Android Users: Microsoft Debuts a Version of its My Xbox Live App for Android | Virgin Galactic Hits Milestone As Commercial Space Travel Rockets Toward Reality | DOJ wants to know if big cable is unfairly killing the cord-cutting revolution | Panelists: social apps can lead to rape, Catholic Church worse than Facebook | Notes From The Ebook Trenches

Android Users: Microsoft Debuts a Version of its My Xbox Live App for Android

Posted by PCWorld
The Microsoft Xbox Live iOS app also is upgraded[...]
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Virgin Galactic Hits Milestone As Commercial Space Travel Rockets Toward Reality

Posted by TechCrunch
NASA may not be sending anyone to Mars anytime soon, the exploration of space and beyond – though on a much smaller scale – is being spearheaded by folks like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. (Maybe you’ve heard of them.) Though Bezos and Blue Origin continue to work under a veil of secrecy in Texas, Virgin Galactic keeps humming along in the Mojave having recently scored a major milestone for the sub-orbital space tourism arm of Branson’s Virgin empire.
Earlier this month Virgin Galactic and its partner Scaled Composites received an experimental launch permit from the Federal Aviation Administration, the first for a manned experimental aircraft. Considering there have[...]
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DOJ wants to know if big cable is unfairly killing the cord-cutting revolution

Posted by VentureBeat
It took a while, but the U.S. Department of Justice is finally acknowledging that big cable companies may have the power to suffocate online video service, which people turn to as an alternative to paying an expensive monthly cable TV subscription.
The DOJ is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation of big cable companies that provide both cable television and broadband Internet service, reports the Wall Street Journal. The report indicates that the Justice Department has started questioning cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner, as well as officials at streaming video services like Netflix and Hulu.
The Justice Department is specifically interested in a few key practices, su[...]
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Panelists: social apps can lead to rape, Catholic Church worse than Facebook

Posted by Gigaom
The debate as to whether location-based apps are creepy took a new turn Monday, when Newspepper.com founder Hermione Way�asserted that women have been raped as a result of location-based apps “like Facebook and Banjo,” and Banjo CEO Damien Patton responded that “more people have been harmed by the Catholic Church” than the popular social networks.
“Those were just baseless accusation against location apps in general,” Patton said.
The two clashed Monday on a panel discussing privacy at Monday’s Social Loco conference, where Way opened by saying she has chosen to live her life online and give up assumptions of digital privacy, but that not everyone is[...]
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Notes From The Ebook Trenches

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I keep a close and interested eye on the world of ebooks, and I’m pleased to report that it keeps getting weirder. British supermarket chain Sainsbury – who I worked for once, helping to program a new payroll system for a few months, until they scrapped the whole project – recently bought HMV’s share in ebook hub Anobii for a whopping, er, one pound. (Americans: that’s about $1.50.) Huh?
Meanwhile, HarperCollins announced its “HarperCollins 360” global publishing program, which at first I thought was them taking a page from the music industry’s post-Napster ‘360 deals‘ — but no; on sober second thought it has nothing to do wit[...]
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