Facebook Inc. (FB) is unveiling tools for its Instagram service that will
let users embed photos and videos on outside websites, including blogs and news
providers, seeking to spread its influence and woo more consumers.
The new feature requires a few clicks of a mouse to place a video or photo
on a Web page, Facebook said in a blog post today. The tool, designed to
maintain privacy settings, is only available for content that’s already public,
the Menlo Park, California-based company said.
The owner of the world’s most popular social-networking service is rolling
out new features for its Instagram unit to help expand its reach on mobile
devices where users are increasingly shifting their activity. Facebook,
competing against services from Twitter Inc. and others, announced last month it
was adding video to its photo-sharing service.
“As always, you own your photos and videos, and we want to make sure that’s
understood no matter where your content appears,” the company said. “Whether you
want to embed your video on your blog or a friend wants to feature your photo on
a website, everyone will clearly see that your content belongs to you.”
Instagram, which Facebook bought last year for more than $700 million, has
more than 130 million monthly users. More than 16 billion photos have been
shared on the service.
2013年7月18日星期四
Windows Telephone eight look extra cutting-edge together
Tablets according to Microsoft’s Windows eight and Windows RT operating
systems have struggled to obtain traction so far and Paul Thurrott of the
Supersite for Windows says there’s an incredibly basic explanation for this: The
first generation of Windows tablets just is not extremely very good. To become
clear, Thurrott says that there are many touch screen Windows eight PCs and
ultrabooks that happen to be very worthy of users’ time and that shouldn’t be
overlooked. But with regards to pure tablets, he deems that every single a
single is “simply to flawed to recommend” to everyone enthusiastic about
obtaining one particular.
“Looking around my own office, this really is what I see,” Thurrott explains. “A Surface RT that's gorgeous and light and gets terrific battery life but is worthless and frustrating in use due to its horrible overall performance. A Surface Pro that is definitely thick and heavy and gets only four.five hours of battery life when offering the weird mixture of a modest screen having a incredibly high resolution. A Samsung ATIV Clever Pc 500T (Clover Trail based) that will be laughable from a performance point of view if it weren’t for that Surface RT. (In fact, it’s still terrible.) That 700T that won’t charge anymore unless I plug the energy cord in to the tablet itself … which, wait for it, you can’t do when the keyboard is connected.”
Of course, the first round of Android-based tablets had been similarly lackluster when compared with Apple’s iPad, so it’s not as even though Windows 8 is doomed as a tablet operating system. It does suggest, on the other hand, that Microsoft and its OEM partners will should place a lot of work into adding improved functionality and value to their tablets, comparable to how Nokia has tried to make Windows Telephone eight look extra cutting-edge together with the inclusion of its industry-best 41-megapixel smartphone camera in the Lumia 1020.
Thurrott is optimistic that the following generation of Windows tablets will be a significant improvement over the existing generation considering the fact that improvements to both hardware and software program will make the devices extra palatable for buyers.
“Things are going to acquire greater,” he concludes. “Intel’s new generation Core processors, codenamed Haswell, appear to have solved the battery life problem. And Windows eight.1 appears to resolve quite a few in the issues users have highlighted in Windows 8, which include desktop show scaling. Each of these improvements recommend to me that waiting is in order, as Haswell- and Windows 8.1-based tablets will probably be plentiful in just a couple of months.”
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“Looking around my own office, this really is what I see,” Thurrott explains. “A Surface RT that's gorgeous and light and gets terrific battery life but is worthless and frustrating in use due to its horrible overall performance. A Surface Pro that is definitely thick and heavy and gets only four.five hours of battery life when offering the weird mixture of a modest screen having a incredibly high resolution. A Samsung ATIV Clever Pc 500T (Clover Trail based) that will be laughable from a performance point of view if it weren’t for that Surface RT. (In fact, it’s still terrible.) That 700T that won’t charge anymore unless I plug the energy cord in to the tablet itself … which, wait for it, you can’t do when the keyboard is connected.”
