In the News: 2012-01-26

Mac News: The PC is dying. The iPad and Mac are not
The PC is dying. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see what’s coming: Apple [AAPL] continues to dominate the so-called ‘tablet’ market, with Amazon’s Kindle Fire picking-up converts at the low end — squeezing other players out of the game. And Apple’s Mac sales are propping up the entire PC industry.
Read full story => ComputerWorld

Technology News: QR Codes on the Rise in Print Magazines
Mobile UX designers and marketing and analytics firm Nellymoser released today a comprehensive study of print magazine action codes. They took the time to review every 2011 issue of the top 100 national magazine titles: all 164,000 pages’ worth. They found a total of 4,400 QR Codes, MicrosoftTags, Spyderlynk SnapTags, BEE Tags, JagTags, Digimarc watermarks and other codes with an iPhone or Android device. For each tag, they scanned and ran the resulting Web page or video. At least give them props for being thorough.
Read full story => ReadWriteWeb

Programming News: Sketchy-Skechers.com
Imagine yourself as an eager, young developer. After many long months of self-study, you’ve carefully honed your craft and have skillfully mastered virtually all development technologies from enterprisey to hipster. Your twelve-page resume could land you a job anywhere, and as it would happen, the job you decided to take was at a highfalutin consultancy filled with like-minded developers who were almost as skilled as you.
Read full story => The Daily WTF

Other News:
Stop ACTA: secretive treaty will bring in the worst of SOPA through trade obligations
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is the notorious, unprecedented secret copyright treaty that was negotiated by industry representatives and government trade reps, without any access by elected representatives, independent business, the press, public interest groups, legal scholars, independent economists and so on. Time and again, the world’s richest governmental administrations (only rich countries were in the negotiation) told their own parliaments and congresses that they could not see what was in the treaty, nor know the details of the discussion.
Read full story => BoingBoing