International Women's Day 2012 The Big G Doodle - plus my selection of links for the day

So, it's time for a look at most significant links of the day. We'll be talking about Google, Netflix and Apple Inc.

Google: also known as The Big G

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First things first, who's been writing about Google? It was searchenginewatch.com with their post entitled International Women's Day 2012 Google Doodle.

What did they point out about Google? They said:

Today's Google Doodlecelebrates International Women's Day, an event for globally recognizing and applauding women's achievements as well as for observing and highlighting gender inequalities and issues

and went on to say

The Doodle replaces their standard search logo with a simple illustration that forms Google's G with the female gender sign. The second o is a yellow flower, while the first o and the e are reminiscent of the bindi, a symbol associated with Indian women.

Netflix: Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:  NFLX) is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom and Ireland and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It started its subscription-based digital distribution service in 1999 and by 2009 it was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. On February 25, 2007, Netflix announced the billionth DVD delivery. In April 2011, Netflix announced 23.6 million subscribers. By 2011, the total digital revenue for Netflix reached .5 billion.

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Next we have a site that's been talking about Netflix - Netflix Prepares to Launch Cable-Hosted Subscription Service.

They said:

Media wars continue

... interesting ...

The on-going quest of cable and internet service providers for control of televised information provided for in-home viewing continues to be a considerable hurdle in cooperative technologies. Netflix now makes its move to partner as a service on cable-hosted access

Last but not least we have App Makes Your Smartphone a Hotel TV Remote Control from mashable.com, focussing on Apple. They had some interesting points to make, particularly

LodgeNet Mobile is a free download available for Android (click here) and iOS (click here) devices

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You're also given an option prompting you to download it when visiting the LodgeNet welcome screen on a hotel room TV set. The app works in any room connected to the service - all you have to do is pair it to each new TV set as you travel around