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Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week 198

Posted by Soulskill from the for-cars-with-just-one-button dept.
An anonymous reader tips news that Apple's efforts to bring iOS to cars will be shown at the Geneva Motor Show next week. 'Drivers will be able to use Apple Maps as in-car navigation, as well as listen to music and watch films. Calls can be made through the system, which will tie into the Siri voice recognition platform so that messages can be read to the driver who can respond by dictating a reply.' Apple's partners in the automotive industry will be Volvo, Ferrari, and Mercedes Benz to start. Apple first said they were working on this system at last year's WWDC.

Submission + - Finnish Hacker Isolates GPS Coordinates from Youtube Video Soundtrack (windytan.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "The signal sits alone on the left audio channel, so I can completely isolate it. Judging from the spectrogram, the modulation scheme seems to be BFSK, switching the carrier between 1200 and 2200 Hz. I demodulated it by filtering it with a lowpass and highpass sinc in SoX and comparing outputs. Now I had a bitstream at 1200 bps."

Submission + - HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' as Buyers Shun Windows 8

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Gregg Keizer reports at Computerworld that Hewlett-Packard has stuck their finger in Microsoft's eye by launching launched a new promotion that discounts several consumer PCs by $150 when equipped with Windows 7, saying the four-year-old OS is "back by popular demand." "The reality is that there are a lot of people who still want Windows 7," says Bob O'Donnel. "This is a twist, though, and may appeal to those who said, 'I do want a new PC, but I thought I couldn't get Windows 7.'" The promotion reminded O'Donnell and others of the dark days of Windows Vista, when customers avoided Windows 7's predecessor and instead clamored for the older Windows XP on their new PCs. Then, customers who had heard mostly negative comments about Vista from friends, family and the media, decided they would rather work with the devil they knew rather than the new one they did not. "It's not a perfect comparison," says O'Donnell, of equating Windows 8 with Vista, "but the perception of Windows 8 is negative. I said early on that Windows 8 could clearly be Vista Version 2, and that seems to have happened." HP has decided that the popularity of Windows 7 is its best chance of encouraging more people to buy new computers in a declining market and is not the first time that HP has spoken out against Microsoft. "Look at the business model difference between Intel and ARM. Look at the operating systems. In today's world, other than Microsoft there's no one else who charges for an operating system," said HP executive Sridhar Solur in December adding that that the next generation of computers could very well not be dominated by Microsoft. "In today's world, other than Microsoft there's no one else who charges for an operating system."

Submission + - EU: Google should face $1bn privacy fine, not 'pocket money' amounts (v3.co.uk) 1

Submitted by DW100
DW100 writes: Despite Google being fined €900,000 by Spanish authorities and €150,000 in France for its controversial privacy policies in recent months, the EU has admitted this is mere 'pocket money' to the company. Instead, a new legal regime that would have seen Google fined $1bn for breaching data protection laws is needed to make US companies fear and respect the law in Europe.

Submission + - Consumers Don't Want Companies To Store Their Info (net-security.org)

Submitted by dinscott
dinscott writes: Consumer trust has fallen in each and every sector, both public and private. 69% survey responders say this decline in trust was solely down to a lack of trust in the organizations that hold their personal information.

Yet, despite consumer angst around the data issue, there is a lack of ownership by the general public towards it. Only 32% of consumers recognize their own involvement in keeping their data secure. Instead, consumers blame individuals, with over a third expecting to see repercussions for the member of staff deemed responsible and almost one in 10 holding the CEO personally responsible.

Trust is being hampered by the fact that consumers are failing to see the results of the data they provide. Over a quarter of respondents believing that telecoms and utility companies use their data solely to extract more money from them.

Submission + - Data from birds automatically converted into readable blog posts (theconversation.com)

Submitted by notscientific
notscientific writes: Raw data collected from satellites and sensors fitted on four birds in Scotland are now being automatically converted into readable text and published as blog posts online. This technology, from the University of Aberdeen, is the first of its kind and enables large amounts of data to be instantly converted into readable text.

Submission + - Sourceforge spreading Adware-InstallQ virus

Submitted by rickymoz
rickymoz writes: To my surprize, when I tried to download the latest FileZilla for Windows (FileZilla_3.7.2_win32-setup.exe), the downloaded filename turned into 'SFInstaller_SFFZ_filezilla_8979715_.exe'. And boom, the anti-virus detected Adware-InstallQ. I've found out that some projects bundle their software with this install-wrapper in order to make some cash, but that was restricted to 'dubious download sites' [ref]. I didn't know sourceforge has now turned into such a filthy dirty swamp...

Submission + - CIA documents acknowledge its role in Iran's 1953 coup (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by serbianheretic
serbianheretic writes: From BBC News: The CIA has released documents which for the first time formally acknowledge its key role in the 1953 coup which ousted Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. The documents were published on the independent National Security Archive on the 60th anniversary of the coup.

Submission + - Predictors of suicidal behaviour found in blood (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes: Researchers may have found a way to potentially predict suicidal behaviour by analyzing someone's blood. Using blood samples taken by the coroner from nine men who had committed suicide, they found six molecular signs, or biomarkers, that they say can identify people at risk of committing suicide. To check whether these biomarkers could predict hospitalizations related to suicide or suicide attempts, the researchers analysed gene-expression data from 42 men with bipolar disorder and 46 men with schizophrenia. When the biomarkers were combined with clinical measures of mood and mental state, the accuracy with which researchers could predict hospitalizations was more than 80% (abstract).

Submission + - Forced Exposure - Groklaw is Over, Cites Privacy Concerns (groklaw.net)

Submitted by gravious
gravious writes: pj, in her own words.

> My personal decision is to get off of the Internet to the degree it's possible. I'm just an ordinary person. But I really know, after all my research and some serious thinking things through, that I can't stay online personally without losing my humanness, now that I know that ensuring privacy online is impossible. I find myself unable to write. I've always been a private person. That's why I never wanted to be a celebrity and why I fought hard to maintain both my privacy and yours."

> So this is the last Groklaw article. I won't turn on comments. Thank you for all you've done. I will never forget you and our work together. I hope you'll remember me too. I'm sorry I can't overcome these feelings, but I yam what I yam, and I tried, but I can't.

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