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The encrypted data needs to be passed to something that will decrypt it. This decryption module won't be cross-platform. So we'll achieve the goal of getting rid of silverlight (a platform-dependent, closed-source piece of code that decrypts content) and replacing it with a decryption module (a platform-dependent binary-only piece of code that decrypts content). Truly a victory for an open web... ;-)

Right. It will be a way that will advertise which decryption systems are installed and tell the server to serve content for Windows, Apple or even a future system with a browser based on linux, without leaving the browser ecosystem.

The object plugin is a terrible counter-example because objects and plugins are more free to bring havok on the target system, ready to open your machine to random security bugs via their runtimes, rather than just stream some media stream (and media streams hopefully have better and tighter, content not marked for execution) that will be able to be decrypted and ran by the OS.

Think about this, you can also cook up a page that will see that someone, as advertised by the browser, has installed a DRM system and serve them a stern talk by st. ignucius himself.

By removing video from the tag is one less step for me to open video: now I have to tell flashblock to go off and to re-enable the flash plugin on that page, to whitelist the plugin on some websites (like streaming sites) who still can't cope with the idea of users that keep flash off both for ads and for malware. On mobile system it will also mean one less need to install "yet another shiny app that you will have to keep updated" on a phone.

You might sound convincing, but what you are describing is BS.

Hackers take aim at prison locks and other real-world targets
Vulnerability allows hackers to open prison doors, hiding activity from central command

Hacking Prisons - John Strauchs, Tiffany Rad, & Teague Newman
Researchers Say Vulnerabilities Could Let Hackers Spring Prisoners From Cells

Clearly, they're all full of shit too.

Electronic locks require voltage to unlock, which is not local to the door, especially in a prison.

The electronic locks run on magical sky energy. There is no voltage in those wires.

Also, this doesnt take into account the cameras, and doors that do not have card readers for egress. These doors require remote unlocking with visual verification.

Right, because there has never been a case of a system being thought of as so foolproof that it didn't need to be monitored. (Ominous look upwards) And what the hell is this "visual verification" you speak of? It sounds impressive, but it could mean "I had to look at the lock," in the same way I have to visually verify that my car's ignition and not just blindly stick the key wherever.

er, well it's not just being used for guns..

http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/01/future-3d-printer-sex-toys/

bahahahahahahahahaha

The summary left out the most important part! The model number is H2G2-42!
This, of course, to everyone (except the submitter) is a not so veiled reference to Hitchhikers Guide.
This article explains it better: http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/18/will-googles-new-nexus-q-the-h2g2-42-be-the-answer-to-life-the-universe-and-everything/

Unless they're confident that Nvidia's Project SHIELD will slide past its Q2 release window, this is a really bad idea.

Would you prefer your Android gaming console permanently tethered to your TV on Tegra 3 or would you prefer a handheld console on Tegra 4 with the option of going mobile?

Ghostery itself is a tracker: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-blocker-that-actually-helps-the-ad-industry/

I use a combination of ABP, DNTMe, and Firefox's built-in DNT flag.

No. Ghostery is not "a tracker."

Ghostery's data collection is opt-in. To share data with them, you have to click a clearly-labeled checkbox. There doesn't appear to be anything fishy about it.

Ghostery itself is a tracker: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-blocker-that-actually-helps-the-ad-industry/

I use a combination of ABP, DNTMe, and Firefox's built-in DNT flag.

Top selling phones got bigger and wider.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/01/the-5-best-selling-phones-in-the-u-s-are-from-just-2-companies-apple-and-samsung/

Someone sent me this link today. It looks to be a bit of an advertisement, but it might be handy
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/12/why-your-8-year-old-should-be-coding/
I don't know if it's been localised anywhere but may appeal. The link is a question but the article is about an online product.