Of course, the first round of Android-based tablets had been similarly lackluster when compared with Apple’s iPad, so it’s not as even though Windows 8 is doomed as a tablet operating system. It does suggest, on the other hand, that Microsoft and its OEM partners will should place a lot of work into adding improved functionality and value to their tablets, comparable to how Nokia has tried to make Windows Telephone eight look extra cutting-edge together with the inclusion of its industry-best 41-megapixel smartphone camera in the Lumia 1020.
Thurrott is optimistic that the following generation of Windows tablets will be a significant improvement over the existing generation considering the fact that improvements to both hardware and software program will make the devices extra palatable for buyers.
“Things are going to acquire greater,” he concludes. “Intel’s new generation Core processors, codenamed Haswell, appear to have solved the battery life problem. And Windows eight.1 appears to resolve quite a few in the issues users have highlighted in Windows 8, which include desktop show scaling. Each of these improvements recommend to me that waiting is in order, as Haswell- and Windows 8.1-based tablets will probably be plentiful in just a couple of months.”
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2013年7月7日星期日
Google says Moto X phone release date is July 11th
Motorola is floating invites for the introduction of its Moto X phone,
finally putting a face to the mythical product. For as long as the Android
platform has been around, the X phone was rumored as Google’s direct in-house
answer to the iPhone. Five years later Google’s subsidiary Motorola is debuting
the X phone. Beyond that fact that it is indeed real, we still know nothing
about it. And that’s even after Motorola has told is plenty about it.
Last month a Motorola rep teased the X Phone as having future features like the ability to take a pill which turns your entire body into a password, or a tattoo which does the same. If such comic book style features ever do come to the Moto X, it won’t happen next week. The X phone debuting on July 11th will be much tamer, but is still for a moment a blank slate. Rumors have pegged the X as coming in a choice of colors and custom engravings, a sideshow which still doesn’t tell us anything about the phone itself.
The question the Moto X phone must answer is twofold: what makes it more appealing than the existing Android phones on the market? And what makes it an “answer” to the iPhone such that iPhone users might be tempted to switch? Not a word of what’s leaked so far gives us even a hint at either answer. But the Moto X, the international phone of mystery, debuts on July 11th nonetheless.
Last month a Motorola rep teased the X Phone as having future features like the ability to take a pill which turns your entire body into a password, or a tattoo which does the same. If such comic book style features ever do come to the Moto X, it won’t happen next week. The X phone debuting on July 11th will be much tamer, but is still for a moment a blank slate. Rumors have pegged the X as coming in a choice of colors and custom engravings, a sideshow which still doesn’t tell us anything about the phone itself.
The question the Moto X phone must answer is twofold: what makes it more appealing than the existing Android phones on the market? And what makes it an “answer” to the iPhone such that iPhone users might be tempted to switch? Not a word of what’s leaked so far gives us even a hint at either answer. But the Moto X, the international phone of mystery, debuts on July 11th nonetheless.
For all those users accessing Evernote with a Home
Evernote now released an update for its Home windows Contact application
that brings a redesigned hub webpage, support for its Organization item, and
two-step verification to its end users. Even though a transfer that may appear
to be slight, the organization calls them major that will help create the
“best-looking, indigenous experience” on Home windows devices.
For all those users accessing Evernote with a Home windows Surface area, cellular phone, or tablet device, a completely new commence monitor are going to be shown. The company claims that it's put all of its main navigation items and account articles that a consumer may well need to have right on the one display screen.
The display screen has now been sorted into numerous sections, which include “create”, which ought to very easily allow you to develop notes, snapshots office mac home and student 2011 pack, or start out that has a file attachment. Other sections to the monitor contain shortcuts, your the latest activity, in addition to a list of your respective notes, notebooks, and tags.
Realistically, this is much more of the aesthetic change if anything at all. None of these characteristics are completely new.
Evernote Enterprise is now supported within the Windows Touch app, bringing it to par with its Android and iOS counterparts. Now, Evernote says buyers can integrate with their company’s Enterprise Library with the Get Extra area. Within the notebook segment over the hub site, consumers will see not merely their personal contents, but in addition all those for their small business.
