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What I’m reading and finding for December 22nd 2011 through December 25th 2011:

• Go Daddy Lost 21,054 Domains Yesterday-
  thenextweb.com
  - Drew Olanoff
  

  It’s going to get worse before it gets better for domain registration company Go Daddy. Yesterday, we reported that Go Daddy had reversed its decision to support SOPA. Its customer service reps are even taking to the phones to beg you to keep your domains with the company.
  It looks like these PR moves to save face, and business, are completely futile. According to TheDomains, 21,054 domains were transferred away from Go Daddy on Friday alone. At $6.99 a pop, that would make for a loss of $147,1…  show all text
• http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id…-
  godaddy.com
• BBC News – Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work hours-
  bbc.co.uk
  

  Volkswagen is stopping emails being sent to some of its workers when they go off-shift after complaints of work and home life becoming blurred.
• Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - Alexia Tsotsis
  

  At this point quite a few internet companies have protested H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in creative ways. Held by many to be the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet if it passes, SOPA would makes it really easy for copyright holders to force sites offline that they think are offending, among other things.
  While the judiciary vote has been delayed until next year, the list revealing the companies who support the act was released yesterday, and many startups, such as Reddi…  show all text
• From Twitter – How Facebook is planning to sell your timeline. https //t.co/EKJvoEgp
• All the Companies Supporting SOPA, the Awful Internet Censorship Law—and How to Contact Them-
  gizmodo.com
  - Sam Biddle
  

  Who’s officially on the record backing what could be the worst thing to ever happen to the internet? All of these companies listed below. Don’t take our word for it—this list comes straight from Congress. Just FYI. More »
• From Twitter – Sandy Bridge CPU Prices coming down. Good news for system builders. https //t.co/KxJXY9L8

Sites that I found interesting for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009:

• Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet – Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called “Mega-D” or “Ozdok” spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid security researchers. After studying the beast, FireEye launched an attack by notifying ISPs, having command and control (CnC) domains removed, and then registering unused CnC domains.
• Kindle Gets Windows App – Mac Version Coming Soon – Amazon released it’s Kindle for PC app this morning. It’s available for download at Amazon.com now and allows you to read Kindle eBooks on your computer
• Ninite Easy PC Setup and Multiple App Installer – Great For Win7 Upgrades – 1. Pick the apps you want. 2. Start your customized installer. 3. You're done! Heard about this on Windows Weekly last week.
• Study Says Pirates Buy Plenty of Legitimate Digital Music – A United Kingdom research group, Demos, discovered that those people who confessed to pirating music were also those who spent the most on music. Pirates spend, on average, $126 per year on CDs, MP3s, and vinyl. Non-pirates (landlubbers?), on the other hand, only spend, on average, $72 per year.

Sites that I found interesting for September 8th 2008

• iPod roots traced back to 1970s UK – In 1979 Kane Kramer from Hertfordshire filed a patent for a digital music player that stored just three and a half minutes of music to a solid state chip – limiting media options to just one short song.
• RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier – The software, which will go on sale on Real.com and Amazon.com this month, will allow buyers to make one copy of a DVD, playable only on the computer where it was made. The user can transfer that copy to up to five other Windows computers, but only by buying additional copies of the software for $20 each. The software does not work on high-definition Blu-ray discs, which the movie industry has even more aggressively sought to protect from illicit copying.
• Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 — and 20 – She is not nearly as famous as celebrity founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But, in many ways, Marissa Mayer has become the public face of Google, which was incorporated 10 years ago today