Comment on Rumor Has It: iPad 2 Suppliers Chosen, New Case Possible by Op
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Comment on Rumor Has It: iPad 2 Suppliers Chosen, New Case Possible by Op
While every upgrade people expect apple to invent the wheel, usually what happens is that they add a minor change, and the Ipad 2 isn't different.
I think it will have the same exact design.
1) front camera
2) more memory
3) gyro
4) maybe less wight.
no new touch.
no usb connector ( that will ruin apple way of doing things.)
This is the the new ipad, nothing more then that.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Comment on Rumor Has It: iPad 2 Suppliers Chosen, New Case Possible by maishado
The big reason Im putting off the first ipad - weight, that thing is as heavy as my laptop.
2nd,design,its a little old looking, kind of like the first iphone.
3rd, dont like the feel of metal so much
All these problems could be taken care of if they got rid of that aluminum chassie
Comment on Rumor Has It: iPad 2 Suppliers Chosen, New Case Possible by maishado
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/apple/rumor-has-it-ipad-2-suppliers-chosen-new-case-possible/#comment-524190
Monday, November 22, 2010
SMB Tech Roundup: Google Boost, Hotpot and Docs, Plus Android Meeting Apps and IT Security News
There was a slew of announcements from Google this week pertaining to SMBs, starting with Monday's unveiling of Hotpot, a recommendation engine for Google Places. In what many see as Google's answer to Yelp, Hotpot recommends nearby places to users based on how they and their friends have rated local businesses in the past.
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On Tuesday, Google made the announcement that Google Boost, a simplified new search advertising program, has been rolled out in 11 new cities. After an apparently successful pilot program in San Francisco, Houston and Chicago, Boost is now available in San Jose, Seattle, Wichita, Charlottesville (Virgina), Atlanta, Chapel Hill, Orlando, Washington D.C., Boston, Cross Plains (Texas) and Portland (Maine).
Also on the Google front, users of Google Docs were delighted Wednesday to learn that the ability to edit Google Docs from mobile devices became reality, two months after the feature was originally announced. Documents stored on Google's cloud-based office suite can now be edited from Android or iOS phones and tablets.
Speaking of tablets, this week we saw the first online meeting app for Android tablets when Fuze Box announced the latest version of Fuze Meeting, which has been available on the iPad and iPhone for a few months.
Here on ReadWriteBiz, we discussed a recent survey from AVG showing that over 50% of SMBs do not have IT security guidelines in place. While the vast majority of small companies are aware of the need for tight Internet security, a startling number of respondents said they did not have any security measures in place.
SMB Tech Roundup: Google Boost, Hotpot and Docs, Plus Android Meeting Apps and IT Security News
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
How Apple’s Closed Ways Could Land It Into Antitrust Trouble
While the antitrust spotlight has long been pointed at Google, the company that really has to watch its step is Apple. Beginning in the 1980s, Apple’s Steve Jobs left behind Apple’s original open design and began to champion a “closed”—or as the firm prefers, an “integrated”—approach to computing and entertainment delivery. This fact is familiar to any Apple user. Apple’s products are designed to work well with humans, other Apple stuff, and, at a distant third, other companies. “Foreign attachments” to the Apple system are sometimes accepted, but never quite loved.
Contrary to what devoted “openists” might suggest, there are some advantages to Apple’s approach. Products engineered to work together often work better, if only because the firm’s engineers have more information. An Apple engineer building an application for the iPhone knows much more than someone programming an App for all the phones Android runs on. Moreover, to its credit, Apple isn’t an integration purist, like AT&T in the 1950s. Apple runs standard protocols like WiFi, allows outside Apps on the iPhone, and hasn’t tried to reinvent the World Wide Web. You might say that a clever, nuanced balancing of open and closed is Apple’s real secret.
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Usability, Good Geo Design, and Keeping it Simple
I’ve noticed recently that the topic of usability has been very popular, particularly as a topic of presentations at conferences, lightning talks, and un-conferences. For the consultant, contractor, or developer this subject is huge and in my mind needs to be given serious consideration. There’s many fine geo developers amongst us, many with great ideas [...]
Post originale: http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8107
Saturday, November 20, 2010
IT Geeks: Entrepreneurs or Drones?