April, 2013 nVidia tells investors Kepler Mobile chip will be powerful enough to run DirectX 11 graphics in cellphones
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/11/nvidia-shows-off-stunning-graphics-with-kepler-mobile-chip/
Might be BS or whenever. They were talking to investors.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/10/bitcoin-prices-crash-over-100/

yes, something small LIKE the raspberry Pi, but something that has enough power to encode and encrypt a real time video stream. I don't think rPI has hardware assisted encryption or encoding, so I doubt it could do the job.

The video camera for the Raspberry Pi is reported to be able to record 1080p at 30 frames/second:

http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/06/raspberry-pi-camera-module/

I don't know if there's enough left over to do encryption at the same time, but maybe you could cut the frame rate in half and record 15 frames/second to allow more time for encryption. 15fps (or 1 frame eery 66ms) is probably good enough for a car cam.

I agree: she is highly hypocritical. Adria's work seems to be primarily in marketing, not technology, so she isn't exactly a poster girl for women in technology. And she is using sexual innuendo, unprofessional dress and gestures, and controversy over feminist causes as part of her image and work.

That's your minimum kit to browse the web these days.

Ghostery's plan is to sell all of your information to advertising companies. This isn't a bad thing necessarily, but you should probably know that before you install it.

"But while Ghostery is a valuable tool for the privacy-obsessed, Evidon is savvy enough to know that it can’t make money solely by blocking tracking cookies. So, the company had a smart and somewhat devious idea: Why not take its trove of data and sell it to the very companies Ghostery users are blocking?"

link

Ghostery: A Web tracking blocker that actually helps the ad industry

And this here fellow /. readers is a prime example of a pedantic troll with no social skills.

Instead of saying 'I don't use either but it shows nothing for me, btw - did you know ghostery is ad industry funded and here is why?'

You attempt to belittle me for choosing the tool-set I do and provide absolutely no evidence to support your claims

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-blocker-that-actually-helps-the-ad-industry/

There, I just gave you one because I'm kind - any proof they are doing anything nefarious? like oh I don't know - adblock that whitelists people that pay?
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/05/reddit-whitelisted-by-adblock-plus-for-using-acceptable-online-advertisements/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/adblock-plus-accused-of-shaking-down-websites/

OMG, I provided another source - are you learning yet?

So troll, go back to your lynx browser - I have to wonder what the domain rpxnow.com knows about you though :)

...between reality emulating film and reality converging on film. The former is something that should generally be avoided when it comes to cinematic user interfaces, given that most of them are designed for cinematic effect, rather than usability. On the flip side, there's nothing wrong with the latter taking place if it just so happens that better usability corresponds to something that's shown up in films (or books, or any other form of media) already. We see this sort of thing happen on a regular basis with sci-fi media inspiring ideas that have value in the real world.

The touchscreens we've been seeing the last few years were in direct response to issues that existed with older-style smartphones, namely that the apps were cramped on a small screen, most of the buttons were useless for a good part of the time, and without relying on specialty buttons, we had to rely on multi-purposing some buttons for additional uses. By making the buttons virtual, the apps themselves become more useful since they can occupy the entire surface of the device, the buttons become more useful because they can visually change to become appropriate for the state in which the app currently resides, and far less irrelevant or extraneous interface shows up on-screen at any given time, thus putting the focus where it belongs.

As the summary mentions (I can't be bothered to read the article, of course), the change to touchscreens did come with some drawbacks, particularly when it comes to haptic feedback, but most of those can be addressed with various advances in technology and engineering.

So, yes, we have some catching up to do to achieve everything we had before, but in the meantime we've gained something more important: smartphones that live up to their name.

This is why Apple is killing the competition

"Android captured almost 70% global smartphone market share in 2012, Apple just under 20%"

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/28/android-captured-almost-70-global-smartphone-market-share-in-2012-apple-just-under-20/#AOkdwU4cgQebLIbR.99

I grew up in KC, went to collage at RPI in New York and spent some time working in Boston. I've done a lot of traveling both inside and outside the U.S. and I think Kansas City gets a bum rap.

