tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35175869592960446312024-03-19T20:11:48.223+00:00Technomanthra...........nOw hEre,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Technological UpdatesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-66776214797439077812013-02-02T09:16:00.000+00:002013-02-02T09:16:08.184+00:00Apple Overtakes Samsung as Top U.S. Mobile-Phone Vendor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Apple has become the leading U.S. mobile-phone vendor for the first time last quarter, securing a record 34% of market share, and knocking rival Samsung off the top spot.</i></div>
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<i>The Cupertino, Calif., company shipped 17.7 million phones during the fourth quarter, growing 4% annually, according to a new report by research firm Strategy Analytics. For comparison; that number jumped from 12.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, when Apple captured 25% of the market.</i></div>
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<span class="microcontent"><i>"Apple's success has been driven by its popular ecosystem of iPhones and App Store, generous carrier subsidies, and extensive marketing around the new iPhone 5 model," the report said.</i></span></div>
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<i>Samsung took second place in the last quarter of 2012, shipping 16.8 million phones for 32% market share. The Korean electronics giant had been the top mobile-phone vendor in the U.S. since 2008, but failed to fight Apple off despite what Strategy Analytics called a "good performance."</i></div>
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<i>Taking the third spot, LG shipped 4.7 million phones for 9% share.</i></div>
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<i>Overall, mobile-phone shipments grew 4% annually to 52 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 from 50.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Strategy Analytics.</i></div>
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<i>"Growth was driven by robust demand among consumers for 4G smartphones and 3G feature phones."</i></div>
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<i>This boost, however, is tempered by the fact that the U.S. mobile-phone market had shrunk during the first three quarters of 2012 due to "economic uncertainty and tighter carrier upgrade policies," the report added, saying that shipments fell 11% from 186.8 million phones in 2011 to 166.9 million in 2012.</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-49775840822572527302013-02-02T09:07:00.000+00:002013-02-02T09:07:10.014+00:00Pebble Smart Watch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>As promised at CES 2013, the Pebble smart watch starts shipping Wednesday.</i></div>
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<i>Pebble is the most successful Kickstarter project of all time, raising more than $10 million from nearly 70,000 backers. The watch works in conjunction with your smartphone, making it easy to see who is calling, control your music and receive notifications. Even better, app developers can build Pebble support into their apps, extending the watch's capabilities even more.</i></div>
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<i> the Pebble team shared the latest status on shipping and mass production.</i></div>
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<i>Pebble says that while it is working on adding shipment tracking to its account fulfillment page, it isn't there yet. Therefore, the company implores users not to start emailing about shipment tracking.</i></div>
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Today, less than 500 units will be shipped out from the factory, with more units to follow soon. Pebble has created a humorous <a href="http://www.ispebbleshipping.com/" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">IsPebbleShipping.com</a> website to keep users connected.</div>
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On the app front, the Pebble Android app will be live in Google Play on Jan. 24. The iOS app is still in review. If users get Pebble before the app hits the App Store, they'll still be able to receive notifications and music, but they won't be able to upgrade the PebbleOS or install watch faces.</div>
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As one of the backers, I can't wait to get my hands on Pebble (no pun intended). Are you excited about the Pebble? Let us know in the comments.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #660000;">The first version of Microsoft Office for Windows 8 -- Office 365 Home Premium -- is finally available. Priced at $99.95 for an annual subscription, in integrates cloud connectivity, touch and social networks into the Office experience. The apps run in the desktop environment in Windows 8</span></i></span><br />
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<i>It's been a long wait, but the first version of Microsoft Office designed for Windows 8 is here. Office 365 Home Premium (a.k.a. Office 2013) — the real thing, not the preview — is now available for download. And it brings the software suite into the world of touch, the cloud and collaboration via social networks. It's a needed upgrade, though it still isn't as convenient to use as simpler alternatives, such as Google Drive.</i></div>
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<i>As of today, Microsoft Office 2013 for consumers is available in 162 markets in 21 languages for either a $99.95 yearly subscription. The subscription lets you install Office on up to five devices (PCs, Macs or a mix), comes with 60 Skype minutes per month and 20GB of SkyDrive storage, and entitles you to continual updates to the apps for as long as you subscribe.</i></div>
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<i>You can still buy the new Office for the one-time cost of $219.99, but that only lets you install it on one machine, and you don't get the version updates. Office 365 University for college students and staff is also available for a $79.99 yearly subscription. The business version of Office, which is priced a bit higher and includes deeper integration with Microsoft's enterprise software, won't arrive until Feb. 27.</i></div>
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<i>Today, only the Windows apps are getting a refresh. The Mac apps are still the 2011 versions, and don't have the new features in Office 2013 — cloud collaboration for instance, can only be done via the Office web apps. The Mac version of a major Office update typically lags the Windows one by several months, but it often gets a few extras when it finally arrives.</i></div>
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<i><span class="microcontent">The most powerful change to Office in the new edition is that it's made with connectivity in mind.</span> It starts with how you get it: No longer do you need to go to a store and buy a package with a disc inside (though you still can) — a purchase gets you product code. Enter the code, and you're taken to an account screen where you can download the Office apps and manage your Skype minutes storage, and authorize (or de-authorize) your five devices running the software. It's all very logical.</i></div>
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<i>Downloading the apps takes a little while (it took my Samsung Series 7 tablet about 15 minutes), but you can start using them sooner than that. I fired up Word and began typing my notes for this review just a couple of minutes into the download.</i></div>
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<i>Connection to the cloud — mainly via Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud service — is a constant presence in the new Office. Once you've connected your account, the default save location is SkyDrive, which also enables sharing and collaborating with others.</i></div>
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<i>Microsoft was already using the cloud with Office 365, of course, but now the integration goes deeper. You can work on a SkyDrive document within the native Word app, for instance (as opposed to the browser), and it will even indicate if anyone else is editing the document at the time. If you want to ask what they're doing, it's easy to initiate an IM, call or Skype them without leaving the app.</i></div>
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<i>The way Office 2013 works with the cloud is excellent, though I had a couple of issues with it: Word still needs any edits to be manually saved before they show up for other collaborators. It's a stark change for anyone used to Google Drive's real-time edits that just magically appear.</i></div>
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<i>Second — and this is a greater problem — I found editing in Word noticeably slows down when working on a SkyDrive-stored document, even when no one else was working on it. It's not a lot, but it's enough to just default to saving locally. Of course, that eliminates the possibility of collaboration and other advantages.</i></div>
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<i>Generally, though, greater connectivity was a needed upgrade for Office, and I hope Microsoft continues to improve it. Now it's possible to, say, insert a YouTube video into a Word document. Excel tables can be populated with real-time data. PowerPoint has slide templates that are continually updated via the Internet.</i></div>
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<i>The apps that constitute Office have evolved over the years, but the core is still Word, Excel and PowerPoint. All of them have a new Spartan look that eschews the old toolbars for a revamped navigation across the top. Things like File, Home, Insert and View are all there, and tapping (or clicking) on one calls up a ribbon of clearly labeled icons. It's all very neat.</i></div>
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<i>If you've ever tried to insert something like a photo into a Word doc, you know why page-layout apps like Adobe InDesign exist. Word 2013 does inserts better than any previous version, though, adjusting text wraps in real time as you move your object (be it photo, clip art or video). Options for inserting online images and videos are right in the menus.</i></div>
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<i><span class="microcontent">One of the best changes in Word 2013 is the rethink of Track Changes.</span> Editors know this function well, and many secretly dread the way it turns documents into strikethrough-laden mush with comments pop-ups everywhere. The new Word gives you an easy way to remove the markings from view while simultaneously consolidating those pop-up conversations.</i></div>
