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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Watch now: RIM unveils new Blackberry handsets to take on the iPhone - Daily Mail
Firm expected to unveil two handset this afternoon, one with a touchscreen and one with a physical keyboardExperts have said it will prove popular with businesses and consumersBut others question whether the launch, delayed from last year, is too late
Comeback bid: A leaked image believe to show the Blackberry Z10, which looks extremely similar to the iPhone, featuring a large touchscreen. It will run a new version of the Blackberry software called BB10.
The new X10 still features the full QWERTY keyboard
Competition: The new Blackberry is tipped to give the Samsung S3 and iPhone 5 a run for their money
One expert said that the new software on the upcoming Blackberry was akin to the first generation of iPhones in that it would take a while for people to get used to it
Poor performance: Many customers abandoned Blackberry after using The Blackberry 7 (Curve 9360 smartphone pictured)
By Mark Prigg
PUBLISHED: 14:55 GMT, 30 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:56 GMT, 30 January 2013
RIM is about to launch two new Blackberry handsets in an attempt to resurrect the struggling brand.
The firm has suffered in recent years largely due to the popularity of the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S3.
But early reports say the new handsets, running new BB10 software, could give the firm a new chance of survival.
Watch the launch below
RIM is expected to announce two models:
The Z10
4.2-inch display with a 1280 x 768 pixel resolution
2GB of RAM
16GB or 32GB storage
Dual core 1.5GHz processor
Bluetooth 4.0
microSD card slot for expanding storage
8-megapixel camera
The X10
The X10 is expected to have similar features to the Z10 but with a full QWERTY keyboard
Source: TechnoBuffaloOne expert who has used the device ahead of the launch said it would appeal to both businesses and consumers because it had ‘high specifications’ that allowed users to do ‘good stuff in a couple of clicks’.
Even Sir Alan Sugar has backed the handset, tweeting 'Getting a new Blackberry 10 on Friday.
'Had a preview,think this time they may have cracked it - very clever features all new operating system.'
Experts say the move could be RIM's last hope.
'Because of the fast-rising adoption of smartphones, 2013 represents the last, best hope for RIM's BlackBerry 10,' said said Ian Fogg, an analyst at IHS.
However, others believe the firm is too late with the delayed handsets.
'There are so many amazing smart phones in the shops running Google's Android or Apple's iPhone software, it's hard to see why anyone would want to buy a phone running BlackBerry 10,' said Jason Jenkins, Editor of CNET UK.
'Perhaps if this had launched a couple of years ago, it might have had a hope.
'The one sliver of hope is that there might be some potential customers that like the new BlackBerry with a proper keyboard, rather than an on-screen version seen in most rival phones.
'But I'm not sure there's enough of them.'
However, Jenkins admits the phones could keep the firm alive.
'The launch keeps BlackBerry in the game - just - but only as a niche player.'
RIM's stock has more than doubled to $15.66 from a nine-year low in September, though it's still nearly 90 percent below its 2008 peak of $147.
'We'll see if they can reclaim their glory,' BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis said.
'My sense is that it will be a phone that everyone says good things about but not as many people buy,'
Comeback bid: A leaked image believe to show the Blackberry Z10, which looks extremely similar to the iPhone, featuring a large touchscreen. It will run a new version of the Blackberry software called BB10.However the new system will face a key shortcoming: It won't have as many apps written by outside companies and individuals as the iPhone and Android.
RIM has said it plans to launch BlackBerry 10 with more than 70,000 apps, including those developed for RIM's PlayBook tablet, first released in 2011.
That is a tenth of what the iPhone and Android offer, and popular services such as Instagram and Netflix won't have apps on BlackBerry 10.
Despite this, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek called it a 'great device' and said RIM does have some momentum just months after the Canadian company was written off.
Malik Kamal-Saadi, principal analyst with Informa, said the new operating system (OS) on the two expected handsets was a ‘trump card’ that could see it win back customers lost through the poor performance of the previous BlackBerry 7 phones.
He said: ‘The ‘experience’ is very attractive for business users and consumers.'
The new X10 still features the full QWERTY keyboardMr Kamal-Saadi used the new models at RIM’s European headquarters in Slough.
