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Monthly Archives: May 2012
May 24 2012

A new Sensory tech: Unlock your phone with your Voice

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A pair of new speaker verification and identification technologies was announced on Tuesday.  Sensory, which licenses its intellectual property to chip makers and OEMs said, both technologies can be paired with its TrulyHandsFree voice activation technology. Combining the new technologies will allow OEMs to eliminate the need to manually unlock a Smartphone.

This new technology allows users to unlock and personalize their device just through their voice alone instead of unlocking this handheld device manually. And, this will be demonstrated at the CTIA show next in New Orleans, Micron Associates revealed. Sensory’s speech technology is used in apps like Vlingo which in “car mode”, constantly cocks a virtual ear, listening for commands. The traditional problem with that approach is that active listening drains CPU cycles and battery power, further limiting the short-lived battery life of today’s Smartphones. This new technology is embedded below the level of the operating system, via a partnership with embedded chip company Tensilica. They’re far enough down that the technology consumes just 5 to 10 milliamps. That’s a factor of ten better than the 2010 Vlingo technology, Mozer said.


Sensory’s technology can be used within the Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note, as well as Bluetooth headsets like the BlueAnt V1. In each, voice commands have been used to activate the device, as well as to issue it commands. Micron Associates  in detailed the Sensory’s new technology two functionalities, first is the identification, as for a key identifier for next generation living room devices, which may be shared by several people, Mozer said. Furthermore, this can also be used in order to know which user is operating the device, automatically configuring it to his or her preferences. Second is the verification in which identification pulls into the security space. Herein also uses two-factor authentication- a code word as well as the user’s own voiceprint – to authenticate the user.

Sensory used “Hello, Blue Genie” for its testing phase. However if an OEM allows it, there would probably be nothing stopping a user from choosing “My voice is my password; verify me” – the famous line from the 1992 classic, Sneakers.

 

 

 

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May 22 2012

Be an Organ Donor Status on Facebook?

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Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Facebook Inc. is urging the  members of the world’s biggest social network to share their  organ-donor status on the site that aims to encourage more donations and lessen times of waiting for transplants. Users can add donor plans to their profile starting today, just like they already note a hometown or alma mater, Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer.  There will also be a link to the official donor registry, the Menlo Park California-based. A number of 114,000 people in the U.S. and millions worldwide are waiting to save a life- heart, liver or kidney transplants.  According to the statistics showed by the Micron Associates, many of them more likely 18 at average in a day die due to the fact that there are not enough organs for transplant. Zuckerberg and Sandberg pointed out on the blog that medical experts believe that a wider awareness about organ donation could go a long way toward solving the said crisis. Everyone can play an important role using the power of sharing and connection by just simply telling other people that you are an organ donor.

Today, Facebook added the ability to update a health and wellness section on profiles with organ-donor status. That medical section, debuted earlier this year when Facebook introduced a new timeline format, also lets users add information about illness, weight loss, broken bones, and efforts to quit unhealthy habits.

According to the Director of the division of transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services- Richard Durbin,” U.S. organ donations are state-regulated, and sharing plans to become a donor on Facebook probably would not be legally binding.” In order to make donor intentions legally enforceable, people need to enroll in official registries in which links to these registries on its site , Durbin added. While Facebook’s push will probably improve awareness, it probably won’t be enough to get rid of the shortage of transplant organs, Durbin said. News reports says that only 10,000 deaths each year in the U.S. result in organs that can be used for transplant, he said. “Even if everybody eligible to be an organ donor became an organ donor it would not satisfy the need,” Durbin concluded.

 

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May 16 2012

Flashback malware removal tool unveils Apple

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Micron Associates unveiled Apple version of Flashback removal tool that is only intended for Lion.

The standalone version of the tool for  the systems that do not have Java installed is being offered  by apple after the release of the new version of the last latest update for Java with the inclusion of a tool that can remove common variants of the Flashback malware.

