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Lenovo's BlackBerry takeover was reportedly thwarted by the Canadian government
As one of the most successful businesses to ever come out of Canada, BlackBerry has deep ties to its home country. Such deep ties, in fact, that Canada's government outright rejected the idea of Lenovo taking over the struggling telecom company. That's according to a report from The Globe and Mail, which says that Ottawa officials "made it clear" that any bid from a Chinese company would be denied by the government over national security concerns, immediately dooming any potential deal that may have been on the table. The government made its position known "over the last one to two months," the report says. Lenovo's interest in BlackBerry was publicly revealed last month, though the PC maker was just one of several rumored bidders.
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The New Mac Operating System Works Very Poorly With Gmail (AAPL, GOOG)
Apple recently put out Mavericks, a new version of its operating system for Macs.
It sounds like installing it will cause you some headaches if you are a certain kind of Gmail user – the kind that prefers to use Apple's default "Mail" app and not the Gmail website.
Quoting Joe Kissell from Tidbits, here are few of the issues:
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"It’s no longer possible to rearrange Gmail mailboxes in Mail’s sidebar; those at the top level of your Gmail account are always in alphabetical order (although, strangely, mailboxes nested within another mailbox can still be reordered). Drag a top-level mailbox to a new location and it snaps right back to where it was. This isn’t a problem with other account types, or with local mailboxes."
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"Mail now forces you to use the default locations for Gmail’s Sent and Trash mailboxes. (That is, if you choose another mailbox and choose Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For, the submenu listing special mailboxes like Sent and Trash will be dimmed. Previously remapped mailboxes may appear empty in Mail, giving you no obvious way to see those messages.) One of the implications of this change is that deleted Gmail messages will always be permanently removed in 30 days even if you set Mail to never delete them, because it’s no longer in Mail’s control; deletion is done on Gmail’s side."
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"Although you can uncheck “Store draft messages on the server” for Gmail accounts, the setting doesn’t stick, meaning drafts are always stored on the server."
- "The badges Mail uses to tell you how many unread messages are in each mailbox may be significantly off. For example, one user reported that even after a Mail rule successfully moved messages from the Inbox to another Gmail mailbox, the Inbox unread count still included those messages."
Kissell goes on for much longer about what's wrong with Gmail.
Many of his issues seem to stem from hacks he'd implemented to get the prior version of the Mac operating system working better with Gmail.
After reading Kissell's post, Marco Arment recommends that anyone who wants to use Apple's Mail app should probably switch to Fastmail, what he calls "a standard IMAP email host."
Or Gmail users could switch to using Gmail only through their browser. I did that maybe six months ago because Apple Mail was taking up too much hard drive space and my life was not ruined by it.
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iFixit easily tears apart the decidedly high-end Nexus 5
If you want to know what's inside your new phone and tablet but don't want to tear it apart yourself, the people at iFixit usually have your hookup. Today they've torn apart Google and LG's new Nexus 5, which was announced last week and is currently shipping to people who ordered during the first couple hours of availability (as of this writing, you'll have to wait between two and four weeks to get one depending on the model you're trying to order).
iFixit didn't discover much that isn't already on the spec sheet, but its teardowns continue to be useful for telling us exactly what components headline new smartphones and tablets. Broadcom is a big player in the Nexus 5, supplying both the BCM4339 Wi-Fi chip (which supplies 802.11ac connectivity, Bluetooth 4.0, and an FM receiver) and a BCM20793M NFC controller. This particular NFC controller is noteworthy because it reportedly enables Google Wallet in a way that carriers cannot block. To date, the matrix of Android phones that do and don't support Google Wallet has been a bit confusing, so hopefully more OEMs start going this route soon.
Like the Nexus 4, the Nexus 5 also includes an LTE-capable modem and transceiver. Unlike the Nexus 4, the Nexus 5 actually has the hardware it needs to use them. The Qualcomm WTR1605L transceiver chip is the same one Apple uses in the iPhone 5C and 5S, and the Snapdragon 800 SoC (model number MSM8974) has an integrated LTE modem that supports LTE speeds of up to 150Mbps given carrier support. Layered on top of the SoC is 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM, an upgrade from the DDR2 RAM used in the Nexus 4.
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Google: Stop asking the Internet how to do things, ask a human instead
“How to” searches that end with a click on a video tutorial must be booming in Google’s books. At a press event Monday, the company announced a new branch of video Hangouts, entitled “Helpouts,” which amount to live video tutorials with approved experts who can provide assistance on whatever problem you’re trying to solve with the Internet. The only catch: Helpouts will cost you.
YouTube tutorials are not the flashy success that vloggers or televised nip slips are. But in this reporter’s experience, there’s hardly a question you can ask the eight ball of Google’s search field that doesn’t result in a YouTube answer—if not a tight and well-produced two-minute clip, at least a meandering 10 minutes of a random person talking at the camera with a few glimmering seconds of actual helpful data sprinkled in.
