announced Wednesday a deal with Amazon, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Research in Motion; the companies agreed to strengthen privacy protection for users that download third-party apps to smartphones and tablet devices. In the deal, the companies said they would require app developers to clearly spell out what data their apps can access and what the app or company does with that data. The deal also makes app store custodians such as Apple and Google, who run the App Store and Android Market, set up a way for users to report apps that don’t provide a clear-cut explanation of their privacy policies. According to a statement from Attorney General Harris’ office, if an app developer doesn’t meet these new privacy-policy requirements, they could be charged with a crime under California law. “California has a unique commitment to protecting the privacy of our residents,” said Harris. “Our constitution directly guarantees a right to privacy, and we will defend it.” Android users are well aware that developers on the platform are required to ask them for permission before accessing their personal data, but they’re not told how or why their data is being accessed. Apple also doesn’t allow any software on its App Store that takes personal information without asking, but developers haven’t been transparent on that platform, either. In fact, Harris’ office says, only five percent of all mobile apps offer a privacy policy. And developers across both platforms have come under fire recently for coding software that transmits users’ personal data unbeknownst to them. That controversy managed to pique the interest of some members of Congress, who sent a letter of inquiry to Apple. Should lawmakers intervene when the creators of popular platforms like Android and iOS may not be doing enough to protect the privacy of their users? Sound off in the comments below. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , TommL More About: amazon , android , apple , blackberry , Google , Hewlett-Packard , iOS , microsoft , privacy , research in motion , RIM , webOS , windows phone ]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways Pinterest Is Inspiring Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ How is Pinterest inpsiring you to take action? As Pinterest looks to turn the corner from buzz-worthy startup to mainstream social network, everyone seems to be talking about it. Most unique about it, though, is the way it inspires people to pin project-related content, be it recipes, design ideas, or wedding plans. But is it compelling people to actually create based on what they pin? For our latest collaboration with CNN iReport , we asked you to tell us how you’re turning pins into projects . We love social media, but we also love when online and offline experiences converge. We wanted to know how people are using Pinterest to find and organize things that give them creative inspiration – and then how they execute these projects in real life. For those who have yet to join (the site is invite-only), Pinterest is a curatorial site that calls itself a “virtual pinboard,” which allows users to capture and organize images from the web. The still growing site has captured the zeitgeist of the social web in early 2012. It is now over 10 million members strong, and receives 12 million monthly unique visitors. SEE ALSO: The 10 Most-Followed Brands on Pinterest We received stories of people baking, crafting, and designing a home office. We even heard from a mother who took her two sons on a jet-powered tour of downtown Detroit. Here is a look at some of the best ways people are using pins to create projects. You can also see the featured submissions chosen by iReport in their post . Baby Blankets Lissables is an active member of Pinterest and uses the site to pin items she has sewn, quilted, and crochet. Lissables said she taught herself to sew an entire baby blanket (right) by finding tutorials on the site. Click here to view this gallery. Are you using Pinterest to do projects but missed our call for submissions? Let us know how in the comments. More About: ireport , pinterest For more Social Media coverage: Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Social Media channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad ]]></description>
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		<title>MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership Program Aims to Bring Mobile Payments Everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ For all of the talk about the mobile payments revolution , most of the world still deals in cash. About 85% of world retail transactions are still done with paper currency, while payment processors are smacking their lips at the prospect of increasing their share. The problem with digital payments in emerging markets is most people do not have proper bank accounts. However, they are likely to have mobile phones. So today, MasterCard announced a partnership initiative to turn those phones into payment processors. Walk into a store anywhere in the world and use your phone to make a purchase. The combination of currency with telephony holds great promise, one that MasterCard thinks will net it a billion new customers. Sponsor "In the majority of emerging countries the percentage of the population that has access to normal banking accounts as you and I have with a normal bank is limited. It is well below 100% of the population," said Mung Ki Woo, group executive for mobile and emerging payments at MasterCard. "On the contrary, penetration of mobile telephony has increased massively. To the point where in those countries, even the poorest, have 50%-60% penetration rates. This means that most adults can have access to mobile phones. Out of this this discrepancy was born mobile money services." The MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership Program is intended to help 2.5 billion people in emerging markets gain financial services through their mobile phones. MasterCard is partnering with Sybase 365, Utiba and Comviva to bring transactions through telephony to brick and mortar and online merchants across the world. The target locations for the partnerships will be in Africa, the Middle East, parts of Asia and Eastern Europe. All that will be needed to make a transaction between two parties is that each have a cellphone. "What we have been doing over the last 10 months is reaching out to this world of mobile money services and building bridges to enable transactions between this world of mobile money services and the existing world of MasterCard accounts," Woo said. "For us we think that it is about getting the next billion customers and consumers connected to the MasterCard network." Here are the specific services offer by the MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership Program: Prepaid companion cards that account holders can use at merchants that accept MasterCard cards. Virtual card accounts that can be used for e-commerce payments with a user's mobile money account. Person-to-person payments between subscribers of two different mobile money services. Face-to-face or remote payments using mobile phones for goods and services at merchants that do not have traditional point of sale systems. Visa also announced a payments model in an emerging market today, teaming with a company called Monitise to bring mobile payments to India. Imagine all the world's transactions as one giant river. Right now that river flows with physical currency and a small stream of digital transactions. Companies like MasterCard and Visa see emerging markets as the key to digitizing more of that flow. Discuss ]]></description>
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