Just before 8 pm on February 9, 2018, high in the northeastern mountains of South Korea, Sang-jin Oh was sitting on a plastic chair a few dozen rows up from the floor of Pyeongchang’s vast, pentagonal Olympic Stadium. He wore a gray and red official Olympicsjacket that kept him warm despite the near-freezing weather, and his seat, behind the press section, had a clear view of the raised, circular stage a few hundred feet in front of him. The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony was about to start.
As the lights darkened around the roofless structure, anticipation buzzed through the 35,000-person crowd, the glow of their phone screens floating like fireflies around the stadium. Few felt that anticipation more intensely than Oh. For more than three years, the 47-year-old civil servant had been director of technology for the Pyeongchang Olympics organizing committee. He’d overseen the setup of an IT infrastructure for the games comprising more than 10,000 PCs, more than 20,000 mobile devices, 6,300 Wi-Fi routers, and 300 servers in two Seoul data centers.
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Det här reportaget skulle ha handlat om SVT Nyheters onlinestrategi. Men det tog en helt annan vändning. Vårt besök blev som att öppna dammluckorna. Aldrig har vi fått så många mejl och telefonsamtal om problem på en arbetsplats. Medarbetare berättar om problem med arbetsmiljön, med ledarskapet och om en journalistik som skaver. I kritiken finns en omtanke om public service, men allt fler undrar vart SVT är på väg. Klarar man ens det viktiga uppdraget att skildra hela Sverige?
Genom källor inne på SVT har vi på Journalisten under hösten tagit del av besöksstatistik på SVTs sajt, med topplistor över mest lästa nyhetsartiklar, mest tittade videoklipp och genomsnittliga tittartider. Det är inga företagshemligheter direkt, men statistiken har väckt frågor. Framför allt verkar videostarterna vara få med tanke på hur mycket SVT har satsat på att lyfta fram nyhetsvideon i digitala kanaler.
Många dagar ligger det mest populära videoklippet på cirka 40 000 starter, vissa dagar på mindre än hälften av det. För ett företag med en digital miljonpublik verkar SVT Nyheters onlinevideor ha svårt att nå ut.
Are we really doing this again? After the pivot to video. After Instant Articles. After news was deleted from the News Feed. Once more, Facebook dangles extra traffic, and journalism outlets leap through its hoop and into its cage.
Tomorrow, Facebook will unveil its News tab [Update: Here’s the announcement and our coverage]. About 200 publishers are already aboard including the Wall Street Journal and BuzzFeed News, and some will be paid. None seem to have learned the lesson of platform risk.
When you build on someone else’s land, don’t be surprised when you’re bulldozed. And really, given Facebook’s flawless track record of pulling the rug out from under publishers, no one should be surprised.
Apple’s Enterprise Growth: Why free OS updates play a key role – 9to5Mac
If you have become an Apple fan in the past decade or so, you are used to yearly operating system updates for free. If you have been a Mac user longer than that, you remember actually paying for OS updates every 18 months or so. I know Halloween is coming up, so I’ll inform you of something even scarier: we had to wait in a line to buy a new version of OS X on a CD. While we’ve gotten used to free OS updates as consumers, it has been a big help to Apple in the enterprise. This week, I want to explain why frequent and free OS updates are a big help for Apple’s growth in the enterprise.
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Apple VP of Environment Lisa Jackson has spoken with The Independent about Apple’s enironmental and sustainability initiatives.
The interview discusses the fact that Apple is able to recycle parts that are used in the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro Taptic Engine. Rare eath materials are used, and now they’re recycled so as to reduce the impact on the environment. It may seem like a small thing – and physically, it is – but it’s an example of what Apple is trying to do.
This time around, in the new iPhone, the story Jackson says she is is most proud of is the materials inside the Taptic Engine, the little vibrating component that lets the phone give you a tiny nudge. To do so, it relies on magnets made of rare earth materials – and now those materials will be recycled, helping boost the environmental credentials of the new phone.
That same story is a reminder that there is plenty of work left to do, however. ”It’s about a quarter of all the rare earths you find in a typical iPhone, so it’s not all done.”
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Apple has been more successful in China than any other consumer tech company. Now that’s a problem for Apple.
On Wednesday, Apple said it removed HKMapLive, an app used by protest organizers in Hong Kong, from its Chinese app store. The app, whoch lets users track police activity, “violates our guidelines and local laws,” Apple said. The company says it made the decision on its own accord and not because the Chinese state-owned People’s Daily had been publicly criticizing the app.
“Over the past several days we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present,” Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in a company memo on Thursday. “This use put the app in violation of Hong Kong law. Similarly, widespread abuse clearly violates our App Store guidelines barring personal harm.”