Science And Technology: December 2013

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Apple: No collaboration with NSA - Helsingborgs Dagblad

class=”key”> Washington Published January 1, 2014, at. 07:38 Updated 08:30

Apple denies knowledge of software that the U.S. intelligence community NSA reportedly developed in order to take control of phones belonging to the Iphone.

Monday revealed the German magazine Der Spiegel leaked, classified documents about the software that will allow the NSA to retrieve any information from Apple’s smart phones: text, photos, contacts, voice messages and phone calls.

In a statement on New Year’s Eve Apple said that the company “never worked with NSA to create backdoors in any of our products, including the iPhone.” Publicly giant claims not to have known of “the alleged NSA program with our products that target” and stresses that takes its customers’ privacy and security very seriously.

The documents, which are dated to 2008, shows that NSA agents need access to the phone itself to install spyware on a Iphone. But there is also apparent that the development was going to be able to remotely install the software.

Apple’s first iPhone model was launched in 2007.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and senior executives from the likes of Google, Yahoo and Facebook met in December President Barack Obama to discuss the impact of U.S. surveillance, writes Politico.

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Apple: No cooperation with the NSA

Washington Denies knowledge of the software that the U.S. intelligence reportedly developed.

Catholic exemption from “Obamacare”

Washinton Sonia Sotomayor, one of the most powerful judges in the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote late on New Year’s Eve under a waiver from President Barack Obama’s health insurance reform for two Catholic groups.

Six alleged terrorist was shot dead

Tangerang Indonesian police shot dead six suspected terrorists and seized a during a nyårsräd near the capital Jakarta.

Continued waiting for frozen

Sydney Strong winds and rain settled on New Year’s day halt to plans to rescue passengers on a research vessel trapped in Antarctic ice.

North Korea warns U.S.

Seoul North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, said on New Year’s Day to the Korean Peninsula will be “swallowed up” in a nuclear holocaust if war breaks out again.

Ready for talks on South Sudan

Juba South Sudan’s warring parties are scheduled to begin talks on new years day.

Barbara Bush, 88, is in hospital

Houston America’s former first lady Barbara Bush has been admitted to a hospital in Houston for breathing problems.

Six killed in New Year attack

Zamboanga Six New Year tourists were killed and six others injured in a bomb attack on a New Year’s party in the southern Philippines, according to the military.

Thousands protest against higher prices

Kuala Lumpur Thousands of black-clad protesters gathered late on New Year’s Eve in a square in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to protest against rising gasoline prices and other price increases.

Happy new year, world!

Stockholm With the world record in fireworks, pop music and romance – or not alls.Världen celebrated the new year 2014.

Terror Charges against journalists

Cairo Egyptian authorities have extended the detention period for an award-winning Australian journalist and two other journalists two weeks. Journalists now accused of belonging to a “terrorist group”.

Brown Stig elephant in tourist attack

Cape Town A hanelefant in Kruger National Park, South Africa’s national park, received on Tuesday killed then it suddenly attacked the car with filming tourists, roller vehicle over end and gored a British woman difficult.

Irritable lottery in Catalonia

Barcelona Several million of lottery prizes awarded on New Year’s Eve out in the Spanish region of Catalonia, where the winners were drawn in La Grossa – the region’s first New Year’s lottery.

No invitations to peace meeting than

Damascus So far no invitations sent out to a planned peace meeting outside Geneva on January 22 on Syria’s future.

Gynecologist knighted – not Beckham

London When Britain’s second list of people who received honorary titles during the year was presented on New Year’s Eve, 51 percent were women, which has not happened since it was first presented time in 1917.

"We invested in Twitter and Facebook are laughing all the way to the bank" - Internet World

What do you think was the year’s most important or interesting web event
- Bitcoins rise without hesitation. It shows once again that we are still in the internets infancy, and that very many exciting things waiting for us to come.

What was the worst or worst happened in 2013 in the internet realm
– All discussions and revelations about wiretapping and monitoring of operators NSA and Swedish FRA.

