av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 29, 2017 | Nyheter
Nya betaversioner från Apple
Apple har släppt nya betaversioner och den här gången handlar det om uppdateringar till de befintliga versionerna.
Det är den femte testversionen av iOS 10.3.3 och macOS 10.12.6. Tillsammans med uppdateringar av watchOS och tvOS så lär de här versionerna släppas inom kort. De kan vara de sista uppdateringarna innan iOS 11 och macOS 10.13 kommer vilket torde bli efter sommaren någon gång.
Apple har två parallella testversioner igång just nu vilket gör att det kommer nya versioner om inte dagligen så rätt frekvent.
Höst
iOS brukar ju som bekant uppdateras strax före lanseringen av nya iPhone. Ska vi tro på alla rykten och traditionen så lär det bli i augusti/september.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 29, 2017 | Nyheter
Inside Apple: How the iPhone almost never happened – Jun. 27, 2017
The original iPhone’s development was an epic undertaking cloaked in layers of paranoid secrecy.When Apple’s smartphone went on sale on June 29, 2007, the world was dominated by flip phones and Blackberrys with tiny keyboards. People carried iPods for music, Palm Pilots for calendars, and compact cameras for photography. Putting all those things into a rectangle that fit in your pocked seemed crazy. Doing it without a keyboard was even crazier.Ten years later, details have come out about what it really took for Apple (AAPL, Tech30) to create a brand new gadget that changed the world. These are some of the stories of how the iPhone was born.The iPhone exists because Steve Jobs couldn’t stand someone at Microsoft”It began because Steve hated this guy at Microsoft,” said former Apple executive Scott Forstall during a recent talk at the Computer History Museum.
Källa: Inside Apple: How the iPhone almost never happened – Jun. 27, 2017
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 29, 2017 | Lästips
Svensk journalist vinner strid mot Google
(UPPDATERAD) En kriminalreporter på en stor svensk tidning med skyddade personuppgifter begärde att Google skulle plocka bort en sökträff, som leder fram till en sajt där han blivit uthängd. Sökjätten sade först nej men har nu ändrat sig sedan Datainspektionen inlett en granskning i fallet.Reportern har tidigare fått nobben av Goggle vid två tillfällen. I sina mejl till sökjätten har kriminalreportern använt såväl sina chefer som polisen som referenser för att bevisa att det verkligen råder en hotbild mot honom. Genom sökträffen länkas besökaren till en sajt där journalistens, adress, personuppgifter och familjemedlemmar blir uthängda. Men sökjätten har alltså gett rött ljus båda gångerna.Googles motivering till det nekande beslutet var att uppgifterna relaterar till journalistens yrkesliv, och bedöms därför vara av ”allmänhetens intresse”.
Källa: Skandinaviens största affärstidning om reklam, medier, nyheter, marknadsföring, PR och event
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av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 28, 2017 | Lästips
Flawed reporting about WhatsApp | Open door | Paul Chadwick | Opinion | The Guardian
The Guardian was wrong to report in January that the popular messaging service WhatsApp had a security flaw so serious that it was a huge threat to freedom of speech.But it was right to bring to wide public notice an aspect of WhatsApp that had the potential to make some messages vulnerable to being read by an unintended recipient.The Guardian did not test with an appropriate range of experts a claim that had implications for the more than one billion people who use the Facebook-owned WhatsApp.
I found that misinterpretations, mistakes and misunderstandings happened at several stages of the reporting and editing process. Cumulatively they produced an article that overstated its case.The Guardian ought to have responded more effectively to the strong criticism the article generated from well-credentialled experts in the arcane field of developing and adapting end-to-end encryption for a large-scale messaging service.
Källa: Flawed reporting about WhatsApp | Open door | Paul Chadwick | Opinion | The Guardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 28, 2017 | Lästips
A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree – The New York Times
ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security disability check. He applied for work at Walmart and Burger King, but they were not hiring.Yet while Mr. Bridges had no work history, he had certain skills. He had built and sold some stripped-down personal computers, and he had studied information technology at a community college. When Mr. Bridges heard IBM was hiring at a nearby operations center in 2013, he applied and demonstrated those skills.Now Mr. Bridges, 25, is a computer security analyst, making $45,000 a year. In a struggling Appalachian economy, that is enough to provide him with his own apartment, a car, spending money and career ambitions.
Källa: A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree – The New York Times
