Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Apple Adding Data Center in Silicon Valley — Apple is expanding its Internet infrastructure with a new data center in Silicon Valley, as it prepares to bring additional server and storage capacity online later this year. The new server space, housed in a third-party facility …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Amazon Buys The A.Co, Z.Co, K.Co And Cloud.Co Domains — Following in Twitter (T.co) and Overstock’s (O.co’s) footsteps, Amazon has picked up the domains A.Co, Z.Co, K.Co and interestingly enough Cloud.co in a deal made with Columbia-based URL shortener .Co.
Ayla Albayrak / Emerging Europe Real Time:
Turks Protest Internet Censorship … ISTANBUL — Thousands of Turks gathered in some 40 cities and towns around the country on Sunday, to join marches organized on Facebook against state Internet censorship. — The trigger for the protests was a decision by Turkey’s Internet regulator …
Ayla Albayrak / Emerging Europe Real Time:
‘Yes We Ban!’ — Turks Protest Internet Censorship … ISTANBUL — Thousands of Turks gathered in some 40 cities and towns around the country on Sunday, to join marches organized on Facebook against state Internet censorship. — The trigger for the protests was a decision by Turkey’s Internet regulator …
Business Week:
Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — The PlayStation data breach comes shortly after Sony sued and prosecuted hackers — There’s an Internet phenomenon called the Streisand Effect. It happens when a person or company tries to suppress a piece of information and, in so doing, unintentionally popularizes it.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Senate bill amounts to death penalty for Web sites — A new bill backed by movie studios and other large copyright holders takes a novel approach to curbing access to piratical Web sites: an Internet death penalty. — That’s the best way to describe the approach adopted …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report Blog:
Google’s Blogger outage makes the case against a cloud-only strategy — The same week that Google made its strongest pitch ever for putting your entire business online, one of its flagship services has failed spectacularly. — Earlier this week, Google rolled out a maintenance release for its Blogger service.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft apologizes for Online Services glitches, massive email delays — Microsoft tonight detailed and apologized for a series of glitches that caused a huge email backlog in its cloud-based Microsoft Exchange Online subscription service — in some cases delaying messages for as long as three to nine hours.
Tonya Garcia / PRNewser:
B-M Says Facebook Assignment “Should Have Been Declined” — News broke last night on The Daily Beast that the client behind Burson-Marsteller’s bungled Google “whisper campaign” was Facebook. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the social network hired B-M; The Daily Beast writer Dan Lyons writes …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Revised ‘Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too — Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn’t shrink in scope—it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers …