Having worked in computer forensics for 10 years and worked with countless government agencies, I can tell you the second that this ability exists, they will be flooded with requests to unlock countless other devices. Even civil cases will begin demanding access via court order. To believe this is a one time thing is foolish and simply untrue.
The SwiftKey personalization service, which is a feature of SwiftKey Cloud, accesses your recent content from online services that you specify, such as Gmail, Facebook and Twitter. It uses this content to build a personalized language model on our servers, which is then transferred to your device. This is an optimized view of the words and phrases that you use most often, and reflects your unique writing style.
Your use of our personalization service means we may store and use data provided by you to develop and improve our Products. You have the right to have this data destroyed, as outlined below.
Sure does. Their privacy policy explains a bit about how they send what you type to the cloud and analyze everything.
https://swiftkey.com/en/privac...
If you're concerned about keylogging, using SwiftKey isn't a great choice even before it was M$ owned. Check out all they capture about you when using the keyboard.
https://swiftkey.com/en/privac...
I've worked in computer forensics for almost 10 years and worked with countless government agencies around the world. Years ago I watched one of the 3-letter agencies crack BitLocker in under 30 seconds. It's funny how many insist there is no way and dismiss the idea without a second thought. Now new evidence is showing that they certainly have the technology to do so. Maybe it's time to not be so quick to dismiss such thoughts.
The biggest issue I see is that few are going to be making apps for this size screen. Instead it'll simply stretch phone apps to the larger screen which will result in highly pixelated apps and less than optimal interfaces.
This has long been an issue on Android where less developers are creating apps for tablets. Apple is able to encourage developers to make apps for their specific screen sizes but they also have a smaller range of sizes and a more devoted pool of developers. With just a single tablet available in this size, few will likely make their apps for 18" screen which will result in few apps that really display and operate optimally on the large screen.
Wow, comes through clear that you're a huge Google fanboy. We get it, you think Android is awesome and anything Apple sucks. That wasn't the point at all.
Google themselves have published states showing that iOS users account for the majority of their mobile revenue. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn all see higher CTRs (and spends) from iOS users. The point was that losing iOS revenue is big. The average iOS user results in more than $6 in revenue per year for Google while the average Android user results in less than $2. Yes there are more Android users but they have to sell 3 Android devices to make up for ever 1 iOS device.
I'm not arguing who is better. Simply showing that Google sees more money from iOS users and losing them will hurt. Doesn't matter how much. Even a loss of 20% is still a significant loss.
Should everyone make their websites mobile-friendly? Of course. We should all be heavily invested in the user experience.
But like so many things, we can't always do everything we should be doing. I'm sure you can think of a dozen or more projects at work that should be taken care of but you either don't have time or the resources to make them happen right now.
Making a website mobile is great but for many companies it requires a huge investment in time and resources that they simply don't have. The Google mobile-ready changes were nice in that they forced people to make getting their website mobile-friendly a priority. Most wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for Google forcing their hand on it (or at least not for some time). While it's nice for the user that Google pushed them to do it, many businesses had to spend a lot of time and money making it happen which took away from other projects.
You're right, Google doesn't make much off Android. They made about $540 million in revenue off of it from 2006-2011. Apple makes that in PROFIT from the iPhone in 1 week.
Additionally, Google makes about $2 on advertising from each Android user while they make just over $6 from each iPhone user.
Comcast is no longer enforcing their 250GB/month cap. From a friend that still works at Comcast.
"I know there used to be one on your Comcast.com Account page but when they started letting people stream via XBox, it kinda screwed with those numbers because they said it wasn't going to impact customer's bandwidth cap.
I tried pointing it out as in "how are we going to tell what is streaming traffic on Xbox vs someone's normal useage when it's all coming from the same IP?" They "assured" me they had it covered.
The enforcement of the "data consumption threshold" was pretty much suspended after they found there wasn't an easy way to determine what traffic was what..... We keep being told something is coming but not sure when. They do actually have a different bootfile for the modem that I believe should be providing an individual IP for the Xbox (like the phone has it's own IP/provisioning as well) so eventually they may be able to figure something out but I've not heard much more on it recently.
For the longest time the only way we could see any useage was to log into CMTS and look at modem's raw useage since it was last rebooted."
Watch out, they're full of hidden charges on their "free" 500MB/mon 4G service. If you don't use at least 10MB/mon, they charge you a fee. Data is rounded when it's used so it keeps rounding up. If you go over 400MB and don't have at least $10 in your account with them, they charge you so you have money in your account. Basically you have to use at least 10MB but less than 400MB a month to keep things free and with the data rounding that becomes very hard. Additionally, while they say they refund the price of the device deposit when you return it, you are charged an additional $10 restocking fee. Checkout the huge thread on slickdeals with lots of people upset about their service and all the hidden charges. I was about to pull the trigger on one but luckily read the info on all their charges and decided otherwise.
