The Briefing 20: Week Ending January 19, 2013

This is The Briefing, a ten-minute-or-less podcast of tech news, for the week ending January 19, 2013. In this edition: the Justice Department faces heavy criticism over its aggressive handling of the Swartz case, Facebook brings out Graph Search and Gillard attacks Twitter for not being part of its new social media protocol.

For those who missed out what The Briefing is, here’s a blog post explaining the show. Feel free to offer any suggestions, improvements and constructive criticism for our new show.

Host: Terence Huynh
Length: 7:51

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http://bostinno.com/2013/01/16/aaron-swartz-mit-petition/

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40845525507/a-time-for-silence

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2013/01/us-attorney-aaron-swartz-statement.html?page=all

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/278023-gop-senator-questions-holder-over-prosecution-of-web-activist-swartz

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130115/19410721694/rep-zoe-lofgren-plans-to-introduce-aarons-law-to-stop-bogus-prosecutions-under-cfaa.shtml

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130115/22533421696/rep-issa-promises-investigation-into-aaron-swartz-case.shtml

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/01/15/facebook-introduces-graph-search/

http://readwrite.com/2013/01/16/microsoft-wins-with-facebooks-graph-search-or-does-it

https://techgeek.com.au/2013/01/20/kim-dotcom-mega-launch/

http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/tests/test-reports/?tx_avtestreports_pi1[report_no]=124558

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2013/01/16/lessons-learned-from-the-latest-test-results.aspx

http://delimiter.com.au/2013/01/16/twitter-must-toe-the-troll-line-says-gillard/

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3046915&page=2

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/16/nikkei-nintendo-to-launch-unified-console-handheld/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/15/united-becomes-first-us-airline-to-offer-overseas-wifi-with-sate/

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/all/