Now pointlessly enhanced with AI
I had the Nexus One off most of Tuesday evening. I turned it on 20 minutes ago and saw the update notification.
I was hoping for some new features for the Nexus One, unfortunately those new features are available only for Nexus S.
Speaking of which, I am using numbers of phones on AT&T network including an iPhone and Nexus One. I was thinking about getting a Nexus S and found out that there’s one that is compatible with AT&T network.
Apple and Google are sued on separate occasions for the alleged location tracking.
Meanwhile, Tom Tom’s GPS data is being used to target speeders in Netherlands.
At least Windows Phone 7 does not store location data on the phone. They are collecting it on the fly.
Why are these companies tracking me? Before I finish my thought, I should check-in on Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places, Google Latitude, … and geotagging this post.
Apple answers questions regarding iPhone Location Data through its Press Release page. To summarize Apple’s answers:
Apple also mentions:
Software Update
Sometime in the next few weeks Apple will release a free iOS software update that:
- reduces the size of the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database cached on the iPhone,
- ceases backing up this cache, and
- deletes this cache entirely when Location Services is turned off.
In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone.
“Next Major iOS Software Release” could mean iOS 5.
PlayStation Network went down on Wednesday April 20th, 2011 as a result of “external intrusion” that prompted Sony to take down the service. As many have feared, the problem was worse than just malfunctions.
From PlayStation.com:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:
- Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services
- Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened
- Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
According to official statement from Sony, an authorized person managed to obtain information provided by PlayStation Network users including:
Sony also added that user’s credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date might have been compromised.
Sony has suspended PlayStation Network indefinitely.
The group Anonymous stated that they had nothing to do with the breach nor the outage.
Sometimes I wonder if I could read the captcha in plain Alphabet, let alone something in Greek Alphabet.
ψκρ. nciesi
Did I get it right?
Hot off the Update-Thursday:
VLC 1.1.9
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.9.html
VLC is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
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Perian 1.2.2
http://perian.org/#download
“Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.7 or higher because 10.3 makes the iceweasel cower in fear.”
That always makes me chuckle.
Apple releases Security Update 2011-002 for:
This Security Update adds blacklist to the fraudulent SSL certificates issued by a Comodo affiliate registration authority.