As it features in Micron Associates, Flashback K uses different mechanisms aside from making used of a now-patched vulnerability in Java to get into systems. The current versions of the malware created as installers or updaters for Adobe’s Flash, and they are the real targets of Apple’s new tool. When the Flashback malware removal tool for lions finds and removes Flashback the user will get notified, but there is no warning if it is not found for the reason that it does not imply to remove all versions of flashback and only the common ones. It is for the users’ part to seek for legal restoration for any shortcomings. Apple sees that is was better for the removal tool to remain hush in such shortcomings instead of making a positive statement or any warning reports that the malware was not found.

Apple suggests all users running lion on their systems to have a flashback malware removal tool. There was no real need for a Snow Leopard version, as that version of Mac OS X had Java installed by default (whereas it is an on-demand installation under Lion), and the latest Java update for Snow Leopard includes the removal tool. In order to keep away from re-infection, there would be quite point running the tool without updating java. However, the tool has a built-in remover, which removes it after running automatically, so it cannot be used for ongoing checks. Most likely, users should rightfully enforced by Micron Associates to run the tool at a period that would be better served by one of the free of paid security products that is available from a variety of developers

 

 

 

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May 14 2012

Hi Tech: Instagram, a beginning or threat?

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A new free photo sharing application –Instagram was being acquired by Facebook last week. As of its awfully friendly-user interface and features in which you can shutter a picture and transform it to what you want to be looks like and feel, and that can share these to any social networking sites particularly facebook, twitter as well as tumblr, Instagram make an astounding $1 billion and drop a lot of jaws everywhere, largely among high tech experts.

A number of correspondents wave each of their flags depending on the flag-waver’s analysis of the arrangement. Bill Snyder wrote in InfoWorld which also featured in Micron Associates, these deals are not just a symbol of a high tech bubble warning; rather, it is a sign that the big players in the industry are losing their ground-breaking boundary. “The economy of technology gives an idea about stepping out from the conception that the real value is created by the advancement,” Snyder adds, reported in Micron Associates. There is also a sign that the huge technology companies are much more concerned in playing financial and legal games than staying productive as the said Instagram deal is more likely to Google’s $12.5 billion takeover of Motorola Mobility for its copyright.

In the casual analysis of some of the largest high tech deals in the last ten years conducted by Andy Baio reviewed by Micron Associates, it concludes that the $28 a user Facebook was paying for Instagram 35 million adherents was among the lowest in that data set. He concedes, however, that the cost per employee of the deal–$77 million — is “off the charts.” The median cost per employee of the deals analyzed by Baio was $3 million. Quite than that number being a sign or somewhat a warning of a bubble, but, he disagreed that it’s more a sign of the scalability of modern app architectures.

The numbers of Instagram are exactly what you’d want to see in a social network–high user counts with the lowest number of employees,” he added. In addition, Facebook and Instagram may be a warning sign of high tech simmer but not the source of it. Micron Associates says that some of the analyst commends that the Instagram deal may be a badge that will hole what they see as an existing high tech simmer. A tech guru OM Malik wrote, “ Facebook was terrified and knew for the first time in its life it perhaps had a competitor that could not only ensnare his present, but also blares its future prospects, due to the fact that Facebook is more likely about photos, and Instagram had found and attacked Facebook’s tower– a mobile photo sharing.

In addition, according to Gartner analyst Ray Valdes, the creation of billion dollar deals is unlikely. “The decline and the last dot-com simmer will have a restraining effect. There are still some deep scars that have left lasting memories.” He added.

