Anonymous Avenges Megaupload Shutdown With Attacks on FBI, Hollywood Websites - and my other favourite links of the day

So, it's time for another links roundup. A look at most of the most interesting links of the day. We'll be talking about NBC, Twitter and Megaupload and the sites that have covered them.

So, who's been talking about Anonymous? It was www.eweek.com with their post entitled Anonymous Avenges Megaupload Shutdown With Attacks on FBI, Hollywood Websites.

Anonymous: Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme that originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known.

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What did they say about Anonymous? They said:

Hacktivist collective Anonymous immediately launched OpMegaupload and coordinated DDoS against a number of Websites

and went on to say

Supporters were encouraged to download a tool, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, that would direct a flood of traffic to the targeted site. The combined floods eventually overwhelm the server as it tries to process all the requests

Microsoft: http://Microsoft.com

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Next up we have a site that's been talking about Microsoft - Microsoft Girds Itself For Windows 8 Battle And Beyond.

They said:

Microsoft's quarterly earnings statement didn't have any big surprises

... sounds interesting ...

It was generally good news: record total revenue, growth in many key sectors, big sales in Xbox, 525 million total Windows 7 licenses sold, and they even seem to be losing a little less money in the Online Services area. But all that is a side show. 2011 was a big one for Microsoft in mobile (at least, big in that they took major actions), but for their core businesses it has been a hold-steady year. 2012 will be an adventure

Google: also known as The Big G

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Finally we have Google: 90 Million Google+ Users, 11 BILLION Android Market Downloads from www.webpronews.com, focussing on Google. They had some interesting points to make, particularly

In the midst of Google's announcement about their results for the 2011 fiscal year, they nonchalantly dropped a pretty juicy piece of info concerning their social networking site: "Google had a really strong quarter ending a great year

and

"Google had a really strong quarter ending a great year. Full year revenue was up 29%, and our quarterly revenue blew past the $10 billion mark for the first time," said Larry Page, CEO of Google. "I am super excited about the growth of Android, Gmail, and Google+, which now has 90 million users globally - well over double what I announced just three months ago. By building a meaningful relationship with our users through Google+ we will create amazing experiences across our services. I'm very excited about what we can do in 2012 - there are tremendous opportunities to help users and grow our business."