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- Apple gives Google, Facebook a thorough kicking
- Solid state drives become affordable
- Smartphone data subscriptions to double
- Typo surrenders to Blackberry
- Internet of things to be worth trillions
- Leave encryption alone says Apple’s supreme dalek
- Disconnect moans to EU about Google
- Symantec intros cloud security upgrade
| Apple gives Google, Facebook a thorough kicking Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:52 AM PDT
Cook, according to Techcrunch, was speaking at an event in Washington DC but speaking at a distance through a video connection. Cook said he and Apple think it's unacceptable for customers t continually make tradeoffs between privacy and security. He said people have a fundamental right to privacy, particularly American people, because the US constitution demands it and it's morally right too. Cook said that companies that use advertising to make their money are selling out people who use their services. Although he didn't mention Google and Facebook, both these companies trade in this way. Cook said such firms were "gobbling up" anything they learned about people and trying to make money from it. Even though people think such services are free, Cook said the services come at a very high cost indeed, Techcrunch reported. |
| Solid state drives become affordable Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:40 AM PDT
That's according to Taiwanese analysts at Trendforce, which sai that prices of SSDs are falling so much that it's become affordable to use them in notebooks rather than traditional whirring hard drives. For example, Trendforce said the contract price for 128GB drives fell to $50 in the second quarter and their grown up relations, 256GB drives, are only $90. Vendors are beginning to produce next generation 3D NAND flash products during the course of this year and Trendforce estimates penetration will be as much as 50 percent by 2017. One manufacturer in particular – Samsung – is setting the pace by aggressively its flash based products and its drives are being used more and more in notebook machines. There also appears to be a change in interface between the drives and the host machine, with more vendors using high speed serial PCIe rather than S-ATA 3.0. Apple has already made the switch. Others are sure to follow. |
| Smartphone data subscriptions to double Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:34 AM PDT
It thinks that mobile data traffic to ninefold and there will be 6.1 billion smartphone subscriptions globally by the end of 2020, up from 2.6 billion in 2014. The son of Eric said in his Mobility Report:”Advanced mobile technology will be globally ubiquitous by 2020 with 70 percent of people using smartphones and 90 percent covered by mobile broadband networks.” Ericsson said video is expected to increase its share of total mobile traffic in 2020 to 60 percent, up from an earlier projection of 55 percent and compared to around 45 percent in 2014. Of course there is no indication that the world's networks will stand up to that sort of hammering. |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:31 AM PDT
Typo was keyboard attachment for touchscreen mobile devices backed by “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest. BlackBerry sued Typo for patent infringement, alleging that the keyboard cover for IPhones was a “blatant” copy of the QWERTY keyboard on many BlackBerry phones. As part of the settlement, Typo has agreed to stop selling keyboards for devices with a screen size of less than 7.9 inches so every smartphone. Typo had already been prevented from selling the keyboards for phones after a California judge ruled last year that BlackBerry had “established a likelihood of proving that Typo infringes the patents at issue.” A judge fined Typo $860,000 earlier this year for continuing to sell the keyboards after last year’s injunction. Typo is now only selling keyboards for Apple’s iPad Air and iPad Mini. Sales of these however will not do the outfit much good – tablet sales have slumped as people prefer to use phablets instead – something Typo would have been good with. BlackBerry filed its first lawsuit against Typo in January 2014 just as the original Typo keyboard attachments were making their debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Seacrest and fellow co-founder Laurence Hallier spent a million on the company and started to promote the Typo in December 2013 as a way for people to ditch their BlackBerries. |
| Internet of things to be worth trillions Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:30 AM PDT
Worth $655.8 billion last year, spending by vendors and enterprises is set to proceed at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.9 percent in the next few years. IDC believes that devices, connectivity and IT services will represent over two thirds of the IoT market in 2020, with modules and censors alone accounting for nearly a third of the total. The IoT is a catch-all for technologies that include sensors, purpose built systems, storage, servers, security, analytics software, IT services and security, according to IDC's definition. The important thing is that systems have to be autonomous, so IDC is not counting smartphones, tablets or PCs for its predictions. Yet, and it is a point IDC does not make, it is like the Wild West out there and there's little or no standardisation at the moment. |
| Leave encryption alone says Apple’s supreme dalek Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:23 AM PDT
Tim slammed a campaign led in part by FBI director James Comey to require adding backdoors—intentional weaknesses in the encryption code—for law enforcement to encryption technology. If Comey gets his way, Apple will have to provide US spooks with the backdoors to the encryption used in Apple’s iPhone devices. This will save them ten minutes trying to work their way past Apple security, which is not exactly the hardest in the world to knock over. Cook said that adding encryption backdoors for law enforcement would weaken the security of all devices and “is incredibly dangerous.” The audience at the Electronic Privacy Information Centre awards dinner, which was honouring a variety of privacy experts and activists, reportedly responded warmly to Cook’s words. “So let me be crystal clear: Weakening encryption or taking it away harms good people who are using it for the right reason,” he said. Cook, is backed by politicians Ted Lieu, who is a democrat and Will Hurd who is a Republican. Both members of the Information Technology Subcommittee in the House of Representatives. Although debate over the USA Patriot Act and the bill mean to reform it, the USA Freedom Act, currently dominate attention in congress, it’s clear that the increasingly loud debate over encryption is soon going to gain a far brighter spotlight as both the FBI and technology sectors continue to clash. |
| Disconnect moans to EU about Google Posted: 03 Jun 2015 12:07 AM PDT
Disconnect has filed a complaint to EU antitrust regulators against Google’s ban on its privacy app, accusing the Silicon Valley giant of abusing its dominant market position. Disconnect was set up four years ago by former Google engineers, says its app protects users of the Android operating system from invisible tracking and malware distributed through advertisements. However Google had abused its position by blocking the app from the Google Play store last year, and had gained an unfair advantage over competitors by integrating its own privacy and security services into its own products. Disconnect Chief Executive Casey Oppenheim said that Google claimed that the software interfered with the ability of third parties to serve ads and was unwilling to engage in a dialogue. Google said Disconnect’s complaint was groundless and said that Google Play policies had long prohibited apps that interfere with other apps – such as altering their functionality, or removing their way of making money. The European Commission, which opened a probe into Google’s agreements with smartphone and tablet makers using its Android operating system in April, confirmed it had received the complaint and said it would assess it. Question is, why did Disconnect have to complain in the EU rather than its native US? The US regulators have been comparatively soft on Google, while the EU has been actively looking into its doings. |
| Symantec intros cloud security upgrade Posted: 02 Jun 2015 06:21 AM PDT
The product now covers cloud email and storage and has integrated its offering with Box. DLP now supports Office 365 for enterprises using it in the cloud. Its partnership with Box means that employee accounts can be monitored to see what information is being used and how it's shared. DLO 14's endpoint agent will also protect sensitive information for people using Cloud File, Sync and Share, Symantec said. Amit Jasuja, a senior VP at Symantec said that DLP is a content aware system which helps enterprises know where and how sensitive corporate information is being stored and used. "We are extending DLP to cloud email and storage to provide our customers the control and visibility they need to secure their sensitive information as they take full advantage of the cloud," he said. |
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