You're looking at a startup as a single person or partners that share the pay from the buyout. What about the people that worked tirelessly at the small company but may not get a cut in the cash?
You're also believing that the #1 motivator for everyone is money. Many would like to see their baby grow and see the impact it can make on the world. Invent a cure for cancer, take the payoff and walk away without ever getting to see how it changes the world.
You're assuming the one being bought out is the startups founder, not the employees that get nothing more than laid off.
Also your logic is that you'd rather have a partial lobotomy than a full. The lesser of two bad things. Why not have a good outcome rather than the lesser of two bad ones? For most it's not all abut the money. Seeing something you worked hard to build be taken and thrown in a bin never to see the light of day sucks. This thing you worked so hard on will never get the chance to show how awesome of an idea it really was.
How about you just don't cheat on your partner and you should be fine.
I have an UP. It's great (other than they break all the times requiring them to be replaced by Jawbone. I'm on my 10th). No worries about privacy. I choose to share the info I choose to share with others. Just like I choose to share the pictures I choose to share on Facebook. Should I lost my UP (pretty hard when it's firmly wrapped around your wrist all the time), people can't get the info from it. If you plug the band into a new iPhone, the app will alert you that the band has not been synced with that phone before. It then gives you the option to sync it with the new phone (which wipes any previous data) or to cancel.
Best friend is all about having a bigger and bigger phone. He wants a small tablet to carry around basically. I'm perfectly fine with the current size of my iPhone and would like it to stay that way. I want a phone I can carry around in any type of pants (jeans or dress). I have a tablet but I don't want to carry it with me everywhere.
It was also available in the Google Play store too. With the hundreds of thousands of apps that they have to review, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Plenty of apps grab your address book info including the Facebook app. What it does with them Apple has little control over. Facebook could choose to spam them on their server side and Apple couldn't prevent it (other than no longer allowing apps to access contact info).
Now if someone would only put "Dr." Phil in jail for dispensing medical advice without a license. He's really mastered the attempt to shame people into changing method.
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Having worked in computer forensics for 10 years and worked with countless government agencies, I can tell you the second that this ability exists, they will be flooded with requests to unlock countless other devices. Even civil cases will begin demanding access via court order. To believe this is a one time thing is foolish and simply untrue.
The SwiftKey personalization service, which is a feature of SwiftKey Cloud, accesses your recent content from online services that you specify, such as Gmail, Facebook and Twitter. It uses this content to build a personalized language model on our servers, which is then transferred to your device. This is an optimized view of the words and phrases that you use most often, and reflects your unique writing style. Your use of our personalization service means we may store and use data provided by you to develop and improve our Products. You have the right to have this data destroyed, as outlined below.
Sure does. Their privacy policy explains a bit about how they send what you type to the cloud and analyze everything. https://swiftkey.com/en/privac...
If you're concerned about keylogging, using SwiftKey isn't a great choice even before it was M$ owned. Check out all they capture about you when using the keyboard. https://swiftkey.com/en/privac...
Looks like they just used the 9.1 jailbreak released a couple weeks ago and claimed the reward after reverse engineering it.
I've worked in computer forensics for almost 10 years and worked with countless government agencies around the world. Years ago I watched one of the 3-letter agencies crack BitLocker in under 30 seconds. It's funny how many insist there is no way and dismiss the idea without a second thought. Now new evidence is showing that they certainly have the technology to do so. Maybe it's time to not be so quick to dismiss such thoughts.
The biggest issue I see is that few are going to be making apps for this size screen. Instead it'll simply stretch phone apps to the larger screen which will result in highly pixelated apps and less than optimal interfaces. This has long been an issue on Android where less developers are creating apps for tablets. Apple is able to encourage developers to make apps for their specific screen sizes but they also have a smaller range of sizes and a more devoted pool of developers. With just a single tablet available in this size, few will likely make their apps for 18" screen which will result in few apps that really display and operate optimally on the large screen.
Wow, comes through clear that you're a huge Google fanboy. We get it, you think Android is awesome and anything Apple sucks. That wasn't the point at all. Google themselves have published states showing that iOS users account for the majority of their mobile revenue. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn all see higher CTRs (and spends) from iOS users. The point was that losing iOS revenue is big. The average iOS user results in more than $6 in revenue per year for Google while the average Android user results in less than $2. Yes there are more Android users but they have to sell 3 Android devices to make up for ever 1 iOS device. I'm not arguing who is better. Simply showing that Google sees more money from iOS users and losing them will hurt. Doesn't matter how much. Even a loss of 20% is still a significant loss.
iOS drives 75% of Google's mobile revenue meaning this could really hurt them depending on how much is blocked. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05...
