The amount of great photography in the MAKE Flickr pool keeps increasing, and our old seven-picture vertical format is feeling the strain. So this week, we’re trying something new! Click the link below to check out our new gallery-style format. And please let us know what you think.
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Every iPod and/or iPhone needs a resting place. We’re not talking about the kitchen table or an underwear drawer. There are a lot of docking stations out there, which not only gives you a spot to put your portable, but can charge it for later use.
Adorama is currently selling Sony’s NAC-SV10I Wi-Fi Speaker Dock for $109. This price is 53 percent off the list price, and also includes free shipping.
It’s a nice price for a nice product. Besides the charging, this docking station can also expand the use of that device—and a variety of other music. Plug your iPod or iPhone into the NAC-SV10i, and you blast music all over the house. For times when you don’t want to dock, the NAC-SV10i can wirelessly stream music from that device, as well as networked computers or the web. Sony also offers a free app that can transform that smartphone into a wireless remote.
Perfect for the kitchen, bedroom, office, or any other room in the house, the NAC-SV10i has DLNA support, BRAVIA Internet Music features, and PartyStream so you can sync with other compatible Sony products.
To get this discount on Adorama, log in and add the product into your shopping cart. That’s when you’ll see the discounted price.
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Telefónica and Mozilla said they are collaborating on building a new mobile phone architecture based entirely on HTML5.
The effort combines Mozilla's Boot-to-Gecko project, first announced last year, with a development effort that Telefónica had nearly simultaneously kicked off internally, the companies said.
They said that the platform will allow phone functions including calling, messaging and browsing to be developed as HTML5 applications and run in an environment based on the Firefox browser.
HTML5 is just starting to be used by developers of mobile apps. The benefit of using the web technology is that the apps look and feel like native apps but are more easily ported to multiple mobile phone platforms.
However, HTML5 so far is typically used for discrete applications, like games. Mozilla and Telefónica said that the technology can be used to build all phone functions including calling. They plan to enable HTML5 apps that access core phone APIs.
The companies said that the result of their work will be a feature-rich prototype platform that will offer smartphone capabilities at a feature phone price. "From our experience in Latin America we know that a huge part of the market is not being catered for by current smartphones. With new open Web devices we will be able to offer a smartphone experience at the right price point for these customers," Carlos Domingo, director of product development and innovation at Telefónica Digital, said in a statement.
They plan to submit their reference architecture to the W3C for standardization and aim to include no proprietary APIs. They did not disclose a timeline.
The companies are working with Qualcomm to use that company's chips. Adobe said it supports the project.
Mozilla first started talking about Book-to-Gecko in July, when it announced it would build a mobile OS that runs applications primarily on the web. Its goal was to make it easier for developers to build web apps that are equal in functionality to the native apps built on the mobile platforms. At the time the company said it didn't plan to only allow apps to run in Firefox, but Monday's press release indicates that plan may have changed.
This is one of the most ambitious mobile projects from Mozilla, which has many times tried to build mobile browsers only to abandon its efforts.
Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy. Nancy's e-mail address is Nancy_Gohring@idg.com
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Telefónica and Mozilla said they are collaborating on building a new mobile phone architecture based entirely on HTML5.
The effort combines Mozilla's Boot-to-Gecko project, first announced last year, with a development effort that Telefónica had nearly simultaneously kicked off internally, the companies said.
They said that the platform will allow phone functions including calling, messaging and browsing to be developed as HTML5 applications and run in an environment based on the Firefox browser.
HTML5 is just starting to be used by developers of mobile apps. The benefit of using the web technology is that the apps look and feel like native apps but are more easily ported to multiple mobile phone platforms.
However, HTML5 so far is typically used for discrete applications, like games. Mozilla and Telefónica said that the technology can be used to build all phone functions including calling. They plan to enable HTML5 apps that access core phone APIs.
The companies said that the result of their work will be a feature-rich prototype platform that will offer smartphone capabilities at a feature phone price. "From our experience in Latin America we know that a huge part of the market is not being catered for by current smartphones. With new open Web devices we will be able to offer a smartphone experience at the right price point for these customers," Carlos Domingo, director of product development and innovation at Telefónica Digital, said in a statement.
They plan to submit their reference architecture to the W3C for standardization and aim to include no proprietary APIs. They did not disclose a timeline.
The companies are working with Qualcomm to use that company's chips. Adobe said it supports the project.