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<i>Even better, you can now protect documents with a password, ensuring users can't make changes outside of using Track Changes. If you're used to the old way the feature worked, it's a little panicky when you make your first change and don't see the familiar strikethrough, but the mess is now under control.</i></div>
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<i>Finally, a lifesaver: Word can now also edit PDFs, just like you would any other document. When you're done, you have the option to save as a PDF or a Word doc.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Excel and PowerPoint Rise</i></span></h2>
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<i>Excel's new big "wow" feature is Flash Fill. In the "tour," the app takes a table full of email addresses, formatted "firstname.lastname@wherever.com," and invites you to create a new column with just the first names. Start typing the first one, nothing happens. Start typing the second, and Excel figures out what you're doing and automatically fills out the rest of the column. The first time this happens, you might actually cheer.</i></div>
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<i>However, it's a situation that I had a hard time replicating, usefulness-wise. This could be just me, but most of my tables I have don't have similarly formatted data, ripe for extrapolated partitioning. Still, it could save loads of time if you're doing a data "cleanup" — say getting contact information out of an old address book.</i></div>
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<i>Far more useful, I think, are Excel's Suggested Charts and Instant Analysis. Got data? Excel can suggest several different kinds of tables that will be appropriate for it. I found its choices, like the chart below, to be very good, generally, needing only style adjustments and proper titles to make them truly pretty. It's a bit humbling when an app has better instinct than you, but I've never claimed to be a chart guy.</i></div>
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<i>Instant Analysis is a great tool: Highlight your table and it can tell you which data points are the top performers, which fall below a certain threshold or what the totals are when each column is summed. It can even create temporary mini charts on the fly.</i></div>
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<i>PowerPoint's best new feature is Presenter View. This is a feature that already exists in other apps like Apple's Keynote, and Microsoft has done a good job building this for touch. When you connect your PC to an external monitor, Presenter View shows you a screen with the miniaturized slide along with your own notes and the time elapsed. You can use gestures to enlarge things or jump (just yourself) ahead in the presentation.</i></div>
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<i>These are just a few of the highlights of Office 2013, but they give you a feel of the direction Microsoft is heading in. Office has been a the go-to suite for core productivity apps for going on two decades, but it's overall experience felt tired and inflexible in the world of real-time collaboration with services such as Google Apps, Dropbox and OpenOffice.</i></div>
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<i>With Office 2013, Microsoft has caught up with its competitors, but it hasn't surpassed them.</i></div>
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<i><span class="microcontent">With Office 2013, Microsoft has caught up with its competitors, but it hasn't surpassed them.</span> It still needs to polish its experience (improving performance while saving to the cloud would be a big help) and make the experience even more inviting. Office certainly still has its edge on features and formatting — and the new layout is pretty — but it still has an intimidation factor.</i></div>
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<i>The reason you should upgrade and get the new version, however, isn't the cloud integration or the cool new features. It's the subscription model. Spending $99.95 a year on a suite of world-class productivity apps that you can install on five machines — complete with cloud integration and continual updates — is simply a good deal.</i></div>
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<i>Yes, you can arguably have Google Apps on an unlimited number of machines for free, but if you're like me, you'll at one point or another long for a Word formatting option or Excel pivot table. Although Microsoft's cloud integration isn't as good as Google's, you'll also never have the frustration of not being able to work because the connection to the server was "too busy." If you've ever felt adrift in the cloud, at the mercy of the changing winds of the Internet, Office 2013 will keep you safely tethered to the ground.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>The neurosurgeons of tomorrow can hone some of the necessary skills on the iPad, thanks to a new training app called VCath.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>Developed by Bangor University in the U.K, the free iPad app helps neurosurgeons-in-training master an appreciation of the ventricular system in the brain.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>The VCath app is designed to take a neurosurgical trainee through the steps of positioning and inserting a catheter into the brain of a virtual 3D patient. These steps are part of a procedure called “Ventricular Catheterisation,” which is used to drain fluid that has become obstructed within the ventricles of the brain.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>Inserting a catheter at the correct orientation and depth so that it punctures the ventricles is critical to a successful outcome for the patient, notes VCath’s developer. It requires the neurosurgeon to have an excellent 3D awareness as the anatomy involved is not visible during the procedure.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>“VCath is an exciting new iPad application which allows trainees to learn the basic theoretical and practical skills of ventricular catheterisation in a realistic simulated environment,” said William Gray, professor of Functional Neurosurgery at the Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University.</i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;">This over-the-top looking setup gives you a comfy ergonomic leather seating unit with touch-screen controls, and a view to kill with three computer displays positioned just right for you to lean back and enjoy.</span></i><br /><span style="color: #343333;"><img alt="" class="alignright" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYkFr6HN-9Q5I5IBG0F1zXwY-FplSx11n268y2gUTW4risqCJbFWhESgEG4RIJ2nPYSALEDspPUWpJHncs_sGWE4bpWIkNMni-deKaYZhkXmBufzJMOKpGf0I4U2EkWl_-RzcK-lkx92V/s1600/emperor_200.1.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0px;" width="590px" /></span><br /><span style="color: #343333;"><span id="more-971"></span></span><br /><span style="color: #343333;">The whole thing is motorized too, so you can adjust the angle of your environment without getting up out of your chair. 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<i><span style="color: #666666;">Our present need for internet connectivity is so profound that secondary devices like the Nextep Computer are bound to happen. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible. Ten years from now is not too far away, so how many of you think we’d be buying such gadgets?</span></i><br /><span style="color: #343333;"><span id="more-28057"></span></span><br /><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Designer: Hiromi Kiriki</span></i><br /><span style="color: #343333;"><img alt="Latest Sony Computers 1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-28058" height="682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVK_QdfWQqhPdQTt7EQp80_W1ZGga2NsTgR7AnQ4IIPLCJfYQ2LMNJNte5Dq2XpJoZZKmHRF4DckPslLD4qWovQpqoOvd6iQDCts49VKKmYEKtUMDYBb98A1o2uysCFJES9pep42I3loLL/s1600/Latest+Sony+Computers+1.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0px;" title="Latest Sony Computers 1" width="605" /></span><br /><span style="color: #343333;"><img alt="Latest Sony Computers 2" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-28066" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEien_ZtqEEirrSYpGMHJK8pAjP5sSxRSEWnHuBvldbrDzAAQ8aAr1JB97kx6kC8uq_Xroyk9sWW6FD8gDEaD7cat00-DVzrsGEpRMUgRWFtVlY560YFykfbe41q-AN8oeJl8IWumjk-dfWW/s1600/Latest+Sony+Computers+2.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; 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Can you make the robocalls stop? It might be worth $50,000.</div>
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday kicked off its FTC Robocall Challenge, which will offer $50,000 to the person or team who can come up with a way to stop annoying, robotic calls.</div>
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"The FTC is attacking illegal robocalls on all fronts, and one of the things that we can do as a government agency is to tap into the genius and technical expertise among the public," David Vladeck, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement. "We think this will be an effective approach in the case of robocalls because the winner of our challenge will become a national hero."</div>
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The FTC will start accepting challenges on Oct. 25 at 5 p.m. Eastern and the submission period will run until Jan. 17 at 5 p.m. Winners will be announced in April.</div>
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Judges for the challenge are Steve Bellovin, FTC Chief Technologist, Henning Schulzrinne, Federal Communications Commission Chief Technologist, and Kara Swisher of All Things D. They will give a Best Overall Solution prize to an individual or team of fewer than 10 people based on the following criteria: does it work? (50 percent); can it be rolled out? (25 percent); and is it easy to use? (25 percent).</div>
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Teams of more than 10 people can apply for the FTC's Technology Achievement Award, which does not include a cash prize.</div>
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For those who have questions, the FTC will host two, one-hour social media chats. The team will be answering questions via its @FTC Twitter feed at 1 p.m. Eastern on Oct. 25, and will switch to Facebook at 2 p.m. For more, see the challenge's official rules and FAQs.</div>