He said the system would be appealing to both business and social high-end users in Europe and North America, where BlackBerry lost the most ground over the past two or three years.
But he added that the software was similar to the first generation of iPhones in being so radically different it may take people a little while to get used to it.
He believes investors will ‘leap into the sky’ if BB10 sells more than four million units in the first three months on sale, but sales of between one and two million would be acceptable.
'Anything less than one million would be a ‘big mess,' he said.
He pointed out that the first iPhone, which went on to become extremely popular, did not exceed four million sales in the first quarter year of sales and the less popular Windows phone sold between one-and-a-half and two million.
BlackBerry’s handsets are widely credited with kick-starting the smartphone boom.
BlackBerry plans to launch two handsets, the Z10 and X10 on Wednesday.
Pictures leaked online purporting to be the Z10 show a touchscreen phone along similar lines to the iPhone.
The X10 is believed to be more of a classic BlackBerry, with a Qwerty keyboard.
Competition: The new Blackberry is tipped to give the Samsung S3 and iPhone 5 a run for their moneyErnest Doku, technology expert with uSwitch.com, said: ‘For RIM and BlackBerry, it is very much the resurrection of the BlackBerry brand.
‘Consumers have been waiting a long time to see what they were coming up with. They have fallen to the wayside but a lot of signs are pointing to this being their return to relevance in the smartphone market.’
He said that people would also be waiting for a likely version with a Qwerty keyboard.
One expert said that the new software on the upcoming Blackberry was akin to the first generation of iPhones in that it would take a while for people to get used to it Poor performance: Many customers abandoned Blackberry after using The Blackberry 7 (Curve 9360 smartphone pictured)‘There is a massive USP (unique selling proposition) in the return of the physical keyboard,’ he added.
‘Nine out of 10 consumers we asked related that with the BlackBerry.
‘BlackBerry has been lucky in terms of its (fanbase) loyalty which may not have been the case for people like Nokia.
‘It could well be a success story for them.’
The battle for domination of the mobile and tablet market has become intense in the past 18 months, with Apple’s competitors taking it on with a series of new products.
Nokia and Microsoft joined forces to launch two new phones which run on the Windows operating system.
Apple was dealt a new blow to morale as figures for the Christmas period showed its rocket-like growth had continued to stall, causing a fall in its share price.
But some question whether the launch of the new model, delayed from last year by Canadian firm Research in Motion, was too late.
Russell Feldman, associate director for technology and telecoms consulting at YouGov, said: ‘We know that right now RIM is in a poor situation, and so there is definitely a lot of pressure for the BlackBerry 10 to deliver.
‘According to SMIX UK, our consumer smartphone tracker, two-thirds of RIM’s current customers do not expect to get a BlackBerry again, with most opting to switch to an iPhone.
‘BlackBerry 10 has the opportunity to at least stop the rot... providing it is able to market itself effectively and curry favour with retailers and operators.
‘It also needs to be a decent system to at least get critics on its side, and it then could have the potential to take share away from others. However, RIM may have left it too late.’
Google Maps North Korea With Help From Users - InformationWeek
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10 Best Business Tools In Google+(click image for larger view and for slideshow)The Google Maps depiction of North Korea now includes details like the location of Labor Camp 22, thanks to the free labor provided by Google's Map Maker community.
10 Best Business Tools In Google+(click image for larger view and for slideshow)The Google Maps depiction of North Korea now includes details like the location of Labor Camp 22, thanks to the free labor provided by Google's Map Maker community.
Google on Monday said it had expanded the amount of detail available on its map of North Korea with the help of contributed cartography.
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"To build this map, a community of citizen cartographers came together in Google Map Maker to make their contributions such as adding road names and points of interest," said Jayanth Mysore, senior product manager of Google Map Maker in a blog post. "This effort has been active in Map Maker for a few years and today the new map of North Korea is ready and now available on Google Maps."
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Mysore acknowledged that the map of North Korea is not perfect, but expressed hope that people from around the world will continue helping Google improve the quality of Google Maps. There are limits to what the Map Maker Community can do, however. Frequent users of Google Maps will note the absence of Google Maps Street View imagery of North Korean capital Pyongyang.
