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Jan Keček

Microsoft fined €561m for 'browser choice' error | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Microsoft has been fined €561m by the European commission for failing to give users a choice of web browser when they logged into Windows computers in Europe between May 2011 and July 2012 – breaking a binding commitment it had made in 2009.
  • Microsoft made a five-year commitment in 2009 to offer users a choice of different browsers, after the EC's competition commission determined that the combination of its dominance on the desktop – where Windows runs around 95% of machines – gave the pre-installed Internet Explorer browser an unfair advantage over rivals
  • The commission implemented the "browser choice" system to create a level playing field - and said that once in use, it was very effective: "The choice screen was very successful with users," Joaquín Almunia, the competition commissioner, said in a statement. "For example, until November 2010, 84 million browsers were downloaded through it."
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  • "We provided the commission with a complete and candid assessment of the situation, and we have taken steps to strengthen our software development and other processes to help avoid this mistake – or anything similar – in the future."
  • Microsoft said it took "full responsibility" for the technical error that caused the problem and that it had apologised for it.
  • ource close to Microsoft explained: "It was a single line in the code that triggered the browser choice program. It had a list of versions of Windows to test against: if the version was found in that list, the program would run. They didn't include Service Pack 1, which is effectively a different version of Windows, in that list. And so the program didn't run.
Jan Keček

Yahoo to shut down seven products, including BlackBerry app | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Yahoo is shutting down seven products, including its mobile app for BlackBerry smartphones, as new chief executive Marissa Mayer emulates Google by eliminating unsuccessful products.
  • Mayer said at an investor conference last month that Yahoo would reduce its current 60 to 75 mobile apps to a more manageable 12 to 15.
  • The other Yahoo products to be terminated include Yahoo App Search, Yahoo Sports IQ, Yahoo Clues, the Yahoo Message Boards website and the Yahoo Updates API.
Nuša Gregoršanec

Free of the Deadly Internet! » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names - 0 views

  • Free of the Deadly Internet!
  • The computer and its connection to the mass mind is but a tool, an appropriate technology if properly used.  But it is not properly used.  It dominates, so that the user is the used, and the user, like the addict,  weakens at every return.
  • I go to a cabin in Utah where there is no Internet, no telephone line, no cellphone signal. What happens with only the wretched self and the empty page? 
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  • Thousands of words – good words, worth keeping – are written in a few days of deep concentration where it would have taken weeks to produce the same amount exposed to the fool’s continuum of constant access to the hive mind and the blinking screen.
  • As we engage more and more with the flitting of the Internet’s slipstream, it rewires our minds to be less than we are capable of, less than we imagined, less we hoped for – it is stupefying and stupidifying.  We leap from one small object to another, like children chasing bubbles.  We click on the links. We click and clack and turn and toss in an “ecosystem of interruption technologies.”   We become less able to think deeply, to encompass ambiguities, nuances, to hold with a single thought and parse it out.
Nuša Gregoršanec

BBC News - Five times more internet crime in the West Midlands - 0 views

  • Five times more internet crime in the West Midlands
  • In 2012 West Midlands Police received almost 500 reports of online crime compared to 100 in 2008.
  • Sgt Gregory said: "One of the first big cases was around indecent images of young children a decade ago and in the UK every police force got involved in that and it was a matter of playing catch-up and realising what the internet was being used for.
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  • "Each force has now got its own child protection team and organisations are working together to try to protect young people, not just on sexual offending matters and grooming but also bullying."
  • For Safer Internet Day, the BBC has launched a "Share Take Care" campaign to highlight the risks of sharing information online.
  • The BBC has published a number of guides online, advising social media users to provide minimum information online and use privacy settings.
nensic

Kako internet i nove tehnologije utječu na pažnju i koncentraciju kod djece? ... - 0 views

