Etsy wants more female coders, AT&T will release your old iPhones, and Twitter targets spammers in court.
- Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Hacker School: While the three-month training course at Etsy's New York HQ is free, the company is offering up to ten women a $5000 grant to help them attend. [TechCrunch]
- AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting Sunday, April 8: Users looking to sell their old iPhones or take them to another network can do so with AT&T's blessing starting Sunday. [MacRumors]
- Shutting Down Spammers: Twitter is suing five of the "most aggressive" spammers and developers of tools used to spam their network. [Twitter Blog]
- Avast: Microsoft "Actively Discouraging" Windows 8 Metro Version: The popular security software provider's statement raises questions about what Windows programs will be available on Metro-only Windows machines using ARM mobile processors. [Neowin]
- Viacom v. Google: A Decision at Last, and It's Mostly Good (for the Internet and Innovation): While an appeals court has reopened the case against YouTube for hosting Viacom content uploaded by users, the court threw out Viacom's arguments that threatened the Safe Harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Deeplinks]
- Android Device Makers Are Mutinying, Says Insider: Following Amazon's lead, many devices now in development will run their own forked versions of Android rather than meet Google's standards for officially recognized Android devices. [Technology Review]
Title image remixed from R.Iegosyn (Shutterstock).
