News Card 10

Internet activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57563642-93/internet-activist-aaron-swartz-commits-suicide/

Internet activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide. He was accused of stealing 4 million documents, mainly scientific journals and academic papers from MIT and made it publicly available. Authorities claim that Aaron Swartz broke into MIT’s computer network without authorization. If guilty, Aaron Swartz would have faced a fine of $ 4 million and more than 50 years in prison. He got famous for a company he founded called Infogami and for the nonprofit group Demand Progress.

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News Card 9

Sony stops production of PlayStation 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20875176


Sony is ending the production of the popular Playstation 2 in Japan. The device went on sale in March 2000 and ever since it has been sold for over 150 million times. It was so popular that it outsold the Playstation 3 in the first 3 years. However Sony will still continue producing games for the Playstation 2 and at the moment just stops production in Japan. Sony has not yet announced whether it will stop production in other territories as well.


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News Card 8

Instagram kicks off New Year's Eve with worldwide photo stream

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57561463-93/instagram-kicks-off-new-years-eve-with-worldwide-photo-stream/

Instagram introduces worldwide photo stream on New Year allowing users to see how people around the globe are celebrating this event on their desktop optimized stream in a given time zone. Instagram photo stream can be seen on desktop devices and mobile phones, however it’s more comprehensive on the desktop than over mobile phones

Webquest Topic: How to make potato salad

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News Card 7

Facebook tests fees for out-of-network messaging

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/21/technology/social/facebook-messaging/index.html

Facebook is testing a system that is currently only available to a small amount of people in the U.S which allows messaging others who are not in their friend’s list at a not yet known fee. There has been a lot of complaints that messages got lost in the spam filter when texting to people who weren’t integrated in someone’s network. Currently Facebook only delivers messages from friends or friends of friends. Other messages which facebook deems irrelevant are marked as spam. With a paid system however messages could be considered relevant even without being integrated in someone’s network. This could be the case if a company wants to send you job offers that you have requested.

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News Card 6

Apple loses bid for permanent ban on Samsung phones in U.S.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57559701-37/apple-loses-bid-for-permanent-ban-on-samsung-phones-in-u.s/

US Judges refuses Apple’s request to get a sales ban on a number of Samsung devices. The requested sales ban covers 26 Samsung products which were denied because Samsungs infringement was just part of a lager feature set, making the request to ban sales on the 26 Samsung products to broad. Prior to that Samsung lost a court ruling to Apple, leading to a 1.05 Billion fine in Apple’s favor.

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News Card 5

News Card 5

YouTube Wants to Be Your Must-See TV

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/YouTube-Wants-to-Be-Your-Must-See-TV-76804.html

Youtube has redesigned its interface to engage more users to use their service rather than turning on the TV. It will now be easier to keep up with channel subscriptions and the Youtube guide is now displayed through all devices. The page layout is much simpler, more streamlined and the video appears at the top of the page.

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News Card 4

News Card 4

Why Facebook's about to slow down (and that's probably good)

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/19/tech/social-media/facebook-https/index.html

Facebook  is likely to slow down due to security improvements. Recent blog posts state that Facebook is moving its users from North America and later on the rest of the world to a more secure internet connection that is already being used for websites that deal with confidential credit card information. Most often you will see a lock icon in the browser showing that you’re using HTTPS which is the more secure type of internet as opposed to HTTP which is less secure. However the disadvantage is that it could slow down your connection slightly.

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