del.icio.us links for December 21, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Email Standards Project: Yahoo! Signs on 100%, GMail Bad – ReadWriteWeb.Com

   The group acknowledges that many designers condemn HTML emails all together but says that it’s clear they are here to stay. They are too effective for marketing purposes and too compelling for users for the practice to disappear.

2. TorrentSpy suit terminated in light of tampering – MacNN.Com

   reports say. Representatives from the MPAA sued TorrentSpy in 2006, claiming that the BitTorrent tracker provided illegal access to copyrighted video. Although TorrentSpy countersued, arguing that the MPAA hacked into its computers and e-mail accounts.

3. Shoppers get £1bn Christmas present after EU tells Mastercard to scrap illegal fees – DailyMail.Co.Uk

   Credit card companies have been told to slash the fees they charge shops for authorising sales. The EU ruling should mean a fall in prices of up to £1billion a year in the UK. Tesco alone pays £100million a year to the banks for processing credit and de

4. Firefox 3 beta 2 is out and about – CNET – News.com

   The new version sports a wide range of improvements over the first test version of the browser upgrade, most notably plugs for memory leaks, security fixes, and a download manager that includes improvements previously available only through plug-ins.

6 more articles after the Jump

1. Girls blog, boys post video – report – CNET – News.com

   About 35 percent of all online teen girls blog, compared with only 20% of boys. About 54% of the girls online post photos compared with 40% for boys, but boys are nearly twice as likely as girls to have posted video online (19% vs. 10%).

2. Antivirus firm says Google ads hit by trojan – NZHerald.Co.NZ

   Advertisements placed by Google in web pages are being hijacked by so-called trojan software that replaces the intended text with ads from a different provider, Romanian antivirus company BitDefender says.

3. Boot Camp vs Parallels vs VMware Fusion Benchmarks – MacRumors.Com

   One Step Tests: In XP, Parallels is 17% faster than VMWare Fusion on XP and 1% faster than Boot Camp. In Vista, VMware Fusion ran 46% slower than Boot Camp, and Parallels ran 44% slower than VMware Fusion.

4. Reversing ageing process in skin – The Hindu.Com

   The advance has so far been demonstrated only in mice. Researchers say that if it can be translated to people it might help older people recover more quickly from injury or boost organ function during illness.

5. TV viewers turning to Web – theGlobeAndMail.Com

   In the past year, YouTube has widened its lead, approximately 65 per cent of the 2,455 U.S. adults surveyed by Harris Interactive said they have watched a video on YouTube, compared to 42 per cent during the same time last year.

6. Google Android plagued by major bugs? – MacNN.Com

   Among the flaws with the software itself are unnecessarily complex programming elements, according to the claims from code writers. Inital setup and special iPhone-like features such as auto-rotation of the interface or kinetic scrolling work well.