Google launched Map Maker in 2008 outside the U.S. as a way to allow locals in various countries to make Google's maps better, following a similar effort, OpenStreetMap, that was founded in 2004. The difference between the two projects is that Google's Map Maker data is as closed as North Korea: You can put data in but you can't get it out for use elsewhere. OpenStreetMap, on the other hand, lives up to its name and allows reuse of contributed geo-data.
Google made Map Maker available to U.S. users in 2011, but its value to the company continues to be as a way to gather geo-data that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.
Even so, Map Maker is not without its challenges. Despite Google's terms of use, content submitted by users may not sit well with local authorities, thereby complicating Google's international business operations. One of the Google+ reviews of Hoeryong Concentration Camp in North Korea, available through Google Maps, for example, dryly observes, "Excellent service, food and rooms. It lives up to the Hotel California's motto ... you can check in anytime but you can never leave."
In other words, don't expect Street View driving permits soon.
YouTube to introduce paid-for content this year - Telegraph.co.uk
YouTube has asked several of its contributors to submit applications to create paid-for channels.
The first channels will reportedly be available to users by the spring for between $1 and $5 per month.
YouTube plans to keep around 45 per cent of the subscription revenue themselves, with the rest going to the producers of the content.
The world's No. 1 video website has been moving to add professional-grade videos to the vast archive of amateur videos that made the site popular.
The current crop of such channels is available to consumers for free and supported by advertising that appears alongside the videos.
A spokesman for YouTube said: “We have long maintained that different content requires different types of payment models. There are a lot of our content creators that think they would benefit from subscriptions, so we’re looking at that.”
YouTube has hinted in the past that it was considering offering subscription-based content. Last year YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar said there was strong demand among certain video producers, such as video game networks, to offer paid-for channels programs.
"They have such a big audiences that they can start to segment their audiences into those that are willing to pay a higher amount”, Mr Kamangar said.
He also said that cable channels with small audiences could potentially be offered to consumers through YouTube on an "à la carte" basis.
YouTube will face competition in the paid-for video sector by existing sites such as Hulu and Netflix.
Google began investing heavily in original video content in late 2011, providing funds to film makers in the form of an advance against future advertising revenues.
According to eMarketer, a research firm, advertising spending on digital video in the US grew by 47 per cent to $2.9bn (£1.84bn) last year but is dwarfed by the $65bn spent on television advertisements.
Television made up about 40 per cent of total media spending in the US in 2012, according to eMarketer, compared with less than 2 per cent from online video.
YouTube blockade is bar on civil liberties: Pakistani daily - Vancouver Desi
Islamabad, Jan 30 (IANS) The blockade on YouTube is a bar on “civil liberties”, said a Pakistani daily that sought restoration of full access to the internet.
“What began as an outrageous situation and was expected to be resolved promptly is starting to feel uncomfortably as though it might become a permanent bar on citizens’ rights to access the internet – and that too because of governmental apathy,” said an editorial in the Dawn Wednesday.
In September last year, the government cut off total access to the site as it was “cowed by the havoc wreaked in Islamabad by rioters protesting against the availability on YouTube of an offensive film trailer”.
“The indignant citizenry required an answer, so we were told that Google, the giant that owns and operates YouTube, had been approached with a request that the offensive content be taken down, but had refused. Since Pakistan was not in a position to manually restrict access to offensive sites, the government explained it had no choice other than to entirely restrict access to YouTube. It was meanwhile generally known that some other countries, including Egypt and India, had managed to have access to the offensive content selectively curtailed, leaving the rest of YouTube open,” it said.
Four months later, it has become clear that at fault is not the other party but the government of Pakistan.
“…what this country does not have in place is a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the US under which, amongst other matters, an internet company could be directed to comply with the laws of another country. Had this paperwork been in order, for Pakistanis, too, access to only the objectionable content could have been restricted,” said the daily.
It went on to say that the film and the offence it caused have long since faded from public consciousness but the lack of access to a popular site used for dozens of different purposes is a daily inconvenience.