Mozilla first started talking about Book-to-Gecko in July, when it announced it would build a mobile OS that runs applications primarily on the web. Its goal was to make it easier for developers to build web apps that are equal in functionality to the native apps built on the mobile platforms. At the time the company said it didn't plan to only allow apps to run in Firefox, but Monday's press release indicates that plan may have changed.
This is one of the most ambitious mobile projects from Mozilla, which has many times tried to build mobile browsers only to abandon its efforts.
Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy. Nancy's e-mail address is Nancy_Gohring@idg.com
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Every iPod and/or iPhone needs a resting place. We’re not talking about the kitchen table or an underwear drawer. There are a lot of docking stations out there, which not only gives you a spot to put your portable, but can charge it for later use.
Adorama is currently selling Sony’s NAC-SV10I Wi-Fi Speaker Dock for $109. This price is 53 percent off the list price, and also includes free shipping.
It’s a nice price for a nice product. Besides the charging, this docking station can also expand the use of that device—and a variety of other music. Plug your iPod or iPhone into the NAC-SV10i, and you blast music all over the house. For times when you don’t want to dock, the NAC-SV10i can wirelessly stream music from that device, as well as networked computers or the web. Sony also offers a free app that can transform that smartphone into a wireless remote.
Perfect for the kitchen, bedroom, office, or any other room in the house, the NAC-SV10i has DLNA support, BRAVIA Internet Music features, and PartyStream so you can sync with other compatible Sony products.
To get this discount on Adorama, log in and add the product into your shopping cart. That’s when you’ll see the discounted price.
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Content-sharing site Pinterest has been surging in popularity. The bigger it gets, the more responsibility it has to ensure that copyrighted content doesn't show up on its site.
Less than a week after Pinterest offered an opt-out code for websites seeking to protect their content, Flickr is adopting that code to help users protect copyrighted images on its photo-sharing network.
If you're fitting Pinterest into your company's marketing plans, or seeking to protect your content from eager Pinterest users, what should you do?
Pinterest: A Copyright Nightmare?
How is sharing a picture on Pinterest any different than on other social networks? Both Twitter and Facebook encourage sharing personal experiences and photos rather than content created by someone else, says Deborah Sweeney, intellectual property lawyer and and CEO of MyCorporation. While Facebook users repurpose others' content regularly, Facebook asks each time you upload a photo if you have the permission to use it. The legal burden lies with the original person who posted the photo rather than those who share links to it.
Pinterest does not ask users to consider permissions before each "pin," aiming to make the user experience seamless. While having your content shared arguably helps popularize it, many artists and photographers may want to be asked or paid first.
What if General Mills objected to my "pin?"Sweeney says Pinterest's business model is the issue, since its "very nature is to encourage the repinning of photos, which encourages users to use them as they like." She argues that it isn't a far leap for users to think it's fine to use a picture from one of their Pinterest boards on a website or blog, although this is expressly against Pinterest's Terms of Service.
As an example, here's a pin I made of a 1980s advertisement for General Mills coffee. If General Mills wanted to take exception to my use of its copyright, it could ask Pinterest to take down the offending advertisement by following Pinterest's directions here. However, according to Pinterest's Terms of Use, it's my responsibility to get General Mills' permission prior to posting anything involving its trademark.
Pinterest offloads legal responsibility onto users, but takes action on copyright infringement itself. Why not let the artists deal with the infringing users directly? Pinterest can remove an infringing item faster than a user can, and it has that right under its Terms of Use.
Pinterest Places Copyright Responsibility on Users
Pinterest does have a stringent policy that the user is not to use third-party content for anything but a personal content collection on the site. But it falls down in its Terms of Use: "You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application and Services."
The inherent flaw in the legal logic, as Sweeney puts it, is that the images remain on Pinterest's site, even if a user has curated them into a personal collection. "Pinterest would have a hard time defending itself by forcing the liability onto a user. A court could possibly find it libel for a contributory infringement." Chilling Effects, a site that collects and analyzes legal complaints about online activity, seems to agree:"Providing a forum for uploading or downloading any copyrighted file or cracker utility may also be contributory infringement".
If, however, your business hopes for its content to be "pinned" to Pinterest, first check with your product photographer that you own all rights to the images and that repinning would be an accepted use, since you may have only paid for the images to be used on your own website.
Pinterest's 'Nopin' Code
If you need the publicity, don't block your own images from being "pinned."If you want to shield your content from Pinterest, its “nopin” code lets websites block images from being pinned. Just include this snippet within the section of the HTML:
Although this code and its predecessors--scripts that prevent downloads of images--may deter theft of copyrighted photos, determined users can always take screen captures as a workaround.