Should everyone make their websites mobile-friendly? Of course. We should all be heavily invested in the user experience. But like so many things, we can't always do everything we should be doing. I'm sure you can think of a dozen or more projects at work that should be taken care of but you either don't have time or the resources to make them happen right now. Making a website mobile is great but for many companies it requires a huge investment in time and resources that they simply don't have. The Google mobile-ready changes were nice in that they forced people to make getting their website mobile-friendly a priority. Most wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for Google forcing their hand on it (or at least not for some time). While it's nice for the user that Google pushed them to do it, many businesses had to spend a lot of time and money making it happen which took away from other projects.
The Swiss Army knife with a 1TB drive available last year goes for $3000.
They've offered a Swiss Army knife with a 1TB drive for over a year now.
Who really buys laptops from Amazon? They rarely have the best prices or selection. That the Chromebook took the top spot isn't much of a surprise.
You're right, Google doesn't make much off Android. They made about $540 million in revenue off of it from 2006-2011. Apple makes that in PROFIT from the iPhone in 1 week. Additionally, Google makes about $2 on advertising from each Android user while they make just over $6 from each iPhone user.
Comcast is no longer enforcing their 250GB/month cap. From a friend that still works at Comcast. "I know there used to be one on your Comcast.com Account page but when they started letting people stream via XBox, it kinda screwed with those numbers because they said it wasn't going to impact customer's bandwidth cap. I tried pointing it out as in "how are we going to tell what is streaming traffic on Xbox vs someone's normal useage when it's all coming from the same IP?" They "assured" me they had it covered. The enforcement of the "data consumption threshold" was pretty much suspended after they found there wasn't an easy way to determine what traffic was what..... We keep being told something is coming but not sure when. They do actually have a different bootfile for the modem that I believe should be providing an individual IP for the Xbox (like the phone has it's own IP/provisioning as well) so eventually they may be able to figure something out but I've not heard much more on it recently. For the longest time the only way we could see any useage was to log into CMTS and look at modem's raw useage since it was last rebooted."
Watch out, they're full of hidden charges on their "free" 500MB/mon 4G service. If you don't use at least 10MB/mon, they charge you a fee. Data is rounded when it's used so it keeps rounding up. If you go over 400MB and don't have at least $10 in your account with them, they charge you so you have money in your account. Basically you have to use at least 10MB but less than 400MB a month to keep things free and with the data rounding that becomes very hard. Additionally, while they say they refund the price of the device deposit when you return it, you are charged an additional $10 restocking fee. Checkout the huge thread on slickdeals with lots of people upset about their service and all the hidden charges. I was about to pull the trigger on one but luckily read the info on all their charges and decided otherwise.
You're looking at a startup as a single person or partners that share the pay from the buyout. What about the people that worked tirelessly at the small company but may not get a cut in the cash? You're also believing that the #1 motivator for everyone is money. Many would like to see their baby grow and see the impact it can make on the world. Invent a cure for cancer, take the payoff and walk away without ever getting to see how it changes the world.
You're assuming the one being bought out is the startups founder, not the employees that get nothing more than laid off. Also your logic is that you'd rather have a partial lobotomy than a full. The lesser of two bad things. Why not have a good outcome rather than the lesser of two bad ones? For most it's not all abut the money. Seeing something you worked hard to build be taken and thrown in a bin never to see the light of day sucks. This thing you worked so hard on will never get the chance to show how awesome of an idea it really was.
But buying up startups then killing their work doesn't?
How about you just don't cheat on your partner and you should be fine. I have an UP. It's great (other than they break all the times requiring them to be replaced by Jawbone. I'm on my 10th). No worries about privacy. I choose to share the info I choose to share with others. Just like I choose to share the pictures I choose to share on Facebook. Should I lost my UP (pretty hard when it's firmly wrapped around your wrist all the time), people can't get the info from it. If you plug the band into a new iPhone, the app will alert you that the band has not been synced with that phone before. It then gives you the option to sync it with the new phone (which wipes any previous data) or to cancel.
Gotta love articles based purely on speculation and random guesses.
There have been other reports that sales have dropped too. Which one is correct?
Best friend is all about having a bigger and bigger phone. He wants a small tablet to carry around basically. I'm perfectly fine with the current size of my iPhone and would like it to stay that way. I want a phone I can carry around in any type of pants (jeans or dress). I have a tablet but I don't want to carry it with me everywhere.
It was also available in the Google Play store too. With the hundreds of thousands of apps that they have to review, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Plenty of apps grab your address book info including the Facebook app. What it does with them Apple has little control over. Facebook could choose to spam them on their server side and Apple couldn't prevent it (other than no longer allowing apps to access contact info).
Now if someone would only put "Dr." Phil in jail for dispensing medical advice without a license. He's really mastered the attempt to shame people into changing method.