Roundup for 10-10-11

BBC News - Row over photo in shopping centre
GAWKER - What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
TorrentFreak - Eureka! Ditching DRM Decreases Piracy
Mail Online - Steve Jobs dead: Apple boss left plans for 4 years of new products
The Inquirer - Google unveils web programming language dart
BoxFreeIT - Tip: Want to be more productive? Don’t file your email
How-To Geek - How to Control a Remote Computer Using Only Your Chrome Web Browser
The Inquirer - O2 undercuts the competition on iphone 4s
EFYTimes - Supreme Court (in India) Switches Over To Ubuntu 10.04
Hack a Day - 22 miles straight up in 90 seconds
Tennessee News Press - Gov Haslam Pushes For Internet Sales Tax
The Inquirer - Google+ loses 60 per cent of active users
ArsTechnica - Nuance swipes Swype in $102 million deal
Coding Horror - Nobody's Going to Help You, and That's Awesome
CNET News - A Moore's Law for computers and energy efficiency
GamePolitics - Netflix Abandons Qwikster, Quiet on Game Rentals
MobileBurn - Verizon 4G LTE hits 22 new cities on October 20, 13 more on November 17
ZDNet - How many Flash Player updates is too many?
ZDNet - Amazon already hit with patent suit over Kindle Fire
YouTube - Teaser. MOTOROLA'S NEXT.... 10-18-11
ArsTechnica - Dear Meg Whitman... Some unsolicited advice on HP's PC future

Roundup for 10-2-11

I'm going to begin posting daily bits of information, on any topic, that I read and see intresting to pass on instead of flooding my social networks with this. Enjoy!

Bloomberg - Google Joins Apple in Push for Tax Holiday
The Inquirer - Apple could launch an iphone 4s next week
Geek.com - Facebook stores up to 800 pages of personal data per user account
Dvorak.org - FaceBook Admits Tracking Users After They are Logged Off... Claims it Was Just an “Accident"
thinq.co.uk - Whitman gets a $1 salary, Apotheker gets millions
VentureBeat - HTC Android phones (without root) may have “massive security vulnerability”
Techdirt - Amazon's Silk Browser To Be A Data Mining Jackpot
ZDNet - US congressmen ask FTC to investigate Facebook cookies
Wired.com - AT&T Begins Sending Throttling Warnings to Top Data Hogs
CNET News - HTC follows BlackBerry to $299 tablet bargain bin
CyberJournalist.net - Wall Street Journal launches Facebook social news app
ZDNet - Facebook to remove Discussions tab from Pages
How-To Geek ETC - 14 Epic Tech Failures (Infographic)

Android for Phones, Chrome OS for Netbooks, "Hybrid OS" for Notebooks / Desktops

Can this please be just the beginning for Google in the Open Source OS market? Consumers need this Chrome OS for just competitiveness to force Microsoft's hand to make their crappy, fat, old, unsatisfying OS better. Having Chrome OS for netbooks being confirmed as Open Source is even better. Chrome OS is a great step in the right direction and looking forward Google may have a "hybrid OS" that could bring everything together and place a big squeeze on Microsoft.

Google might be working on a 3rd "hybrid OS" combining the application functionality from Android with the fast access and speedy browsing of the Chrome OS. This "hybrid OS" would be great for notebooks/desktops to have something that can run like Chrome OS when required to get something fast from the internet, while making a great all-around product with the applications provided from Android App Store and allowing multi-functionality aside from just a fast access netbook.

This "hybrid OS" also has a business model to potentially beat any other OS on the market. The OS will be Open Source, which means you should give it away for free (you don't have to but you don't want to charge much for it). Giving away something for free doesn't sound like a good plan for long term establishment of a product. Having this product funded by Google's typical money making method, Ads, would not be a great plan either. It would be rather annoying to have an Advertisement randomly placed on the OS. Programers would just write a code/script to remove it much like they have with other forms of advertising that is unwanted.

The model that would excel is something like the Apple App Store (which rakes in money for Apple by them not doing much at all). Provide the format for small developers to make great programs that people can use on your "hybrid OS" and just charge a fee for people to sell their product through the store (again like the Apple App Store). The more copies of the OS you get out there in consumers hands, the more demand for those applications and the more money you will make.

This type of "hybrid OS" would be the best for all parties involved (sorry Microsoft). Great for developers of the programs for the software to make money selling their product, great for consumers to only get the products they need and have the products all available in a central location to compare and make the best purchase for them, and for Google to get a great OS with a great customer friendly business model and saving the customer from the unrelenting grasps of Microsoft.