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Commercial robocalls deliver recorded sales messages, many of which are deceptive, according to the FTC. In some cases they are illegal under the FTC's 2009 Telemarketing Sales Rule, unless the call recipient has given permission for that business to contact them.</div>
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Earlier this week, meanwhile, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules that ban robocalling equipment from contacting Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) - or 911 call centers that receive emergency calls.</div>
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"By some estimates, hundreds or even thousands of unwanted robocalls are made to PSAPs each day, tying up public safety phone lines and diverting critical first responder resources away from the provision of emergency services," the FCC said.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-76525000868411310082012-10-21T11:55:00.005+01:002012-10-21T11:55:58.500+01:00iPod Saves Soldiers Life<br />
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Photos sent back home by ‘Danny’ with this caption:</div>
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My wife’s uncle works in a military hospital and told me about this. Its pretty amazing. Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq (Tikrit I believe) and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side.<br />
The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hit in the left chest where his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did</blockquote>
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Another reason why everyone should have an iPod!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-36721592463337884412012-10-21T11:47:00.000+01:002012-10-21T11:47:02.012+01:00How to Replace your iPhone 3G/3GS Glass, Digitizer and/or LCD<br />
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After about 3 years of dropping my iPhone 3G on various occasions, a drop onto the tile floor at Atomic HQ did her in:</div>
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I made a trip to the Apple store to talk to one of those certified Genius dudes. Pretty impressive Apple can draw people with such amazingly high IQs to sell their products?!?</div>
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Anyways, my genius was actually very helpful, although I found out that to have them fix it, I would have to pay $100, and they would basically replace the entire front assembly (glass, touchscreen, LCD, button, speaker). My other option was to go ahead and take advantage of my upgrade to an iPhone 4, though I know that the iPhone 5 is due out this Fall, and even the Genius was honest enough to point out that it would be best if I could wait. So I started looking for DIY options…</div>
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I found the glass and touchscreen together for $2.00 through Amazon! I ordered it, along with a toolkit that gives you the 3 necessary tools to go the surgery for another $1.60. Later I learned that the the glass/touchscreen kit I ordered came with the tools as well, though I wasn’t too saddened that I spent an extra $1.60. I was also told, to my surprise, that according to Apple store policy, I could bring any failed DIY attempts to the store and they would still fix it. Therefore, I decided to take the plunge and try to fix it myself.</div>
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I found the video below, which is actually pretty well done, though the guy in the video has done this before, and makes it look a little too easy. Basically, you do the following:</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shut phone off (Duh?!?)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Take the SIM card out (that gives you your phone number and service from your provider)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Take 2 screws out (don’t lose them!)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use the suction cup provided in the tool kit to pull the glass/lcd assembly out of the phone (be gentle, and watch the video!)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Disconnect the 3 small (delicate) cables</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remove the LCD from the assembly by taking out 6 more screws (keep these separate from the others, due to differing size)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use a hair dryer or heat gun to soften the adhesive that hold the glass to its frame (on LOW!! more later…)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clean off the broken bits and pieces of old glass</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use the adhesive sticker provided to attach the new glass</li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BE PATIENT AND GENTLE!! (my biggest problem)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are skeptical of your abilities to do the glass replacement, spend the few extra bucks to get the entire cover assembly (below)</strong></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I failed step 7 by getting too impatient that the adhesive wasn’t getting soft enough, and I used a heat gun for too long, which ended up resulting in melting the little dimple under the home button that rendered it nearly inoperable.</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I must have not reattached the cable to the LCD fully, and I ended up frying it!!! I had to order a replacement LCD for another $23 (and a new home button assembly for $0.60)</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you’re an idiot like me and fry your LCD, the LCD kit you will receive will have a new LCD frame and the LCD itself which comes with an adhesive sticker to attach to the frame.</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The LCD, if you are replacing it, is very fragile. I was pressing down on it to make sure it was secured to the frame, and I cracked by brand new LCD! In the end, it still works fine, but has a tiny wrinkle in the image which has mostly disappeared (whew!)</li>
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All in all, I was surprised how easy the process was, though I would have been a bit more careful in order to avoid the second round of repairs. I especially had fun digging into the guts of the iPhone to see how they jam all that good stuff in there to make it work. If you feel up to the challenge, best of luck! Just BE PATIENT!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-27707851291347687432012-10-20T13:52:00.002+01:002012-10-20T13:52:23.400+01:00Fake Intel Core i7 CPU<img alt="Fake Intel Core i7 CPU - Perfectly Normal?" src="http://www.extremetech.com/media/images/222131-fake-intel-core-i7-cpu---perfectly-normal-.jpg" /><br />
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<span class="slideTitle" style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Fake Intel Core i7 CPU – Perfectly Normal?</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">From the outside the box looks perfectly normal… right?</span><br />
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<img alt="Fake Intel Core i7 CPU - Label" src="http://www.extremetech.com/media/images/222132-fake-intel-core-i7-cpu---label.jpg" /></div>
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<span class="slideTitle">Fake Intel Core i7 CPU – Label</span></div>
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Zoom in on the label, and you see some of the problems immediately. What exactly is a “sochet,” anyway? (And the Intel logo is stamped into the hologram at the upper-left.)</div>
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<img alt="Fake Intel Core i7 CPU - Back of Box" src="http://www.extremetech.com/media/images/222133-fake-intel-core-i7-cpu---back-of-box.jpg" /></div>
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<span class="slideTitle">Fake Intel Core i7 CPU – Back of Box</span></div>
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The back of the box. Note that this CPU supports Hyper.Threading.</div>
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<span class="slideTitle">Fake Intel Core i7 CPU – Back of Box 2</span></div>
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Another look inside the box, showing the “heat sink and fan” inside.</div>
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<span class="slideTitle">Fake Intel Core i7 CPU – Box Opened</span></div>
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A closer look at the fan and heat sink. It would be pretty hard to use this molded plastic unit for anything. And the manual? Unsurprisingly, a sheaf of blank pages stapled together.</div>
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<span class="slideTitle">Fake Intel Core i7 CPU – “Heat Sink”</span></div>
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A closer look at the molded plastic “heat sink” included in the box.</div>
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<img alt="Fake Intel Core i7 CPU - "Processor" Front" src="http://www.extremetech.com/media/images/222245-fake-intel-core-i7-cpu----processor--front.jpg" /></div>
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<span class="slideTitle">Fake Intel Core i7 CPU – “Processor” Front</span></div>
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From the top, the processor in the package looks totally legit.</div>
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Fake Intel Core i7 CPU – “Processor” Rear</div>
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The underside of the processor is somewhat less convincing however. Is that lead?</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-21359157342119319522012-10-20T13:37:00.005+01:002012-10-20T13:37:58.494+01:00Built to last: Computer systems that simply cannot fail<br />
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A failing computer system can be a problem in some settings, but it’s catastrophic in others. No one likes when their computer crashes out while in the middle of an overnight render, but the cost of that delay is nothing compared to a failure in a mission-critical environment, such as in a hospital, on a satellite, or, in the case of Curiosity, on another planet entirely. These extraordinary settings have led to the creation of specialized computer systems that are designed to work in high-demand situations, often for years on end. They are, not surprisingly, some of the most interesting computer systems out there.<img alt="Space shuttle Endeavour's flight deck" height="426" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Endeavour-640x426.jpg" width="640" /></div>