Many people from the coasts have such bias against KC (and all the other cities in "fly-over" country), but it is actually a pretty hip city. I've eaten some of the best food of my life here and here. The Chicago Tribune recently called Kansas City "America's Next Great Cocktail City. We have tons of fine art theaters, including the new Kauffman Center which is considered one of the most technically advanced performance halls in the nation. The lack of traffic and great roads make it easy to get around. I go out far on the town far more often than when I lived near Boston.

Kansas City also has one of the best academic medical centers in the country and is also one of the highest ranking cities for smart phone app creation. It is consistently ranked on of the most affordable places to live among .

Sure, the rural parts of Missouri and Kansas tend to be a bit bible-belt backward, as they are everywhere in the country, but Kansas City and it's surrounding suburbs are decidedly more liberal. It is great place to live and I'm tired of people who haven't lived here recently, much less visited saying otherwise. If you have a knee-jerk negative reaction when you hear the name Kansas City, then maybe you aren't as open minded as you could be.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-09-20/business/35494758_1_new-iphone-earpods-lte-networks
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395035,00.asp
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/25/ihs-iphone-5-costs-between-207-and-238-to-make-depending-on-storage/
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/14/iphone-5-costs-168-to-make/

It's not hard to find..
https://www.google.com/search?q=cost+to+make+iphone

If I can buy cheap as hdmi cables from multiple vendors shipped to my front door for $1.50, it can not cost much more to get an iPhone to my house or to a retailer so please do not think distribution and shipping costs is more than a few $$ per phone.

You just need to get into the habit of wearing face paint/camoflage... http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/02/facial-recognition-camouflage/

Wouldn't it be easier to recognize "camouflage guy" when he comes into your store vs. ordinary dude? I guess you could try to get everybody to wear ever-changing paint disguises, but I coudn't even get one correspondent to agree to use PGP for their emails with me, so "color" me doubtful.

You just need to get into the habit of wearing face paint/camoflage... http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/02/facial-recognition-camouflage/

The link I referenced has the full list. The point is Valve could sell out at any time and the new owner might not be as nice. At least they are a private company so there isn't any danger of a hostile takeover.

GLU Mobile is having a bad 4thQ and this stinks to me of a plot to extort money off of their affiliates.

Android is proprietary system

No it isn't, it is free and open, you can download the source, build it, modify it, recompile & run it, distribute it, etc. You don't know the meaning of the term "proprietary system", so you should refrain from commenting on things you clearly know nothing about.

If there are hundreds of packages of half-assed malware out there that could theoretically infect my android phone but in practice dont and cant, why should that bother me?

Again, refrain from commenting on things you clearly know nothing about:
Devices infected with active or dormant malware
SMSZombie infections
700% increase in Android malware

Apparently the ITU, in its bid to take over the Internet, has decided to adhere to the worst totalitarians it can find as allies. Fortunately what they don't appear realize is that this alienates them with their natural allies inside the US, left-wing anti-DoD (if not outright anti-US) intellectuals.

And there's always the risk that Vint Cerf will take his Internet and go home.

Words with friends was originally created by another company. According to venturebeat.com, they paid some $44 million for it in November 2010. I assume chess with friends came with it.

Everyone who touches this loves it

The iPad mini? I'd check your facts.

By the way, what's with the black apple on it, what message is that sending?

And if you want to compare on that base, you would have to compare the PC Software market volume with the Android Apps market volume. I didn't find the figures in a hurry, but I'd estimate that the market for Windows Desktop software is much, *much* bigger still.

Android devices are selling better for now in total, but this might change. Loyalty for Android is not that high, developers seem to prefer closed ecosystems, and Windows Phone 8 gets really good reviews. Besides from allegedly being "open", I don't see any advantage of Android over WP8 any more - this was different with WP7. WP8 will not conquer Android on mobile phones any time soon, but I'd be surprised if they couldn't reach double-digit market share during 2013, and for tablets I could well imagine them to supersede Android. And to beat the overall dominance in sold devices, they don't need to win in mobile phones, it's enough to win just a part of that cake. Also please note that Android has big margins on very low-cost devices which are not really fit for extended app-usage, so it would be especially interesting to see the market share in the top 30% of smartphones.

