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- Windows 10 shows slow roll out
- LTE lends itself to public safety
- Google tells French watchdog “va te faire foutre”
- Facebook wants a huge drone
- Oracle’s Android battle longer than Trojan war
- Samsung fixed a huge Linux bug
- Canon cam can film in the dark
- Google adds Hindi to its repertoire
- Infineon turns in healthy profits
| Windows 10 shows slow roll out Posted: 31 Jul 2015 06:00 AM PDT
It has a way to go before it reaches the one billion target it has promised to achieve. Yusuf Mehdi, the Microsoft man who runs Windows 10, said he and his company were "humbled" and "grateful" for the response to the operating system. He said reviews around the world were overwhelmingly positive. But as Windows 10 follows the dire reception for Windows 8.x and earlier Windows Vista, anything short of a positive review would represent a PR disaster for Microsoft. Mehdi said Microsoft is "doing everything we can" to upgrade the world to Windows 10. That would be the Windows world of course, because now there are several alternatives to the Microsoft operating system. Mehdi said Microsoft "has many more upgrades to go before we catch up to each of you that reserved your upgrade". It won't be days but weeks before it rolls out Windows 10, he admitted. If you want to take a chance on upgrading to Windows 10 before it's finally bedded in, Mehdi said that you can use the "Get Windows 10 app" on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs to make a reservation. Mehdi said Microsoft is working with big shops around the world to help people upgrade. "Windows 10 is the best Windows ever," said Mehdi. But then Microsoft always says that about upgrades to operating systems and it certainly always has just not been true. |
| LTE lends itself to public safety Posted: 31 Jul 2015 04:23 AM PDT
That's according to ABI Research, which said that existing safety protocols like TETRA and P25 are well established because they are so stable. But LTE vendors are working with both TETRA and P25 vendors to introduce LTE (4G) capabilities. ABI said that since Release 10, 3GPP has included enhancements which improve the mission critical features of LTE. LTE-Relay extends network coverage while LTE-Direct lets public safety devices create direct point-to-point communication without needing a base station. Release 13 of 3GPP will standardise indoor positioning and push to talk capabilities. A number of vendors is working together to show the advantages of a single unified broadband and narrowband system, with Motorola, Ericsson, Harris and Nokia working together. ABI believes that the first markets to have a fully working public safety network will be the USA, the UK and South Korea. |
| Google tells French watchdog “va te faire foutre” Posted: 31 Jul 2015 12:32 AM PDT
The move means that either Google starts censoring its US site or it will face French fines. Google is refusing to down it, after all it is a good bet that after much shouting, arm waving, mention of US cooking, the French will surrender. CNIL, in June ordered the search engine group to de-list on request search results appearing under a person’s name from all its websites, including Google.com. The European Court of Justice insisted that European residents were permitted to ask search engines to delete results that turn up under a search for their name when they are out-of-date, irrelevant or inflammatory. Google complied with the ruling and has since received more than a quarter of a million removal requests, according to its transparency report. It has accepted about 41 percent of them. However, it has limited removals to its European websites, such as Google.de in Germany or Google.fr in France, arguing that over 95 percent of searches made from Europe are done through local versions of Google. Google said no country should have the authority to control what content someone in a second country can access. Well other than the US of course, it controls what it likes. Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel said that Google had worked hard to fulfil the right to be forgotten ruling thoughtfully and comprehensively in Europe, and we'll continue to do so. “But as a matter of principle, therefore, we respectfully disagree with the CNIL's assertion of global authority on this issue and we have asked the CNIL to withdraw its formal notice.” The CNIL said it would look into Google’s appeal and decide whether to surrender in two months. “We have taken note of Google’s arguments which are mostly political. The CNIL, on the other hand, has relied on a strictly legal reasoning,” said a spokeswoman. |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2015 12:30 AM PDT