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Hospital equipment, first and foremost, must be immune to fluctuations on mains power.Static transfer switches can switch power to backup batteries within a single cycle of a 60Hz mains power failure, and provide seamless emergency power for the few seconds it takes for the generators to be started. Inductive spikes from switching compressor motors need to be filtered or blocked with isolation transformers as well. But these devices do not protect against glitches occurring at more localized levels, which can reset instruments, often freezing or restarting them in an unpredictable state.</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Operating-Room.jpg" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Operating Room -- lots of computers!" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-138176" height="443" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Operating-Room-640x443.jpg" style="border-style: none;" title="Operating Room -- lots of computers!" width="640" /></a></div>
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Precision robots which assist surgeons during operations are large integrated systems often having several computers managing high speed FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) and DSPs (digital signal processors). The Da Vinci surgical system has 7 degrees of freedom and at least as many servo controllers. As a result of many subsystems having different supply requirements, the overall system ends up being designed with tight voltage supply specs and therefore needs sufficient buffering against fluctuations that exceed a few percent.</div>
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An even more insidious threat to healthcare/medical tablet computers and Windows PC-based computer systems found in hospital equipment, is infection with conventional malware. Due to strict regulations, manufacturers frequently cannot allow OS security patches or updates leaving many computers vulnerable, with the result that many infected instruments run slower, and many others are shelved altogether.</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rad750-bae-systems.jpg" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="The RAD750 radiation hardened computer, as found in Curiosity and other spacecraft" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-138276" height="500" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rad750-bae-systems-640x500.jpg" style="border-style: none;" title="The RAD750 radiation hardened computer, as found in Curiosity and other spacecraft" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Computers in spacecraft have their own unique set of challenges. In addition to requiring real-time low latency control for maneuvering and communication, spacecraft also need to be hardened against the effects of cosmic rays and other forms of radiation. Shielding is simple and effective but is prohibitive because of its weight. Therefore efforts have been focused on making the chips themselves resistant to radiation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">FPGAs are frequently found in spacecraft due to their speed and computational efficiency in performing tasks like fast Fourier transforms and beam-forming in communications. They do not require code like a microcontroller, instead they write a particular computation directly into their logic gates. FPGAs based on SRAM can be reconfigured at will, however the same technology which makes them possible also makes them vulnerable to radiation. A charge deposited on a control structure like a transistor can induce it to momentarily change state. If it is part of a persistent circuit like a flip-flop or RAM cell the change can be permanent. One-time programmable FPGAs based on anti-fuse tech</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">nology are much more resistant but can be over ten times the initial cost.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mars-curiosity-rover.jpg" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Mars Exploration Rover Curiosity" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-89024" height="426" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mars-curiosity-rover-640x426.jpg" style="border-style: none;" title="Mars Exploration Rover Curiosity" width="640" /></a></div>
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The microprocessors and memory in spacecraft also need to be able to withstand radiation. The RAD750 PowerPC in Curiosity’s flight computer was designed to survive for 15 yearsbefore intervention is required from Earth. These chips are slower than some newer systems but NASA has been using them successfully for some time and likes to stay with what works. Curiosity’s computers run a real-time operating system, VxWorks, which it has used on two previous rovers. The VxWorks microkernel is reportedly better optimized for minimal interrupt and thread switching latency than the the monolithic RTLinux kernel, although it is not as fast overall.</div>
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A final consideration for failure resistant computers in spacecraft would be that if they do encounter significant trouble, they should have provision either to be remotely rebooted or some mechanism to be rebooted on-board. With proper consideration to input power fluctuations, interrupt latency (or jitter, variation over time), and external insults such as radiation, computer systems can be designed to be arbitrarily robust.</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1269891719_r31_0000.jpg" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="DARPA's Crusher autonomous vehicle, powered by QNX" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-138278" height="409" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1269891719_r31_0000-640x409.jpg" style="border-style: none;" title="DARPA's Crusher autonomous vehicle, powered by QNX" width="640" /></a></div>
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The examples above represent but a small portion of the range of mission critical systems in service everyday. Other real-time operating systems like QNX, now owned by RIM, can be found in drones and military vehicles like the Crusher tank (pictured above). Recently the security of the Boeing 747 engine control system running Solaris was questioned; engineers on the ground apparently could access control systems for re-tuning en-route. In this case, secure protocols like SSH were not compatible with the parts of the existing software, and insecure Telnet was still being used.</div>
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As the tentacles of internet more intimately weave into military and civilian infrastructures, new concerns will present themselves, and increasing vigilance will be required to keep computer systems fail-safe.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-50868528625792179082012-10-20T13:28:00.000+01:002012-10-20T13:28:21.745+01:00SoftBank buys eAccess to create global LTE band, eyes up Sprint and MetroPCS<br />
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Early last week, SoftBank, owner of Japan’s third largest mobile network operator, announced that it is in the process of acquiring eAccess. eAccess owns Japan’s fourth largest mobile network operator, E-Mobile. Through acquiring E-Mobile, SoftBank Mobile will become the second largest mobile network operator, surpassing au by KDDI (its closest competitor, the current number two).</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/extremetech-softbank-and-emobile-348x196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="extremetech-softbank-and-emobile" border="0" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/extremetech-softbank-and-emobile-348x196.jpg" /></a>While last week was focused more onT-Mobile acquiring MetroPCS, this announcement is no less of a shake up in the wireless industry. Japan’s industry is far more concentrated than the United States, containing just four wireless companies for the whole country. NTT Docomo, au by KDDI, SoftBank, and E-Mobile. Foreigners who’ve used wireless services in Japan from 2003 to 2006 would know of SoftBank Mobile by its older name: Vodafone, as it used to be Vodafone Japan before the Vodafone Group sold it to SoftBank.</div>
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While NTT Docomo has two thirds of the subscriber base in Japan, the rest is divided up among au by KDDI, SoftBank, and E-Mobile. E-Mobile has been the typical maverick, offering plans that seem outrageously generous by competitors, while SoftBank has been aggressive in offering typical plans at lower rates and catering to those in the international community that visit or stay in Japan by offering special services for foreigners.</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cell-tower1.jpg" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="A tall cell tower" class="alignright size-full wp-image-137781" height="424" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cell-tower1.jpg" style="border-style: none; float: right; padding-left: 10px;" title="A tall cell tower" width="283" /></a>While most of the information presented by SoftBank isn’t very interesting, there was one unique tidbit: SoftBank plans to reconfigure E-Mobile’s UMTS band IX (1.7GHz) network into a global band for LTE. The presentation didn’t make it immediately clear which global band it was referring to, so we contacted SoftBank about it.</div>
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According to Matsuhiro Kurano of SoftBank Group Public Relations, SoftBank intends to reconfigure E-Mobile’s 1.7GHz network into a DCS (1.8GHz, band class 3) LTE network to support more global LTE devices. In particular, the iPhone 5 supports this band, as well as nearly all LTE devices sold in Europe and mainland Asia. The reason it can do this is because UMTS band IX is made up of frequencies entirely on the upper half of the global DCS band.</div>
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By making the network compatible for DCS LTE equipment, SoftBank makes its network much more attractive to foreigners who want to use their devices on its network. Japanese subscribers will soon be able to import a wide selection of European and Asian LTE devices and use it on SoftBank’s network. Finally, it opens Japan up to LTE roaming with SoftBank by European and Asian network operators.</div>
