POI: Show #73

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Fun Non-Gas Using Activities a.k.a. News

Google's Street View removed images at the request of the Pentagon from public streets where anyone could walk and take the same pictures and/or video and post them to the Internet.
Ostensibly, the government was concerned that the images, which included views of the entrances to military bases, were a threat.
The question remains whether the government had the right to request that the images be removed.

Tudou, a hugely popular streaming video site, think YouTube for China, has been instructed to shut down by the SARFT (The Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television)
[China Herald] [PoynterOnline] [Isaac Mao] [techblog86]
The rumor can be summarized quickly. China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) supposedly instructed Tudou to close its doors, and word is it's because the people responsible for taking down illegal material missed some porn.
As for its potential shutdown, Danwei, one of the most reliable sources on Chinese internet news, tracked down some facts but nothing conclusive. One unnamed Tudou source told a Chinese source that they haven't been asked to shut down.
Meanwhile, Marbridge Consulting, whose staff watch the Chinese tech industry closely for a variety of clients claims to have confirmed with unnamed authorities that Tudou has been ordered to shut down, but they don't say whether the report they've translated is accurate in saying that the shut-down may be temporary.

Apple iTunes is now fully integrated with facebook through a built-in music section

Exchange Support
Push Mail/Contact/Calendar with Exchange Servers
Also coming are global address list, Cisco IPsec VPN, authentication and certs, enterprise class WiFi (WPA2 / 802.1x), security policies, enterprise configuration tools, and remote wipe
Also Microsoft and Apple have partnered and developed an ActiveSync for the iPhone to allow better integration with Exchange

This is a full fledged development kit
Contains access to pretty much all of the iPhone's advanced features (multi-touch, accelorometer, video/audio layer, etc)
Mac only development
$99 "entry" fee, this gets a certificate to sign your applications with
The App Store will be the only way to distribute your application(s) to iPhone/iTouch users
Apple will monitor applications available in the App Store rejecting those that are malicious or adult in nature

Both the enterprise features and third party application support will come in the iPhone 2.0 software

Free iPhone upgrade. Again, Touch users are going to have to pay for the new features
Available in June

hulu.com opening to public
i checked it out and it seems cool but i don't understand how some of is drawbacks affect ME... derek?
i like that they have all the superbowl commercials grouped together for you.. but then again i'm an advertising major...

Improved platform features such as: support for HTML5’s window.postMessage and window.messageEvent, JavaScript 1.8 improvements, and offline data storage for web applications. (who cares)

Performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization resulted in significant gains over previous releases in the popular SunSpider test from Apple, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run much faster, and continued improvements to memory usage drastically reduce the amount of memory consumed over long web browsing sessions.

WebSlices - Web developers have work to do, but sort of a neat idea. Think RSS feeds to clips of the main content from a page.
New Favorites Bar - Links bar renamed, add RSS and WebSlices = New Favorites Bar
Activities - Lots of options added to the right click menu on webpages: Map, define, translate, etc.
Crash Recovery - Firefox has had tab/session storage for a long time, IE finally gets it
Easier-to-Identify Domains - Domain portion of the address is black

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