“More importantly, it is a bar on our civil liberties. The government needs to immediately do what is required to restore Pakistanis’ full access to the internet,” the editorial added.
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Airbag recall for 907 000 Toyotas - Independent Online
.Toyota Corolla-Matrix.The recall saga continues for Toyota, the company having announced another global recall that affects 1.3 million vehicles. It relates to airbag and windscreen wiper problems. Toyota will replace airbag parts in some 907 000 hatchbacks in Canada, Japan, Mexico and the United States, a company spokesman said. The models are branded Voltz in Japan and Corolla and Corolla Matrix overseas. The vehicles in question were produced between 2001 and 2004 in Canada, Japan and the United States. At this stage it doesn’t appear as if any South African Corolla or RunX models are affected, but - to be safe - we have requested final confirmation from Toyota SA. In the faulty vehicles, the control unit of the airbags could be damaged by minor electrical noise, and the airbag could open wrongly in a worst-case scenario, the spokesman said. At least 47 cases of the malfunction had been reported, mainly in the United States. “Two of them may be linked to accidents but there has been no death-related report,” the spokesman said, adding that Toyota would exchange the troubled parts under each country's recall guidelines. LEXUS WIPER RECALL Toyota separately said it would recall some 385 000 Lexus IS cars globally to change windscreen wiper parts, following problems in snow. Once lauded for its safety standards, Toyota has been forced into damage control mode in recent years after recalling millions of vehicles due to a series of serious defects. Last month the company said it had agreed to pay about $1.1 billion (R9.9 billion) to settle a class action lawsuit launched by US vehicle owners affected by a series of mass recalls. BUT STILL ON TOP But on the upside, the carmaker did recapture the title of world's biggest car company from General Motors in 2012. On Monday it said its global sales last year soared 22.6 percent to 9.75 million vehicles. -AFP and IOL Nintendo slashes Wii U sales goal by 27 percent, cuts 3DS target - PCWorld (blog)
Nintendo's new Wii U console had a tough holiday launch, and its 3DS handheld continues to struggle.
The Japanese game maker on Wednesday slashed its sales target for its new flagship game console by 27 percent, just months after it went on sale around the world. Nintendo had set a goal of selling 5.5 million units through March, the end of its fiscal year, but now aims for 4 million.
Nintendo also lowered its expectations for the handheld 3DS, which has struggled to maintain momentum despite price cuts and a push to flood the market with appealing game titles. The company cut its target for the device to 15 million this fiscal year, down from the 17.5 million it predicted in October. That is the second cut this year - Nintendo originally aimed for 18.5 million devices.
The Kyoto-based firm said it sold just over 3 million Wii U consoles worldwide from its launch in November through the end of the year. Nintendo had said it was pleased with the launch and the console initially sold out, but stocks have since recovered.
The sales numbers, released as part of Nintendo's earnings for the October-December quarter, offer a first glimpse at how gamers feel about the Wii U. The company has bet heavily on the successor to the Wii, one of its most successful products ever.
Nintendo said the poor sales will likely hurt its results for the fiscal year, cutting its revenue target by 17.3 percent to $7.4 billion and saying it now expects to fall into the red for operating profit. The company still targets a net profit, due in part to the fall in the yen versus foreign currencies, which can boost the effect of profits booked abroad.
For the first nine months of the current fiscal year, Nintendo said revenue slipped slightly compared to a year ago, while it booked a smaller operating loss and net profit recovered to 14.5 billion yen, up from a 48.3 billion yen loss in the year-earlier period.
The company hopes to woo consumers with the Wii U's "GamePad" controller, which is similar to a full-fledged tablet in itself, with a touchscreen, motion detection, camera and stylus. Its small screen can be used to supplement games played on a larger TV, or serve as the main display.
The Wii U also acts as a home entertainment center, with access to streaming video services from providers like Amazon and Netflix, similar to rival game consoles from Sony and Microsoft. The company has also launched a social network around gaming, the "Miiverse," which allows players to interact online via their "Mii" avatars.
PTCL's unlimited calls and free Wi-Fi modems offer - The News International
Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) is facilitating its customers by offering free on-net calls through its Freedom Package and free Wi-Fi modems with new Broadband connections, says a press release.