On Flickr, by default images that are marked as copyrighted or protected can't be pinned. As the company told VentureBeat on Friday, "only content that is 'safe,' 'public' and has the sharing button enabled can be pinned to Pinterest."
What More Can Pinterest Do?
Pinterest has a page devoted to copyright, and a copyright agent who artists and their representatives can contact to have infringing material removed. While Pinterest is doing a lot to give aggrieved artists, photographers, and copyright lawyers the tools they need to deal with infringement after the fact, Sweeney says it should do more.
"Pinterest could work out an agreement with the larger image providers, and figure out a way to compensate third-party licensees so the image providers get a cut. Individual copyright owners may be the losers in this, since they don't have the negotiation power or the funds to litigate an infringement."
The root problem is that Pinterest’s core concept is about repurposing third-party content, which is supposed to be properly licensed, attributed, or paid for before being pinned. But users simply aren't going to take that extra step.
While the "nopin" code is a step in the right direction, Pinterest may have to do more to restrict the free flow of copyrighted images, which could land both itself and its users in hot water.
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My brother Pat wrote me:
Check out “Alone in the Wilderness” featuring Dick Proenneke living alone in Alaska. It’s on our PBS affiliates a lot here (in Florida). He is a true pioneer, a 1960′s “maker” at work, building everything by hand, using tools he made. He has no electricity. Shoots it all on his Brownie camera. Awesome techniques he demonstrates!
I especially like how he builds handles for his tools. Proenneke says that building a cabin in the wilderness was just “something he had to do” and by doing it test himself. The YouTube video below covers ten minutes of the show and shows him building a cabin just before winter sets in.
According to an article about him in Wikipedia,
Proenneke remained at Twin Lakes for the next 16 months, when he left to go home for a time to visit relatives and secure more supplies. He returned to the lakes in the following spring and remained there for most of the next 30 years, going to the lower 48 only occasionally to be with his family.
He passed away in 2003. The complete set of his videos are available.
Ever dream of living alone in the wilderness? I have, especially after reading “Call of the Wild” but I would not be able to do it. Now I can vicariously through Dick Proenneke, and idly sit by and watch him do it all. Incredible.
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Every iPod and/or iPhone needs a resting place. We’re not talking about the kitchen table or an underwear drawer. There are a lot of docking stations out there, which not only gives you a spot to put your portable, but can charge it for later use.
Adorama is currently selling Sony’s NAC-SV10I Wi-Fi Speaker Dock for $109. This price is 53 percent off the list price, and also includes free shipping.
It’s a nice price for a nice product. Besides the charging, this docking station can also expand the use of that device—and a variety of other music. Plug your iPod or iPhone into the NAC-SV10i, and you blast music all over the house. For times when you don’t want to dock, the NAC-SV10i can wirelessly stream music from that device, as well as networked computers or the web. Sony also offers a free app that can transform that smartphone into a wireless remote.
Perfect for the kitchen, bedroom, office, or any other room in the house, the NAC-SV10i has DLNA support, BRAVIA Internet Music features, and PartyStream so you can sync with other compatible Sony products.
To get this discount on Adorama, log in and add the product into your shopping cart. That’s when you’ll see the discounted price.
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After a long day pounding the show floor pavement at the Consumer Electronic Show, it feels oh so nice to get back to the hotel room—even more so when that room is automated. I use the term “automated” loosely, as the only part of my two-night stay at the Aria that was truly automated was the first minute or so. As I entered the room for the first time, the drapes and sheers opened, music started playing the lights gradually brightened. Was I impressed? Yes. More than that, though, the welcome scenario made that smallish space seem a lot friendlier, and well, welcoming.
In typical Control4 style, wall-mounted keypads let me set groups of lights for reading, sleeping and waking up by just tapping a button. My favorite was the keypad by the door. Here, I could press a button to request that my room be serviced or that I not be disturbed. The appropriate icon by my door in the hallway illuminated to alert the Aria staff—kind of like hanging out a modern-day, electronic “Do Not Disturb” sign.
No Control4 system is complete without a touchpanel, and my room had one, as well as a hard-buttoned handheld remote. The touchpanel—the far sexier of the controls—happened to be on the nightstand by my side of the bed. Nice. My hubby got the remote. Both eager to test drive the controls, we started pushing buttons—in my case, icons. We toyed around with the window treatments, parting the shades half-way, leaving the drape open, closing both—any arrangement we could think of. The controls worked flawlessly. We played around with the lights, again, success. At times, the system got confused and devices failed to respond—we chalked it up to too many commands being thrown at it at the same time. Obviously, we needed to take turns.