For those who think they do not have the resources available to them then consider Fritz Ekwoge, a Cameroon born and based programmer and develop who created iYam.mobi, a mobile phone based directory. Or, look at 15 year old Lachy Groom from Australia who is on her 4th tech startup with her newest project dubbed the iPad Case Finder.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Comment on It’s Gonna Be an Android World and We’ll Just Live in It by Darwin
The ad revenue thing is silly to bring up. Googles business model is ads so viewer se them whether they want to or not. It's a sideline and a premium product for Apple and their advertisers get far higher return on their ads than the typical Google ad. Android users are bombarded by crappy ads that they avoid paying any attention to at all.
Also we have the old easily seen through canard of numbers sold equaling profit when it clearly does not in so many situations.
Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/11/18/its-gonna-be-an-android-world-and-well-just-live-in-it/#comment-517059
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New Threats Demand Organisational Changes, says IT Security Expert
The information security threat landscape has changed in 2010, taking on a highly targeted form and creating new issues for organisations. To meet this challenge head on, IT Security expert Richard Stiennon from IT Harvest USA has recommended a new organisational structure be adopted.
Speaking ahead of his presentation at CeBIT Australia’s IT Security Conference, Mr Stiennon explained it was not until 2010 that many organisations identified the changing form of threats.
“It’s only in the last 12 months that organisations have begun to realise a fundamental shift in the threatscape”
And as the types of threat evolve, the structure of a security team needs to evolve too, says Stiennon.
“New threats and new environments do require organisational changes. I think that’s what has to happen pretty quickly”
“Only through this organisational change is a company or government organisation going to get on top of this new level of threat”
Stiennon has recently released a suggested structure for a new "cyber defence team".
“I’ve recently gone public with a description of what a cyber defence team would look like. There’s three elements; there would be a research team who is responsible for understanding that threat environment, to understand what’s going on so they can translate those in to what it means for their internal organisation”
“You then need an operational team who goes after already successful attacks”
“The internal operational team would work with the existing infrastructure you’ve got now for handling viruses and patch management but would look deeper in to countering unique instances that have occurred”
“Then finally, a third element is essentially a “red team” - people who are acting as insiders and attempting to find vulnerabilities and methods of attack before the bad guys can”
This proposed team would then report to a new position who would then sit under the CIO, says Stiennon.
“Then working all together and reporting up to a new role - call it a Cyber Defence Commander or something else if you don’t care for the military terminology”
“That person would be responsible probably to the CIO, for making them completely aware of not only the threatscape but the level of exposure that the organisation has”
Stiennon described the Stuxnet attacks as being a recent example of these new types of threat.
“We saw just in the last several months the development of Stuxnet, which is the very, very sophisticated attacks against some control networks inside a manufacturing facility - and possibly a nuclear refinement facility”
This new form meant that the attacker and the target took on a much more personal role, he explains.
“Now, it’s some adversary who has selected a target, which is your data and they are going to be prepared to do whatever they can to get at that data”
Stuxnet and similar attacks meant that traditional forms of protection were now no longer adequate, he said.
“It’s completely different than using classic signature based anti-virus or ITS to just protect your networks from the constant background radiation of attacks that’s always been with us”
Richard Stiennon is presenting at CeBIT Australia’s IT Security Conference, taking place on 29 November in Sydney.
This conference brings together industry leaders to exchange ideas and advice about how they are minimising security threats to their organisations while taking full advantage of today’s open and connected environment.
Find out about the program and full speaker line-up at www.cebit.com.au/it-security.
Speaking ahead of his presentation at CeBIT Australia’s IT Security Conference, Mr Stiennon explained it was not until 2010 that many organisations identified the changing form of threats.
“It’s only in the last 12 months that organisations have begun to realise a fundamental shift in the threatscape”
And as the types of threat evolve, the structure of a security team needs to evolve too, says Stiennon.
“New threats and new environments do require organisational changes. I think that’s what has to happen pretty quickly”
“Only through this organisational change is a company or government organisation going to get on top of this new level of threat”
Stiennon has recently released a suggested structure for a new "cyber defence team".