PTCL Freedom Package enables landline customers to make unlimited on-net calls from PTCL to PTCL and Vfone across the country without any monthly line rent. All double play customers can avail this offer for only Rs250 extra while single play customers can benefit from this offer for Rs499 per month only.
Aasif Inam, PTCL EVP Wireline Business, said keeping in view proliferation of Wi-Fi enabled devices, PTCL is also providing free Wi-Fi modems with every new Broadband connection.
Microsoft Releases Office 365; Pinterest Testing New Look; Amazon Profits Take ... - PC Magazine
Didn't have time to check out the tech headlines yesterday? Here's what you missed.
Microsoft unveiled Office 365 Home Premium, a subscription-based version of Redmond's well-known Office suite. For an annual fee of $99.99, the service includes all the Office apps - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access - and can be installed on up to five devices, from the Surface tablet to your laptop.
There's also 20GB of SkyDrive cloud storage and 60 free minutes of Skype calling minutes. For more, see PCMag's full review.
Meanwhile, Pinterest showed off a new look that it will be testing out with a few select users. The update will roll out on Pinterest.com to "a small group of people," Pinterest said in a blog post. The changes are subtle but intended to make it easier to navigate the site and provide users with bigger and more engaging pins.
Also making headlines yesterday, Amazon boosted its sales in the holiday quarter but saw net income dip as the online retail giant continues to feel the effects of transitioning from physical book sales to digital media for consumption on its own Kindle devices and other platforms.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Microsoft's Office 365 Home Premium: What happens when subscriptions expire? - ZDNet
Ever since Microsoft first outlined its plans to make its new Office available for purchase on a subscription basis (back in July 2012), more than a few users have asked what will happen if and when users discontinue their subscriptions.
When I asked Microsoft officials this question in September 2012, here's what I was told:
In the case of Office 365 Home Premium and Small Business Premium, if you stop paying for those SKUs after a year, you'll have a grace period to figure out what to do with your stored information. In the case of Home Premium, users will be able to download their saved SkyDrive- and/or locally-saved data, open it with Office Web Apps and read/print it for some set period of time. (Microsoft isn't currently specifying how long that will be.) In the case of Small Business Premium, you'll have some kind of currently-unspecified grace period, as well, when you can access, read and print data stored in SharePoint Online.
As of today's Office 365 Home Premium/Office 2013 launch, we now know a bit more as to how this will work -- on the Home Premium side of things, at least. (Office 365 Small Business Premium isn't "launching" until February 27, Microsoft revealed on January 29.)
For users with an Office 365 Home Premium subscription, as the expiration date of that subscription approaches, users will receive notifications inside the Office applications and via e-mail to remind/nag users about the approaching expiration date.
Once the subscription expires, the Office apps will enter a "read-only reduced functionality mode." This means users will be able to view or print documents, but won't be able to create any new documents or edit existing documents.
Users who want to regain their full Office capabilities will be able to purchase a new subscription (via Office.com) or a set of predesignated retailers. Users also will have the choice of simply using older, existing versions of Office or to just use the free Office Web Apps on SkyDrive for basic editing.
If a user has stored documents created/edited with Office 365 Home Premium in their SkyDrives, these documents will still be downloadable once subscriptions expire. Users can save SkyDrive documents to another computer or drive at any time, according to Microsoft. (With Office 365 Home Premium, users get an additional 20 GB of storage on top of their existing SkyDrive quotas.)
In other "read the fine print" news, check out my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott's post on what CIOs need to know about Office 365 Home Premium licensing.
Whatsapp is slammed by regulators for storing users' contacts - Inquirer
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HomeNewsReviewsVideoINQdepthJobsDownloads store Chips Hardware Software Communications Enterprise Mobility Week to date Chips Hardware Software Communications Enterprise Mobility Hardware Software Features Opinion Polls White papers Enterprise Mobility Software > Applications Whatsapp is slammed by regulators for storing users’ contacts Storing data on its servers in hashed form is illegal By Lee Bell Tue Jan 29 2013, 13:59 TweetMOBILE MESSAGING SERVICE Whatsapp has come under fire from Dutch and Canadian data protection authorities after a joint investigation revealed that it illegally stores users' address book information on its servers.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DDPA) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPCC) both argue in a collaborative report that the service - which enables sending messages, images and videos over internet connections between smartphones - failed to delete information from the address books of people not signed up to the service and stored it in hash form.