If you need a little instruction in the use of the control system, Aria provides an online .PDF so you can study up before you arrive.
A nice feature of the Control4 system that came in particularly handy for my remote-wielding husband was the on-screen display. Using the buttons of the remote he could navigate the same interface that I could on the touchpanel. The only difference was that his interface showed up on the screen of the room’s ample-size flat-panel TV.
The main menu of this interface presented icons for controlling the motorized draperies, the lights, the thermostat, the audio and the video. The A/V should have been fun, but it ended up being quite frustrating. There were an awful lot of choices; scrolling through them was quite a chore, considering the “slow” response time of the Control4 system. I’d press a button; when I didn’t hear or see anything I’d naturally press the button again, which brought up a song I really didn’t want to hear or a show I really didn’t want to watch. Eventually, I learned to be patient—to let the system catch up with my commands. The same punch-and-wait exercise had to be applied when setting up a wakeup routine, which was one of the coolest high-tech features of my room. Using the touchpanel, I told the Control4 system to wake me up at 6 by opening the sheers and drapes, gradually bringing up the lights and playing music from a soft-rock station. It’s a much better way to wake up than to the sound of a blaring alarm.
All said and done—my stay was a hit. The automation system enhanced the luxurious design and atmosphere of the room. Once I was in that room, I never wanted to leave.
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After a long day pounding the show floor pavement at the Consumer Electronic Show, it feels oh so nice to get back to the hotel room—even more so when that room is automated. I use the term “automated” loosely, as the only part of my two-night stay at the Aria that was truly automated was the first minute or so. As I entered the room for the first time, the drapes and sheers opened, music started playing the lights gradually brightened. Was I impressed? Yes. More than that, though, the welcome scenario made that smallish space seem a lot friendlier, and well, welcoming.
In typical Control4 style, wall-mounted keypads let me set groups of lights for reading, sleeping and waking up by just tapping a button. My favorite was the keypad by the door. Here, I could press a button to request that my room be serviced or that I not be disturbed. The appropriate icon by my door in the hallway illuminated to alert the Aria staff—kind of like hanging out a modern-day, electronic “Do Not Disturb” sign.
No Control4 system is complete without a touchpanel, and my room had one, as well as a hard-buttoned handheld remote. The touchpanel—the far sexier of the controls—happened to be on the nightstand by my side of the bed. Nice. My hubby got the remote. Both eager to test drive the controls, we started pushing buttons—in my case, icons. We toyed around with the window treatments, parting the shades half-way, leaving the drape open, closing both—any arrangement we could think of. The controls worked flawlessly. We played around with the lights, again, success. At times, the system got confused and devices failed to respond—we chalked it up to too many commands being thrown at it at the same time. Obviously, we needed to take turns.
If you need a little instruction in the use of the control system, Aria provides an online .PDF so you can study up before you arrive.
A nice feature of the Control4 system that came in particularly handy for my remote-wielding husband was the on-screen display. Using the buttons of the remote he could navigate the same interface that I could on the touchpanel. The only difference was that his interface showed up on the screen of the room’s ample-size flat-panel TV.
The main menu of this interface presented icons for controlling the motorized draperies, the lights, the thermostat, the audio and the video. The A/V should have been fun, but it ended up being quite frustrating. There were an awful lot of choices; scrolling through them was quite a chore, considering the “slow” response time of the Control4 system. I’d press a button; when I didn’t hear or see anything I’d naturally press the button again, which brought up a song I really didn’t want to hear or a show I really didn’t want to watch. Eventually, I learned to be patient—to let the system catch up with my commands. The same punch-and-wait exercise had to be applied when setting up a wakeup routine, which was one of the coolest high-tech features of my room. Using the touchpanel, I told the Control4 system to wake me up at 6 by opening the sheers and drapes, gradually bringing up the lights and playing music from a soft-rock station. It’s a much better way to wake up than to the sound of a blaring alarm.
All said and done—my stay was a hit. The automation system enhanced the luxurious design and atmosphere of the room. Once I was in that room, I never wanted to leave.
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Despite McAfee predicting that unique malware samples would hit 75 million in 2011, the security vendor actually found that the real number actually surpassed that estimate.
The vendor's latest report, McAfee Threats Report: Fourth Quarter 2011, finds that while new malware slowed in Q4, mobile malware was on the rise and experienced its busiest period to date.
McAfee Labs senior vice-president, Vincent Weafer, found the thread landscape in 2011 highly evolved, with a change in the motivation typical for cyber attacks.