By contrast, Google Helpouts will connect you with an approved expert who specifically addresses your problem via video chat. Each helper has a fixed or per-minute rate that you pay via Google Wallet, of which Google gets a 20 percent cut, and users will be able to rate and review helpers.
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11 things we learned from Valve’s latest Steam Machine PR push
Recently, Valve invited a few select news outlets to its headquarters in Bellevue, Washington to get some hands-on time with the recently announced prototype Steam Machine and the companion controller. While Ars wasn't among the outlets included, that doesn't mean we can't scour the reports for new information about Valve's upcoming hardware plans. Here are the most important tidbits we've discovered.
What the prototype box looks like
We already knew Valve's prototype box was going to be 12" × 12.4" × 2.9", making it roughly the same size as the upcoming Xbox One. We didn't know the box itself would look so much like Microsoft's upcoming consoles: a black rectangle that has heat-dissipating grating covering about one half of the case. The front sports a large circular power button and two USB ports, and the back features an array of ports like you'd see on any gaming PC, from USB, headset, and Ethernet ports to monitor and HDMI outputs.
Cooling is a priority
All the reports highlight just how much Valve is working to keep all the internal components air-cooled despite being packed into a console form factor. Components are kept in "thermally isolated zones" with their own thermal intakes and outtakes, Wired says. They're separated by what The Verge calls a 3D-printed "plastic shroud." And The Seattle Times describes "a series of baffles to better handle cooling and airflow in its Steam Machine PCs."
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'Gold status' te winnen voor frequent flyers Star Alliance
SCHIPHOL - Voor het bereiken van een ‘Gold status’ moet je als frequent flyer de nodige vluchten maken. Star Alliance biedt enkele gelukkigen de kans deze status in een klap te bereiken. Dat kan door deel te nemen aan de nieuwe Star Alliance Gold Game, waarmee een Gold status bij een alliantielid naar keuze valt te winnen.
Motorola hint op come-back in Europa
Voor de tweede keer in tien jaar tijd wil Motorola het weer in Europa gaan proberen. Motorola hint op de Twitter pagina voor diverse Europese landen op de komst van de betaalbare Motorola G.
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Add a little 'Attack on Titan' to your Civ 5 game with this mod
A new mod on Steam Workshop adds elements of popular anime and manga series Attack on Titan to Civilization 5 games, including a new leader, units and abilities.
The Attack on Titan Civ mod by Steam user "Yuuko" adds Eren Jaeger of The Walls as a playable civilization. In Attack on Titan, The Walls — long barriers surrounding the last strongholds of civilization — are humanity's defense against the giant human-eating Titans, and Eren Jaeger is the main protagonist of the series.
"Yuuko" writes that the mod has adapted Eren's character, The Walls as a civilization and new abilities to mesh with the Civilization 5 universe and style of play; the modder has adapted the lore of Attack on Titan into skills and stats boosts for different...
HGST balloons disk capacity with helium-filled 6TB drive
This should be a gas for the storage-hungry: Western Digital's HGST unit, which makes disk storage for the enterprise market, has begun shipping helium-filled 3.5-inch hard drives with a massive storage boost. The new drives have six terabytes of storage capacity—50 percent more than that of conventional drives of the same size.
The technology required to keep the helium reliably sealed within the drives, called Helioseal, has been in development by HGST for over 10 years. The company initially announced this commercial development in September of 2012. The use of helium rather than air allows additional storage platters to be squeezed into the design, nearly doubling their capacity with existing storage media technology while reducing power consumption and weight.
The new six terabyte Ultrastar He6 fits seven disk platters into the same form factor as HGST's previous five-platter/four terabyte drive. In addition to half again as much capacity, the drives run considerably cooler than conventional drives—as much as four to five degrees Celsius cooler, greatly reducing heat output. These drives even consume 23 percent less power at idle, drawing just 5.3 watts
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New Kepler analysis finds many Earth-like planets; total 3,500 exoplanets
Although NASA's Kepler probe has entered a semi-retirement, discoveries from the data it collected continue. Scientists are currently gathered to discuss these results, and they held a press conference today to announce the latest haul. As of today, the Kepler team is adding 833 new exoplanet candidates to its existing haul, bringing the total up to over 3,500. So far, 90 percent of the candidates that have been checked have turned out to be real. The number of planets in the habitable zone has gone up to over 100.
In conjunction with the press conference, PNAS is releasing a paper that performs an independent analysis of Sun-like stars. This finds that over 20 percent of these host a planet less than two times the size of Earth's radius. Within Kepler's field of view, 10 of them receive an amount of light similar to that reaching Earth.