Last of all, to make certain that person facts is correctly secured, Evernote is utilizing two-step verification. This protection evaluate was launched months after the assistance experienced an unauthorized breach in March, which resulted in the company resetting its fifty million-plus users’ passwords. In May possibly, Evernote reported that two-step verification will be at first accessible for its high quality and Company consumers. So whilst Windows Contact app buyers have that function, you may not be essentially ready to work with it.
Two-step verification adds a further security move to logging in to an Evernote account, and makes sure that the person logging into Evernote will be the rightful operator of that unique account. The login process with two-step verification enabled needs a username, password and special code that’s sent on the user’s cell phone, generated by the Google Authenticator app or printed out via the person ahead of time.
For all those users accessing Evernote with a Home windows Surface area, cellular phone, or tablet device, a completely new commence monitor are going to be shown. The company claims that it's put all of its main navigation items and account articles that a consumer may well need to have right on the one display screen.
The display screen has now been sorted into numerous sections, which include “create”, which ought to very easily allow you to develop notes, snapshots office mac home and student 2011 pack, or start out that has a file attachment. Other sections to the monitor contain shortcuts, your the latest activity, in addition to a list of your respective notes, notebooks, and tags.
Realistically, this is much more of the aesthetic change if anything at all. None of these characteristics are completely new.
Evernote Enterprise is now supported within the Windows Touch app, bringing it to par with its Android and iOS counterparts. Now, Evernote says buyers can integrate with their company’s Enterprise Library with the Get Extra area. Within the notebook segment over the hub site, consumers will see not merely their personal contents, but in addition all those for their small business.
Last of all, to make certain that person facts is correctly secured, Evernote is utilizing two-step verification. This protection evaluate was launched months after the assistance experienced an unauthorized breach in March, which resulted in the company resetting its fifty million-plus users’ passwords. In May possibly, Evernote reported that two-step verification will be at first accessible for its high quality and Company consumers. So whilst Windows Contact app buyers have that function, you may not be essentially ready to work with it.
Two-step verification adds a further security move to logging in to an Evernote account, and makes sure that the person logging into Evernote will be the rightful operator of that unique account. The login process with two-step verification enabled needs a username, password and special code that’s sent on the user’s cell phone, generated by the Google Authenticator app or printed out via the person ahead of time.
2013年6月13日星期四
NSA surveillance retrospective: AT&T, Verizon never denied it
When Internet companies were recently accused of allowing the National
Security Agency direct access to their servers, they strenuously denied it. But
when AT&T was accused of allowing the NSA direct access to its network, it
did the opposite.
Mark Klein, who worked as an AT&T technician for over 22 years, disclosed in 2006 (PDF) that he met with NSA officials and witnessed domestic Internet traffic being "diverted" through a "splitter cabinet" to secure room 641A in one of the company's San Francisco facilities. Only NSA-cleared technicians were allowed to work on equipment in the SG3 secure room, Klein said, adding that he was told similar taps existed in other major cities.
AT&T never denied it. Instead, in defending a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the company sought to downplay the reasons NSA-controlled hardware existed on its network.
In May 2006, CNET obtained an improperly redacted PDF document (PDF) that AT&T's lawyers filed in that lawsuit. The redacted portions argued: "Although the plaintiffs ominously refer to the equipment as the 'Surveillance Configuration,' the same physical equipment could be utilized exclusively for other surveillance in full compliance with" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
CNET asked AT&T at the time: "Have you turned over information or opened up your networks to the NSA without being compelled by law?" A company spokesman would not answer the question.
A few months later, Justice Department attorneys told a federal judge (PDF) that AT&T can "neither confirm nor deny whether it was indeed cooperating with the NSA."
That's the opposite of what Internet companies including Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have done since initial reports -- which have since been shown to be incorrect -- in The Washington Post and Guardian newspapers alleged the NSA had "direct access" to the companies' servers. (The Post's editorial board yesterday acknowledged there was nothing untoward going on.)
Not only have the tech companies denied allegations of NSA access, they've done so at great length.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg provided a categorical denial, including saying that "we have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk." Google CEO Larry Page said flatly that "the U.S. government does not have direct access or a 'back door' to the information stored in our data centers." Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft have made similar statements.
Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, gave lengthy interviews yesterday to PBS Newshour and Fox News describing how the company complies with legal orders. CNET was the first to disclose last month that Google is currently fighting the FBI over the legality of secret "national security letters" in court in New York and San Francisco.
In addition, it turned out that the so-called PRISM program is not the name of a spy program after all: It's the name of an internal NSA software tool that's used to collate data collected through a legal process created by Congress in 2008 and last renewed in December 2012. That "702" process, overseen by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Justice Department, and Congress, requires companies to comply with orders for information on non-U.S. citizens in investigations related to "prevention of terrorism, hostile cyberactivities, or nuclear proliferation."
That seems to be why Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat who chairs a Senate privacy subcommittee and has a reputation as an outspoken privacy advocate and critic of Silicon Valley companies, told CBS affiliate WCCO that he had been briefed on the 702 process and has no privacy concerns. "I can assure you that this isn't about spying on the American people," Franken said.
The Internet companies have asked Attorney General Eric Holder to lift secrecy restrictions on 702 orders so they can clear their name, in part by disclosing how many records they have turned over in response to legal process. Google sent an open letter to Holder yesterday, and Facebook and Microsoft have also asked the Justice Department for permission to divulge summary statistics. Holder has not responded.
By contrast, AT&T never asked for permission to disclose NSA surveillance. Instead, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Carl Nichols said during a 2006 court hearing in San Francisco that a discussion of all the "facts" about NSA surveillance could only happen in a classified setting. The Bush administration asked that the case be tossed out on "state secrets" grounds.
James Bamford, in his 2008 book "The Shadow Factory," described AT&T's participation in Bush's warrantless wiretapping program as:
For decades, AT&T and much of the rest of the telecommunications industry have had a very secret, very cozy relationship with the NSA... [NSA Director Michael Hayden] succeeded in gaining the secret cooperation of nearly all of the nation's telecommunications giants for his warrantless eavesdropping program. Within a year, engineers were busy installing highly secret, heavily locked rooms in key AT&T switches, among them Bridgeton, New York City, and the company's major West Coast central office in San Francisco. From then on the data -- including both address information and content -- would flow through the PacketScopes directly to the NSA.
Verizon, too, never sent an open letter to the federal government asking that a gag order be lifted. The company secretly hands the NSA daily logs of all customers' phone calls, according to a court order that the Guardian published last week. When USA Today disclosed this program in 2006, saying that NSA was vacuuming up phone logs, Verizon didn't deny it. Instead, a spokesman told the newspaper only that "we do not comment on national security matters."
The Bush administration confirmed the existence of warrantless wiretapping with the help of telecommunications companies when it asked Congress to grant retroactive immunity to the providers that participated. Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), the Intelligence Committee's chairman at the time, said the providers "should not be penalized for their willingness to heed the call during a national emergency" -- despite the fact that any "emergency" by then would have lasted over six years.
A 2009 book on the NSA titled "The Secret Sentry," by Matthew Aid, suggested that executives at AT&T and the other telecommunications providers knew they were violating criminal wiretapping laws. Aid wrote:
As one NSA retiree put it, "why then would they need immunity if what they did was legal?" After reading a spate of newspaper reports on the subject, a disgusted NSA official said, "They keep trying to give the telecoms a 'Get Out of Jail Free' card. That tells me there is something illegal about what the companies have been doing. [The immunity deal] stinks to high heaven."
Mark Klein, who worked as an AT&T technician for over 22 years, disclosed in 2006 (PDF) that he met with NSA officials and witnessed domestic Internet traffic being "diverted" through a "splitter cabinet" to secure room 641A in one of the company's San Francisco facilities. Only NSA-cleared technicians were allowed to work on equipment in the SG3 secure room, Klein said, adding that he was told similar taps existed in other major cities.
AT&T never denied it. Instead, in defending a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the company sought to downplay the reasons NSA-controlled hardware existed on its network.
In May 2006, CNET obtained an improperly redacted PDF document (PDF) that AT&T's lawyers filed in that lawsuit. The redacted portions argued: "Although the plaintiffs ominously refer to the equipment as the 'Surveillance Configuration,' the same physical equipment could be utilized exclusively for other surveillance in full compliance with" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
CNET asked AT&T at the time: "Have you turned over information or opened up your networks to the NSA without being compelled by law?" A company spokesman would not answer the question.