  • Nema uopće sumnje da nove tehnologije, predvođene internetom, oblikuju naše razmišljanje i načine na koje razmišljamo.
  • Nema uopće sumnje da nove tehnologije, predvođene internetom, oblikuju naše razmišljanje i načine na koje razmišljamo. Ponekad se to događa vidno i neposredno, gotovo namjerno, a ponekad suptilno i slučajno.
  • tehnološki bum događa se tako brzo da nemamo vremena ispitati i razmisliti njegovu vrijednost u odnosu na cijenu koju djeca plaćaju i obratno.
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  • Tehnologija utječe na stvaranje drugačijih veza i drugačije povezivanje informacija u dječjem mozgu nego što je to bilo kod prošlih generacija.
  • Ono što je jasno znanstvenicima je da svaki napredak tijekom povijesti, odnosno nova dostupna tehnologija određuje kako će se razvijati mozak kod ljudi.
  • Hoće li tehnologija pomoći ili odmoći razvoju vašeg djeteta i načinima na koje razmišlja, ovisi koju specifičnu tehnologiju koristi, koliko često i na koji način.
  • Osim na usvajanje informacija, donošenje odluka i pamćenje (učenje), nove tehnologije imaju najveći utjecaj na pažnju kod djece.
  • U starijim generacijama, primjerice, djeca su veliki dio vremena posvećivala čitanju, a to je aktivnost u kojoj nema puno odvlačenja pažnje te zahtijeva intenzivnu i postojanu pažnju, maštu i pamćenje. Tu pažnju prekinula je televizija koja je novoj generaciji djece ponudila vizualnu stimulaciju, a za uzvrat tražila rascjepkanu pažnju i gotovo nikakvu maštu. Internet generacija s razvojem tehnologije našla se pred novim izazovima. Potpuno nova virtualna okolina djeci je ponudila svijet u kojem je odvlačenje pažnje na sve strane gotovo norma. Postojana pažnja je nemoguća, mašta je potpuno nepotrebna, a pamćenje ograničeno.
  • tehnologija uvjetuje mozgu da pažnju pridaje informacijama na potpuno drugačiji način od čitanja.
  • Čitanje knjige je poput ronjenja tijekom kojeg je osoba uvučena u tihi, vizualno ograničeni svijet, u kojem vrijeme prolazi sporije i bez nekih većih prekida pažnje. Rezultat je ravnomjerna pažnja i fokus te duboko razmišljanje o ograničenom broju primljenih informacija. S druge strane, korištenje interneta je poput jet-skija tijekom kojeg skijaš skija po površini velikom brzinom, izložen je širokom rasponu prizora, okružen mnogim distrakcijama i ne može se ozbiljnije fokusirati ni na jednu informaciju.
  • Studije su potvrdile da čitanje neprekinutog, ujednačenog teksta rezultira bržim završavanjem i boljim razumijevanjem, boljim prisjećanjem pročitanog i učenjem, u uskoredbi s čitanjem teksta koji je prošaran hiperlinkovima, oglasima i drugim ukrasima kakve nalazimo u tekstovima na internetu. Isto vrijedi i za prezentacije.
  • Još jedna studija pokazala je da su djeca koja su tijekom nastave imala pristup internetu zaboravila o čemu je bila tema predavanja i slabije su riješili testove od vršnjaka koji nisu tijekom nastave bili online.
  • Neka druga istraživanja pokazuju da, primjerice, neke video igrice i drugi sadržaji poboljšavaju vizualno-spacijalne sposobnosti, vrijeme reakcije na podržaje i sposobnost da se uoči detalj i izdvoji ono što je važno. Tehnologija djecu ne čini glupljima, već drugačijima.
  • Dok vrijeme ne pokaže kako će nove tehnologije i ubrazani razvoj promijeniti način razmišljanja kod naše djece, ono što roditelji mogu je dozirati stara i nova okruženja u odrastanju djece. Djeci treba ograničiti vrijeme provedeno pred ekranom i poticati ih na aktivnosti poput čitanja, maštanja i slobodne nestrukturirane igre.
nensic

Over 800,000 on waiting list for Mailbox iPhone app - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Indep... - 0 views

  • More than 800,000 people are waiting to access a new iPhone app that aims to transform their email experience by helping them achieve the elusive "inbox zero" -- a fully processed and empty inbox.
  • The ability to "snooze" an email, which is to defer it to another time, whether later in the day, on the weekend, or until the following week, is one of the main features of the app.
  • "We want to decide ‘do I need to reply now', ‘can I deal with this later', or ‘should I get it out of the way and never deal with it again?'"
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  • The system outlines a rule of "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" to help people maintain empty inboxes.
  • The app provides many new features over the native iPhone mail app, however it lacks the ability to multi-edit or multi-delete emails.
Katja Kotnik

Me and my data: how much do the internet giants really know? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

