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Posted on 25th Mar 2011 at 17:28 by Paul Goodhead with 114 comments

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In the next few years, device-to-device sharing of music, videos, and photos will become commonplace. That's thanks to a new crop of proximity-based apps?including Color, Bump, and Mover?that provide a simple way to share media between phones. One of the most interesting and advanced of these tools is LoKast.
Created by Boris Bogatin, an engineering grad from the University of Pennsylvania, and now CEO of NearVerse, LoKast is unique in that it uses programming tricks to capture GPS and wireless data about which phones are actually nearby. Other location-based apps, such as WhosHere, are hit or miss: there is often a delay in sharing proximity data. But when I tested LoKast with two Sprint Evo Shift 4G smart phones in a variety of settings, including a crowded coffeehouse, its proximity engine worked quickly and reliably.
The app lets users stream their own music, videos, and photos from their phones to anyone within a radius of 1,000 feet. (For copyright reasons, when a user accesses another user's music on an iPhone, they are redirected to the iTunes Store.) Users can also share Web links and contacts, and even post on Twitter and Facebook about the media they are sharing. The app works over both 3G and Wi-Fi. A "LoKast Live" feature lets users see new videos and photos added in real time and play them back instantly?helpful at a wedding, business meeting, or party.
Ben Allen, a social media expert and consultant, says LoKast's strength is in its proprietary technology that locates nearby users, with a peer-to-peer link similar to Skype's. Chris Pollara, CEO of media consultancy Convertiv, agrees that this proximity technology gives LoKast an edge. LoKast checks the quality of the smart phone's GPS signal and triangulates its position based on proximity to a Wi-Fi hot spot. Other apps use just a simple GPS location string (the phone's latitude and longitude) and don't triangulate.
LoKast also uses an intermediary server in the cloud. As in any phone conversation or a Skype call (or, as with LoKast, the video and photos), the media is recorded very quickly in near real time and then transmitted back to the caller. Some apps, like Mover, don't use a server, but transmit directly from one phone to another over Bluetooth. Using a server is more costly, but it provides a smoother transmission, because the network is faster and more reliable, and it transmits over greater distances. For LoKast, there is another advantage: the company can track actual usage and show that data to advertisers. The server can also keep the app developer informed on exactly how good the streaming quality is.
LoKast isn't perfect, though. A few videos stalled when I tested it, and there are no privacy settings. Because LoKast doesn't require registration, anyone can connect to a LoKast stream?and any LoKast user nearby could tap into any video you stream over LoKast, capture it, and use it in any way they wished. Bogatin downplayed privacy concerns, saying, "LoKast is meant for disposable proximity media sharing"?for photos and movies that are created for a one-time event, shared between users, and then forgotten.

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Called StarLogger, the software launches with Windows and runs in the background, making it tricky to detect without some form of antimalware program. StarLogger can record every keystroke made on the system and it's also capable of taking screenshots. That data is emailed to an address specified by the installer (i.e. Samsung).
After initially denying the claims, Samsung admitted to installing StarLogger on new computers to gather customer usage data -- without consent, mind you. It's unclear exactly what data StarLogger is collecting, but a Samsung supervisor said it's used to "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used."

In 2005, Sony BMG Music Entertainment sold music CDs with a copy protection scheme that installed rootkit software on computers. Customers were furious when they found out and quickly filed a class-action suit forcing Sony to recall 4.7 million CDs and pay $575 million in damages -- undoubtedly more than it gained by using the DRM.

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"I think there's an important distinction - and frankly one we didn't jump on at Microsoft fast enough - between mobile and portable Mobile is something that you want to use while you're moving, and portable is something that you move and then use," Mundie told The Sydney Morning Herald. "These are going to bump into one another a little bit and so today you can see tablets and pads and other things that are starting to live in the space in between. Personally I don't know whether that space will be a persistent one or not."
Mundie also mentioned a new type of smartphone technology he had seen in the labs. When the user looks at the phone, "instead of seeing a screen it can beam individual rays of light into your eyes right on your retina ... [so] you can look at your phone and see HDTV". His conclusion is therefore doubtful when it comes to the tablet category: "I don't know whether the big screen tablet pad category is going to remain with us or not."
Mundie definitely has a point. Many believed that desktops would go away when the laptops started to take over, but while laptops have become significant more popular, desktops are still being purchased. It's currently unclear whether netbooks and tablets will stick around as long as desktops and laptops.
While tablets may end up being just a fad, Microsoft should not ignore them completely. It originally did this with netbooks and then realized they were getting popular with Linux so it stepped in with Windows 7. I've argued before that we should thank the netbook for Windows 7. Despite its late entrance, the company in the end succeeded in taking over the new form factor.
There are many more players in the tablet space, however, and Microsoft's strategy of simply pushing Windows might not be a good one. It is possible the software giant will awe us with Windows 8 as it did with Windows 7, but in the meantime the company looks very ill-equipped to compete with the likes of Apple and Google, on the software side of things.

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Back in 2010, Tencent revealed a simulation of its web-OS designed for Tablets called WebQQ and if rumors are to be believed, the company is already building a strategic partnership with Asus for new EeePads to carry a standalone version of the operating system.
ChinaZ reports that Tencent and Asus are in a strategic partnership to introduce the QQ operating system to the latter?s latest Tablet PC, the EeePad. The source said that the two companies have already entered into research and development and will soon have the new products available. It is believed that Tencent?s WebQQ will formally be launched as WebQQ2.0 within the second half of the year as a standalone operating system.
There are no comments from both parties so far.