A few months later, Justice Department attorneys told a federal judge (PDF) that AT&T can "neither confirm nor deny whether it was indeed cooperating with the NSA."
That's the opposite of what Internet companies including Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have done since initial reports -- which have since been shown to be incorrect -- in The Washington Post and Guardian newspapers alleged the NSA had "direct access" to the companies' servers. (The Post's editorial board yesterday acknowledged there was nothing untoward going on.)
Not only have the tech companies denied allegations of NSA access, they've done so at great length.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg provided a categorical denial, including saying that "we have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk." Google CEO Larry Page said flatly that "the U.S. government does not have direct access or a 'back door' to the information stored in our data centers." Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft have made similar statements.
Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, gave lengthy interviews yesterday to PBS Newshour and Fox News describing how the company complies with legal orders. CNET was the first to disclose last month that Google is currently fighting the FBI over the legality of secret "national security letters" in court in New York and San Francisco.
In addition, it turned out that the so-called PRISM program is not the name of a spy program after all: It's the name of an internal NSA software tool that's used to collate data collected through a legal process created by Congress in 2008 and last renewed in December 2012. That "702" process, overseen by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Justice Department, and Congress, requires companies to comply with orders for information on non-U.S. citizens in investigations related to "prevention of terrorism, hostile cyberactivities, or nuclear proliferation."
That seems to be why Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat who chairs a Senate privacy subcommittee and has a reputation as an outspoken privacy advocate and critic of Silicon Valley companies, told CBS affiliate WCCO that he had been briefed on the 702 process and has no privacy concerns. "I can assure you that this isn't about spying on the American people," Franken said.
The Internet companies have asked Attorney General Eric Holder to lift secrecy restrictions on 702 orders so they can clear their name, in part by disclosing how many records they have turned over in response to legal process. Google sent an open letter to Holder yesterday, and Facebook and Microsoft have also asked the Justice Department for permission to divulge summary statistics. Holder has not responded.
By contrast, AT&T never asked for permission to disclose NSA surveillance. Instead, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Carl Nichols said during a 2006 court hearing in San Francisco that a discussion of all the "facts" about NSA surveillance could only happen in a classified setting. The Bush administration asked that the case be tossed out on "state secrets" grounds.
James Bamford, in his 2008 book "The Shadow Factory," described AT&T's participation in Bush's warrantless wiretapping program as:
For decades, AT&T and much of the rest of the telecommunications industry have had a very secret, very cozy relationship with the NSA... [NSA Director Michael Hayden] succeeded in gaining the secret cooperation of nearly all of the nation's telecommunications giants for his warrantless eavesdropping program. Within a year, engineers were busy installing highly secret, heavily locked rooms in key AT&T switches, among them Bridgeton, New York City, and the company's major West Coast central office in San Francisco. From then on the data -- including both address information and content -- would flow through the PacketScopes directly to the NSA.
Verizon, too, never sent an open letter to the federal government asking that a gag order be lifted. The company secretly hands the NSA daily logs of all customers' phone calls, according to a court order that the Guardian published last week. When USA Today disclosed this program in 2006, saying that NSA was vacuuming up phone logs, Verizon didn't deny it. Instead, a spokesman told the newspaper only that "we do not comment on national security matters."
The Bush administration confirmed the existence of warrantless wiretapping with the help of telecommunications companies when it asked Congress to grant retroactive immunity to the providers that participated. Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), the Intelligence Committee's chairman at the time, said the providers "should not be penalized for their willingness to heed the call during a national emergency" -- despite the fact that any "emergency" by then would have lasted over six years.
A 2009 book on the NSA titled "The Secret Sentry," by Matthew Aid, suggested that executives at AT&T and the other telecommunications providers knew they were violating criminal wiretapping laws. Aid wrote:
As one NSA retiree put it, "why then would they need immunity if what they did was legal?" After reading a spate of newspaper reports on the subject, a disgusted NSA official said, "They keep trying to give the telecoms a 'Get Out of Jail Free' card. That tells me there is something illegal about what the companies have been doing. [The immunity deal] stinks to high heaven."