“I’ve recently gone public with a description of what a cyber defence team would look like. There’s three elements; there would be a research team who is responsible for understanding that threat environment, to understand what’s going on so they can translate those in to what it means for their internal organisation”
“You then need an operational team who goes after already successful attacks”
“The internal operational team would work with the existing infrastructure you’ve got now for handling viruses and patch management but would look deeper in to countering unique instances that have occurred”
“Then finally, a third element is essentially a “red team” - people who are acting as insiders and attempting to find vulnerabilities and methods of attack before the bad guys can”
This proposed team would then report to a new position who would then sit under the CIO, says Stiennon.
“Then working all together and reporting up to a new role - call it a Cyber Defence Commander or something else if you don’t care for the military terminology”
“That person would be responsible probably to the CIO, for making them completely aware of not only the threatscape but the level of exposure that the organisation has”
Stiennon described the Stuxnet attacks as being a recent example of these new types of threat.
“We saw just in the last several months the development of Stuxnet, which is the very, very sophisticated attacks against some control networks inside a manufacturing facility - and possibly a nuclear refinement facility”
This new form meant that the attacker and the target took on a much more personal role, he explains.
“Now, it’s some adversary who has selected a target, which is your data and they are going to be prepared to do whatever they can to get at that data”
Stuxnet and similar attacks meant that traditional forms of protection were now no longer adequate, he said.
“It’s completely different than using classic signature based anti-virus or ITS to just protect your networks from the constant background radiation of attacks that’s always been with us”
Richard Stiennon is presenting at CeBIT Australia’s IT Security Conference, taking place on 29 November in Sydney.
This conference brings together industry leaders to exchange ideas and advice about how they are minimising security threats to their organisations while taking full advantage of today’s open and connected environment.
Find out about the program and full speaker line-up at www.cebit.com.au/it-security.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
What is the one thing Facebook Mobile isn't doing today, that if it did do, would have the greatest positive impact?
Answer added in topic Mobile Location Applications.
Deep and positive impact can be achieved when meaningful patterns are recognized in the unprecedented richness of data harvested from my phone + my operator network + my social graph.
See question on Quora
Post originale: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-one-thing-Facebook-Mobile-isnt-doing-today-that-if-it-did-do-would-have-the-greatest-positive-impact
Infographic – Just How Safe Is It To Fly?
An interesting info graphic showing us just how safe it really is to fly – note: data were gathered in 2009 and analyzed for creation of this graphic depiction. This graphic of interest as reports are showing that air travel bookings are up some 3.5% this year over 2009 for the busy Thanksgiving travel period. [...]
Post originale: http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8072
Monday, November 15, 2010
Facebook Deals with it (iCrossing)
Facebook Places was speculated to be the end of other location-based social services such as Foursquare and Gowalla due to the massive user base of more than 500 million that Facebook has access to. But, unlike their competitors, Facebook Places gave users little incentive to check-in to a local business, until yesterday when Facebook formally [...]
Source : iCrossing
Post originale: http://wik.io/info/US/228856583
The More The Web Changes, The More It Stays The Same (With A Map)
There’s a saying in French which goes “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” which translates as the more things change, the more they stay the same. Maybe the same could be said to apply to today’s World Wide Web … “plus les changements web, plus le web reste le même”, the more the Web changes, the more the Web stays the same, with blame firmly put at Google Translate if this doesn’t translate properly.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Comment on Google Looks to Play it Safe With Nexus S by Nicholas
That is a Dell Streak. Talk about irony... The reason for a Nexus model is that developers can get a current build on the device. The Streak was stuck at 1.6 when I ditched it not too long ago. Sad.
Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/11/11/google-looks-to-play-it-safe-with-nexus-s/#comment-509511
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Comment on Google Looks to Play it Safe With Nexus S by sam
I use TMobile prepaid with my Nexus one and very happy with it,
The day data pass costs $1.50 for when I travel, but otherwise wifi only is just fine,
Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/11/11/google-looks-to-play-it-safe-with-nexus-s/#comment-509503
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Is it possible with the Foursquare API to fetch usernames of people checked in at a venue that are not your friends?
Answer added in topic Mobile Location Applications.
