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Blog – Détente in War Between Apps and Web
John Gruber factors to Brent Simmons’ nuanced take on Dave Winer’s much-discussed assertion that native (mobile) apps are not the long term and the internet will take over. I’ve written usually about the “war” among native apps and the internet (or web apps, if you choose) and the most fascinating conclusion about what the long term holds — no matter whether it’s open, like the net, or closed, like Apple’s app retailer — has always been that the future holds both.
Simmons goes further, however, and asserts that simply because the server-side architecture that all apps rely on, both native… Continue reading
Bits Blog: Wine Country Internet Provider Takes On Justice Department
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
The Obama administration has found an unlikely adversary in wine nation.
Taking advantage of a 25-year-old law that governs digital privacy, the Justice Department asked a modest Northern California-primarily based Web service provider to cough up data about 1 of its customers, a self-described supporter of WikiLeaks.
Santa Rosa-primarily based Sonic.net fought back. Dane Jasper, its co-founder, mentioned in an interview Monday that the business went to court to challenge the order, which, like similar details requests, was sealed by a federal judge and not readily available to the public. It won… Continue reading
Bucks Blog: Bank of America Web Site Still Troubled
Guests to the site had been greeted with this message: “We’re sorry, our web site is running gradually.”
“As a result, you may knowledge delays or have difficulty accessing components of
By Tuesday evening, the Net web site seemed to be functioning… Continue reading
Conn. aides say they saw blog posts as threats (AP)
HARTFORD, Conn. – Aides to Connecticut’s governor say they perceived the words of a New Jersey blogger as a real risk.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s basic counsel, Andrew McDonald, was a state senator at the time Harold Turner posted an entry that authorities say incited violence against legislators. Testifying at Turner’s trial, McDonald said Thursday that he regarded as it “an extraordinary document” and a “extremely real threat.”
Turner, representing himself, asked McDonald on cross-examination regardless of whether the language wasn’t just “political hardball.”
Turner says his comments had been free speech. He’s charged with felony inciting injury to persons… Continue reading
Conn. aides say they saw blog posts as threats (AP)
HARTFORD, Conn. – Aides to Connecticut’s governor say they perceived the words of a New Jersey blogger as a real threat.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s general counsel, Andrew McDonald, was a state senator at the time Harold Turner posted an entry that authorities say incited violence against legislators. Testifying at Turner’s trial, McDonald said Thursday that he considered it “an extraordinary document” and a “very real threat.”
Turner, representing himself, asked McDonald on cross-examination whether the language wasn’t just “political hardball.”
Turner says his comments were free speech. He’s charged with felony inciting injury to persons and misdemeanor threatening.
Turner… Continue reading
Web Design Industry Still Affected by Down Turn in Economy
A latest survey carried out by UK net hosting business Heart Net (http://www.heartinternet.co.uk) and UK net design blog Layout Shack (http://www.designshack.co.uk) has found that web designers are finding it more difficult to get work compared to this time last year.
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (PRWEB UK) 1 September 2011
A latest survey conducted by UK net hosting business Heart Net (http://www.heartinternet.co.uk) and UK internet design blog Style Shack (http://www.designshack.co.uk) has located that net designers are finding it tougher to get operate compared to this time last year.
The survey of 500 internet designers (1) asked the respondents about their attitudes towards the… Continue reading
Blog – The State of the Internet: IPv4 Won’t Die
The collective Web is reluctant to move on from the dying Net Protocol version four (IPv4), according to Akamai’s newest State of the Net quarterly report. Each piece of hardware connected to the Internet—such as Internet servers, PCs, cell phones, or printers—gets a special quantity assigned by this protocol, which lets devices find and get in touch with every other.
For the previous many years, we’ve been warned that IPv4 was operating out of numbers. The protocol’s successor, IPv6, provides an huge pool of new numbers, but adoption has been very slow.
The official exhaustion of IPv4 came and went… Continue reading