What we look back and laugh at?
– That people thought the Twitters and Facebooks notes would not be profitable. We who invested laughing all the way to the bank.

What is this year gadget
– Narratives (Memotos) new camera automatically takes two shots per minute and stores and sorts your everyday memories.

What is your ‘s wishes for the coming year?
– to the new investor deduction means that more people are discovering equity crowdfunding, where through the internet can access to invest in the future of the internet comets long before they are widely adopted.

How much did Tim Cook in years - IT.Branschen

In fiscal 2013 got Apple CEO, Tim Cook, a compensation package worth $ 4.25 million, representing 27.7 million. There is increase of two percent from the previous year.

Tim Cook’s salary for the period was $ 1.4 million and his bonus which consists of two years’ salary, ended at $ 2.8 million.

tim cook årslön

class=”paragraphIntro”> Apple Board said However, no to reward him with additional shares in the company valued at four million. The reason is that Apple’s shares are not performed according to expectations during the past year.
Tim Cook was awarded, however, 7,123 shares in August which at the time was worth $ 3.6 million. On Friday, shares were worth nearly four million, equivalent to 26 million.

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Monday, December 30, 2013

13 words, which is 2013 - IDG.se

Bitcoin

class=”paragraphIntro”> Krypto currency Bitcoin created although 2009, but only this year, interest has exploded. Back in the spring awoke interest sharply and then explode after the summer,

Selfie

No word defines 2013 as well as Selfie. Kim Kardashian, Barack Obama and bourgeois aliansens leaders are just some of those who have seen themselves as the most interesting subject. None of them can be said to be the pioneers in this field. Already in 1913 photographed tzardottern Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova himself in front of the mirror.

Glass Hole

New technologies require new words. Google goggles Glass was presented in 2012. In 2013, they have begun reaching out to developers, journalists and others who are sökjätten close. Not surprisingly, a pair of shooting glasses with built-in screen impact the charm of the wearer. In some so negative that they termed “glass hole.” One who sat some pride in the expression is Rackspace’s Robert Scoble.

phablet

intersection between tablet and mobile became phablet. The word appeared already in the last year and the category was born when Samsung unveiled its Note phone. The searches for the word on Google culminated after the summer.

Second Screen

just watch TV, no one makes anymore. Instead, we want to have the company of our second screen in the form of tablet, PC or mobile. The phenomenon has been around for a while, but in 2013, the use of the expression increased significantly.

Mooc

Mooc or Massive Open Online Course is education’s equivalent of World of Warcraft. Instead of dead orcs applies it to gain knowledge. The courses are taught by both renowned universities and companies. What distinguishes them from regular distance courses is that they have more participants and that much is automated and requires little effort by the teacher during the course.

Whistleblower

Whistle Blower or Whistleblower’s not a new term in itself. But with Edward Snowden and his revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance has made a strong comeback this year.

Catfishing

The term comes from the documentary Catfish from 2010 and is aimed at people who for one reason creates a fictional person online. In Sweden, perhaps the fictional person Veronika as the Metro newspaper hunted received the most attention.

Binge watch

Netflix and other services for streaming TV has made us increasingly stretch watch television shows. The term has nothing to do with that many like to see on television shows in the bin. Instead, the term from an American expression for doing something excessively.

Digital Detox

Digital detoxification or detox plays in the use of digital gadgets such as mobile and tablet can be addictive. The digital detox is to refrain from using them for some time.

Crowdfunding

Searches Crowdfunding Crowdfunding or as we say in pure Swedish has grown steadily in recent years. Obviously much a result of successful projects where future customers are funding everything from gadgets to culture on sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.

Cyod

We never tire of abbreviations. After BYOD (bring your own device) will Tub (bring any device), Byoa (bring your own application), BYOS (bring your own software), BYOD (bring your own disaster), Byoa number two (bring your own anything) and then finally Cyod (cyod choose your own device)

Big Data

2013 No presentation is complete without a reference to Big Data. It does not matter what part of the IT industry you work in, collect data and analyze it is important for everyone. But the NSA is perhaps the one that collected the most during the year, despite it not become very popular.