The screenshots disclosed Microsoft's operate
Apple famously misplaced an apple iphone four prototype in the bar,
sparking a hunt for that people linked to the loss and sale of your handset.
Microsoft has also shed a cellphone, 1 working a foreseeable future Windows
Cellular phone 'Blue' edition of its cell software package. A Reddit user posted
screenshots and data received with the system about the weekend, making
fascination in unannounced attributes for Windows Cell phone which integrated an
early prototype of a notification middle. The Verge achieved out for the Reddit
consumer in dilemma, which will be the tale of your shed magic formula Home
windows Mobile phone.
Jeremiah Wong ordered a Lumia 920 from eBay on June 5th from the vendor situated in Seattle. "The cellphone within the photographs looked distinctive," claims Wong, talking completely for the Verge. "Mainly the start Screen had the comments hub, also etching over the back again that browse MSFT." Wong at first believed the gadget was a developer kit due to the fact it had the particular etching alongside a cracked monitor, but it really was a lot a lot more critical. So significant in actual fact that Microsoft required it back.
After publishing screenshots of your software package working about the machine, and accidentally revealing his cellphone variety from the procedure, Wong was contacted by Microsoft's lawful team. Microsoft locked the mobile phone remotely and requested that Wong consider down his images from his Flickr account. "Apparently the guy who owned it lost it on the bus. It had been then picked up and marketed," he suggests. Rather than pursuing Wong, Microsoft has made available to reimburse him for the expense of the unit as well as ship him a replacement cell phone. "I was incredibly astonished on the lack of intimidation and in many cases extra surprised at their accommodation," says Wong.
Resources acquainted with Microsoft's Windows Phone designs have revealed into the Verge the software is early prototype function for an upcoming update codenamed Blue. Describing the application, Wong claims it experienced "pretty much all the things he needed," but that "a couple factors necessary work nevertheless." The screenshots disclosed Microsoft's operate on the much-requested notification heart for Windows Mobile phone and a few advancements to multitasking and the basic usability with the application perspective.
Given that the improvements are only at the prototyping phase, it is really unlikely that all of them will likely be integrated inside of a ultimate version of Home windows Telephone Blue. The Verge understands this update isn't scheduled for launch right until early next 12 months. While the screenshots present a notification center as element of a independent software, it's likely this implementation ?a if it ships whatsoever ?a will change by the time Windows Cellular phone Blue is released.
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Jeremiah Wong ordered a Lumia 920 from eBay on June 5th from the vendor situated in Seattle. "The cellphone within the photographs looked distinctive," claims Wong, talking completely for the Verge. "Mainly the start Screen had the comments hub, also etching over the back again that browse MSFT." Wong at first believed the gadget was a developer kit due to the fact it had the particular etching alongside a cracked monitor, but it really was a lot a lot more critical. So significant in actual fact that Microsoft required it back.
After publishing screenshots of your software package working about the machine, and accidentally revealing his cellphone variety from the procedure, Wong was contacted by Microsoft's lawful team. Microsoft locked the mobile phone remotely and requested that Wong consider down his images from his Flickr account. "Apparently the guy who owned it lost it on the bus. It had been then picked up and marketed," he suggests. Rather than pursuing Wong, Microsoft has made available to reimburse him for the expense of the unit as well as ship him a replacement cell phone. "I was incredibly astonished on the lack of intimidation and in many cases extra surprised at their accommodation," says Wong.
Resources acquainted with Microsoft's Windows Phone designs have revealed into the Verge the software is early prototype function for an upcoming update codenamed Blue. Describing the application, Wong claims it experienced "pretty much all the things he needed," but that "a couple factors necessary work nevertheless." The screenshots disclosed Microsoft's operate on the much-requested notification heart for Windows Mobile phone and a few advancements to multitasking and the basic usability with the application perspective.
Given that the improvements are only at the prototyping phase, it is really unlikely that all of them will likely be integrated inside of a ultimate version of Home windows Telephone Blue. The Verge understands this update isn't scheduled for launch right until early next 12 months. While the screenshots present a notification center as element of a independent software, it's likely this implementation ?a if it ships whatsoever ?a will change by the time Windows Cellular phone Blue is released.
http://www.windows7retailbox.com/office-professional-plus-2013-full-retail-pack-p-3600.html
2013年6月10日星期一
Will iOS 7′s Activation Lock really deter iPhone theft?