Personally, I hope Linux will win a part on the desktop, WP8 will win a part of the smartphone market, and customers will win some choice in all segments.

It is speculated that the CPU and GPU in an iPhone has a TDP of 0.8 watts (that's at full load). If the Parallela device uses 1 watt when it idling doesn't bode well for mobile applications.

Well as a parent I'd agree with a lot of what you said. I bought ours in 2006, and in the last couple of year our Wii has been one of those collecting dust due to it being noisy. I finally decided to do brain surgery on it, and fixed the noisy drive, and it is now being played in again.

All that being said, I preordered the Wii-U, and did so for a few reasons:

1) We have Netflix, a drive full of movies, BBC and a pile of other things (nope, no cable :), a bunch of hardware, that I'd like to consolidate and control through one remote. I don't think I'm the only one, which is why Harmony make out like bandits selling very pricey remotes;

2) I don't have to go finding disks each time and am hopeful the Wii online store will contain the games on Wii that get played regularly;

3) I'm looking forward (VERY MUCH) to the asymmetrical gameplay elements;

4) I like more "hard core" games as well, and this game allows for that (along with differentiated play types).

I don't think Nintendo forgot their market at all, but not all the market will move immediately. Wait :)

they thought that prior art was so complicated that they skipped it.....

That's as miscarriaged as it gets.

No, that's as misquoted as it gets. The jury said they got stuck on validity of one of the patents over some prior art, so they skipped past the question to return to it later. Specifically, they said they wanted to resolve the easy questions first, and then come back to the hard ones..

And people have gotten police reports and Nintendo doesn't help them. Just because you said that's all they need it doesn't make your statement any more true.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/10/nintendo-finally-able-to-rescue-data-from-stolen-systems/

I posed this question to him as a hypothetical: "How would I get the downloaded games from my 3DS to a new 3DS if the old system was stolen?"

"Typically, it's not possible," Rob told me. "In the case of a stolen system, the only way we could do it is if you registered your 3DS. Like if you signed up for Club Nintendo. We'd have to be able to confirm the serial number." Because, apparently, tying your credit-card info to the system is not enough for some reason.

So you might be able to have things recovered, if you sign up for this Club Nintendo service. Otherwise your shit out of luck.

But being told you recovery is typically not possible doesn't give me much hope.

63 countries with a combined population of 4.5 billion people

Yeah, I'm sure some Bolivian dirt farmer is going to miss the traffic report on his new iPad.

Apple knows damned well who their customer base is. And I bet it isn't in those 63 countries. Those are countries where people are buying $45 android tablets. You think Apple gives a shit about spending extra to keep up with subways and traffic there? Give me a break.

You have most of Western Europe on two of those lists. Your argument is that Apple doesn't consider us their customer base. Got it.

63 countries with a combined population of 4.5 billion people

Yeah, I'm sure some Bolivian dirt farmer is going to miss the traffic report on his new iPad.

Apple knows damned well who their customer base is. And I bet it isn't in those 63 countries. Those are countries where people are buying $45 android tablets. You think Apple gives a shit about spending extra to keep up with subways and traffic there? Give me a break.

Not that there is any point in feeding this troll, but sure I will bite. International markets are eating up Apple devices, to the tune of 3 out of 4 of them going overseas instead of being sold in the US (in the first quarter of 2012). Sure, the market overall is a smaller slice of each of those countries, given their relatively lower per capita income, but it is a very strong demand that has no sign of slowing down.

63 countries with a combined population of 4.5 billion people

Yeah, I'm sure some Bolivian dirt farmer is going to miss the traffic report on his new iPad.

Apple knows damned well who their customer base is. And I bet it isn't in those 63 countries. Those are countries where people are buying $45 android tablets. You think Apple gives a shit about spending extra to keep up with subways and traffic there? Give me a break.

they may be aweful, but the hosted email has been damn decent for the 4+ years I've been with them. I've always sort of snickered at the shit anonymous did, but now their vendetta against a big company fucks us little guys too.

