France to invest €20bn in high-speed broadband for the entire country

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26 February 2013
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French president François Hollande has confirmed plans to give every single household in the country high-speed broadband within the next 10 years, with around half getting getting superfast coverage by the end of 2017.

High-speed broadband strengthens [France’s] businesses competitiveness and the quality of [its] public services. [It] will bring more fluidity, more simplicity for communications between business, their customers, and the public sector as well, Hollande said on Wednesday, adding the rollout could directly generate 10,000 jobs — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The vast differences between the NBN and the Coalition’s alternative

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26 February 2013
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The Coalition’s broadband policy slogan states that that they will Complete the current NBN cheaper and faster. This simply isn’t true.

We’ll continue to cover the sketchy claims of being faster and cheaper in other articles but for now we’ll focus on the supposed similarities and differences.

The Coalition’s NBN alternative is different by almost every measure. It uses different technologies to connect the bulk of the country; it has different uses and applications; it affects Australia’s health service differently; it provides different levels of support in emergencies and natural disasters; it requires a different amount of power to operate; the cost of maintenance is different; the overall cost, the return on investment and the re-sale value are different; the management, ownership, governance, competition and monopoly factors will be different; it has a different life-span and upgradability issues; the effect on businesses (of all sizes) and GDP is different; the effects on television are different; the effect on Senior Citizens is different; the viability and potential for cost blowouts is different; the costs of buying broadband will be different; the reliability is different; the effect on property prices will be different; the timescale is different; the legacy is different. Ultimately, it has completely different aims.

In just about every case the Coalition’s alternative compares unfavourably to the current plans – and usually in dramatic fashion. That’s based upon the facts and the information currently available in the public domain — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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Applejack’s Apple Harvest Automaton / morisato54

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26 February 2013
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No pony appreciates a good days work more than Applejack. She loves the hard-earned life so much that she doesn’t even look like she’s working at all! Of course, not everybody is gifted with the talent for apple bucking. It’s also an untold mystery as to how she can send each and every single apple into a bushel with nary a one touching the ground. But I think her ever faithful, canine companion Winona has rooted that secret out. That or she’s on the lookout for bad apples.

The figures, stand, tree and bushel are carved out of Philippine mahogany while the gears and apples are made out of Narra hardwood. They’re painted in enamel and protected by clear flat lacquer. Applejack stands at 5 1/8″ tall (with her hat down) while the entire complete piece measures 11 3/4″ high, 9 1/2″ long, and 3 1/2″ wide. It took 161 hours to complete — via Youtube

Yahoo CEO Mayer Now Requiring Remote Employees to Not Be (Remote)

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25 February 2013
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According to numerous sources, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has instituted a HR plan today to require Yahoo employees who work remotely to relocate to company facilities. The move will apparently impact several hundred employees, who must either comply without exception or presumably quit. It impacts workers such as customer service reps, who perhaps work from home or an office in another city where Yahoo does not have one — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Mystery as tourist’s body found in hotel water tank in Los Angeles

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22 February 2013
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Police are trying to determine whether the death of a 21-year-old Canadian tourist at a Los Angeles hotel was an accident or a murder.

Elisa Lam, of Vancouver, British Columbia, was discovered in a water tank on the roof of the budget 600-room Cecil Cecil Hotel after guests complained of low water pressure, AP reported.

Police sources told the LA Times mystery surrounds her death and it was hoped an autopsy would yield more clues because there appeared no obvious trauma on her body.

It was also not yet known how long she had been in the tank — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Forget Dropbox, here’s Drobo-box: Small-biz array meets Barracuda cloud

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21 February 2013
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Security appliance maker Barracuda Networks has agreed to marry its online file-sharing service to storage biz Drobo’s box of hard drives called 5N.

People can upload and download files to and from Barracuda’s Copy cloud, and share their data between desktop computers, iPhones, iPads, iPods, Android devices and Microsoft’s Surface slabs. The accompanying app and basic service offers 5GB of space for free. There are also group sharing functions.

Now Drobo, as part of today’s announced partnership, will plug its 5N desktop filer into Copy’s systems: each box will be able to extend its local storage and document sharing into the Barracuda cloud and back up its data to the remote service. An app for the 5N that can access Copy will ship in March — via redwolf.newsvine.com

How Google Fought Off Spammers Trying To Break Into One Million Accounts

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20 February 2013
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The spam-blocking technology in Gmail is fairly effective, but that doesn’t mean spammers and criminals don’t want to use Gmail to send dubious messages. A blog post from Google notes a dramatic increase in attempts to hijack individual accounts.

We’ve seen a single attacker using stolen passwords to attempt to break into a million different Google accounts every single day, for weeks at a time, Google security engineer Mike Hearn wrote in the post. A different gang attempted sign-ins at a rate of more than 100 accounts per second — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less

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20 February 2013
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No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it’s estimated that there are more than 14 billion. Recently, though, Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási discovered something surprising about this massive number: Like actors in Hollywood connected by Kevin Bacon, from every single one of these pages you can navigate to any other in 19 clicks or less.

Barabási’s findings, published yesterday in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, involved a simulated model of the web that he created to better understand its structure. He discovered that of the roughly 1 trillion web documents in existence — the aforementioned 14 billion-plus pages, along with every image, video or other file hosted on every single one of them — the vast majority are poorly connected, linked to perhaps just a few other pages or documents — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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