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By adding E-Mobile’s DCS-compatible spectrum, SoftBank will be able to offer support for HSPA+ devices that work on 900MHz (band VIII) and 2100MHz (band I), FD-LTE devices that work on 1800MHz (band class 3) and 2100MHz (band class 1). Separately, SoftBank will soon also be able to offer support for TD-LTE devices on 2500MHz (band class 41, the same band that Clearwire will use).</div>
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Oddly enough, SoftBank is still calling the DCS band 1.7GHz, though the common frequency name is 1.8GHz. This is potentially because the uplink frequencies in the DCS band are actually in the 1.7GHz range. This is also for the same reason that the uplink frequencies for AWS are called 1.7GHz as well (more specifically, the lower half of the DCS uplink frequencies is used for AWS uplink frequencies).</div>
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By and large, this is a very smart move for SoftBank. It beefs up its subscriber base to jump up to the number two spot and get better, more unique devices. It also gives SoftBank an additional 10,000 cell sites to be able to beef up capacity quickly, too. And finally, it allows it to further its own objectives in growing its business in the unique way that it has over the years.</div>
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Finally, we should also point out that SoftBank is in talks with Sprint Nextel to buy as much as 70% of the US company, which would make it the third largest mobile carrier in the world. Since the news broke, SoftBank’s stock price has plunged 17%, signaling a lack of support from Japanese investors — while Sprint’s stock surged 14% higher in the US. SoftBank is also apparently interested in MetroPCS, another US mobile carrier. Both acquisitions combined would cost the Japanese carrier around $25 billion.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-39642168577055063672012-10-20T13:21:00.004+01:002012-10-20T13:21:52.242+01:00New encryption method avoids hacks by saving your password in multiple locations<br />
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One of the central problems in modern computer security is the need to protect an ever-increasing amount of user data from an enormous array of potential threats. Researchers at the security firm RSA have proposed a new method of securing passwords from database hacks: breaking them into pieces and storing them in separation locations. From the user’s perspective, nothing would change — you’d visit a website, type your password, and log in normally.</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/password-magnifying-glass-348x196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Password hashes" border="0" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/password-magnifying-glass-348x196.jpg" /></a>Server-side authentication, however, would be considerably different. Currently, when you transmit a password to a website, the password is typically hashed or encrypted in some fashion. The server doesn’t actually store your password in plaintext, but the encrypted value of your password. Cryptographic hashing functions are theoretically reversible, but well-designed hashes are impossible to brute-force within reasonable amounts of time, using conventional hardware. The problem with this approach is it looks good in theory, but is often flawed in practice.</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/passwordEncryption.png" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Password encryption" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-137609" height="208" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/passwordEncryption-300x208.png" style="border-style: none; float: right; padding-left: 10px;" title="Password encryption" width="300" /></a>What RSA is proposing is a system that would break a password into two halves, and then store each half in different locations — perhaps on a different hard disk in the same data center, or maybe on the other side of the world. The separate versions are then hashed again to create a new string. The two password servers would then compare the new string to determine if the hash values match. If they do, the password is legitimate. If they don’t, the login fails.</div>
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Splitting the password between multiple servers ensures that if one server was compromised, the hackers would gain nothing but halved hash values with no way to combine them into an appropriate authentication scheme. Without knowledge of the second combination function, there’s no way to reverse engineer the hashes back to plaintext. The halved password hashes themselves would refresh periodically, further limiting the usefulness of a database hack.</div>
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As for the real-world impact of such an approach, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that RSA’s method of splitting and combining password hashes would have prevented attacks, like the one that hit LinkedIn, from having any security consequences. The bad news is that the method itself is only as good as the specifics of its implementation (LinkedIn’s own security was poorly implemented) and it can’t address individual account compromises that arise from malware infections (i.e. user error).</div>
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This last issue highlights one of the most frustrating facts about online security. The size and scope of the technical attack vectors is overwhelming and shifts on a yearly basis as new methods are discovered or come into vogue. Still, the RSA approach does at least close one potential loophole, and it’s scalable. The current implementation uses two servers, but the method could be deployed across four or more separate locations.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-9837859223071616872012-10-19T17:06:00.004+01:002012-10-19T17:06:41.887+01:00Breaking the Surface: How Microsoft set out to build the world’s best tablet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At an exclusive press event in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft has given a handful of journalists an insider’s view on how the Surface tablet was conceived, designed, tested, and manufactured. If you had any lingering doubts about the seriousness of Microsoft’s entry into the PC hardware market, they will be banished in the next three hundred words.<img alt="Building a Surface tablet from parts" height="353" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/building-a-surface-tablet-from-parts-640x353.jpg" width="640" /></div>
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According to Steven Sinofsky, work on the Surface tablet began way back in the summer of 2009, as Microsoft began to shift its focus from Windows 7 to Windows 8 — and before the release of the first iPad in spring 2010, incidentally. Microsoft already knew at that point that Windows 8 would be more touch-friendly than Windows 7, and to show the world (and its OEMs) that touch is a viable input method, it decided to make a showcase tablet. I’m not entirely sure that I buy the veracity of this story, but we’ll give Sinofsky the benefit of the doubt.</div>
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What followed was a lot of prototyping — hundreds of potential designs that iterated through varying dimensions and screen sizes. 10.1 inches was deemed too cramped for Windows 8′s split-screen mode, while 11.1 inches was apparently too unwieldy. After much testing, 10.6 inches at 16:9 was picked as the Goldilocks size — big enough for split-screen and a generously proportioned keyboard, but not too large for a hand-held device. Because 10.6 inches is a “non-standard” size, Microsoft claims that it had to make the display itself — though again, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft has actually invested billions of dollars in an LCD production line. It may have invested in one of Asia’s screen makers, though, such as Sharp or LG.</div>
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Beyond actual size, Microsoft was at pains to point out that the Surface RT’s low resolution (1366×768) doesn’t necessarily mean that overall image quality is lower than the iPad 3 (which has a 2048×1536 display). Microsoft says that the Surface’s display is optically bonded — a technique where the LCD and front glass are all bonded into a single package. This lowers the screen’s penchant for reflecting/refracting light, and can also increase brightness and contrast. Bonded displays are common in smartphones, but because the process is difficult (and thus prone to breakages) it isn’t generally used with larger LCD panels. The iPad 3 doesn’t feature a bonded display, while the Surface does.</div>
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Beyond the <em>display</em>, Microsoft has given us very few details, except for the photo below of the main logic board. We are still running on the information from the June unveil — that the Surface RT tablet sports a quad-core Tegra 3 SoC — even if it would make a lot more sense if there was a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro inside.</div>
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A lot of work went into the Surface’s chassis, too, with the design team trying out a range of materials before settling on magnesium. All told, the Surface RT at 676 grams and 9.3mm thick isn’t the lightest or thinnest tablet out there, but Microsoft says that it <em>feels </em>lighter due to its internal weight distribution (the battery, the logic board). We’ve also heard a lot about those beveled edges, which are chamfered at exactly 22 degrees — apparently the ideal angle for hand holding.</div>
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Both the magnetic hinge on the bottom of the device (where the keyboard covers attach) and the kickstand both required a lot of engineering work, too. More custom parts had to be fabricated — and for the kickstand, there is actually a specific component whose sole purpose is to create a satisfying click sound when pulled out or stowed.</div>
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Other than the kickstand, the most intriguing aspect of Surface is the 3mm-thick Touch Cover — a cover that doubles as an ultra-thin keyboard and touchpad. When unfurled, with the kickstand in place, Microsoft claims that the Touch Cover provides a typing experience that far outstrips on-screen tablet typing. Unfortunately, Microsoft still seems very uneasy about letting outsiders try it out — at the June unveil, the Touch Covers were simply plastic stand-ins, and at the event in Redmond we were only given a few minutes to try it out, while Microsoft says it will take users a few <em>days </em>to get used to it. Our initial impression is that the Touch Cover is definitely better than typing on a solid touchscreen, but more testing is required.</div>