Please don't misconstrue this as support for Anonymous' actions. You seem to forget that SOPA would fuck the little guys, too. Perhaps you've forgotten who supported that legislation, and why Wikipedia and many others (including myself, a customer for over 10 years) have left GoDaddy.

Don't speak too soon, Windows 8 is a-comin'.

Also known as "Vista II"

No, Windows 7 is Vista II. Windows 8 will be Vista III - Revenge of the (Flying) Chair.

Don't speak too soon, Windows 8 is a-comin'.

Also known as "Vista II"

http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/13/quora-bitcoin-bad-idea/

That was an insightful post. My ISP, AT&T, capped my data exactly where they felt it would do the most harm to Netflix. In the meantime, there's no data cap for AT&T U-verse, or their pay-per-view. I had crappy reliability with Vonage, so now I pay AT&T for their more expensive VoIP service instead. The only difference has to be AT&T bias against Vonage packets.

However, there's some hope. I agree with the other poster that content providers like Google will put their dollars behind net neutrality. One place I've seen this recently is the FCC just spanked Verizon for illegally charging for portable wifi hotspots and tethering. I pay Verizon a stupidly high cost of $30/month for tethering that was free on T-Mobile. This violates a deal the FCC made with Verizon and other carriers when they did the 4G spectrum auction. Of course, the $1.25M fine is nothing, and I called Verizon this week to get that $30 taken off my bill, and they wouldn't do it, and said they'd never heard of the FCC ruling. Man, these mobile phone a-holes are the worst! Remember not being able to use the camera in your own phone, because you couldn't on principle pay $0.25/photo that you took on your own hardware and just wanted to transfer to your own computer using your own cable? Well, I'm sure you guys all hacked your phones and got those freaking photos for free anyway.

What part of "wireless" implies WiFi frequencies or protocols? The Medtronic Minimed Paradigm insulin pump, and the Deltec Cozmo, Animas Ping, Insulet OmniPod, Accu-chek Spirit Combo, and Sooil DiabecareIIS pumps all communicate wirelessly (one via infrared) and a couple will adjust dosing automatically based on an unencrypted wireless signal from a glucose meter (basically: lie about the glucose level to the pump until it empties its 200 dose unit cartridge into the wearer, or lie about it so they don't get any insulin whatsoever).

http://www.startribune.com/business/128427593.html?refer=y
Demonstrated at Black Hat in 2011: wireless forced shutdown of the device.

http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/08/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/
A similar turn-off attack on Legend RF controlled pacemakers was shown at Defcon in 2008, and which demonstrated the ability to pull out HIPAA protected information from the device itself, including the identity of the patient, the doctor, the diagnosis, and the pacemaker instructions.

Microsoft is a firm that makes money by tracking and doesn't respect DNT on the backend.

You keep saying that, yet offer no arguments why MS doesn't respect it, while Google for example does. You cannot connect a dot you haven't even established yet, duh.

The only way to make corporations respect it on the back end is laws that get enforced.

Google has other lines of business

Technically true, but actually, in this conversation, that's just fucking sophistry.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/29/google-advertising/

In what way are Google Cloud SQL, Google Compute Engine, Google Apps, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, and Google Fiber (just to pick a few of Google's paid, non-advertising, offerings) not actual products?

See above. Of course, feel free to go full retard and simply call advertising a product! That's technically correct as well, and would fit in perfectly.

By a guy who thinks that Market share reflects on company survivability and that continuing sales growth is irrelevant. Interesting the way the market share graph in the original story has been cut out of the front page without any admission that this was done after it was shown to be complete junk. This is a person who makes crap labels on his axes so that you can't see a six month delay between effects he claims are simultaneous (the collapse of Nokia sales directly after they "Elope effect"ed themselves with burning platforms memo and the collapse of RIM sales after the Osborned themselves by announcing BB10). You are quoting him as evidence???!!

