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Comment Huawei warranty service is terrible (Score 1) 62

by jessepdx (#53875569) Attached to: China's Huawei Catching Up With Apple, Samsung Smartphone Sales
I had a Nexus 6P for 5 months until Oct of 2016. The phone stopped working, no inbound or outbound calls, data also stopped working. I called for warranty and the y said I have to send it to them first, then they'll send me a replacement. I asked for advanced replacement and they said they didn't offer that service,I offered to pay for it and they still wouldn't send me a new phone first. I went out an bought a Pixel XL immediatly. It took 6 days to receive a call tag for UPS from Huawei. A new phone arrived 4 days later. I'm not sure how they will gain any market share in the US with this type of customer service. Especially from business customers like myself.

Submission + - FBI raises possibility of requiring release to them of iOS source code (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: In its latest filing the FBI proposes that, if the burden on Apple programmers of their alternative approach is too great,, then Apple should release the whole source code to the FBI to allow them to do the work, quoting the precedent of the Lavabit confrontation.

Clearly time for Apple to move off shore!?

Submission + - Google Pulling Back The Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: In the mid-'00s, as Google scaled up its data centers to meet increasing demand, "we could not buy, for any price, a data-center network that would meet the requirements of our distributed systems," says Amin Vahdat, the company's networking technical lead. So they had to build their own software-defined networks inside what were essentially vast warehouse-sized computers. And now the company is starting to tell the world how they did it.
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Viacom's Messy Relationship With YouTube and The Rise of Stephen Colbert 78

Posted by samzenpus from the birth-of-the-nation dept.
Presto Vivace writes with this story about how Stephen Colbert became a YouTube Megastar. "Clips from The Colbert Report soon became a staple at YouTube, a startup that was making it easier for anyone and everyone to upload and watch home movies, video blogs, and technically-illicit-but-increasingly-vanilla clips of TV shows from the day before. And Colbert’s show was about to find itself at the center of a conflict between entertainment media and the web over online video that’s shaped the last decade. In fact, The Colbert Report has been defined as much by this back-and-forth between Hollywood and the web as by the cable news pundits it satirizes....A year after The Colbert Report premiere, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. Five months later, Viacom sued YouTube and Google for copyright infringement, asking for $1 billion in damages. The value of these videos and their audiences were clear. The Colbert Report and “Stephen Colbert” are mentioned three times in Viacom’s complaint against YouTube, as much or more than any other show or artist."

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