  • Google is not only the world's largest search engine, it's one of the top three email providers, a social network, and owner of the Blogger platform and the world's largest video site, YouTube. Facebook has the social contacts, messages, wallposts and photos of more than 750 million people.
  • The site also lists my most recent sent and received emails (in both cases a "no subject" conversation thread with a colleague).
  • The big relief comes when I note Google isn't tracking the internet searches I've made on my work account
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  • only around 29% of the information Facebook possesses on any given user is accessible through the site's tools.
  • The Facebook extended archive is a little creepier, including "poke info", each instance of tracking cookies they possess, previous names, and full login and logout info
  • Looking through anyone's list of searches gives a distressing degree of insight into odder parts of their personality.
  • how much do the internet giants really know?
  • sell us stuff
  • picked up by hackers
  • how much the internet giants know about us.
  • Google isn't totally unhelpfu
  • Every event to which I've ever been invited is neatly listed, alongside its location, time, and whether I said I would attend .
  • One piece of information – a supposed engagement to a schoolfriend, Amy Holmes – stands out. A Facebook "joke" that seemed faintly funny for about a week several years ago was undone by hiding it from any and all Facebook users, friends or otherwise (to avoid an "… is now single!" status update). The forgotten relationship helpfully explains why Facebook has served me up with badly targeted bridalwear adverts for several years, and reassures me that Facebook doesn't know quite everything.
  • This is the core of the main comfort
  • despite their mountain of data, Google and Facebook seem largely clueless, too – they've had no more luck making any sense out of it than I have. And that, for now, is a relief.
Meta Arcon

Google Glass: what it means for business | Media Network | Guardian Professional - 0 views

  • Google Glass could herald the next phase of mobile computing.
  • One of the most exciting announcements and demos from Google IO 2012 was Project Glass – Google's computerised glasses designed to let wearers use apps, capture images and video, use the internet and social networks on the move
  • Glass has a processor, memory, and a visual display that is positioned above the eye so that one is able to interact with the virtual world without inhibiting the real one. It has a camera, microphone, and speaker to capture and receive information. It has multiple radios for data communication. Glass also has gyroscopes, an accelerometer, and a compass so the device is aware of its context not only to you, but to your location in the physical world as well.
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  • But how does knowing a fact faster help us? How can near-instantaneous access to information make a difference?
  • How does a wearable mobile device such as Glass represent a step forward for business? It does so because it provides the ability to interact with relevant data, in real-time and in a collaborative fashion that has never before been possible.
Katja Kotnik

Razprava o spletu in njegovi moči: Osebni podatki so danes valuta | Dnevnik.si - 0 views

  • razprava o uporabi spleta in njegovi moči.
  • Splet je na nek način s pravnega vidika podoben odprtemu morju. Ne pripada nikomur in je hkrati od vseh,
  • največja junaka in škodljivca Facebook in Google,
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  • Na spletu se dogaja veliko slabih stvari
  • Splet je na nek način s pravnega vidika podoben odprtemu morju. Ne pripada nikomur in je hkrati od vseh,“ je poudarila. Na spletu se dogaja veliko slabih stvari.
  • Mnogi denimo tarnajo nad spletnim piratstvom in kako jih ta odnaša dobičke. Vendar Musarjeva poudarja, da bi za to morali ponuditi nove načine potrošnje, ne pa v vse povprek omejevati splet.
  • največja junaka in škodljivca Facebook in Google, saj sta tesen del naših življenj, hkrati pa zaradi svojih storitev omogočata kršitve človekovih pravic.
  • Facebook je „tretja največja država na svetu“.
  • zasebnosti na spletu
  • Pri zasebnosti je tako potrebna določena mera previdnosti. Nihče ne more odgovarjati za neumnost in naivnost uporabnikov.
  • Osebni podatki pa so danes praktično valuta. Zanje ali z njimi poslujemo.
  • splet tudi eden največjih konsenzov na svetu.
Katja Kotnik

Who controls the internet? | Jemima Kiss | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same?
  • would mean internet companies paying hefty fees to local telecoms companies, reigniting historic tensions between US internet giants and incumbent telecoms firms across the world.
  • With the world's internet population predicted to reach 3.4 billion by 2016, there is everything to play for.
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  • "Freedom to innovate on the network has been largely a consequence of its economic model and its openness."
  • "It's the absolute antithesis of the internet where the participating parties on the edge of the network pay for access to it," he said.
  • Mueller says: "We're all 'prepared to fight t
  • We're not building the kind of new institutions we need to govern the internet and keep it free."
Katja Kotnik