No
See question on Quora
Post originale: http://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-with-the-Foursquare-API-to-fetch-usernames-of-people-checked-in-at-a-venue-that-are-not-your-friends
The Radar: Busiest Airports, Wild Winter Trips, Cruise Ship Makes it Home
- Thanksgiving is around the corner with travelers gearing up for plenty of turkey, stuffing, and airline delays. Orbitz' Insider Index recently released its list of the 10 busiest and least busy airports for Thanksgiving travel based on arriving, departing, and connecting flights. Not surprising, Chicago's O'Hare was named the busiest Thanksgiving airport, while neighboring Midway ranks fourth on the least busy scale. [Smarter Travel]
- Trying to escape the winter doldrums? BBC Travel has put together a list of "Five wild ways to spend the December holiday season." Among the suggestions are swimming with orcas in Norway and zip-lining in Costa Rica. [BBC]
- The luxury Carnival cruise ship that experienced engine failure leaving thousands of passengers stranded out on the Pacific for three days, has finally reached shores, docking in San Diego Bay yesterday morning. Passengers were happy to be back on land since the experience at sea had been anything but luxurious. An engine room fire had left the ship without electricity, food, and running water. [Huffington Post]
Photo: Jim ODonnell/My Shot
Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/11/the-radar-busiest-airports-liv.html
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Going Back to College - Because There are IT Jobs on Campus
When I was in college a generation ago, campus IT consisted of a DEC mainframe in the basement of the history building, a human-operated telephone switchboard, and phone extensions in dormitory hallways. Of course I wish I could go back and do it all over with the technology and tools that kids have today. When I think of all the papers I had to retype...
Someone has to set up and maintain all that infrastructure. Job hunters sometimes overlook IT in education, in part because we can forget to explore the huge non-profit sector. So here's a reminder that on-campus IT jobs are out there. You just have to look for them, even though finding them isn't particularly easy.
Where are the College IT Jobs?
In a quick survey of some big-name public and private universities, I found that college IT jobs are identified differently from institution to institution. Sometimes, they're lumped in with other "staff" postings. I found interesting positions at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Texas and Princeton, but it took a while. At Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, regarded as one of the most wired campuses in the world, I stumbled across dozens of security-related jobs. It took me a few minutes to realize they were related to the university's Software Engineering Institute and its famous Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). These were jobs worth seeking out.
As I continued to browse CMU's Web site, I read about "Wireless Andrew 2," the campus WiFi network, which delivers 100 Mbps access to more than 8,000 people throughout the 4 million square feet of interior space on the 105-acre campus. (Here's a short video.) Interestingly, Wireless Andrew began in 1994 as a project funded by the National Science Foundation to test wireless network technology. Soon after the project was running, the demand for network access was enormous. It was WiFi before WiFi existed. Wouldn't it be cool to go to work every day and be surrounded by the kinds of people who think up these ideas?
On Dice, a quick way to discover the kinds of educational IT jobs available is to perform a search with the word "university," then sort by "company." There are dozens of jobs throughout the nation, covering all aspects of IT - hardware, software, development, security, etc.
At my alma mater, it looks like the IT department is fully staffed for the fall semester, but who knows? If its attempt to match CMU's 100 Mbps WiFi network, it'll certainly need a few more talented people.
-- Don Willmott
Post originale: http://career-resources.dice.com/articles/content/entry/back_to_wired_school
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
China's Online War and Why it Will Create a Safer Internet for the Middle Kingdom
Over the past few months the two companies have been in a fierce battle to win users and their corresponding data. Qihoo 360's actions have forced Tencent to go to extreme measures and issue an ultimatum to Chinese netizens to choose either their software or that of Qihoo 360.
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Guest author Joel Backaler writes The China Observer, an award-winning blog focused on Chinese technology trends and consumer culture. His writing has appeared in and he has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal China Journal, BusinessWeek, and Seeking Alpha. Joel is a Mandarin-speaking former Fulbright Fellow who has worked and lived in Taipei, Beijing and Singapore with Frontier Strategy Group. Follow Joel on Twitter.
Before we examine why this battle is being fought, let's take a quick look at who the two players are:
Qihoo 360 retaliated by releasing a new "Privacy Protector" that informed netizens which data Tencent was supposedly stealing from their computer...
Tencent is best known for it's QQ instant messenger service, and is one of the biggest internet companies in China. In the first half of 2010 alone, the company earned ¥3.7 billion, experiencing 66% growth year-on-year. In addition to IM, Tencent's reach extends into the realms of online media, mobile and telecom, interactive entertainment and value-added services. Qihoo 360 is, unlike the Internet conglomerate of Tencent, focusing on its core product 360 Safeguard, an anti-virus software program. While Tencent's QQ has nearly 1 billion active users, Qihoo 360 has approximately 300 million users.