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Overall, Microsoft definitely gives us the impression that a lot of effort went into <em>making</em> the Surface tablet — and given “>the $500 price point and $1.5 billion marketing budget, it would seem that Microsoft is putting just as much effort into <em>selling</em> it. As far as Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM) is concerned, though, there are still huge question marks over the size and quality of the app ecosystem. Microsoft has produced an attractive, solid-feeling tablet that can go toe-to-toe with the iPad on a hardware level — but if that was enough, then why are full-size Android tablets still an endangered species?</div>
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Apple sold five million iPhone 5 smartphones on its opening weekend in September, making it fastest selling phone of all time — and yet, astonishingly, this figure was belowanalyst expectations, causing Apple’s stock price to plummet almost 10% in the last month, slicing $60 billion off the market capitalization of the world’s most valuable company. The cause? The easily-scuffed anodized aluminium chassis.<img alt="An iPhone 5 that was scuffed out of the box" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-scuffs-640x353.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f4f5; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 229); margin: 0px 4px 4px 0px; padding: 6px;" /></div>
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While five million units is a massive figure, analysts had actually expected Apple to sell between 7 and 10 million iPhone 5s on its first weekend. The shortfall was a result of Apple running out of stock — and according to a report from Bloomberg, the lack of stock is being caused by a “quality-control crackdown” at Foxconn to reduce the number of devices shipped with scratches and scuffs.</div>
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This is a rather interesting turn of events, given that Apple’s only official response to the Scuffgate scandal was to say that the scratches and scuffs are “normal.” In its usual infallible fashion, it would seem that Apple is refusing to publicly admit that the iPhone 5 is faulty — and yet the company is feverishly working behind the scenes to ensure that the jewel in its crown ships in perfect condition.</div>
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A rigorousquality-control process is only a temporary solution, though: Devices might arrive in perfect condition, but the iPhone 5 will still get scuffed during everyday use. Really, if Bloomberg’s report is accurate, this is Apple’s implicit admission that the anodized aluminium chassis is inherently easy to scuff — but of course, it can’t say that publicly without issuing aproduct recall .</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ipad-mini.jpg" style="color: #b1700a; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="iPad Mini" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-137710" height="300" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ipad-mini-300x300.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f4f5; border: 1px none rgb(227, 228, 229); float: right; margin: 0px 4px 4px 0px; padding: 6px 6px 6px 10px;" title="iPad Mini" width="300" /></a>According to Bloomberg, Apple executives were quick to complain to Foxconn following reports that its flagship device was damaged out of the box. Foxconn, the Chinese company that produces the chassis and assembles the iPhone 5, was quick to enact tighter quality control — but as a result, there now aren’t enough aluminium chassis to keep Foxconn’s production lines at full production. Bloomberg even goes as far as saying that Foxconn has idled some of its factories — a claim that Foxconn denies. Foxconn/Apple will eventually get on top of supply issues, but for now analysts have significantly reduced their sales predictions for the September and December quarters.</div>
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In other news, the iPad Mini rumor is back, fueled by leaks from peripheral makers — and photos of a smaller, 8-inch iPad with the new Lightning connector. If the rumors are to be believed, Apple was meant to send out invites on October 10, for an iPad Mini release as early as next week. October 10 has come and gone without a peep from Apple, though, so it would seem that Google and Amazon can relax… for now.</div>
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The advent of high-speed, low-power wireless radio technology over the past decade has been one of the great technology stories of the early 21st century. As wireless devices have proliferated, however, total demand for frequencies in the relevant portions of the electromagnetic spectrum have skyrocketed. Balancing the current and future needs of corporations, citizens, and the government without kowtowing to protectionism or risking the performance of current systems isextremely difficult.</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/VLC1-348x196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="VLC1" border="0" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/VLC1-348x196.jpg" /></a>That’s where Harald Haas, a German physicist and professor with the University of Edinburgh, hopes to make a difference. Rather than attempting to balance the convoluted technical requirements of an increasing array of radios, Haas proposes we use light. His company, PureVLC (Visible Light Communication) is working to commercialize <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/tag/leds" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;">LED</a> systems that transmit data through variations in light intensity that Haas claims are undetectable to the human eye and will one day be capable of hitting 1Gbps.</div>
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In theory, this approach could solve a lot of problems. The visible light spectrum is 10,000x larger than the radio spectrum, it wouldn’t interfere with the operation of other devices, and data connections would be inherently more secure. In a TED talk last year, Haas demonstrated a system prototype, and used a desk lamp (retrofitted with the appropriate LED equipment) to stream an HD movie in real time.</div>
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Haas’ achievements are impressive, but the technology isn’t quite as futuristic as it seems. The first VLC system was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in <em>18</em>80. On February 19, 1880, Bell transmitted the world’s first known wireless signal some 700 feet away. Bell considered the Photophone his finest achievement and believed it would eventually outshine the telephone, which he’d (arguably) invented four years before.</div>
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Bell’s invention doesn’t diminish Haas’ idea, but the Photophone’s failure to catch on explains some of the problems facing any modern VLC system. For example, the very nature of VLC systems means they require line-of-sight. This poses certain challenges on the small and large scale. Any outdoor VLC apparatus would need to contend with atmospheric pollution, inclement weather, and minute variations in antenna position created by high winds. This is not a showstopper, given that existing network protocols are designed to cope with dropped packets and the need to re-transmit data, but it’s a significant design issue. Transmission towers would need to be low-maintenance and the LEDs themselves would need protective covers that were extremely resistant to any type of change that would degrade the efficacy of the system.</div>
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Small-scale deployments avoid these issues, but create problems of their own. One of the points of owning a wireless device is the ability to carry it from room to room without worrying about losing a signal. Creating an equivalent line-of-sight light network would be virtually impossible.</div>
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This doesn’t mean LiFi is useless, but it suggests certain inherent limits for the technology. LiFi may not be able to replace conventional radios altogether, but it could turbocharge the development of wireless television and make it easier to throw a wireless signal across an entire house. At present, finding the ideal position for a wireless router is something of a divine art. If the signal could be passed via VLC from Point A to Point B inside a home, small local routers at both points could create local fields with less chance of overlapping and interfering with each other. Large scale areas that are saturated with radio signals or that don’t permit them for security reasons could use LiFi as an alternate high-speed wireless network solution.</div>
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A team of MIT chemists have created a carbon nanotube “lead” that can be used to draw freehand electronic circuits using a standard, mechanical pencil.</div>
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In a normal pencil, the lead is usually fashioned out of graphite and a clay binder. Graphite, as you may already know, is a form of carbon that is made up of layer after layer of the wonder material graphene. When you write or draw with a graphite pencil, a mixture of tiny graphene flakes and clay are deposited on the paper, creating a mark. (Incidentally, pencil leads never contained lead; it’s just that when graphite was first used in the 1500s, they thought it was lead ore, and the name stuck).</div>
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With MIT’s carbon nanotube pencil, the lead is formed by compressing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), until you have a substance that looks and behaves very similarly to graphite. The difference, though, is that drawing with MIT’s pencil actually deposits whole carbon nanotubes on paper — and carbon nanotubes have some rather exciting properties.</div>
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In this case, MIT is utilizing the fact that SWCNTs are very electrically conductive — and that this conductivity can be massively altered by the introduction of just a few other atoms, namely ammonia.</div>
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In the picture above, electricity is applied to the gold electrodes (which are imprinted in the paper). The carbon nanotube pencil is used to fill in the gaps, and effectively acts as a resistor. When ammonia gas is present, the conductivity of the nanotubes decreases, and thus resistance increases — which can be easily measured. Carbon nanotubes are so sensitive that MIT’s hand-drawn sensor can detect concentrations of ammonia as low as 0.5 parts per million (ppm).</div>
