John Cook / Gawker:
Only 92% of Newt Gingrich’s Twitter Followers Are Fake — Yesterday, we published an item based on a former Newt Gingrich staffer’s claim that Gingrich assembled his 1.3 million Twitter followers—a number that he’s taken to bragging about—in part by buying fake Twitter followers.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
It’s All Software — Here’s Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, writing about iCloud: … Many — maybe even most — observers share this view of the differences between Apple’s and Google’s approach to cloud-backed software. I think this view is wrong. Where Gobry writes “for Google …
John Leyden / The Register:
Google Chrome OS: Too secure to need security? — Confident anti-virus-less chocolateers may be repeating Apple’s mistakes — A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple’s mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS. — Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Study Shows U.S. Lagging in Use of Technology — The United States continues to lag other nations in its use of computing and communications technology, according to an annual study issued Tuesday by the World Economic Forum. — For the second year in a row, the United States finished fifth …