"Increasingly, we've seen that no organization, platform or device is immune to the increasingly sophisticated and targeted threats," he said.
While the good news in the report was that PC-based malware was found to have declined throughout Q4 of 2011, reaching a level that was in fact significantly lower than the same quarter a year earlier, the fact is unique malware samples exceeded 75 million.
McAfee found that Q4 2011 was the busiest period for mobile malware, with the victim in this case being the Android platform due to loopholes found by hackers in the open source OS .
"On a global basis, we are conducting more of our personal and business transactions through mobile devices, and this is creating new security risks and challenges in how we safeguard our commercial and personal data," Weafer said.
An average of 9300 new malicious sites come up every day in Q4, an increase from 6500 in the earlier quarter. The majority originated from the United States (73 per cent), followed by the Europe-Middle East (more than 17 per cent) and Asia-Pacific (7 per cent) regions.
The downfall of spam in 2011 has been well documented by the media and vendors alike, and McAfee found spam levels to be at their lowest in countries such as the UK, Brazil, Argentina and South Korea.
Botnet growth was found to have rebounded in November and December, with the current "spearphishing" and spam being more sophisticated than ever before.
Confirming what provacyrights.org has been saying all along, the report confirmed that data breaches via hacking, malware, fraud and insiders have more than doubled since 2009, reaching 40 publicly reported breaches in Q4 alone.
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Jason Hotchkiss made this amazingly geeky timepiece using persistence of vision and an old hard drive. All the code and schematics are available on Github and he’s diligently documented the process of making it on his blog, Stuff and Nonsense. If you like POV clocks as much as I do, be sure to check out the list below for a few of the others we’ve posted about. [via Nerdstink]
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Faux surround sound is nothing new. Soundbars and other smaller audio solutions typically have some type of technology that can provide the “illusion” of surround sound, without a 5.1 (or larger) speaker setup. GenAudio is hoping to be the next great surround sound solution, with AstoundSound for CE.
This newly launched technology promises to deliver surround sound without all of the speakers. Designed to work with headphones and two speaker devices, GenAudio says that the tech can deliver a realistic 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound experience.
AstoundSound for CE is software-based, which is what allows it to reproduce those 5.1 and 7.1 sounds. The company says that this has an advantage over competing spatial audio technology, because AstoundSound for CE has no tone colorization and remains in-phase.
The company also says that the tech will work in everything from digital TVs and set-top boxes to phones and gaming consoles, and much more.
“The introduction of our software based audio IP tech on small, low-cost processors coupled with our intuitive audio tuning tools provides manufacturers a way to quickly integrate spatialized audio playback capabilities into any new product where audio fidelity to the consumer is a critical component,” says Jerry Mahabub, founder and CEO of GenAudio. “Implementing AstoundSound in consumer devices will offer device manufacturers the opportunity to differentiate their multimedia products in a crowded consumer market!”
GenAudio is already incorporating AstoundSound audio IP software into devices, including the Analog Devices ADAU1761/1701 Sigma Studio DSP system-on-chip (SoC) audio processors as well as ADI’s SHARC processors and various other chip manufacturers. GenAudio says that the first products packing AstoundSound for CE launch will debut early this year. 
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Faux surround sound is nothing new. Soundbars and other smaller audio solutions typically have some type of technology that can provide the “illusion” of surround sound, without a 5.1 (or larger) speaker setup. GenAudio is hoping to be the next great surround sound solution, with AstoundSound for CE.
This newly launched technology promises to deliver surround sound without all of the speakers. Designed to work with headphones and two speaker devices, GenAudio says that the tech can deliver a realistic 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound experience.
AstoundSound for CE is software-based, which is what allows it to reproduce those 5.1 and 7.1 sounds. The company says that this has an advantage over competing spatial audio technology, because AstoundSound for CE has no tone colorization and remains in-phase.
The company also says that the tech will work in everything from digital TVs and set-top boxes to phones and gaming consoles, and much more.
“The introduction of our software based audio IP tech on small, low-cost processors coupled with our intuitive audio tuning tools provides manufacturers a way to quickly integrate spatialized audio playback capabilities into any new product where audio fidelity to the consumer is a critical component,” says Jerry Mahabub, founder and CEO of GenAudio. “Implementing AstoundSound in consumer devices will offer device manufacturers the opportunity to differentiate their multimedia products in a crowded consumer market!”