A status update
Kepler spots planets by watching them transit in front of their host star. This creates a characteristically square-shaped dip in the amount of light reaching Earth. This method of detection, however, isn't considered definitive. The sightings are considered candidates and need to be confirmed by another method.
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RIAA and BPI Use “Pirated” Code on Their Websites
Copyright is a double-edged sword, and those who sharpen one side often get cut by the other.
Two weeks ago we reported that the new Healthcare.gov website had stripped the copyright notice from one of the scripts it used. This blatant act of ‘piracy’ prompted us to take a closer look at the websites of several anti-piracy organizations, and today we present our findings.
As it turns out the U.S. Government is not the only one violating copyright licenses. The websites of music industry groups RIAA and BPI also use infringing code.
On both sites we found open source JQuerys scripts that are released under the MIT license. This license permits any person or organization to use, copy, modify, merge, distribute, or even sell copies of the software. There’s only one condition users have to agree to; that the original copyright notice stays intact.
Ironically, the scripts used on the RIAA and BPI websites have the copyright licenses removed.
BPI uses the depreciated template script jQuery.tmpl.min.js, and as can be seen below, yesterday there was no reference to the MIT license or the copyright holder listed at the top of the file.
BPI violation
The image below shows what the 2011 copy of the script should look like, with the proper copyright credits and applicable licenses included.
Proper credits
The RIAA makes a similar mistake with the image slider plugin jquery.orbit.min.js. This software is copyrighted by the design firm ZURB but the version in use at the RIAA website yesterday fails to mention this, or the MIT license.
RIAA violation
Here is what a copy of ZURB’s plugin should look like when the copyright holder and MIT license are properly mentioned.
Proper credits
TorrentFreak asked both RIAA and BPI for a comment yesterday. RIAA said it was looking into the issue and appears to have added the copyright notice now (Internet archive copy). BPI has not responded to our question but clearly received our email as they also updated the file with proper credits (cf. Internet archive).
These type of violations are not unique, and can be found in many websites all over the Internet. Still, from outfits whose raison d’être is protecting copyrights, we have to expect that these issues are carefully checked.
The violations were probably caused by the web developers who coded the RIAA and BPI sites. We doubt that any of the higher ranked executives know about it, but next time they may want to instruct their coders to keep their site free from copyright infringements.
This is not the first time that an anti-piracy group has been accused of pirating software. A few years ago the MPAA removed the linkware license form Patrick Robin’s Forest Blog software. The movie industry group later said that this was a mistake, and it was only used for testing purposes.
Instant Update: A final check upon publication revealed that RIAA and BPI both fixed the infringements, probably more swiftly than the average website processes DMCA requests. Neither group provided a comment on the copyright violations.
Source: RIAA and BPI Use “Pirated” Code on Their Websites
Bom bij A4 ontmanteld
De vliegtuigbom bij de A4 bij Leiden is kort voor elf uur ontmanteld. De snelweg is weer vrijgegeven.
De A4 was sinds 8 uur in beide richtingen afgesloten tussen Zoeterwoude-dorp en Leidschendam in verband met de ontmanteling van de bom uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Gedurende de werkzaamheden was ook het luchtruim daar tijdelijk dicht.
Vertraging
De werkzaamheden liepen flink uit doordat de Explosieven Opruimingsdienst Defensie (EOD) pas om 10.00 uur kon beginnen. Er bevonden zich nog enkele personen in het afgezette gebied rondom de bom.
De bom werd gisteren gevonden bij baggerwerkzaamheden en wordt elders tot ontploffing gebracht.
Na de vondst van de 500-ponder werd donderdag het treinverkeer tussen Leiden en Den Haag stilgelegd.
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Windows 8.1′s web use doubles shortly after launch
Maxim BangeLove 8.1!
Web traffic doesn’t directly translate to market share, but it’s handy for tracking the adoption of brand new operating systems — take Windows 8.1, for example. Net Applications notes that Microsoft’s new OS nearly doubled in web share upon its official launch in October, climbing to 1.7 percent. Clearly, a lot of web surfers had been waiting to upgrade. As you might imagine, though, the software took share from its predecessor as customers either replaced PCs or downloaded the free update. Windows 8 declined for the first time ever, falling half a point to 7.5 percent; the two 8.x revisions gained 0.4 points when put together, but Windows as a whole dipped slightly to 90.7 percent.
Redmond wasn’t the only one releasing a new platform, of course. Apple’s OS X Mavericks accounted for more than 0.8 percent of web traffic last month, or enough to put it past Tiger and Leopard almost overnight. While the overall Mac platform only grew by a tiny amount to hit 7.7 percent of web use, we doubt that the crew at 1 Infinite Loop is complaining. It’s not clear how the dueling Apple and Microsoft upgrades will compare in the long run, but you can check the historical trends both after the break and at the source link.
Filed under: Internet, Software, Apple, Microsoft
Via: The Next Web
Source: Net Applications
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