Google has updated their Google library by collaborating with Monotype Imaging to produce a faster font library.

Google released MicroType Express compression as part of the Embedded OpenType converter in the open-source sfntly library. One very exciting component is that web designer teams won’t need to update their existing implementations relying on Google web fonts system. Google will take care of the update behind the scenes, updating both the CSS and the web font packages.

The bust of the AT&T hackers was a joint effort of the  U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and police in the Philippines.  The ring of four hackers seem to have a connection to a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia say the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippines police. The FBI has also uncovered a ”paper trail” of assorted bank transactions that link the hacker group to a terrorist cell in Saudi Arabia–a financing group for terrorist activities.

The hack against AT&T was said to have caused the company about $2 million in damages.

China has built a super computer that can perform 1,000 trillion calculations (a petaflop) per second using it’s own microprocessor chips. This advance has surprised industry specialists in the US and abroad.

This new super computer will now rank as one of the top 20 fastest computers in the world.

The computer is composed of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, and it was designed at a Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai.

The NY Times claims that China is about “three generations behind the state-of-art chip making technologies used by world leaders such as the United States, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.” This new invention shows China’s determination to advance.

According to A Tale of Two Studies: Establishing Google & BING Click-Through Rates by Slingshot, only 52% of Google users click on organic search results on the first page of Google. Bing is even worse with only 26% users clicking on search results for page one listings. Prior CTR studies showed a higher CTR. It could be that other options are the cause of this performance drop or possibly that real-time filtering is helping to change user search behavior and help them construct searches visually–without clicking on result pages until they locate their desired result.

Searchmetrics has conducted a study on the most popular type of content for Google Universal Search results. The study also reported on what websites are the most visible within those results.

The winners are video and image content, along with content hosted on Google’s own properties.

One of the most fascinating conclusions of this study are that video tends to rule the search web–video content tends to score the most highly at the top of search results. Image content comes in at a distant second.

Google has begun initial talks to buy Hulu–a pioneer in online video broadcast. Other initial prospects include Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo, as Hulu tries to drum up interest in a sale.  Yahoo made an initial overture, which got the video company excited.

Hulu’s financial supporters are Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners, which have set up meetings with media, technology and communications companies.

Online video is hugely popular and the interest is only growing as it displaces traditional TV and DVD. Google has been pushing to increase the amount of professional quality video and programming within it’s network on Youtube–understanding the incredible pull to advertisers.

Britain’s Channel Islands gaming commission stated plans to shut down Full Tilt Poker–perhaps the world’s most popular poker website. This comes on the heals of the major US crackdown of poker websites–straining this online industry.

The Full Tilt company has been in the process of  wooing potential investors and lenders for funds that will help the company pay debts owed to online poker players.

Hackers created a pirate version of PBS and planted a seed of a fake story that Tupac Shakur, an American rapper that died in 1996, was alive and well–living in New Zealand. The intrusion on PBS’s servers happened late Sunday night, and Anne Bentley, the PBS president, issued a statement very early Monday morning announcing the attack.

In addition to providing erroroneous information on the PBS NewsHour website, the hackers also posted login information to two internal sites–PBS PressRoom and an internal communications website. According to PBS, hackers did not compromise the personal information nor email addresses of its sites’ users.

The attacker group known as Lulz Boat stated that it was “less than impressed” with the PBS “WikiSecrets” program, which motivated them to go after the network.

NYC Business Network just published a an article that outlines the top 5 customer service tips for small business owners. The article is part of their Business Tips section, which offers how-to type information is a digestible and simple format for business owners who don’t have time to read a book on the subject and need just a refresher.

The top 5 list includes:

• Empathy
• Responsibility
• Keeping positive
• Documentation
• Good Manners

See the article in full: Top 5 customer service tips

Source: NYC Business Network

Ironpaper launches the NYCBusinessNetwork.org, which is a marketing tool for small and medium sized businesses and non-profit organizations in the New York City area.

The Network supports three primary feature-sets:

• A member network of business profile listings, which is a paid service to help promote and create visibility for businesses and organizations as a form of advertising product
• Press Release publishing to help raise awareness of press-worthy events or special, business announcements
• A free event listing for conferences, workshops, tradeshows and other business events in the New York City region

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