The United Nations still want to dominate the Internet. Intranet for change, apparently not dead.

Older people have a better password than the young; Web Design services dominated building nuisance sites; Google Drive will take the form offline; Microsoft Azure supports Linux And Apple does not want the Google maps. What else interesting happened in just the past few weeks? 

'We're Trapped In The Journalism Bubble Facebook' is a convenient and brutally truthful headline of an article on Wired.com. This applies especially to journalistic coverage of the stock market entry, Facebook.

United Nations (and the ITU) would like to gain the ability to control the Internet. Listens might be worth what it says to Vint Cerf. See F2C2012: Vint Cerf Keynote .

Edward Khilji, who is probably known for Trololo, died at the age of 77 years.

 

HARDWARE

More than 107 million Americans own a Smartphone (234 million elderly 13 years of using mobile phones). Apple is growing (14.4%) and Samsung (25.4%) too, while LG, Motorola and HTC are down-trending. Android (50.8%) and IOS (31.4%) are reversing as RIM, Microsoft and Symbian are downgrading. See comScore’ Data: Samsung, Android tops Apple iOS gaining

Computer graphics, where is it going? It is hard to believe that the following video is a demo in real time. Details are in next-gen engine from Square Enix shows what future games look like Could, tech demo video inside

 

WEB-DESIGN, INTERNET

The presentation "The 2012 trends in interactive design" by Petra Sell on Prophets is a useful reading.

Intranet apparently not dead, it is just evolving. "The Intranet Is not Dead - It's Evolving

Research: Cluttered Webpages Kill Impressions" He is also talking about one of the great ills of contemporary design sites.

SOFTWARE

Google Drive is up on offline form, at least for Chrome-books. See Google Drive for online Chromebooks in July ;  Firefox heatmap Study 2012 - Results Are In! It is a useful look at what Firefox users from using its "control" elements. For example, find that the Back (back) is used most (92%). Home (Home) in 22.1% cases. A Tabview? The other side has so many modern elements. Only 0.7% Cloud Platform Azure from Microsoft now supports Linux. See Linux Welcomes Microsoft to the Azure cloud Star Forge introduced the first-use (and playable) version of its 3D world. Details on the Star Forge opens ITS procedurally generated 3D world that players.

MARKETING

Where corporate Internet users expect information and services? In 46% cases it requires a Facebook page, in 29%, a corporate blog is required and followed by a forum for support, Twitter, wiki or knowledge base. For details, see Social Media Customer Service and Faces High Bar.

 

SECURITY, PRIVACY, RIGHT

Older people are said to choose a better password than youth. Even on this study exists: Older Internet Users Pick Better Than Teens Passwords [STUDY] Fighting Anonymous? It's obviously not the best idea. The story of Jennifer Emick, see This Is What Happens When Anonymous Tries to Destroy You. Google pointed the finger at Microsoft and Nokia. Back got boxes of course, be primarily looks at the problems with patents. See Google Points Finger at Microsoft, Nokia and Google Nokia and Microsoft Claims Are Using Patents To Violate Antitrust Laws

Very probably the same hacker as in case of leakage of passwords in Linkedin.com - second sample of his work release is 1.5 million entries from eHarmony.com. See Hacker Steals LinkedIn 1.5 Million Passwords from eHarmony [REPORT]

 

SOCIAL NETWORKS

What about the fight between The Fancy - www.thefancy.com  - and Pinterest - www.pinterest.com? Comment by Compete.com search in An Updated Look Into the Battle Between Pinterest and The Fancy

Google sends to the company website from a search on Facebook and to fewer people. It has to do with "Search Plus Your World" changes? Probably not. Personally, I take it positively, Pages (Pages) from Facebook were still unnecessarily high ranking in the search. A TIMELINE no longer forms a valuable source of information.”

Details of Facebook Pages Are Getting Less Traffic From Google & Bing?

On Friday 1st June, Facebook faced with problems of access to international media and the information considered one of the most important messages. Perhaps, it has added to Anonymous. But, as it is for Anonymous, they reject any involvement. See Anonymous blamed for Facebook outage, group denies Involvement.

Twitter does not grow much anymore, at least not as far as total numbers. But what greatly increases the number of users who use it daily. More in Daily Twitter Users Double in Less Than A Year.

After circulating a classic Facebook chain letter, you have to go forward to protect your privacy. Traditionally it works, of course. See Viral 'Privacy Notice' on Facebook Is Fake. Google Places has been converted into a Google + Local and that has yielded a 80 million company records. Details and comments are in 80 + million Google Automatically Created Local pages - Got one?

 

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

 Apple is working hard to remove Google Maps from iPhone and iPad. See Apple and Google to Expand Their Battle of Mobile Maps on WSJ with a very good description of how it has sparked a range of battles between Apple and Google in previous years.

Maybe you know an application like Locale or Tasker (for Android). With their help, you can "program" phone behavior based on certain events. Now comes with its own applications and Microsoft, you can find it under the name he {X}. See Microsoft Launches on {X} for Android; Redefines Rule-Based Mobile Task Automation [Review]

 

STARTUP AND ECONOMICS

Useful and interesting overview of Facebook's acquisition has been taking place since 2008 and that can be found in Facebook IPO: Timeline of Acquisitions .

    

Infographics

 How the Arab World Uses Facebook and Twitter [INFOGRAPHICS] you can come in handy if you want to know something about using Facebook and Twitter in the Arab countries.

What is (mostly) did not get into cells and costs from just last few weeks for your attention. It might be useful, it could take, maybe it's just somehow escaped the flood of hundreds of articles and reports which emerged last few weeks. Hand sorting of hundreds of thousands of sources and read messages. In the vast majority of foreign. Occurs continuously throughout the week. If you want to watch series, has its own label in the form of Week.

Afghan children killed in the Afghan war (note: NOT from the March 1, 2011 U.S./NATO attack) See the full story 'Here'.