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There are two main takeaways here. The first is that MIT has found a form of carbon nanotubes that is stable, safe, and cheap to produce. Second, carbon nanotubes have been used in sensors before, but usually the process involves dissolving SWCNTs in solvents, which can be dangerous. Here, creating a carbon nanotube sensor is as simple as drawing on a piece of paper — either by a human, or an automated process.</div>
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The team will now work on other carbon nanotube leads that can be used to detect other gases, such as ethylene (produced by fruit as it ripens) and sulfur (for detecting natural gas leaks). It’s also worth noting that the research was partly funded by the US Army/MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies — so it wouldn’t be surprising if military personnel are eventually outfitted with these sensors… or perhaps their very own carbon nanotube pencil, for MacGyver-like sensor fabrication in the field.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-24399937264321780112012-10-08T17:25:00.004+01:002012-10-08T17:25:39.311+01:00Finally: Synology’s DS213air NAS has built in WiFi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today connected storage provider Synology announced the DiskStation DS213air, a two-bay networked-attached storage (NAS) device with built-in WiFi and the company’s latest firmware, DiskStation Manager 4.1. The inclusion of native wireless is a first for Synology and still a relative rarity within the NAS market.</div>
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DS213air_672-348x196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="DS213air - featured" border="0" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DS213air_672-348x196.jpg" /></a>Given how rarely home and small business users actually need to interact with a NAS, these devices are, ideally, plugged in, turn on, and then left to run for years on end under a desk, in a closet, or on a bookshelf. They should be quiet, not too bright, have modest power consumption, and be insanely reliable. While Synology has gotten good at most of these requirements, the addition of wireless will greatly help with placement of this compact storage appliance.</div>
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Many other NAS units, including those from Synology, are able to connect with wireless networks using a USB dongle. This may seem like an easy solution, but it’s far from it. Synology’s compatibility page lists 158 different USB dongles that their storage units are compatible with, but offers up no recommendations as to which are the best. Synology’s online community, which is generally very strong, doesn’t have much good advice either. When I polled one of the company’s engineers about the huge list and lack of community support he recommended Hawking’s products, but the DS213air will make that a non-issue.</div>
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The inclusion of 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n wireless means that <a href="http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS213air&lang=us" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;">the DS213air</a> can act as a router or access point, but past that it’s a standard consumer/SOHO NAS. It has support for Synology’s Surveillance Station (which means it can connect to multiple cameras, record, stream to a mobile device, etc.), works with the normal assortment of smartphone apps, encrypt data, Time Machine support, and most everything else you would expect.</div>
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And if specs are what you want, the DS213air is looking good. Power consumption is rated at 22.44W during access and 5.76W during hibernation and transfer speeds are quite speedy with Synology’s numbers putting it at 58.66MBps up and 108.07 MBps down (using a single 5GB file, and presumably with a wired connection). It runs dual 3.5-inch drives that are up to 4TB. It has dual USB 3.0 ports at the back if you want to drop in some addition storage or backup the NAS. It will sell for about $300.</div>
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Today the company also announced the DS2413+, a pro-level NAS that can handle from 12 drives (24 with an expansion unit) and up to 96TB of storage. This model does 201.03 MBps reading and 196.87 MBps writing, and has some nice perks you won’t find on smaller models, like VMware and Hyper-V compliance. It supports iSCSI and VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) which is big with the VMware crowd. Synology is pushing this model as a solution for demanding photographers, but it does seem like it will be overkill unless if they happen to be an IT administrator on the side.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-80865070080096633272012-10-08T16:44:00.000+01:002012-10-08T16:49:35.154+01:00MegaDroid simulates network of 300,000 Android smartphones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A new computing cluster from Sandia National Laboratories called MegaDroid is capable of virtualizing up to 300,000 smartphones running Android 4.0 in a simulated network. It is intended to help researchers and app developers simulate wireless networks with large numbers of users moving around a virtual landscape.</div>
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MegaDroid is comprised of 520 nodes in a computing cluster that costs $500,000. Each networked node is an x86 computer with a quad core Intel Core i7 Sandy Bridge processor and 12GB of RAM. On the software side, the researchers are using an x86 port of Android running in QEMU-KVM virtual machines. Approximately 580 Android VMs are running on each quad core processor, which is interesting because Sandia National Laboratories has plans to open source the software and engineer it to be able to run on anything from a single desktop computer to the massive MegaDroid cluster they put together.</div>
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Also interesting is that the MegaDroid virtual phones are able to use all the features that actual Android smartphones are capable of — that includes GPS, cameras, accelerometers, WiFi, and cellular radios. The virtual phones are even able to communicate with each other via text messaging and with a pair of physical Android smartphones on T-Mobile’s network. The software is able to simulate the movements of users as the virtual phones move around a map as well, which would allow researchers to test network congestion, for example.</div>
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With MegaDroid — and other future clusters based on its software — researchers and developers will get access to large numbers of networked test phones without needing to purchase individual handsets. MegaDroid, and the forthcoming software, has been developed with the intent of bringing down the barrier to entry for large scale testing. If they had purchased the same number of physical Android smartphones at just $200, it would cost them $60 million — MegaDroid is downright cheap in that respect!</div>
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The Sandia researchers envision MegaDroid being used to develop and test applications for disaster recovery and early detection warning systems. Penetration testing, virus/worm propagation simulation, and network congestion/stability testing are also likely candidates for MegaDroid’s computing power. On a smaller scale, application developers will be able to use MegaDroid software on their own workstations to better test and secure their apps before releasing them to the public.</div>
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The open source (GPLv3) MegaDroid software is slated for release by the end of this year. Interested app developers and researchers should contact David Fritz at Sandia National Laboratories for more details.</div>
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MegaDroid isn’t the only computing cluster to be unveiled this year, though. For approximately $7,240 per day, you could harness Google’s Compute Engine to simulate 300,000 Android smartphones.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-65545446743433030422012-10-08T16:38:00.003+01:002012-10-08T16:38:45.190+01:00Refined hack opens locked hotel rooms… with a magic marker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In late July, security researcher Cody Brocious demonstrated how an Arduino microcontroller and a bit of programming could be used to open the doors on some four million hotel rooms. For Onity, the company that manufactured the electronic lock, it was bad news — but not <em>too</em> bad. While Brocious exposed just how stupid-easy it was to open Onity-secured doors, the equipment he used wasn’t exactly inconspicuous. The company downplayed his work as “unreliable and complex to implement.”</div>
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<i>Bad move.</i></div>
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In the two months since news of the flaw went public, hackers have refined Brocious’ technique to improve the success rate and have succeeded in building an unlocker into a dry erase marker. In its original implementation, the code reader had a prominent wire running between the Arduino and the lock.</div>
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Looks suspicious right? Now it’s down to this:</div>
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Here’s a video of the process for the doubtful:</div>
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Nothing comes out of the marker, the tip looks normal, and there’s no wire. Touch the tip of the marker to the door port, and voila, it unlocks.</div>
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Thus far, Onity’s response to the problem has been underwhelming. In August, the company announced that it would issue caps that a hotel could insert into every single data port in order to keep the attack from succeeding. These caps can only be removed by opening the lock case, and the company is also shipping Torx screws that can be used to secure the cases in lieu of standard Phillips heads. It’s also offering replacement locks that fix the issue, but only if customers are willing to pony up cash for the hardware.</div>