When installing Whatsapp, the service asks permission to run a friend identification check so users can can find which of their friends are also using the service. The regulators said that though it is not illegal for Whatsapp to copy data belonging to non-users, it is illegal for the app not to delete that information after doing so.
"This practice contravenes Canadian and Dutch privacy law, which holds that information may only be retained for so long as it is required for the fulfilment of an identified purpose," the regulators said.
The regulators also complained that only iPhone users running iOS 6 can manually add contacts within the app, meaning that Android and Windows Phone users have no choice but to have their whole address books scanned.
The DDPA said it will consider disciplinary action if Whatsapp fails to change its privacy policy with regard to the issues identified in the report, while the OPCC added that it will continue to monitor the firm but doesn't have the power to issue sanctions.
Whatsapp has yet to comment on the report. µ
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HTC shuns MWC with 19 February London event - Inquirer
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TAIWANESE PHONE MAKER HTC seemingly will preempt this year's Mobile World Congress, having revealed plans for a launch event in London on 19 February.
HTC sent out invitations to its upcoming event today, which will be taking place just days before the Barcelona mobile technology conference gets underway. Of course, the firm remained quiet on what we can expect to see at the event, but all signs are pointing towards its next generation flagship Android smartphone.
According to online speculation, HTC will be launching its M7 smartphone, the successor to last year's HTC One X.
Set to feature a design similar to that of its predecessor, the handset apparently will boast a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 4.7in HD 1080p touchscreen and a recent version of Google's mobile operating system, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
There's also talk of 2GB RAM, a 13MP rear-facing camera, a high resolution front-facing camera, 32GB of internal storage and support for 4G LTE, suggesting that EE might be one of the first networks to offer the handset.
Of course, all this speculation could be well off the mark. However, The INQUIRER will be at the HTC event in London on 19 February, so be sure to check back for all of the details. µ
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Governments can't be trusted with our data - ABC Online
Posted January 29, 2013 23:39:00
One of the founders of the internet has attacked a proposal to store all Australian's internet data use warning it could be misused and government's can't be trusted to keep the information secret
Source: Lateline | Duration: 3min 51secTopics: internet-culture, community-and-society, defence-and-national-security, federal-government, internet-technology, australia TranscriptEMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: One of the founders of the internet, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked a proposal to store all Australian's internet data use for two years. The proposal is being considered by a joint parliamentary committee and would require internet service providers to keep a log of individual internet data. Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the information could be leaked or misused and governments cannot be trusted to keep it secret. John Stewart reports.
JOHN STEWART, REPORTER: The first internet was developed by the US military during the Cold War to protect their communication systems from a nuclear strike.
20 years later, Sir Tim Berners-Lee took the next step, helping to develop the worldwide web. The British computer scientist wants governments around the world to resist the temptation to spy on people and says that a proposal being considered by the Australian Government to log individual internet data use for up to two years will have little impact on criminals.
TIM BERNERS-LEE, COMPUTER SCIENTIST: If you do snoop on people, if you record, for example, the websites that somebody visits then you're not gonna get the criminals because they are gonna go through - they're gonna use Tor or they're gonna go through some intermediate nodes. They're gonna go to some trouble in order to just obscure it.
JOHN STEWART: Sir Tim Berners-Lee argues that if internet users believe the Government is recording their web history, they'll stop using it and limit the flow of valuable information.
TIM BERNERS-LEE: You will produce a world in which a teenager who really needs to go to an online forum to compare - to get some professional advice or really needs to know whether or not they're suffering from a given disease or wants to understand something about sexuality, medicine, growing up and realises that if they click they will be branded for the next two years as having gone to that site.
JOHN STEWART: He also says storing individual data logs is tricky and governments cannot guarantee that systems won't be hacked.