Why would two companies with non-competing products engage in such a vicious battle?
The truth is Tencent did release a competing product to Qihoo 360. The key to Tencent's success is in its massive user base acquired through the widespread usage of QQ instant messenger. The moment a business model is proven successful in China's Internet space, Tencent has the capital and capabilities to make a better copy of the original product, and release its own version to nearly one billion Chinese netizens seemingly overnight. After observing Qihoo 360's success, Tencent leveraged this strategy by automatically updating all of QQ users' software with a new tool called QQ Safety Manager, a competing anti-virus tool, this past September.
Needless to say Qihoo 360 was not about to just sit back and watch Tencent's anti-virus software put them out of business. Qihoo 360 retaliated by releasing a new "Privacy Protector" that informed netizens which data Tencent was supposedly stealing from their computer as they used the QQ IM service.
By mid-October, Tencent took formal legal action, but in the meantime Qihoo 360 launched its second attack on Tencent by prompting users to download a new tool called "KouKou Bodyguard."
Upon installing the program, KouKou Bodyguard ran an initial virus scan that classified all of QQ's functionalities as serious threats to the computer system. When users eliminated the "virus threat" KouKou Bodyguard actually deleted all of QQ's functions - except for one. The one exception was when the user clicked on "QQ Safety Manager" instead of QQ's safety check opening, KouKou Bodyguard appeared in its place.
Tencent's Ultimatum
In response, Tencent said they had no choice but to make Chinese netizens decide between their service or Qihoo 360. If Tencent did not act, KouKou Bodyguard would spread rapidly through their user base dismantling the QQ empire. Therefore any computer with Qihoo 360's software would not be allowed to access QQ going forward. In an open letter to QQ users, Tencent proclaimed that rather than fight a battle on the desktops of its users (like Qihoo 360 did), Tencent would simply give the choice of which software to use to the users themselves.
At this point, Qihoo 360 has discontinued the KouKou Bodyguard tool, and it seems as though through the mediation of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the battle between the two Internet firms is subsiding.
What Does This Mean for China's Internet Industry?
While the dispute between Tencent and Qihoo 360 was not ideal for Chinese Internet users as the event unfolded, they will be better off for it. Just as China's melamine crisis in 2008 forced Chinese consumers to change their buying behaviors, the Tencent-Qihoo 360 saga will potentially have a similar impact on China's Internet industry.
It takes extreme situations to invoke a sense of seriousness around a particular issue. Chinese netizens will likely become more vigilant about what they are downloading, where the software comes from, and what data they may be potentially sharing. This type of change will not happen over night; however, this may very well mark the beginning of a safer Chinese Internet.
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Tremor Media acquires Scanscout, making it the largest independent video ad network. Scanscout CEO Bill Day, formerl...
Tremor Media acquires Scanscout, making it the largest independent video ad network, with combined revenues of ~$100 million. Scanscout CEO Bill Day, formerly CEO of About.com, will run the company which hopes to IPO in the next 18 months.
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How China’s Entrepreneurs Are Helping It Win
Bob Compton and I finally have something to agree about.
The Washington, D.C.–based venture capitalist produced a provocative documentary, 2 Million Minutes, which tracked six students—two each in the U.S., India, and China—during their senior year of high school. It showed the Indian and Chinese students slogging to learn mathematics and science, and the Americans partying and playing video games. Bob concluded that the Indians and Chinese will eat our children’s lunch since they are better educated. I was featured in the documentary and agreed that Indian and Chinese children do indeed work much harder than American children; that they are brought up to believe that education is everything and will make the difference between success and starvation; and that most of their childhood is spent memorizing books on advanced subjects. I argued, however, that things aren't nearly as dire for U.S. competitiveness as they might appear to be in the documentary. My team’s research into global engineering education showed that more than 95% of Indians and Chinese do not receive a good education, and even those that do receive one take much longer to develop crucial real-world skills than do Americans. Yes, U.S. teens work part-time, socialize, and party. But the independence and social skills they develop give them a big advantage when they join the workforce. They learn to experiment, challenge norms, and take risks. They innovate from the get-go.
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