GenAudio is already incorporating AstoundSound audio IP software into devices, including the Analog Devices ADAU1761/1701 Sigma Studio DSP system-on-chip (SoC) audio processors as well as ADI’s SHARC processors and various other chip manufacturers. GenAudio says that the first products packing AstoundSound for CE launch will debut early this year.
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Everyone loves a soft robot, and I’m fond of the marine variety. This bioinspired prototype tentacle, made of silicone rubber, not only curls and extends in eerily squidlike fashion, it’s also got pressure sensors embedded beneath its suckers so it can grasp objects, like a cephalopod should.
The tentacle was built by a team of Italian and Israeli scientists led by Cecilia Laschi (Che-cheelia, that’s fun to say), associate professor of biorobotics at the Scuole Superior Sant’Anna near the coast of Tuscany. They say it’ll be good for undersea exploration and rescue. I’m thinking naval cephalobots will envelop enemy ships in huge suction cups and drag them down to silent doom. Kraken!
Perhaps robotic cuttlefish could be also trained to tend the world’s seagoing salmon pens, or “ride herd” on schools of free-range calamari. Now I’m hungry for Italian seafood.
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I remember when IP-based videoconferencing first became an option in the enterprise. It wasn't cheap or very good in the early days, though at the time it seemed awesome (remember CU-SeeMe in the early 1990s?). Today, we have more capable tools such as Skype and FaceTime that shrink the distance between people like never before. It's easy to see why these tools are widely used: I'm heading off to Microsoft next week for the MVP Summit and will be away from my family for four days. My son is at the age where a parent's absence can be unsettling. For him, FaceTime videoconferencing is a lifesaver. He walks around with my wife's iPad and talks to me via FaceTime as if I were right there, which calms his separation anxiety. To me, it's the best thing about an iPad.
Similarly amazing videoconferencing technology can be used in your business, yet few take advantage of it.
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You can't use FaceTime as your enterprise videoconferencing tool. For one, it runs only on Macs and iOS devices, not the Windows PCs standard in most businesses. But even if there were a FaceTime app for Windows or if you gave all employees an iPad, FaceTime wouldn't fit the bill. There's the pesky security issue of the number of network ports for which you'd have to enable forwarding: ports 53, 80 (!), 443, 4080, 5223, and 16393 to 16472, notes security consultant Erik Eckel. That's a lot of doors to leave open.
In a world of disparate devices and operating systems, it may be difficult to settle on an enterprise videoconferencing system, all of which have a very proprietary history. But given the consumerization and BYOD phenomena, videoconferencing vendors are increasingly trying to provide multiplatform services that address both compliance and security concerns. For example, Mitel, Polycom, and Vidyo have clients that work on both Apple iOS and Android devices; Cisco Systems' WebEx service has an iPhone client; and Avaya now has an iPad client.
In the Microsoft universe, there is Lync, available as both the on-premise Lync server and as part of Microsoft's hosted Office 365 service. That Lync Online service is impressive for a small-business deployment, matching the on-premise server version's meeting capacity of 250 and support for desktop sharing, application sharing, whiteboarding, and PowerPoint presentation. Microsoft recently released clients for iOS and Android.
One thing I really like about Lync is the optional Microsoft RoundTable 360-degree video camera, which gives you a video panorama that automatically displays onscreen whoever is speaking around that table. Thus, you can see everyone sitting at a table but highlight the current speaker.
If you're looking to telecommute and want a physical presence attached to your videoconference element, you might try a remote presence system (RPS) -- sort of like Skype on a stick. If you're a "Big Bang Theory" aficionado, you might remember last year's episode with Shel-bot, which used Pilot Presence's RPS product.
Obviously, larger organizations would consider an enterprise-oriented, dedicated videoconferencing system. Citrix Systems' GoToMeeting offers impressive group videoconferencing options such as high-definition video. Logitech's LifeSize division offers HD videoconferencing as well; its Express Series of products was named by InfoWorld as a 2010 Technology of the Year.
We all complain that email and other text-based communications are horrible at times for conveying certain aspects of a work dialog. How often does a text message create unnecessary angst simply because of its brevity or perceived tone? Seeing a person's face eliminates many of those communication issues.
Depending on your size and budget, videoconferencing is an excellent way to improve communications and collaboration in your organization. Whether you take advantage of one-to-one conferences via Skype or FaceTime or have many-to-many discussions through an enterprise-class offering vendor, the end result is a more cohesive organization.
This article, "In your face: Affordable videoconferencing," was originally published atInfoWorld.com. Read more of J. Peter Bruzzese's Enterprise Windows blog and follow the latest developments in Windows at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, followInfoWorld.com on Twitter.