TIM BERNERS-LEE: That information is so dangerous. You have to think about it as dynamite. You have to think about if it gets away, what you've done is you've prepared a dossier on every person in the country which will allow them, if that dossier's stolen, to be blackmailed. Maybe you have every member of the Australian military will have this little dossier which will allow a foreign power to exert a huge amount of pressure on them.
JOHN STEWART: A spokesperson for the Attorney-General's Department says the Government has not made any decision about whether or not Australia should have a data retention regime and "The parliamentary committee has been asked to consider the concept of data retention in relation to non-content telecommunications information, which plays critical roles in police investigations. ... Metadata does not include the content of communications, only features such as dates and I.P. addresses assigned to a user that can be helpful for police and national security investigations."
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was speaking at the launch of the CSIRO's $40 million strategy to make better use of the National Broadband Network and increase online services in health, education and business.
STEPHEN CONROY, COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER: With services making up more than 70 per cent of our GDP, this flagship will be pivotal in addressing productivity.
JOHN STEWART: Sir Tim Berners-Lee welcomed the new CSIRO funding and called for governments around the world to make more information public and improve internet access for all.
John Stewart, Lateline.
Apple announces new iPad with twice the storage space - CBC.ca
Apple has announced plans to sell an updated version of its popular iPad tablet computer, one with 128 gigabytes of storage capacity or more than twice as much as it's current largest version.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based technology company made the announcement Tuesday. The device appears to have few changes to the current well-received iPad 4 model beyond the extra storage capacity for more music, movies, books and apps.
As with most Apple products, the device will come in two versions — a cheaper model that functions only with Wi-Fi, and another version capable of running over 3G and 4G cellular networks. The former will retail for $799 US. The latter, $929 US. Each will be available starting Feb. 5, 2013.
Apple typically launches a new product from its development cycle roughly once every 10-15 months, so the revamp of the existing model only 3 months after its initial launch in October could be a sign the company has no plans to offer a more substantive upgrade, possibly an iPad 5, until late 2013 or into 2014.
It could also be Apple's attempt to draw some attention from rival Research in Motion Ltd., which has consumed the technology news cycle this week in anticipation of the launch of their next line of smartphones, BlackBerry 10, which will be unveiled on Wednesday.
After a strong 2012 that saw the company post outsized stock market gains to become the world's largest publicly traded company, Apple recently lost that title to Exxon as doubts emerged about the company's ability to maintain its dominant market share and fat profit margins.
After peaking at more than $700 a share in September, Apple stock has given up ground and currently trades at $455 on the Nasdaq.
Google maps out North Korea with crowd-sourced data - NBCNews.com
Rosa Golijan , NBC News While Google Maps feels like a solid mapping solution, it has some blank spots — particularly when it comes to regions such as North Korea. But that's all changing thanks to a group of "citizen cartographers" and a tool which allows Google to incorporate crowd-sourced map data into its product.
As Jayanth Mysore, a senior product manager working on the Google Map Maker project, explains in a post on the official Google Maps blog, the Map Maker tool has been around since 2008 and allowed users to "update the maps of the areas they know, and improve their level of detail and accuracy." Crowdsourced data like this is how Google "will build the modern map," Mysore adds, reiterating that without these details, map data is currently "very limited" in some parts of the world.
Efforts to map out North Korea have been made over the last few years, but on Monday, Google was finally ready to officially update the region on Google Maps. "We know this map is not perfect," Mysore acknowledges. "We encourage people from around the world to continue helping us improve the quality of these maps for everyone with Google Map Maker." He adds that, from now on, any further "approved" updates to the North Korean maps will also appear on Google Maps.
The Wall Street Journal's Evan Ramstad points out that the update of North Korea on Google Maps comes about three weeks after Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt visited the area (though a Google spokesperson told Ramstad that the visit was unrelated to the timing of the Google Maps update). During his time in the country, "Schmidt encouraged officials he met in North Korea to make the Internet available to its citizens and end its attempts to restrict information," Ramstad writes. The Verge's Sam Byford reminds that Internet access in North Korea remains quite restricted nonetheless, and that odds are that the "vast majority of North Korean citizens" won't be able to access Google's freshly updated maps.
