Topic: TV - on March 16, 2012 at 11:07:00 AM CET
BBC bis ORF basteln an TV-Abruf gegen Geld
"Austria's Gold": Arbeitstitel für kostenpflichtige Internetplattform des Gebührenfunks - "Kommerzielle Verwertung der Archivbestände"
London/Köln/Wien - Zweimal zahlen für ein und dasselbe Programm? BBC-Generaldirektor Mark Thompson findet nichts dabei: "Das ist keine zweite Rundfunkgebühr. Bisher mussten Sie ja auch für die DVD bezahlen."
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 16, 2012 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Cookie-Skandal: Google drohen hohe Strafen
Google droht nach Informationen des „Wall Street Journal“ neuer Datenschutz-Ärger. Demnach nehmen Regulierer in den USA und Europa die Umgehung der Datenschutz-Einstellungen im Safari-Browser durch Google unter die Lupe. Vor allem in Amerika könne es teuer werden.
Der technische Trick, mit dem Google die Datenschutz-Einstellungen des Safari-Browsers von Apple umgangen hat, wird von Regulierern in den USA und Europa untersucht. Im schlimmsten Fall könne dem Internet-Konzern eine sehr hohe Strafe drohen, schrieb das „Wall Street Journal“ am Freitag unter Berufung auf informierte Personen.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 16, 2012 at 11:04:00 AM CET
Super-secret Google builds servers in the dark
Just how far will Google go to hide its custom-built data center hardware from the rest of the world?
In one Silicon Valley data center, the company is apparently so paranoid about competitors catching a glimpse of its gear, it’s been known to keep its server cages in complete darkness, outfitting its technical staff like miners and sending them spelunking into the cages with lights on their heads.
“Many [companies] try to keep things covered up. There’s a lot of valuable intellectual property in here,” says Chris Sharp, general manager of content and cloud at Equinix, as he walks through the company’s data center. “But we were always amazed by Google and the helmets.”
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 16, 2012 at 11:03:00 AM CET
Google Flushes Heat From Data Center With Toilet Water
Google is using toilet water to cool its data center in western Georgia.
In 2007, when Google first opened its massive computing center in Douglas County, Georgia, it cooled the facility’s equipment using the same water that’s pumped into the pipes of local homes. But at some point, the search giant realized that the water used by its evaporative cooling system needn’t be clean enough to drink.
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Topic: WEB - on March 16, 2012 at 11:00:00 AM CET
Turkey Bans Pastebin and Tinyurl
"Pastebin and Tinyurl have been blocked in Turkey. Pastebin was blocked last week by a court after the hacking of Turkish Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK). Four databases including email addresses and plain-text passwords stolen from BTK were posted to Pastebin last month, in retaliation for the blocking of Blogspot, Incisozluk (a popular Turkish community dictionary) and thousands of other websites. The more shocking ban was that of Tinyurl, a URL shortening service. Turkey currently blocks thousands of websites and is classified as one of the countries under surveillance by the 2012 Internet Enemies report (Pdf) published last week by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 16, 2012 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Authenticated electricity: Sony power outlets will charge you for charging
Sony is building a new kind of power outlet that raises a not entirely pleasant prospect—in the future, plugging a phone into a public wall socket might require authentication and take a chunk out of your bank account. But the technology will have many important uses, Sony says, from managing payments for recharging electrical vehicles to avoiding blackouts by intelligently regulating the use of power.
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Topic: Drone - on March 16, 2012 at 10:52:00 AM CET
Drone Attack: How We Might Willingly Embrace The Surveillance Society
It's striking how drones have passed from a mysterious weapon used to wreak destruction in distant lands to something that could well become a familiar sight in the skies of the US and Europe. Meanwhile, the technology is progressing rapidly, allowing drones to fly in synchronized swarms and even to be printed out by the sheet. But what might some of the effects on our daily lives be -- for example in the sphere of privacy?
That's what an interesting post by David Eaves begins to explore. As he points out, some uses of drones seem so sensible that it would be almost irresponsible not to adopt them:
"it is entirely conceivable that, in 5-7 years, there could be drones that would follow your child as he walks to school. You can of course, already choose to monitor your child by giving them a cell phone and tracking the GPS device within it, but a drone would have several advantages. It would be harder for someone to destroy or "disconnect" from your child. It could also record and save remotely everything that is going on - in order to prevent anyone from harassing or bullying them. It might even remind them to look both ways before crossing the street, in case they forget. Or, because of its high vantage point, it could pick out and warn your child of cyclists and cars they failed to observe. Once your kid is safely at school the drone could whiz home and recharge in time to walk them home at the end of the day. This may all seem creepy to you, but if such a drone cost $100 dollars, how many parents do you think would feel like it was "the responsible thing to do." I suspect a great deal."</p>
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