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Faux surround sound is nothing new. Soundbars and other smaller audio solutions typically have some type of technology that can provide the “illusion” of surround sound, without a 5.1 (or larger) speaker setup. GenAudio is hoping to be the next great surround sound solution, with AstoundSound for CE.
This newly launched technology promises to deliver surround sound without all of the speakers. Designed to work with headphones and two speaker devices, GenAudio says that the tech can deliver a realistic 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound experience.
AstoundSound for CE is software-based, which is what allows it to reproduce those 5.1 and 7.1 sounds. The company says that this has an advantage over competing spatial audio technology, because AstoundSound for CE has no tone colorization and remains in-phase.
The company also says that the tech will work in everything from digital TVs and set-top boxes to phones and gaming consoles, and much more.
“The introduction of our software based audio IP tech on small, low-cost processors coupled with our intuitive audio tuning tools provides manufacturers a way to quickly integrate spatialized audio playback capabilities into any new product where audio fidelity to the consumer is a critical component,” says Jerry Mahabub, founder and CEO of GenAudio. “Implementing AstoundSound in consumer devices will offer device manufacturers the opportunity to differentiate their multimedia products in a crowded consumer market!”
GenAudio is already incorporating AstoundSound audio IP software into devices, including the Analog Devices ADAU1761/1701 Sigma Studio DSP system-on-chip (SoC) audio processors as well as ADI’s SHARC processors and various other chip manufacturers. GenAudio says that the first products packing AstoundSound for CE launch will debut early this year.
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If you’re coming to our site after having seen MAKE’s founder Dale Dougherty on CNN’s The Next List, welcome! We thought we’d take this opportunity to introduce you (and others who might be new to MAKE) to some of what we do here and why. We’ve got a lot of different things going on and are tremendously excited by the work we do and the global community of do-it-yourself (DIY) enthusiasts with whom we collaborate.
MAKE is a division of O’Reilly Media, the highly regarded technology publisher. Under the MAKE banner, we produce the quarterly MAKE magazine, run a number of websites (Makezine, Make: Projects, CRAFT, Make: Kit Reviews), have one of the more popular channels on YouTube, produce annual DIY festivals called Maker Faire, and run an etail business called Maker Shed.
MAKE magazine is how we got started in all of this. It’s a quarterly technology projects magazine and a house organ for the maker/do-it-yourself movement. Projects in the magazine range from old-school balsa wood and tissue-paper airplanes to what to do to keep aging high-tech gadgets alive to building autonomous robots from junk. Our current issue, Volume 29, is entitled “DIY Superhuman,” and … You can subscribe here and find back issues here.
One of our MAKE special issue publications,
the Ultimate Kit Guide 2012
Makezine.com is the award-winning website that you’re reading right now. It’s one of the most popular online watering holes for makers, crafters, inventors, tinkerers, and amateur tech and science nerds of all stripes. People come here for breaking DIY news and information, original content on building, repairing, and modifying their technology, and for step-by-step project articles on a broad range of topics. We also have several popular video series that run regularly on this site which showcase cool projects, kit builds, and explain (in plain English) how various technologies work. Here’s a recent one of our videos, with one of our amazing kid-makers, Super Awesome Sylvia, showing how to make “squishy circuits:”
Maker Faire is our annual DIY festival, makers meet-up, show and tell, and celebration of creativity, invention, and the incomparable joys of making stuff. We’ve held Faires in the SF/Bay Area for the last six years, New York City for the past two, and Faires in Austin, Texas, and Detroit. Last year’s Bay Area Faire attracted some 100,000 people. Apparently, there are more people interested in giant flaming neurons, a life-size Mousetrap game, human-powered carnival rides, robot giraffes, and musical Tesla coils than you might think. If you’ve never been to a Maker Faire, mark your calendars. The next Bay Area Faire is May 19th & 20th and World Maker Faire in New York City is Sept 29 & 30. See the Faire site for more details and info about Mini Maker Faires taking place all over the US (and the world).
The Maker Shed is easy to describe. Quick: think of the coolest, nerdiest bookstore, museum gift shop, arts and craft shop, and electronics emporium you can possibly dream up — now roll them all into one. You’re in the Maker Shed! The Shed houses an irresistible collection of books, kits, robots, microcontrollers, science sets, electronics, craft tools and supplies, all curated by us, the people behind MAKE and Maker Faire. It’s all of the wondrous stuff we’dhope to find in such a store. Maker Shed is a year-round online store, and we also set up pop-up retail shops at each of our Maker Faires.
