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| Boot up: Microsoft / Nokia acquisition talks, iPhone passwords security, YouTube ad revenues and more | Boot up: Microsoft / Nokia acquisition talks, iPhone passwords security, YouTube ad revenues and more |
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| A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team | A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team |
| Microsoft Explored Deal for Nokia >> Wall Street Journal | Microsoft Explored Deal for Nokia >> Wall Street Journal |
| Sharon Terlep, Dennis Berman and Shira Ovide: | Sharon Terlep, Dennis Berman and Shira Ovide: |
| Microsoft Corp. recently held advanced talks with Nokia Corp. about buying its handset business, people familiar with the matter said, as laggards in the fast-moving mobile market struggle to gain ground. The discussions faltered over price and worries about Nokia's slumping market position, among other issues, these people said. One of the people said talks took place as recently as this month but aren't likely to be revived. | Microsoft Corp. recently held advanced talks with Nokia Corp. about buying its handset business, people familiar with the matter said, as laggards in the fast-moving mobile market struggle to gain ground. The discussions faltered over price and worries about Nokia's slumping market position, among other issues, these people said. One of the people said talks took place as recently as this month but aren't likely to be revived. |
| So that's Microsoft and Huawei who aren't buying Nokia. These things tend to come in threes, so I'm happy to confirm I'm not buying Nokia either. But on a serious note, 2013 feels increasingly like a crunch year for Nokia: its Windows Phone and Asha handsets are impressive, but analysts and investors are watching closely to see if it can sell enough of them to retain its foothold in the market. | So that's Microsoft and Huawei who aren't buying Nokia. These things tend to come in threes, so I'm happy to confirm I'm not buying Nokia either. But on a serious note, 2013 feels increasingly like a crunch year for Nokia: its Windows Phone and Asha handsets are impressive, but analysts and investors are watching closely to see if it can sell enough of them to retain its foothold in the market. |
| Why you don't want to use the default password for your iPhone personal hotspot >> 9to5Mac | Why you don't want to use the default password for your iPhone personal hotspot >> 9to5Mac |
| Ben Lovejoy: | Ben Lovejoy: |
| Researchers at the University of Erlangen in Germany found that Apple uses a dictionary of 52,500 words from an open-source Scrabble game to generate the passwords, with random numbers appended to them, but appears to be using only 1,842 words at present. Although that allows for a unique password for each iOS device, password strength is low. | Researchers at the University of Erlangen in Germany found that Apple uses a dictionary of 52,500 words from an open-source Scrabble game to generate the passwords, with random numbers appended to them, but appears to be using only 1,842 words at present. Although that allows for a unique password for each iOS device, password strength is low. |
| Using a single computer, it took a maximum of 49 minutes to crack a password, but using an array of just four powerful processors would enable 100% success in just 50 seconds. They called on Apple to switch to true randomly-generated passwords to boost security. | Using a single computer, it took a maximum of 49 minutes to crack a password, but using an array of just four powerful processors would enable 100% success in just 50 seconds. They called on Apple to switch to true randomly-generated passwords to boost security. |
| You might get hacked, but at least you'll have a 272-point score. | You might get hacked, but at least you'll have a 272-point score. |
| Top 1000 YouTube Channels Average $23,000 Monthly Ad Revenue >> Tubefilter | Top 1000 YouTube Channels Average $23,000 Monthly Ad Revenue >> Tubefilter |
| Sam Gutelle: | Sam Gutelle: |
| Whether or not that number seems like a lot to you, it's an indicator that there is at least some money to be made on YouTube. The infographic also reveals that individual creators have far exceeded the five-digit average. The billion-plus views generated by 'Gangnam Style' in 2012 led to $870,000 in ad revenue, and the 650 million+ views the song has received since surpassing a billion have no doubt increased that total significantly. | Whether or not that number seems like a lot to you, it's an indicator that there is at least some money to be made on YouTube. The infographic also reveals that individual creators have far exceeded the five-digit average. The billion-plus views generated by 'Gangnam Style' in 2012 led to $870,000 in ad revenue, and the 650 million+ views the song has received since surpassing a billion have no doubt increased that total significantly. |
| Lucky Psy, although he'll have made a lot more money from the music sales and branding deals that his YouTube success sparked. The data comes from advertising agency MDG, which also claims that the top 500 brands on YouTube have on average 35k subscribers, 98k views per video, and 884k total monthly views. | Lucky Psy, although he'll have made a lot more money from the music sales and branding deals that his YouTube success sparked. The data comes from advertising agency MDG, which also claims that the top 500 brands on YouTube have on average 35k subscribers, 98k views per video, and 884k total monthly views. |
| Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot In $403M Deal, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry >> TechCrunch | Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot In $403M Deal, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry >> TechCrunch |
| Darrell Etherington: | Darrell Etherington: |