During the massive WWDC keynote today the folks at Apple walked the
audience of developers through several new features of iOS 7, the operating
system for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Toward the end of the keynote
one really interesting and useful feature got a mention but barely any talk
time: Activation Lock. There were no demos or anything, but Activation Lock
might be one of the most important updates to iOS in a long time.
Activation Lock builds on the security and theft recovery already available to iOS devices in the form of Find My iPhone. This feature turned on, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac owners can locate a missing device using another compatible Apple product. The service shows where your missing device is on a map, will play a sound to help you locate it if it’s lost in your house, and will even remotely lock your device or wipe it to protect your data. All of that is awesome, but what if your iOS device is not just misplaced, but stolen? If the thief is at all smart (and hey, some aren’t…) they won’t give you a chance to find your iPhone or iPad. Instead of leaving Find My iPhone on, the thief might turn it off and/or factory reset/wipe the device themselves. If the goal is to resell the device and not steal your personal information, this method is handy.
Well, until now. With Activation Lock the iOS device will continue to display the Lock screen “please call me to return my iPhone” message even after the phone is wiped by the thief. No one will be able to re-activate or get into the device without the original owner’s Apple ID and password. Don’t have that? Enjoy your brick of a phone.
This feature is only available for devices compatible with iOS 7. That means the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, the iPad Mini, and the iPod Touch fifth generation and up are all compatible. Everyone else will need to keep a better eye on their stuff.
There are a few flaws in this system, of course. Find My iPhone only works when the device is connected to Wi-Fi or mobile broadband. There aren’t many deep details available on Activation Lock right now, so it’s hard to determine under what circumstances it will work – is it on automatically when iOS 7 is activated? If Find My iPhone can’t connect to the device will Activation Lock work? What if you want to sell the device yourself later on? As iOS 7 gets closer to release we hope to get the answers.
Apple is touting this new security feature as a theft deterrent, but how long will it take for iPhone and iPad thieves to catch on? And will they continue to steal devices and just sell them for parts – it’s not as lucrative, but better than nothing. I wonder how many will end up calling the owner in frustration and giving it back?
Activation Lock builds on the security and theft recovery already available to iOS devices in the form of Find My iPhone. This feature turned on, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac owners can locate a missing device using another compatible Apple product. The service shows where your missing device is on a map, will play a sound to help you locate it if it’s lost in your house, and will even remotely lock your device or wipe it to protect your data. All of that is awesome, but what if your iOS device is not just misplaced, but stolen? If the thief is at all smart (and hey, some aren’t…) they won’t give you a chance to find your iPhone or iPad. Instead of leaving Find My iPhone on, the thief might turn it off and/or factory reset/wipe the device themselves. If the goal is to resell the device and not steal your personal information, this method is handy.
Well, until now. With Activation Lock the iOS device will continue to display the Lock screen “please call me to return my iPhone” message even after the phone is wiped by the thief. No one will be able to re-activate or get into the device without the original owner’s Apple ID and password. Don’t have that? Enjoy your brick of a phone.
This feature is only available for devices compatible with iOS 7. That means the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, the iPad Mini, and the iPod Touch fifth generation and up are all compatible. Everyone else will need to keep a better eye on their stuff.
There are a few flaws in this system, of course. Find My iPhone only works when the device is connected to Wi-Fi or mobile broadband. There aren’t many deep details available on Activation Lock right now, so it’s hard to determine under what circumstances it will work – is it on automatically when iOS 7 is activated? If Find My iPhone can’t connect to the device will Activation Lock work? What if you want to sell the device yourself later on? As iOS 7 gets closer to release we hope to get the answers.
Apple is touting this new security feature as a theft deterrent, but how long will it take for iPhone and iPad thieves to catch on? And will they continue to steal devices and just sell them for parts – it’s not as lucrative, but better than nothing. I wonder how many will end up calling the owner in frustration and giving it back?
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