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Submission + - Why Your Next Phone Will Include Fingerprint, Facial, and Voice Recognition (forbes.com)
Submission + - Tizen is no Android, but will still play an important role (networkworld.com)
Submission + - Get Serious, Apple is Not Building a Smart Pen (mashable.com)
Submission + - Google wants variable-rate Ethernet (lightreading.com)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) isn't working on a variable-speed Ethernet standard yet, but Google is pushing for one. It was a point of focus for Bikash Koley, Google's principal architect and manager of network architecture, during a panel session on the last day of OFC/NFOEC last week. What he wants is variable-speed Ethernet. So, instead of running a connection at 100 Gbit/s or 400 Gbit/s, which are the two standard choices, he'd like to pick arbitrary speeds. The technology on the optical side is actually ready for what he's asking. Variable-speed transceivers and flexible-grid ROADMs exist. What's missing is on the packet side: a media access control (MAC) layer that's capable of dealing with a variable-bit-rate physical (PHY) layer.
Submission + - Father Reports 13-Year-Old Son For Fraud After £3,700 iPad Bill (ibtimes.co.uk)
Submission + - European carriers complain to EU about anti-competitive contracts with Apple (dailytech.com)
Submission + - Apple Makes Two Factor Authentication Available for Apple IDs (securityweek.com)
An Apple ID can essentially be the keys to the Kingdom when it comes to Apple devices and user maintained data, and as Apple explains, is the “ key to many important things you do with Apple, such as purchasing from the iTunes and App Stores, keeping personal information up-to-date across your devices with iCloud, and locating, locking, or wiping your devices.”
“After you turn [Two-step verification] on, there will be no way for anyone to access and manage your account at My Apple ID other than by using your password, verification codes sent your trusted devices, or your Recovery Key,” a announcing the new service explained.
Submission + - Apple: 75% of our world wide power needs now come from renewable power sources (apple.com)
From the Apple Blog Post: 'Our investments are paying off. We’ve already achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of our data centers, at our facilities in Austin, Elk Grove, Cork, and Munich, and at our Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. And for all of Apple’s corporate facilities worldwide, we’re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases. We won’t stop working until we achieve 100 percent throughout Apple.'
Any other big power hungry data centers want to step up and join Apple on this one? Im looking at you Google and Rackspace!
Submission + - We did not need Google's Schmidt to tell us Android and Chrome would not merge (networkworld.com)
Submission + - New OS X Trojan Adware Injects Ads Into Chrome, Firefox, Safari
Submission + - Apple Hires Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, Destroyer of iPhones (slashdot.org)
Submission + - Apple Releases Patch For Evasi0n Jailbreak (After It's Used 18 Million Times) (forbes.com)
Submission + - Miguel de Icaza Helps Windows Developers Go iOS (xconomy.com)
Submission + - Samsung Galaxy S 4 crushes iPhone 5, other leading phones in performance tests (bgr.com)
Submission + - Apple Fixes OS X Flaw That Allowed Java Apps to Run With Plugin Disabled (threatpost.com)
Submission + - Apple Releases Security Update 2013-001 and ML 10.8.3 (apple.com)
Some of the most Important Changes include handling of TIFF Images, issues with QuickTime and Software Update (a man in the middle attack), affecting all supported versions of the OS.
More Info at apple.
Submission + - How to block harassing calls on Android/iOS? 2
Submission + - Samsung's advertising game outmuscled Apple in 2012 (edibleapple.com)
What’s more, Samsung has also proven rather shrewd at another one of Apple’s historic specialties – advertising. Not only are its latest people-centric ads resonating with consumers, they also bash Apple fans and iPhone users in the process. That’s a lot of bang for the buck.
And speaking of bucks, Samsung isn’t shy about spending a lot of its money on advertising efforts either. While Apple outspent Samsung by a factor of 3-1 in mobile advertising in 2011, Samsung stepped up its game in a major way in 2012. Last year, Samsung outspent Apple by $64 million in mobile advertising. Specifically, Apple spent $333 million on its advertising efforts while Samsung spent $401 million.