| Stratasys has demonstrated it's going to be aggressive about owning the 3D printing space, and the MakerBot buy is the consumer-focused piece in that puzzle. For MakerBot, it gives the startup access to Stratasys' wealth of industry experience, as well as probably better access to new tech coming down the pipeline, a greater pool of engineering talent and more resources to put behind marketing and distribution. | Stratasys has demonstrated it's going to be aggressive about owning the 3D printing space, and the MakerBot buy is the consumer-focused piece in that puzzle. For MakerBot, it gives the startup access to Stratasys' wealth of industry experience, as well as probably better access to new tech coming down the pipeline, a greater pool of engineering talent and more resources to put behind marketing and distribution. |
| Two 3D-printing companies come together, as industrial firm Stratasys buys the more consumer-focused MakerBot, which has sold more than 22k of its desktop 3D printers so far. That's $18.3k per customer! But of course, the value is in how the sector grows in the coming years. | Two 3D-printing companies come together, as industrial firm Stratasys buys the more consumer-focused MakerBot, which has sold more than 22k of its desktop 3D printers so far. That's $18.3k per customer! But of course, the value is in how the sector grows in the coming years. |
| The Invisible Hand of Mobile Platforms >> Medium | The Invisible Hand of Mobile Platforms >> Medium |
| Andre Behrens: | Andre Behrens: |
| With so many ways for Google's choices to be overridden, victory comes through surpassing the competition. Android is so flexible, I've replaced my home screen, lock screen, keyboard and more over the years. I'm back on the regular keyboard, because Google made it better, to the point that I liked it the most. But I could change my mind tomorrow. | With so many ways for Google's choices to be overridden, victory comes through surpassing the competition. Android is so flexible, I've replaced my home screen, lock screen, keyboard and more over the years. I'm back on the regular keyboard, because Google made it better, to the point that I liked it the most. But I could change my mind tomorrow. |
| The point isn't that the built-in keyboard is or isn't better. The point is that any given Android keyboard is better than the default iOS keyboard, because of this competition. I've used both, and there is just no comparison. | The point isn't that the built-in keyboard is or isn't better. The point is that any given Android keyboard is better than the default iOS keyboard, because of this competition. I've used both, and there is just no comparison. |
| An interesting take on the Android versus iOS battle. CEO Tim Cook hinted in a recent interview that Apple may consider loosening its restrictions on developers replacing core parts of iOS. Behrens provides food for thought on why that may be a good thing. | An interesting take on the Android versus iOS battle. CEO Tim Cook hinted in a recent interview that Apple may consider loosening its restrictions on developers replacing core parts of iOS. Behrens provides food for thought on why that may be a good thing. |
| How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus >> YouTube | How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus >> YouTube |
| Four minutes and 26 seconds from John McAfee himself: | Four minutes and 26 seconds from John McAfee himself: |
| The most shocking thing about this video isn't the swearing, the lap-grinding models or the bath-salts snorting. It's the revelation that McAfee appears to be getting his loungewear from the same supplier as the Compare the Market meerkat. | The most shocking thing about this video isn't the swearing, the lap-grinding models or the bath-salts snorting. It's the revelation that McAfee appears to be getting his loungewear from the same supplier as the Compare the Market meerkat. |
| New augmented reality glasses let teachers know when their students are falling behind >> GigaOm | New augmented reality glasses let teachers know when their students are falling behind >> GigaOm |
| Lauren Hockenson: | Lauren Hockenson: |
| Researchers at la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have developed the Augmented Lecture Feedback System (ALFs), a HUD glasses interface that teachers can wear while giving a lecture. From the display, teachers can see little icons that appear above each student's head, indicating their comprehension of the given lesson as well as an overall chart indicating how many students are "getting it" compared to the rest of the class. The symbols the system supports also include a request for the lecturer to slow down, and a notification that a student knows the answer to a question posed in class. | Researchers at la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have developed the Augmented Lecture Feedback System (ALFs), a HUD glasses interface that teachers can wear while giving a lecture. From the display, teachers can see little icons that appear above each student's head, indicating their comprehension of the given lesson as well as an overall chart indicating how many students are "getting it" compared to the rest of the class. The symbols the system supports also include a request for the lecturer to slow down, and a notification that a student knows the answer to a question posed in class. |
| "OK Glass, warn me if Jenkins is throwing paper planes when my back is turned..." | "OK Glass, warn me if Jenkins is throwing paper planes when my back is turned..." |
| Kickstopper: Because that Kickstarter is a mistake >> The Daily Dot | Kickstopper: Because that Kickstarter is a mistake >> The Daily Dot |
| Michelle Jaworski: | Michelle Jaworski: |
| Kickstopper is a crowdsourcing website that will crush your dreams at the exact moment you need them to be crushed. Simply, it's a way out. "It's simple," the Kickstopper founder says. "You donate money. We stop the project. We all help these starry-eyed dreamers back into jobs with practical benefits like salaries and health care." | Kickstopper is a crowdsourcing website that will crush your dreams at the exact moment you need them to be crushed. Simply, it's a way out. "It's simple," the Kickstopper founder says. "You donate money. We stop the project. We all help these starry-eyed dreamers back into jobs with practical benefits like salaries and health care." |
