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The marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton was an event for the Internet age.Great traditions of the country were celebrated by the modern institutions of the Web. Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube were all given the royal wedding.
And, as the streets around Westminster Abbey, cyberspace has been buzzing with talk of the big day.
Looking to capitalize on television’s central role in TV chit chat on social networking like Facebook or Twitter, Yahoo bought a mobile phone app–IntoNow, which allows the users to tell others what they are watching.
The goal is to create some social experience around TV, even if the person is watching the show alone. There are several companies that allow you to “check in” to TV shows. But what makes IntoNow special is that with a huge database of the shows over the last five years, the apps is capable of recognizing shows automatically. The users let the app listen to a show for a few seconds, the apps will, in theory, will know what you’re watching. Then, the users can share that information without having to type the the name of the program as well as the episode of the show on their mobile phones. The app works for both live programming and on-demand content, from TV shows to movies. The users could also check what shows are trending and who are watching them.
According to Tehran, it is said that the Stuxnet computer worm, which has has hit at least 30000 IP addresses and damaged systems in Iran was designed by foreign governments to undermine the country’s nuclear plans.
An official from Iran Information Technology Company stressed that the sophisticated nature of the malware, indicating that the capacity of the worm revealed that it is not made up by an ordinary hacker group. .
The software company–Microsoft has formally turned to regulators in Brussels for help in its flagging attempts to counter Google’s dominant position in Internet search, marking a notable reversal after its own long-running antitrust battles with Europe.
Microsoft has filed its first official complaint to the EC amid a broad investigation in Brussels into Google’s search and advertising practices. It accused Google of a pattern of walling off content and data on the internet to stop other search engines from being able to compete effectively.