Dan's Best of the Web: Google And Twitter Team Up Again To Give A Voice To Syrians Without Internet

What's been going on in the realm of tech? Who are we checking out?

In our first little group, why don't we take a look at the websites discussing Firehose (band) and Twitter, Inc.:
- Court Temporarily Protects PeopleBrowsr Access To Twitter Firehose, Twitter Says It Will 'Vigorously Defend' Itself from techcrunch.com
- PeopleBrowsr Takes Twitter to Court over Firehose from www.searchenginejournal.com

Syria and Twitter, Inc. seemed to come up rather a lot too:
- Google And Twitter Team Up Again To Give A Voice To Syrians Without Internet from www.webpronews.com
- Nationwide Internet Blackout Underway in Syria from techland.time.com
- Syria Shuts Down Internet In Midst Of Uprising, Mobile Services And Land Lines Partially Down from techcrunch.com

Did you see all the talk about Google and European Union? Here are the most interesting bits:
- Is Bing Right About People Getting "Scroogled" By Google? - "This week, Bing launched an attack campaign against Google, called "Don't Get Scroogled"" - said www.webpronews.com
- Microsoft Claims Google 'Scroogled' Shoppers, But Uses Similar Pay-To-Play Tactics - www.huffingtonpost.com
- UK's House Of Lords Summons Facebook And Google To Talk Convergence And Media Power - techcrunch.com

What else? Well, IPad and Apple Inc. were in the media a fair bit:
- After 3.5M Downloads Of Its iPhone App, Etsy Finally Goes To The iPad - "But its brand strength online - and perhaps the fact that design-led mobile apps like Pinterest and Fab have been a big hit with consumers - have helped Etsy pick up a strong following anyway, with 3.5 million downloads to date, and 1 in 3 visitors shopping on Etsy from mobile devices over the recent Thanksgiving weekend (normal figures, it says, are 1 in 4 visitors).Now it is looking to capitalize on that with a newiPad app" - said techcrunch.com
- iPhone 5, iPad Mini, 4th-Gen iPad Get Release Dates For China - www.webpronews.com