The crowd-sourced cartography includes mass transit, monuments and parks, as well as North Korea's massive gulags, which are signified on Google Maps with a slightly different shading. As the Atlantic notes, "Naturally, the Hwasong Gulag, like any place on Google, already has some jokesters reviewing its accommodations."
Mysore dances around these detail in his blog post, and instead focuses on who will be able to take advantage of the information. "While many people around the globe are fascinated with North Korea," he writes, "these maps are especially important for the citizens of South Korea who have ancestral connections or still have family living there."
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Photos of Possible 5th-Gen iPad Surface - PC Magazine
If you follow the reports from Wall Street, you might believe that Apple is somehow in decline thanks to a slumping stock price. But no other company enjoys more fervent speculation and excitement about the possibility of new products than Apple. January has been no different, with talk of new iPhones and iPads dominating the conversation. But now photos have emerged that may add some heft to at least one of the more popular rumors.
Images depicting what appears to be a new back casing for the iPad have surfaced on the Apple-focused site 9to5Mac. The site calls the photo "an unverified image from a purported China-based iPad accessories maker." Additional photos show the casing placed alongside the current iPad mini to compare size and design. Based on those photos, the new casing appears to mimic the look of the iPad mini in every way, lending some credence to earlier reports that the fifth-generation, 9.7-inch iPad would share the same design as the smaller tablet.
Although the site does not name its source or the factory it may have come from, it does mention that the casing appears to be designed for an LTE model iPad. Unfortunately, for those interested in the alleged new design on the larger iPad, as previously reported, consumers may have to wait until October to get their hands on one
Meanwhile, a new report from Digitimes says the iPad mini is so much more popular than the regular iPad in Taiwan that retailers and telecom carriers are being forced to place orders for the fourth-generation iPad before they can buy any iPad minis. During an earings call last week, however, Apple CEO Tim Cook said sales for the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad were equally strong.
Like Toyota-BMW, Ford, Nissan & Daimler enter pact to develop fuel cell cars - Indian Cars Bikes
Co-operate to dominate is the buzz word in automotive circles across the globe even as alliance after alliance is being hammered out in board rooms of automobile making giants across the planet. The latest such alliance is a collaboration between three big car making behemoths, Nissan, Ford and Daimler. These companies have come together to jointly develop fuel cell cars, dubbed to be the next big thing in the automotive world. Ford, Nissan and Daimler hope to have the first of the jointly developed fuel cell cars on roads as early as 2017.
An illustration of fuel cell car technologyThe main mandate of this alliance is to accelerate development of fuel cell technology to put it into commercial use, at a price that actually makes economic sense for the car maker to invest into this technology while also resulting in a price that’s affordable enough for the car buyer so that he or she makes the leap from internal combustion power to fuel cell power. To make the fuel cell technology more affordable, the tripartite alliance between Ford, Nissan and Daimler will use a range of approaches. One such approach is joint development of the technology to drive down research costs.
Ford, Nissan and Daimler will take advantage of their global presence across many locations to simultaneously develop fuel cell technology. Also, the three car makers will work towards standardization of fuel cell technology in order to make joint manufacturing possible, another measure that is expected to drive down costs of fuel cells to make its adoption across cars economically feasible for the car makers and car buyers alike. Also, the tie up of major car makers like Ford-Nissan-Daimler and BMW-Toyota is expected to result in hydrogen dispensing stations getting a shot in the arm as such alliances indicate that car makers are very serious about putting fuel cell equipped mass market cars on the streets over the next half a decade.
What is fuel cell technology?
Fuel cell technology involves the use of hydrogen stored at high pressure, in a tank, to mix with oxygen in the air, under controlled conditions(in the fuel-cell) to produce electricity. This electricity will power an electric motor that will act as the major driving force of an automobile. So, hydrogen will power an electric motor in fuel cell cars, much like petrol or diesel powers the internal combustion engine. The by product of the fuel cell will be water, making fuel cell equipped automobiles one of the cleanest forms of propulsion.
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RIM CEO Thorsten Heins at a BlackBerry event last year.
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