Repeat after me: Tomi is the only person to even nearly predict Nokia's market share. When Gartner and so on called tens of milions of Windows phones in 2012; when IDC predicted that Windows phone would be the second most popular Mobile OS; only Tommi correctly predicted Nokia's sales in signle figures of millions. Even if he's somewhat long winded sometimes, Tommi it seems to know a bunch of stuff you don't know.

Because the "sweet spot" is between $350-$500 with the $400-$450 laptops being the biggest sellers and you just ain't gonna hit that price point with most of the Intel line and you sure as hell ain't gonna hit it by tacking on another $100-$150 a unit for touchscreens that nobody wants because poking your damned laptop or desktop all damned day is uncomfortable!

When Gabe Newell suggests that top-tier PC OEMs will fold up shop, this is exactly why.

(Fucking /. links to blog spam, here's the original interview: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/25/valves-gabe-newell-talks/ )

http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/03/icloud-azure-amazon/

A few notes to mention: Gmail has more monthly active users than Hotmail, but comScore mentions that Google has significantly fewer unique visitors than other rival email services. Hotmail currently sits at No. 1 with 325 million unique visitors, Yahoo takes the No. 2 spot with 298 million users, and Gmail comes in at No. 3 with 289 million users. But while Gmail is still behind in these areas, it will catch up shortly; the other services had a significant head start. Hotmail was launched in 1996, Yahoo Mail was launched in 1997, and, in comparison, Gmail was only created eight years ago in 2004.

Using Gmail’s “internal numbers” to compare against Yahoo and Microsoft’s comScore data may not be truly fair, but these are the numbers each of the companies stand by. Therefore, these are the numbers we will use to proclaim Gmail as the number one e-mail client in all the lands.

Long live King Gmail! Until Microsoft and Yahoo cough up better stats, that is.

In my opinion, I don't trust Google due to privacy policies.

And how many people got a Gmail account because it was the hip thing to do, only to let it be dormant only checking it to prevent expiration?

> Yeah, what a failure the 360 has been for Microsoft.

You seem to conveniently forget ... :-)

1) the 2 billion investment MS has made into the XBox platform
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0025537/php/ABWLs/FK-Marketing/store1/Case_XBOXlive.pdf

2) and the $1 billion expense from the RROD
http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/13/1-billion-dollar-pain/

I am neither a XBox nor PS3 fanboy (I have both consoles), just pointing out some basic facts you left out.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/13/the-three-biggest-myths-about-women-in-tech/

Women and underrepresented people of color are far less likely to take computing coursework or exams in high school and complete degrees in computer science and engineering. This is a fact.

Yet we also uncovered evidence in this report that suggests women and people of color have extremely different workplace experiences. An increase in negative workplace experiences is significantly negatively related to job satisfaction and positively related to likelihood to leave.

This tells us that while there are not as many women and people of color in the current pipeline to drastically change the demographics of the sector, there are also practices within the sector that are problematic. First, The lack of focus on diversity means we continue to hire those that are in our networks, went to our schools, and look just like us. Second, negative experiences (which affect women and people of color at higher rates) lead to turnover.

Thus, while not suggesting that the demographic trends in IT are entirely due to bias, we are also suggesting that they are not entirely due to the pipeline either. The following questions remain unanswered: How many have left IT for another sector? How many found the IT work environment unwelcoming or incompatible and sought employment elsewhere?

http://www.garann.com/dev/2012/is-it-me-or-are-we-going-backward/

I thought we were getting better? I thought we'd beaten the dead horse of Why It's Important To Make An Effort To Include Women and were now in the Fixing It stage? I thought we were safe not talking about this anymore? What the actual fuck, you guys.

[..]

I'm sorry I'm being mean, but goddamn it, you guys. I'm sick of hearing this same tired bullshit, as though it occurred to no one to actually look the fuck around and see that this defensive attitude toward ignoring the fucking problem and hoping it goes away is making shit worse.

The LinkedIn iPad app is supposedly 95% HTML5. Makes me wonder how suitable it is as a "platform" handling sensitive data.