BBC - WebWise - Internet Basics - Internet basics - 0 views

  • internet is a worldwide network of computers
  • you can find almost anything
  • library
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  • our mobile phone company, home phone, cable television provider, or even your local supermarket chain can offer you an internet connection.
  • one that allows you to access the internet quickly and view large files, such as watching television programmes or listening to the radio through your computer.
Mateja Žnidaršič

Kitajska: Internetni ponudniki bodo lahko s spleta brisali zapise in strani z ''nezakon... - 0 views

  • Kitajska je danes zaostrila pravila uporabe interneta v državi, saj bodo morali uporabniki ponudnikom spletnih storitev za dostop do interneta zaupati svoje osebne podatke.
  • V preteklih mesecih so splet in spletna družbena omrežja uporabniki namreč uporabili za organizacijo množičnih protestov, razkrinkali pa so tudi nekaj članov komunistične stranke, ki so na spletu objavljali negativne komentarje in izražali negativna stališča.
  • družbena omrežja uporabljajo za kritiko oblasti in izpostavljanje korupcije v njeni sredi.
Katja Jerman

Rugby star's sons rack up £3,200 iPhone bill in three hours - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Rugby star's sons rack up £3,200 iPhone bill in three hours
  • Rugby star's sons rack up £3,200 iPhone bill in three hours
  • his sons, aged six and eight, were playing the game on his iPhone after memorising his password.
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  • The boys spent more than £1,000 an hour creating their own mini monsters in the popular game.
  • During this time they bought virtual food for the monsters 54 times, paying up to £69.99 a time for a “mountain of food” for each monster.
  • The app for the iPhone is free to download but various extras, known as “in-app billing”, require cash payments to move up levels and develop monsters.
  • My kids did £3,200 playing a game called tiny monsters - it was £69 for some food for virtual monsters. Absolutely disgusting
  • The cash was eventually refunded after Tiny Monsters accepted the purchases were not authorised by the user.
Katja Jerman

Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes
  • "Danny was pestering us to let him have a go on the iPad. He kept saying it was a free game so my husband put in the passcode and handed it to him.
  • "He was crying, as the rest of the children were telling him we could have bought a house with the amount he had spent.
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  • I am still going to play games when I can, but I will be careful now."
  • I'm not sure how I did it, I thought it was free.
  • turn off functionality such as purchasing from iTunes and the ability to turn off in-app purchases.
  • "It was far too easy a thing for him to do and more should be done to limit stuff like this from happening. That game is very annoying - and who would spend more than £1,700 on a game?
  • such incidents had to be reported as quickly as possible.
  • "All iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch) have built in parental controls that give parents and guardians the ability to restrict access to content, eg internet access and age rated content such as music, games, apps, TV shows, movies etc.
  • Apple have now told the family they will refund the money.
  • Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes
  • Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes
  • But after downloading the free app Danny found his way into the game's online store and innocently ordered dozens of costly add-ons - totalling £1,710.43.
Katja Jerman

Digital rights advocates wary of new 'six strikes' initiative for online piracy | Techn... - 0 views

  • The Copyright Alert System (CAS) was devised by a coalition of internet service providers (ISPs), content owners and the US government to curb illegal downloading by alerting "casual infringers" when illegal filesharing is detected on their IP address
  • Initially, the alerts are intended to be educational. They tell the customer what happened and how they can prevent it from happening again. If pirating continues to happen through the IP address, users will receive the message again, followed by messages that ask them to confirm they have seen the alerts. The fifth and sixth alert are called mitigation alerts and will temporarily slow users' internet speeds, depending on the ISP.
  • CAS has also been criticized because the person who audited the MarkMonitor software to ensure that it fairly identifies copyright violations is a former lobbyist for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), one of the industry groups fronting money for system.
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  • Jill Lesser, executive director of the Center for Copyright Information said in an interview with On the Media that the program is meant to abet the "casual infringer".
  • McSherry said that people engaged in wholesale commercial infringement wouldn't be fazed by the system because they are familiar with ways around the system.
  • The newest attempt to thwart illegal filesharing in the United States launched Monday and while the "six strikes and you're out" initiative seems to offer light penalties, digital rights advocates are concerned that it lacks transparency.
  • Copyright Alert System (CAS)
  • was devised by a coalition of internet service providers (ISPs), content owners and the US government to curb illegal downloading by alerting "casual infringers" when illegal filesharing is detected on their IP address.
  • Initially, the alerts are intended to be educational.
  • . If pirating continues to happen through the IP address, users will receive the message again, followed by messages that ask them to confirm they have seen the alerts. The fifth and sixth alert are called mitigation alerts and will temporarily slow users' internet speeds, depending on the ISP.
  • It's certainly not how we should be doing copyright policy,
  • it's a private copyright system and it doesn't have the protections and balances that the public copyright system has.
  • to ensure that it fairly identifies copyright violations is a former lobbyist
  • McSherry said that people engaged in wholesale commercial infringement wouldn't be fazed by the system because they are familiar with ways around the system
  • This failed to have a significant effect on pirating, and the industry stopped suing these type of casual users several years ago.
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Katja Jerman

