Showing posts with label social. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Tech Weekly podcast: Google-Motorola, riots and social media,

Join Aleks Krotoski and Juliette Garside for a packed edition of Tech Weekly. This week, the politics of social media: what role should the UK government have in regulating our access to services such as Facebook, BlackBerry Messenger and Twitter? Author Jeff Jarvis weighs in on the debate and finds that there is currently a demonisation of technology.

Also, search giant Google has moved into the mobile manufacturing business: blogger Stasis Bielinis broke the news of Monday's Motorola Mobility deal – worth $12.5bn – back in June. We find out what's in it for Google, and how the mobile ecosystem will settle after this bombshell.

The UK government has announced the next phase in it's high-speed broadband plans – corporate partner BT has pledged to bid for some of the £530m in grants to connect out-of-reach rural communities to fast connectivity. We hear from Bill Murphy, MD for Next Generation Access at BT about the details of its plans, and where it intends to invest.

Finally, what's in store for the long-standing Fifa brand of games? Keith Stuart speaks with Andrew Wilson, senior VP of worldwide development at EA Sports about its plans for cross-platform entertainment.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Boot-up: Mac malware "Explosion" missing social breakthrough Google +, and more

Quickly to chew over, as picked by the technology team burst of 8 links for you


"Dignity the hacker-win and Apple are overwhelmed, or they would be killed by Apple's vigilance?"
"Two months ago I had a way come tried, that we could answer this question definitively."


"I wrote a small script download to save each hour and each unique version of Apple malware definition file permanently." I started this script running on 2 June, recording of version 2 of the file; Since then were 22 more versions, each add new malware definition signatures to the scanner. "I have all data now what at my fingertips."


It is an interesting data.


"Andreas Kluth from the Economist:" you tell me: in real life, how often you someone go and request, "Friends", then "sharing" pictures of you start naked baby?
"Wonderfully warm and fuzzy feel like you if someone (oh yes, he was not in my football team 30 years ago?)" (Or maybe I vomited on him at the keg party in 1989?) keeps you on the road, "Friends" asks to be, then shares his baby pictures with you?
"Mark [Zuckerberg] asked to exactly this sort of thing all of us." I thought it was strange at the time, and I said so in our pages. (The image at the top of this post is from this old piece.) Superstition-did I mention? -That was in 2007. A different era, as I have said. "


He likes Google + and circles however.


Before you, yes questions, they had similar as those of the Oslo murders. No case is also terrible not to use for a con artist.


On a prediction system using crowdsourcing is: people "buy" or "sell" a decision before it happens. Keep bookmark this one. Was on Sunday night happened on 21% chance.


Killian Fox: "Africa has experienced an incredible boom in mobile phone usage in the last decade." In 1998, there were fewer than four million mobile phones on the continent. Today, there are more than 500 m. In Uganda alone, 10 million people or around 30% of the population, have a mobile phone, and this number is growing rapidly every year. For Ugandans, these ubiquitous devices are more than just a practical way of to communicate on the fly: they are a way of life.
"It may seem unlikely, given his track record in technological development, but Africa is at the heart of a mobile revolution." In the West have we phones were more like our computers to adjust... In Africa, where the current worldwide use only 4% one billion people, many can make calculating a computer, let alone buy. "This led mobile phone users and developers more resourceful and African mobile phones are things to do, which only now begins the developed world take up is used."


You have to do very nice console for all API work or to test. (Thank you @ Artesea on Twitter for the link.)


Microsoft deep throat, an anonymous Manager: "the iPad remains in consumer love and money..." Suck money, which we prefer, send it our way, but there is nothing quite like for them to buy. Windows 8 ARM tablets? At some point next year, but what we showed to all things D is our take the squeeze an elephant in a VW bug. Here is some deep respect and chops to the people that this work to do, but it is a subtraction game, followed by many frustrating talks about why it is okay to work not certain obvious things... have obviously....
"An analyst question mean today: when the hell of bing is to stop, to lose money?" It seems, that the internal hiring spree finally has cooled so that well - the urging of warm body has finished.... Seriously but now is the time to start shaking the structure of bing and let the quality of the eco-system carry on and employs shed remaining work. If Xbox have made it, so can! "


What is puzzling is the dip and then jump in the period 2009. We would like to a statement.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Tech weekly: patents, a stealth Internet, Bigpoint on social gaming

On this week podcast, ALEKS Krotoski are talking about Jemima Kiss and conductive Charles Arthur of the guardian software engineer Dan Catt of the latest headlines from around the world technology combined.
First, they go the app patent wars that goes behind the scenes of the Smartphone industry. There are epic battles between the cell phone manufacturers and raging battles between "patent trolls" and independent developers. With very little to do, to protect asks the team to the flourishing development of eco-system, what can Indies do to protect their turf and to keep to the limits of innovation.
Dan explains how to use the "Internet in a suitcase" - the technology supported by the US Department of defence and jumped in areas run by the regime, to have the tight control information. Jemima questions the ethics of such an initiative.
ALEKS dons her psychologist Cape and the importance of a study of Columbia University on the cognitive effects of Google takes apart of. Betsy Sparrow and her team found that people of less, its transitive Speicher use, because they think that the machine for them to remember. But how different is this technology of the pen and pencil or the mobile phone?
Charles is one of the world's largest social-gaming platforms, about the best way of the Lesser Antilles with Philip Rice's of Bigpoint, and the big boys can be rich quick in the lucrative market.
All of this, as well as the technology that wood Gate has weekly threats on this week in tech.