Upon launch, it will contain more than 1,700 applications that will work similarly and have the same interface as the recently introduced QQ for Pad, the Android application that bundles QQMail, QZone, QQ Weibo and other third-party plugins.
Technode predicts that the new operating system will be cloud-based and will work like Google?s yet-to-be-released Chrome OS. Aside from integrating Tencent?s QQ services, it also comes with cloud applications such as QQ Cloud Input application and QQ Cloud dictionary, among others.

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I hope I?m not alone in my disdain for this alarmist and arguably ignorant view of how the Internet works.
I should be clear of course; I?m not against internet privacy. Neither am I advocating any kind of Big Brother-esque government monitoring of internet traffic. My beef lies with the panicky reactions we?ve seen from the media, governments, the EU and many internet users in regards to internet privacy.
Barely a month goes by without a story about how Facebook is planning to sell customer details to advertisers. This then sparks inevitable outrage from users who feel they?ve been wronged in some way before Facebook backs down again, forced to go back to the drawing board and work out how it can actually make money from its social media machine.
The Facebook example is a particularly good case study, actually. I find it constantly amazing that people will be splashing around drunken photos of themselves on it one week, and then the next week will denounce Facebook for telling an advertiser they?ve listed fashion in their interests. Granted they?ve made the choice to put up the pictures but haven?t had a say in whether Facebook has shared their details or not, but is the value of what Facebook is sharing really so great to them?

The fact that Facebook has always been and will always be free also seems to be forgotten, lost in the backlash at Facebook?s audacity at actually trying to make some money while keeping its service free.
The majority of the fuss centres on the cookies that get downloaded to consumers' PCs that can track their movements and report back on what they've been viewing. Advertisers can then use this information to better target adverts at that particular PC, hopefully improving their effectiveness and their relevance to the user.
This sounds like a win-win situation to me, but for those who don?t like the sound of it then privacy controls have existed in web browsers for years. There are even privacy-specific browsers out there, free to download for whoever wants them. These options have been consistently ignored by consumers, though, who only seem to take net privacy seriously when it?s accompanied by a scare mongering headline.

A part of the problem is down to the fact that companies are still trying to work out how best to make money from the Internet, especially in the current economic climate. This is forcing companies to investigate other revenue streams beyond the traditional advertising model; a strategy that's going to lead to a number of conflicts as companies attempt to find where the line of acceptability lies.
Unfortunately for us, though, public opinion needs to change too. The opinion that the Internet is free seems commonplace, but behind most news stories, articles or online services is someone who needs to earn a wage. The first moves have been made in changing this perception - the recent move by The Times of charging for online content is the obvious example - but it'll be a long hard road to get people to pay for what has been free for so long.
How successful the approach adopted by The Times has been will only become known with time, but changes are definitely afoot on the big old World Wide Web. Regardless of what shape these changes take, it?ll be an interesting place to watch for the next ten years. Let us know your thoughts in the forums.

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Called StarLogger, the software launches with Windows and runs in the background, making it tricky to detect without some form of antimalware program. StarLogger can record every keystroke made on the system and it's also capable of taking screenshots. That data is emailed to an address specified by the installer (i.e. Samsung).
After initially denying the claims, Samsung admitted to installing StarLogger on new computers to gather customer usage data -- without consent, mind you. It's unclear exactly what data StarLogger is collecting, but a Samsung supervisor said it's used to "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used."

In 2005, Sony BMG Music Entertainment sold music CDs with a copy protection scheme that installed rootkit software on computers. Customers were furious when they found out and quickly filed a class-action suit forcing Sony to recall 4.7 million CDs and pay $575 million in damages -- undoubtedly more than it gained by using the DRM.

Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/43063-samsung-caught-selling-new-computers-with-a-keylogger.html
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"I think there's an important distinction - and frankly one we didn't jump on at Microsoft fast enough - between mobile and portable Mobile is something that you want to use while you're moving, and portable is something that you move and then use," Mundie told The Sydney Morning Herald. "These are going to bump into one another a little bit and so today you can see tablets and pads and other things that are starting to live in the space in between. Personally I don't know whether that space will be a persistent one or not."
Mundie also mentioned a new type of smartphone technology he had seen in the labs. When the user looks at the phone, "instead of seeing a screen it can beam individual rays of light into your eyes right on your retina ... [so] you can look at your phone and see HDTV". His conclusion is therefore doubtful when it comes to the tablet category: "I don't know whether the big screen tablet pad category is going to remain with us or not."
Mundie definitely has a point. Many believed that desktops would go away when the laptops started to take over, but while laptops have become significant more popular, desktops are still being purchased. It's currently unclear whether netbooks and tablets will stick around as long as desktops and laptops.
While tablets may end up being just a fad, Microsoft should not ignore them completely. It originally did this with netbooks and then realized they were getting popular with Linux so it stepped in with Windows 7. I've argued before that we should thank the netbook for Windows 7. Despite its late entrance, the company in the end succeeded in taking over the new form factor.
There are many more players in the tablet space, however, and Microsoft's strategy of simply pushing Windows might not be a good one. It is possible the software giant will awe us with Windows 8 as it did with Windows 7, but in the meantime the company looks very ill-equipped to compete with the likes of Apple and Google, on the software side of things.

Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/43066-microsoft-not-sure-if-tablets-will-remain-with-us-or-not.html
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