We cover Amazon's capitulation to another publisher, and Google's book deal comes under assault from the Department of Justice. Jeff Zucker appears to lie to Congress and Sling implies AT&T lied about their app. And the $9.99 eBook is declared dead by Gizmodo and Rafe declares eInk dead. Just another day on the Internet.
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EPISODE 1160
Top Stories
The $9.99 Ebook Is Dead: Third Major Publisher Hachette Dumps onAmazon
http://gizmodo.com/5464742/the-999-ebook-is-dead-third-major-publisher-hachette-dumps-on-amazon
US Department of Justice objects to Google book plan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8500022.stm
But Author’s Guild is still OK
http://authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/riaa.html
Other Stories
Boxee responds to NBC's Jeff Zucker
http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/02/04/boxee-responds-to-nbcs-jeff-zucker/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10447851-266.html
Panasonic admits plasma TV black level change but says picture quality still ‘excellent’
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10447329-1.html
Report: Apple paying 15 percent ’sorry money’ on broken 27-inch iMacs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10447690-260.html
Sling Media Denies Collaboration With AT&T on 3G Streaming
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/02/05/sling-media-denies-collaboration-with-atandt-on-3g-streaming/
Sling: We didn’t ‘work’ with AT&T for 3G streaming to iPhone
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/02/sling-we-didnt-work-with-att-for-3g-streaming-to-iphone.ars
Air Force taps IBM for secure cloud
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10447483-83.html
Facebook's Project Titan: A Full Featured Webmail Product
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/facebooks-project-titan-a-full-featured-webmail-product/
Kindle display maker PVI promises touchscreens, color and flexibility in 2010 models
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/kindle-display-maker-pvi-promises-touchscreens-color-and-flexib/
Kickers and Science
Craig Mundie Wants “Internet Driver’s Licenses”
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/04/2249241/Craig-Mundie-Wants-Internet-Drivers-Licenses
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Voicemail
Mike truck driver on cheap Internet
Dwight the keygrip – On HTML 5 vs. Flash
Twitter
ScottEVest has the iPad pocket already
https://twitter.com/mcoley/status/8667651959
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Hey Buzz Crew,
I was listening to episode 1158 and the discussion about secure passwords. The impression I got was that secure and memorable passwords have to be mutually exclusive. Not true, the trick is to use things that you have already memorized. So work with me on this, so let’s say that you like “cherry” as a password, terrible right, well let’s add the last 3 digits of our SSN to the end “cherry659″ ok still not the best but then let’s do some substitution and we sill come up with something great “cH3rr4659″ so now that is a lot more secure, ok, but we don’t want to use the same password at every site, well simple solution for that, give your password a prefix or postfix that is related to the site, again with this you will want to make it non obvious, like “W1tcH3rr4659″ for twitter “t3NccH3rr4659″ for cnet and so on, so then you have broken down your password into parts, some of which you have already memorized which would be hard for someone else to guess or hack. Hope this helps everyone have more secure passwords love the show
Jonathan The Computer Scientist from Saskatoon