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This new announcement will ratchet up the pressure on the lock manufacturer to do the right thing and cover the parts (and the cost of replacing every single lock) itself because, by any reasonable standard, Brocious didn’t “hack” the locks at all. He built a digital parrot that could read an unencrypted code and transmit it back to the door. Refining the technology to fit into a marker is dangerous because it removes the visual cues that might otherwise tip off hotel staff or other travelers that something untoward is going on. People who would notice an individual inserting wires into a door won’t blink at a person standing in front of a room, fumbling with something, and then walking in.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-1876696902582627172012-10-08T16:29:00.000+01:002012-10-08T16:29:10.358+01:00YouTube kicks copyright foxes out of henhouse, won’t admit it invited them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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That sounds great, but as Patrick McKay, founder of FairUseTube.org points out, that’s how the system was already supposed to work. According to McKay, YouTube’s new policy is actually a return to the company’s old policy — a policy it never admitted that it stopped using.</div>
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YouTube’s blog post yesterday partially confirms McKay’s previous allegations that the company had adopted policies that left contributors with no way to reclaim their own work. The post’s author, Thabet Alfishawi, stated that “Prior to today, if a content owner rejected that dispute, the user was left with no recourse for certain types of Content ID claims (e.g., monetize claims).” In other words, a company could walk in and claim copyright on a personal video in order to make money off it, while the uploader/creator was left holding the bag.</div>
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According to YouTube’s content dispute page, only eligible uploaders may appeal a copyright decision. Eligibility is determined by being in “good copyright standing,” the date of the dispute, and “other factors.” If an uploader appeals and the alleged copyright owner chooses to file a DMCA notice, the uploader still receives a copyright strike. Three strikes, and you’re out — regardless of whether the company filing the DMCA notification prevails in a court of law.</div>
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Still, this change is an improvement, and McKay describes himself as “cautiously optimistic.” Hopefully this announcement actually heralds real positive change rather than serving as an admission of lousy policy. YouTube’s promise that it cares about user feedback would ring truer if the company had simultaneously instituted a policy of requiring copyright holders to be in good standing in order to assert ownership or have their DMCA notifications count against a user’s account. Foreign companies have little reason to fear the consequences of filing DMCA notifications in bad faith, while legitimate uploaders can have their accounts shut off.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-40929874601777467812012-10-08T16:25:00.000+01:002012-10-08T17:16:48.780+01:00current technology and theoretical singularity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/optogenetics-neuron-348x196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="optogenetics-neuron" border="0" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/optogenetics-neuron-348x196.jpg" /></a><i>An interesting pair of news posts caught my eye this week, and they’re worth presenting for general discussion. First, VentureBeat has an interview with futurologist Ray Kurzweil, who made waves in 2005 with his book The Singularity Is Near. In it, Kurzweil posits that we’re approaching a point at which human intelligence will begin to evolve in ways we cannot predict.</i></div>
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<i>The assumption is that our superintelligent computers (or brains) will allow us to effectively reinvent what being human means. In our present state, we are, by definition, incapable of understanding what human society would look like after such a shift.</i></div>
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<i>Meanwhile, Google is working to put its neural network technology to work on different sorts of problems. This past summer, the company taught its network how to recognize a cat by showing it YouTube videos. Specifically, it showed 16,000 processors enough cat videos that the network itself learned how to “see” cat without human intervention. Total visual accuracy, according to the initial paper, is about 16%. The announcement is about applying similar strategies to language processing and how computers can “learn” to understand the specifics of human speech.</i></div>
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<i>Kurzweil, as you can see in the video at the bottom, is a persuasive speaker and Google’s success with teaching a network to recognize cats really is impressive. Reading stories like these, however, I come away skeptical. It’s not that I doubt the individual achievements, or that they can be improved, but focusing on specific achievements ignores the greater problem:We have no idea how to build a brain.</i></div>
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<i>Kurzweil uses advances in scanning resolution and genetic engineering together as proof that at some point, we’ll be able to either program cell structures to do the things we want far more effectively than we can currently, or that we’ll simply be able to build mechanical analogs. On some scale, this is probably true. The nematode worm Caenorhabditis eleganshas 302 neurons. We could build a neural network (or neural network analog) with 302 nodes fairly easily — Google’s neural node structure is far more complex than that.</i></div>
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<i>Unfortunately, just having nodes isn’t enough. The human brain has an estimated 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses. Different neurons are designed for different tasks and they respond to different stimuli. They respond to and release an incredibly complex series of neurotransmitters, the functions of which we don’t entirely understand. It’s not enough to say “Yes, the brain is complex” — the brain is complex in ways that dwarf the best CPUs we can build, and it does its work while consuming an average of 20W.</i></div>
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<i>This is where Moore’s Law is typically trotted out, but it’s a wretchedly terrible comparison. Scientists have already demonstrated transistors as small as 10 atoms wide. Your average neuron is between 4 and 100 microns. If groups of transistors equals neural networks, brains would be no problem. It’s not that simple. We don’t know how to build synapse networks at anything like the appropriate densities. We don’t even know if consciousness is an emergent property of sufficiently dense neural structures or not.</i></div>
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<i>Self-driving cars (an example Kurzweil mentions) are a sophisticated application of refined models, meshed with sensor networks on the vehicle and additional positional data gathered from orbit. They’re an example of how being able to gather more information and correlate that information more quickly allows us to create a better program — but they aren’t smart. Our best neural networks are single-task predictors that gather information at a glacial pace compared to the brain.</i></div>
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<i>The idea that we’ll strike some sort of tipping point within the next 33 years seems farcical. 33 years ago, scientists were well aware that genetic engineering, molecular biology, and cell phone-like devices might all be possible. Fast forward to today, and we have cell phones. We have better neural networks, certainly. We can dump far more data down the pipe, access it more quickly, and process the results — but creating human or superhuman intelligences? No way.</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079136678311360668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3517586959296044631.post-68921909194679274042012-10-08T16:06:00.000+01:002012-10-08T16:06:06.376+01:00How to Remove Ghost Hardware from your PC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><i>Each time you plug a device into your computer, your PC automatically adds information to the Registry. If you stop using the device, its Registry files can linger on.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">These hardware ‘ghosts’ can slow down your PC. Get rid of themall in</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> one go with GhostBuster.</span></div>
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<strong>Step 1 :</strong> <strong>GhostBuster automatically scans your Registry</strong> each time you open the program. You will see a list of all your devices and drivers. Any that Ghostbuster thinks are not in use will be highlighted as Ghosted in the Status column.</div>
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<strong>Step 2 :</strong> Some drivers are used for your computer’s graphics and audio programs, and removing these may cause problems during playback of videos and music. GhostBuster identifies these as Services. Don’t remove these files.</div>
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<strong>Step 3 :</strong> To <strong>add hardware to the removal list</strong>, right-click its entry and choose Add device. To add everything in a section, right-click one part and choose Add Class. Items added to the removal list will be shown in red.</div>
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<strong>Step 4 :</strong> To undo selections, right-click the unwanted entries and choose Remove Device or Remove Class. To show only the ghosted devices, right-click any entry and click hide Unfiltered Devices. You can look up the detailsof each driver in Properties.</div>
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<strong>Step 5 :</strong> Before removing anything, tick the Create System Restore Checkpoint box. This way, if you accidentally delete something your PC needs or you have any other problems, you can roll back your changes.</div>
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<strong>Step 6 :</strong> The number of ghosts to remove is shown in the bottom-left corner. <strong>Click Remove Ghosts</strong>. You may need to give GhostBuster administrator rights, when prompted. A restore point will be created, the ghost hardware will be removed and your PC will be rebooted.</div>
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