The drone, with its Boeing 737 wingspan, will provide internet access to the most remote parts of the world. It will be tested in the United States later this year. Weighing 400 kg the drone will hover between 60,000 feet and 90,000 feet above the altitude of commercial airplanes and ignore the weather. Facebook said the drone, which was built in 14 months can fly for 90 days. Helium balloons will be attached to the plane and float it up into the air. The planes will circle a three-km (two-mile) radius. During the day, they will float up to 90,000 feet (30 km) and at night will drift down to 60,000 feet (20 km) to conserve energy. Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand internet access. Facebook is the first company to fly at such altitudes. It has a team lobbying politicians to let it through… er to set guidelines. |
| Oracle’s Android battle longer than Trojan war Posted: 31 Jul 2015 12:29 AM PDT
The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programming language, which Google used to design Android. Oracle wants royalties for Google’s use of Java language, while Google argues those parts of Java should be free. The US Supreme Court declined to end the case in Google’s favour and sent the case back to San Francisco federal court for further proceedings. In 2012, a jury found that Google infringed Oracle’s copyright but deadlocked on Google’s fair use defence. US District Judge William Alsup reviewed a series of legal issues that must be resolved before a retrial on fair use and damages. Google’s Android operating system is the world’s best-selling smartphone platform. Oracle sued Google five years ago and is seeking roughly $1 billion in copyright claims. Alsup said his trial calendar likely precludes another trial until spring of next year. He also asked whether mediation would help the companies settle the case. Google attorney Robert Van Nest said he thought mediation would be “premature.” Alsup ordered the companies into mediation “whether you like it or not.” |
| Samsung fixed a huge Linux bug Posted: 31 Jul 2015 12:29 AM PDT
The problem was first noticed by an outfit called Algolia which noticed that some of its Samsung SSDs were going down for no reason. After trying to find the source of the fault it got Samsung on the blower and it turned out that it was not a hardware problem after all. Samsung could not reproduce the error and it could not find anything wrong with the scripts that Algolia had written for them. However its engineers worked out that there was a serious fault in the Linux kernel which was turning SSDs to jelly, at least under certain conditions. The Linux kernel error can affect any SSD under the same operating conditions. The code included something called TRIM which allows an operating system to tell a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped. TRIM was giving false information and the SSDs were being wiped. Open Saucers called for TRIM be abandoned for a while and it has been disabled in many systems. It appears the Linux core was switching it on. Samsung has developed a kernel patch to resolve this issue. The testing code is available on GitHub. What is perhaps worrying is how this problem has never been spotted before. |
| Canon cam can film in the dark Posted: 30 Jul 2015 07:05 AM PDT
The ME20F-SH is aimed at specialist applications including capturing wildlife at night, deep sea exploration, astronomy and surveillance. The camera can be installed in a semi-permanent location and be controlled remotely. But because it's a specialist unit, it will only be available to certain of Canon's partners. The camera allows you to capture colour full HD video without the need for infrared illumination. The machine has a 2.26 megapixel CMOS sensor and a DIGIC DV4 processor – it includes Wide DR settings and Canon Log. Canon did not say how much the lightweight device will cost. |
| Google adds Hindi to its repertoire Posted: 30 Jul 2015 06:40 AM PDT
Visual translation lets you point your device at the text you want to translate and it will turn it into the language you want. Google Translate now supports 27 more languages – up from seven. As well as Hindi it has added Catalan, Lithuanian, Romanian and others to the mix. The company said you don't need a network data connection to use the Translate app, based on work it's done on neural networks. Google said it's still got some way to go because while over half of the content on the internet is in English, only 20 percent of the world's population speak the lingo. |
| Infineon turns in healthy profits Posted: 30 Jul 2015 06:20 AM PDT
Revenues grew by seven percent to reach euro 1.58 billion, compared to the euro 1.483 billion it reported for the last quarter. Margins improved to 15.4 percent. Net profits amounted to euro 109 million for the quarter. The company believes that its margins for its fourth financial quarter will amount to 16 percent. And the company is forecasting that all four of its operating segments will show revenue growth and a year for year rise in revenues of 34 percent. Infineon bought US company the International Rectifier Corporation in January this year – that firm had revenues of $1.1 billion. Reinhard Ploss, the CEO of Infineon (pictured), said: "The integration of International Rectifier is progressing according to plan. Leading technologies and an excellent system understanding differentiate us from the competition." |
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