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Comment Re:Consumers (Score 1) 39

by jperl (#37308504) Attached to: Window Shopping With Gesture Recognition
I for one would think that online shops which are open 24/7 are worse for people suffering from shopping addiction. An online shops seems much more tempting than a physical store which is even closed. If you are dependent on shopping, simply getting information about a product will not satisfy your needs.
Android

Submission + - Chrome on Android 50% faster than Safari on Iphone (blaze.io)

Submitted by jperl
jperl writes: Testing by blaze software has shown that Chrome on Android performed much faster on 45.000 web pages than IPhone's Safari. Chrome performed better in 84% of the webpages, with an median loading time of 2.144 seconds, resulting in being 52% faster than Safari. Another suprising result was that iPhone 4.3 and Android 2.3 did not perform much faster than previous versions.

The study was done primarily on iPhone 4 and Google Nexus S. The websites used were those of the Fortune 1000 companies.

Meanwhile Apple has also released a statement explaining the gap in performance: http://www.blaze.io/business/embeded-browser-vs-native-browser/
Privacy

Daniel Ellsberg On WikiLeaks, Google and Facebook 87

Posted by Soulskill from the locking-out-big-brother dept.
angry tapir writes "The Silicon Valley companies that store our personal data have a growing responsibility to protect it from government snooping, according to Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Discussing the growing role of Internet companies in the public sphere, Ellsberg said companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter need to take a stand and push back on excessive requests for personal data." Ellsberg spoke as part of a panel at an event from the Churchill Club, which included Clay Shirky, Jonathan Zittrain and others discussing the WikiLeaks situation.
Input Devices

Submission + - New Linux kernel 2.6.30 native multitouch support (lii-enac.fr) 1

Submitted by
Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar
Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar writes: "The new linux kernel 2.6.30 now support natively multitouch event. These events are sent through the MT_* messages added to the kernel by Henrik Rydberg and now available in the last 2.6.30. We have collaborated with the Linux team to add the needed events and to allow native support. This is different from MPX, that is only Multi user and not multitouch, and only support one keyboard/mouse per user acting simultaneously on the same screen. Here you can find a video showing the multitouch capabilities : http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/linux.html Thanks, Best Regards"
IBM

Submission + - How IBM Plans to Win Jeopardy! (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by wjousts
wjousts writes: Technology Review is reporting on IBM's plans to take on Trebek at his own game. The "Watson" computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search it's database for relevant answers. A televised matchup with Trebek is planned for next year.

Damn you Trebek!
United States

Submission + - Jobless IT pro buys radio ads to find work 1

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "The 65-year-old software engineer has worked for a who's who of industry and government entities, yet his phone that used to ring regularly with work offers has gone silent. So, Larry Fowler figures that what works for car dealerships and furniture stores just might find work for him. He's paid out $1,500 to buy a series of radio ads touting his technical skills and achievements ... delivered in his own everyman voice. You can listen to the commercial and judge for yourself.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/42019"
Security

Submission + - memcpy() Is Going to Be Banned (infoq.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The memcpy() function has been recommended to be banned and will most likely enter Microsoft's SDL Banned list later this year. memcpy() joins the ranks of other popular functions like strcpy, strncpy, strcat, strncat which were banned due to their security vulnerability through buffer overruns.
Software

Submission + - Is Phoning Home Killing Our Computers?

Submitted by Bones3D_mac
Bones3D_mac writes: As a Mac user, I've been spared much of the headache of viruses and other nasty surprises most PC users have been dealing with on a daily basis. Lately though, I've been looking into the windows side of things to expand my available toolsets, such as tablet laptops for things like photoshop and lightweight 3D modeling work.

The problem, however, is how do I keep a mission-critical system like this safe when the applications being used on it require an internet connection to phone home? Obviously, having no external connections would do a lot to prevent anything from causing damage to the data stored on the system. But it seems that it's become increasingly difficult to keep the internet out of the equation when it comes to the more expensive software.

Should commercial developers be considering other methods of preventing piracy besides just phoning home? Or should we start holding them responsible for making our mission-critical systems needlessly vulnerable due to their software's requirement that an internet connect always be present?
Medicine

Submission + - Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO (smh.com.au)

Submitted by
Philip K Dickhead
Philip K Dickhead writes: "A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world. Vivienne Allan said in an interview with Australian Broadcasting, that the body had confirmed worldwide there had been just seven deaths — all in Mexico — and 79 confirmed cases of the disease. Ms. Allen, of WHO's patient safety program stated "Unfortunately that [150-plus deaths] is incorrect information and it does happen, but that's not information that's come from the World Health Organisation. That figure is not a figure that's come from the World Health Organisation and, I repeat, the death toll is seven and they are all from Mexico." Ms Allan said WHO had confirmed 40 cases of swine flu in the Americas, 26 in Mexico, six in Canada, two in Spain, two in Britain and three in New Zealand."

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