| Sharp parody of crowdfunding culture. "They made a mistake. Then you made a mistake by supporting their mistake..." | Sharp parody of crowdfunding culture. "They made a mistake. Then you made a mistake by supporting their mistake..." |
| Android's Limits >> Linux Journal | Android's Limits >> Linux Journal |
| Doc Searls (hat tip to @HotSoup): | Doc Searls (hat tip to @HotSoup): |
| On April 9, 2013, Fairsearch, a coalition that includes Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle, filed a complaint with the European Commission against what it called "Google's anti-competitive strategy to dominate the mobile marketplace and cement its control over consumer Internet data for on-line advertising as usage shifts to mobile", adding "Google is using its Android mobile operating system as a 'Trojan Horse' to deceive partners, monopolize the mobile marketplace, and control consumer data". That's a bit hyperbolic, but I believe they have a case. | On April 9, 2013, Fairsearch, a coalition that includes Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle, filed a complaint with the European Commission against what it called "Google's anti-competitive strategy to dominate the mobile marketplace and cement its control over consumer Internet data for on-line advertising as usage shifts to mobile", adding "Google is using its Android mobile operating system as a 'Trojan Horse' to deceive partners, monopolize the mobile marketplace, and control consumer data". That's a bit hyperbolic, but I believe they have a case. |
| For our purposes in the Linux community, the main thing at issue is bias in the evolution of Android and the apps that run on it. As long as advertising remains Google's main business, and Android remains a Google project, it will be hard to keep a bias toward advertising's imperatives from having an influence. | For our purposes in the Linux community, the main thing at issue is bias in the evolution of Android and the apps that run on it. As long as advertising remains Google's main business, and Android remains a Google project, it will be hard to keep a bias toward advertising's imperatives from having an influence. |
| Visual computing's ascent gives NVIDIA room to expand its business model >> Nvidia blog | Visual computing's ascent gives NVIDIA room to expand its business model >> Nvidia blog |
| NVIDIA is doing an ARM: | NVIDIA is doing an ARM: |
| It's not practical to build silicon or systems to address every part of the expanding market. Adopting a new business approach will allow us to address the universe of devices. | It's not practical to build silicon or systems to address every part of the expanding market. Adopting a new business approach will allow us to address the universe of devices. |
| So, our next step is to license our GPU cores and visual computing patent portfolio to device manufacturers to serve the needs of a large piece of the market. | So, our next step is to license our GPU cores and visual computing patent portfolio to device manufacturers to serve the needs of a large piece of the market. |
| The reality is that we've done this in the past. We licensed an earlier GPU core to Sony for the Playstation 3. And we receive more than $250 million a year from Intel as a license fee for our visual computing patents. | The reality is that we've done this in the past. We licensed an earlier GPU core to Sony for the Playstation 3. And we receive more than $250 million a year from Intel as a license fee for our visual computing patents. |
| Now, the explosion of Android devices presents an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate this effort. | Now, the explosion of Android devices presents an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate this effort. |
| We'll start by licensing the GPU core based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture, the world's most advanced, most efficient GPU. Its DX11, OpenGL 4.3, and GPGPU capabilities, along with vastly superior performance and efficiency, create a new class of licensable GPU cores. | We'll start by licensing the GPU core based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture, the world's most advanced, most efficient GPU. Its DX11, OpenGL 4.3, and GPGPU capabilities, along with vastly superior performance and efficiency, create a new class of licensable GPU cores. |
| Will this simply add revenues, or will it disrupt Nvidia itself? | Will this simply add revenues, or will it disrupt Nvidia itself? |
| Falcon Pro pulled from the Play Store, after reset fails to resolve token limitation >> Android Authority | Falcon Pro pulled from the Play Store, after reset fails to resolve token limitation >> Android Authority |
| Verges doesn't seem too optimistic about the future of his app. As he details in a Google+ post, the 100,000 tokens limit has been reached once again in less than 24 hours, meaning that he will have to look for a new way around the limitation. | Verges doesn't seem too optimistic about the future of his app. As he details in a Google+ post, the 100,000 tokens limit has been reached once again in less than 24 hours, meaning that he will have to look for a new way around the limitation. |
| The developer warns that the situation could mean the end of Falcon Pro, but hopefully we'll be able to enjoy one of the best third-party Twitter clients out there once again. | The developer warns that the situation could mean the end of Falcon Pro, but hopefully we'll be able to enjoy one of the best third-party Twitter clients out there once again. |
| Joaquim Verges thinks that the reason why the token pool was exhausted so quickly after the reset was a landgrab that occurred when people learned about the reset. Also, some users have more than one account, which further uses up tokens. | Joaquim Verges thinks that the reason why the token pool was exhausted so quickly after the reset was a landgrab that occurred when people learned about the reset. Also, some users have more than one account, which further uses up tokens. |
| A re-run of what happened in February. | A re-run of what happened in February. |
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