Letters: Big data and big problems for personal information | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

  • describes a new product to collect and mine user data online
  • PII is a predetermined list of attributes that could identify an individual
  • personally identifiable information?
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  • Identifiably personal information (IPI, if you must) is any set of data which by inspection could lead to the identification of an individual from a group, with a given level of confidence in a given time
  • is based on solid academic work on differential privacy and security threat modelling.
  • could turn data science into data surveillance.
  • Data mining by many businesses seeks to predict trends in purchasing behaviour, monitor customer response to service delivery and assess their marketing strategy against those of their rivals.
  • The real power of social media mining is establishing a "pattern of life" from which anomalies might stand out
Katja Jerman

Facebook's new promoted-post feature sparks privacy concerns | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • new feature allows its users to promote their friends' posts
  • Facebook announced the launch of a new feature on Friday that allows users to pay to promote their friends' posts. In return for a fee, Facebook promotes the post so that more people see it
  • already sparked privacy concerns because you don't have to give your consent for a post to be promoted by one of your friends.
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  • feature is intended to be helpful to users
  • But users could just as easily promote embarrassing status updates in jest or out of cruelty.
  • applies to users with fewer than 5,000 friends and subscribers
  • pay the $7 fee
Katja Jerman

Will Apple's iWatch introduce the age of wearable technology? - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Apple is developing a smart watch as it seeks to repeat its trick with the iPhone and iPad and spur a new market
  • curved touchscreen made from a new type of flexible glass, an array of sensors to monitor exercise patterns and heart rate, “wave and pay” function, access to maps, voice control and wireless integration with the iPhone.
  • That could allow the wearer to take calls and read messages without having to delve into their pocket or bag, or mean the iphone would know when it was in its owner’s hand an unlock automatically.
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  • it is beyond the experimentation phase and heading towards production
  • that the age of “wearable technology” is nigh
  • “Apple can launch a new product like no other company because it owns its own retail channel, has privileged real estate in other retailers, and has a brand that’s recognized even by two-year-olds.”
  • There were mobile phones with internet access, mapping software and even touchscreens before the iPhone was introduced in 2007, they just failed to capture mainstream attention.
  • Likewise, wearable technology and smart watches are not Apple ideas. The firm in fact already benefits from third party wearable accessories such as the Nike FuelBand and FitBit, which link to the iPhone and track exercise.
  • All the main technologies – screens, processors, GPS, mobile software, Bluetooth wireless networking – are already mature and in mass use. The problem is cramming them into something small enough to look stylish on a wrist
  • its rival is working on a computer you wear on your face. Google Glass, a project led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, suggests a near future in which reality is augmented via a pair of spectacles with all the capabilities of a smartphone.
  • Already in public testing, Google Glass’ tiny screen projects the web into your field of vision, while “bone conduction” headphones transmit sound directly through your skull, allowing you to hear your environment at the same time through your ears.
Nuša Gregoršanec

BBC News - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the internet's future - 0 views

  • Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the internet's future
  • Censorship is the biggest threat to the development of the internet, according to Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales.
  • More than 40 countries practise censorship
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  • Wikipedia has encountered particular difficulties with censorship in the past in China. The Chinese government periodically blocked the site between 2004 and 2008, when restrictions were lifted to coincide with the Olympics.
  • What really excites Mr Wales is the idea of many people in the developing world using the internet for the first time.
  • "Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with."
  • This could have huge implications for governments which are unused to dealing with a well informed networked public. However, Mr Wales acknowledged one potential pitfall of all the extra users blogging and adding other material.
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