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pcmag.comSeagate on Tuesday announced multiple new lines of storage products geared specifically toward enterprise customers, comprising models of both solid-state drives (SSDs) and traditional spinning hard drives. Read More…..
you REALLY NEED to backup your computer online (via PCMag)
pcmag.comHelpful info from PCMag on backing up online. I like Backblaze because it does external drives. Either way, backup your data offsite… not just on a hard drive next to your computer. You’ll be happy you did in the event of a house fire or other catastrophe.
Audi's Future: Self-Driving Cars, Dual HUDs, LTE
The German carmaker, which last year debuted a modular multimedia interface (MMI) built around the Nvidia Tegra 2 mobile processor, again brought Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang on stage to unveil a version of the board using the 1.4-GHz Tegra 3, which is currently being made available in the upcoming Audi A3.
But the company also unveiled a ridiculous amount of technology that the company is developing in its labs. A short-term improvement, LTE, seemed almost like an afterthought, after being prominently featured in announcements from Seagate and OnStar, among others.
Audi’s connected car vision, Audi Connect, previously used 3G technology to connect the car to an array of…read on.”
Feds Say iMessage Is 'Impossible' to Intercept
Encryption technology used by Apple’s iMessage makes it “impossible” for law enforcement to intercept the content of those messages, according to documentation from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
As reported by CNET, the DEA released anunclassified document that discusses how iMessage might thwart criminal investigations.
The DEA’s San Jose office discovered last month that iMessages sent between Apple devices “are not captured by pen register, trap and trace devices, or Title III interceptions,” the document says. “iMessages sent between two Apple devices are considered encrypted communication and cannot be intercepted, regardless of the cell phone service provider.”
It’s easier to intercept a message between an iOS and non-iOS device, the DEA said.
“A speaker this small can't possibly replace a dedicated sound system, or even a modestly priced iPod dock. However, considering its tiny size, the Foxl v2 Bluetooth performed didn't fare too badly in our tests. I connected my Motorola Droid X to the speaker via Bluetooth and played a selection of tracks to hear how it handles bass, tremble, and various instruments and vocals. The Protomen's "The Hounds" came through satisfyingly clear and loud, the rockabilly guitar riff reaching well across our test room and just through the doors, despite the jazzy vocals falling a bit short of that range. It didn't shake the lab, but two aisles away you could almost hear "The Hounds.”
—http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385768,00.asp
I see what you did there.
8 Facebook Features Google Doesn't Have (Yet) | PCMag.com
pcmag.comPCMag.com | 2011-06-30
iBooks Author: You Work For Apple Now
pcmag.comSascha Segan for PC Mag:
The news was so startling, I couldn’t believe it when I first read it. The iBooks Author user agreement says that any file output in the iBook format must be sold through Apple’s store, and not anywhere else. You can give it away for free, but if you want to sell your work, you can’t sell it yourself. You can’t find the best financial or distribution deal. You can’t offer to email it to your friends for a dollar each so they can read it on their iPads. You must sell it through Apple, which gets a 30 percent cut.
Fortunately, it doesn’t look like Apple owns the actual words of your book; it looks, to my non-lawyerly eye, that if you took the text out and reformatted it in a different app you could sell it elsewhere. But I’m not sure of that.
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.
But really, unjustified. Apple is crystal-clear on this point:
If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a “Work”), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple.
That’s a quote from the iBook Author License Agreement, found in the corner of the software’s about box.
The key phrase in question is any book or other work you generate using this software, defined as a “Work”. The “Work” in question is the generated output of the software, not the input.
In other words, Apple does not claim ownership over your writing, only over what you get back after you put it into iBook Author.
They did this with the App Store as well, and people are still complaining about it, but no one’s calling them fascists anymore.
Why? It worked.
Gamers Solve AIDS puzzle
pcmag.comIn a matter of weeks, gamers have deciphered a medical research mystery that had baffled researchers.
I guess video games aren’t so much of a pointless distraction, are they mom?
Anonymous Hacks Apple Server
The hacker group Anonymous has broken into one of Apple’s servers, but that statement sounds a lot worse than it actually is for Apple customers. First off, the infiltrated server appears to be one that Apple used to process technical support follow-up surveys. And the hack itself only managed to reveal 27 internal Apple user names and passwords: No customer dataseems to have been compromised in the attack.
Anonymous posted the results of its hack to Pastebin, and Apple has responded by taking the affected server offline.
Source - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388025,00.asp:
A Gamers' Bill of Rights
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This is a great article. For those who don’t wanna click the link, I’ll add the main bit below.
