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Anonymous has set up a Web site to coordinate its campaign against the Westboro Baptist Church.Twitter Reacts to Anonymous Attacks on Westboro Baptist Church
By NICOLE PERLROTHTwitter briefly suspended an account associated with Anonymous, the hacker collective, on Wednesday following a week of Anonymous attacks on members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Read more…
Today’s Scuttlebot: Tech Leaders for Gun Safety, and Every Last Tweet
By THE NEW YORK TIMESThe technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Wednesday’s selection includes TV comedy writers on how Twitter has changed their jobs, a group of technology figures calling for better gun safety and Twitter suspending an account from the hacking group Anonymous. Read more…
Test Run: Addappt, a Connected Address Book for iPhones
By BRIAN X. CHENA new, free app called Addappt is basically a connected address book that stays up to date. If a friend using Addappt edits his contact information with a new phone number or e-mail address, for example, it shows up in my Addappt address book too. Read more…
Daily Report: Facebook Responds to Instagram Anger
By THE NEW YORK TIMESInstagram users have been complaining about Facebook’s plan to build advertising into the service. In response, the company said it would make changes to the plan. Read more…
Web Shopping Sites Hang Out Real Shingles |
After years of criticizing physical stores as relics, even e-commerce zealots are acknowledging there is something to a bricks-and-mortar location. Read more »
U.S. Inquiry of Google Is Expected to Press On |
The Federal Trade Commission is unlikely to finish until January its investigation into whether Google abused its power in the search market. Google must submit a plan in January to change its practices to avoid a fine or finding of wrongdoing, Europe’s top antitrust enforcer said. Read more »
“Right now we can create a 3-D liver slice by telling a ‘printer’ where to put cells,” said Keith Murphy, the chief executive officer at Organovo.Building Body Parts With Software
By QUENTIN HARDYA company making tissue for drug tests using three-dimensional printers is teaming up with Autodesk to learn ways that industrial 3-D printing of inanimate objects can be adapted to make living things. The goal, probably years away, is to manufacture organs for transplants. Read more…
Today’s Scuttlebot: Crime Maps and Internet Radio Trouble
By THE NEW YORK TIMESThe technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Tuesday’s selection includes the sentencing of three men in the Hewlett-Packard spying case who worked for a private investigation firm, a look at the economics of online music services and an argument that paying money for software can be more enjoyable than paying for it via advertising and a loss of privacy. Read more…
Karly Domb Sadof/Associated Press Anger at Changes on Instagram
By JOSHUA BRUSTEINMany Instagram users threatened to delete their accounts after the photo-sharing service changed its terms of service. Read more…
Daily Report: Massachusetts Fines Morgan Stanley Over Facebook I.P.O.
By THE NEW YORK TIMESMorgan Stanley is paying for its role in the troubled stock market debut of Facebook, report Susanne Craig and Ben Protess on Tuesday in The New York Times. On Monday, Massachusetts’s top financial authority fined the bank $5 million for violating securities laws, the first major regulatory action tied to Facebook’s initial public stock offering. Read more…
Emily Shur/Bravo Bravo seems to have more or less given up on its reality show about tech start-ups.For ‘Start-Ups,’ the Final Round
By DAVID STREITFELDFailure is exalted in Silicon Valley as a learning experience, just so long as it’s not happening right now. “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley,” Bravo’s much-criticized reality TV series, was a failure with viewers but that might not be the end of the story. Read more…
Photo Eric Liebowitz/The CW The cellphones in "Gossip Girl" are now Windows phones.‘Gossip Girl’ Secret: Don’t Google It
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLERMicrosoft products, from Bing to Windows phones, have been showing up on “Gossip Girl” as part of a paid sponsorship. Read more…
Today’s Scuttlebot: Pinterest Apocalypse and Tornado Energy
By THE NEW YORK TIMESThe technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Monday’s selection includes a list of things to try for resurrecting waterlogged devices, Samsung challenging Apple in business sales and on Pinterest, how to be ready if the world were to end. Read more…
SpongeBob Game Removed From App Store After Complaints
By NATASHA SINGER
The Center for Digital Democracy, an advocacy group in Washington, says SpongeBob Diner Dash collected personal information about children without obtaining parental consent. The Nickelodeon network, which carries the SpongeBob SquarePants show, temporarily removed the app from the Apple App Store on Monday. Read more…