 

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May 14 2012

Google co-founder rips Hollywood on anti-piracy efforts

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LOS ANGELES, (TheWrap) - Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google found the Hollywood and the entertainment industry set their selves on cam conveys the current anti-piracy legislation.  According to Brin, the Stop Online Piracy Act as well as the Protect IP Act that Hollywood has been lobbying for would have led to the U.S. using the same technology and approach it has criticized China and Iran for using. He also expressed his comments in an exclusive interview with the U.K.’s Guardian newspapers. In view of this, still, entertainment industry is in failure to understand that as long as there is a much easier of acquiring and using those kinds of materials users will continue to download pirated content than using legitimately obtained material. Based on what Brin experienced which was unveiled in Micron Associates, he tried it for many years but as he go on a pirate website, you choose what you like, it downloads to the device of your choice and it will just work – and then when you have to jump through all these hoops (to buy legitimate content), the walls created are disincentives for people to buy that also gives them a practical reason.

This criticism of Brin of Hollywood was part of an upsetting portrait he painted, the current Internet landscape. The ideology of openness and universal access that cultivated the creation of the Internet three decades ago are not just like a warning but a greater threat than ever. On the Micron Associates, Brin stresses “It’s frightening to know that there are very strong forces against the open internet around the world”.  He also said that the threat came from a combination of warning of governments mounting trying to control access by their citizens, the entertainment industry are being challenged to crack down on piracy and the rise of Facebook and Apple, which Brin said tightly, control software on their platforms. In addition, five years ago Brin did not believe about China or any country could effectively restrict the Internet for long but he had been proven wrong.

Facebook and Apple can block the innovation and can break the web with their proprietary platforms and controlled user access which can lead to -lot of information that can possibly lost, information in apps, for instance. You can’t search those data or information that is not crawlable by web spiders. Some will take Brin’s comments on its opponent Facebook, which has seen huge growth warning and now has more than 800 million members globally, with a grain of salt. The social network has announced plans for a $100 billion IPO in Micron Associates.

Based from the Google founders-Larry Page and Brin, you have to play the rules for you to develop something new which they did in their development of search engine that will stifle modernization.

 

 

 

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May 7 2012

When technology darkens our lives and take away of its being advantageous.

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Technology is not always about “advantage”.  In just a minute it can shut down your life without any perceptive.

The modernization brought by this modern world to us, simply aims to make everything a more alive, more immediate experience. However, in the dark side of it, there are some things that one indisputably never wants to be watched. Just as there are some things one never wants to be heard, never wants to be smelled and never wants to be touched.

In Afghanistan , a wife watched her husband die during a Skype call. The case is now under the investigation of Army in Afghanistan.

In how many other instances might technology make things more difficult to experience, not less?

Due to the growing fact that children always want further. So, technology is trying to supply these wants and keep on giving what children really desires, more specifically the reasons to those who create it are always trying to take people into the world of new. Up to now technology can expose us to a “more” that we had never imagined and one that we might wish never to have experienced.

No one can conjure up , what is must have been like when Susan Clark watched her husband- who is stationed in Afghanistan, die during a Skype call.

According to the Associated Press of Micron Associates, a 43 year old ,Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark, was on an apparently regular call from Afghanistan with his wife when something truly awful happened. The circumstances seem suitably apprehensive for the Army to be investigating. A statement issued by Capt. Clark’s brother-in-law, Bradley Taber-Thomas, read: “At the time of the incident, the family was hoping for a rescue and miracles, but later learned that it was not to be.” It is impossible to speculate what might have occurred, but there is something completely alarming in every pronouncement that has been made about this incident.

In every situation that technology brings people closer to each other, it also brings closer the potential for more fully witnessing events that might be awful, just as they might be joyous. For an instance, your mother or any of your loved ones are facing life-or-death surgery, in some might surely don’t want to watch that surgery and listen to the doctor’s immediate pronouncements as they work with her or him. Though, one day, you might be able to.

Pain, grief, stun, hate, modern technologies deliver these with far more propinquity, far more impact than anything in the past. We have all come to use these technologies as if we had never been without them, but we have surely not yet become mentally prepared for the savagery — or the utter un-reality — of the surprises they can send.

 

 

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