We hope you enjoyed our little tour and will join us in our quest to put the joy of making back into our hectic modern lives. We hope you’ll join in the fun. And if you want to get a truly thrilling and eye-opening experience of the length and breadth of the DIY movement, come to a Maker Faire! We can assure you it’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced and that you will come away truly inspired.
If you have questions about MAKE, or any of our projects, please feel free to ask in the comments below, or email us.
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Faux surround sound is nothing new. Soundbars and other smaller audio solutions typically have some type of technology that can provide the “illusion” of surround sound, without a 5.1 (or larger) speaker setup. GenAudio is hoping to be the next great surround sound solution, with AstoundSound for CE.
This newly launched technology promises to deliver surround sound without all of the speakers. Designed to work with headphones and two speaker devices, GenAudio says that the tech can deliver a realistic 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound experience.
AstoundSound for CE is software-based, which is what allows it to reproduce those 5.1 and 7.1 sounds. The company says that this has an advantage over competing spatial audio technology, because AstoundSound for CE has no tone colorization and remains in-phase.
The company also says that the tech will work in everything from digital TVs and set-top boxes to phones and gaming consoles, and much more.
“The introduction of our software based audio IP tech on small, low-cost processors coupled with our intuitive audio tuning tools provides manufacturers a way to quickly integrate spatialized audio playback capabilities into any new product where audio fidelity to the consumer is a critical component,” says Jerry Mahabub, founder and CEO of GenAudio. “Implementing AstoundSound in consumer devices will offer device manufacturers the opportunity to differentiate their multimedia products in a crowded consumer market!”
GenAudio is already incorporating AstoundSound audio IP software into devices, including the Analog Devices ADAU1761/1701 Sigma Studio DSP system-on-chip (SoC) audio processors as well as ADI’s SHARC processors and various other chip manufacturers. GenAudio says that the first products packing AstoundSound for CE launch will debut early this year.
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Everyone loves a soft robot, and I’m fond of the marine variety. This bioinspired prototype tentacle, made of silicone rubber, not only curls and extends in eerily squidlike fashion, it’s also got pressure sensors embedded beneath its suckers so it can grasp objects, like a cephalopod should.
The tentacle was built by a team of Italian and Israeli scientists led by Cecilia Laschi (Che-cheelia, that’s fun to say), associate professor of biorobotics at the Scuole Superior Sant’Anna near the coast of Tuscany. They say it’ll be good for undersea exploration and rescue. I’m thinking naval cephalobots will envelop enemy ships in huge suction cups and drag them down to silent doom. Kraken!
Perhaps robotic cuttlefish could be also trained to tend the world’s seagoing salmon pens, or “ride herd” on schools of free-range calamari. Now I’m hungry for Italian seafood.
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After a long day pounding the show floor pavement at the Consumer Electronic Show, it feels oh so nice to get back to the hotel room—even more so when that room is automated. I use the term “automated” loosely, as the only part of my two-night stay at the Aria that was truly automated was the first minute or so. As I entered the room for the first time, the drapes and sheers opened, music started playing the lights gradually brightened. Was I impressed? Yes. More than that, though, the welcome scenario made that smallish space seem a lot friendlier, and well, welcoming.
In typical Control4 style, wall-mounted keypads let me set groups of lights for reading, sleeping and waking up by just tapping a button. My favorite was the keypad by the door. Here, I could press a button to request that my room be serviced or that I not be disturbed. The appropriate icon by my door in the hallway illuminated to alert the Aria staff—kind of like hanging out a modern-day, electronic “Do Not Disturb” sign.
No Control4 system is complete without a touchpanel, and my room had one, as well as a hard-buttoned handheld remote. The touchpanel—the far sexier of the controls—happened to be on the nightstand by my side of the bed. Nice. My hubby got the remote. Both eager to test drive the controls, we started pushing buttons—in my case, icons. We toyed around with the window treatments, parting the shades half-way, leaving the drape open, closing both—any arrangement we could think of. The controls worked flawlessly. We played around with the lights, again, success. At times, the system got confused and devices failed to respond—we chalked it up to too many commands being thrown at it at the same time. Obviously, we needed to take turns.
If you need a little instruction in the use of the control system, Aria provides an online .PDF so you can study up before you arrive.
A nice feature of the Control4 system that came in particularly handy for my remote-wielding husband was the on-screen display. Using the buttons of the remote he could navigate the same interface that I could on the touchpanel. The only difference was that his interface showed up on the screen of the room’s ample-size flat-panel TV.
The main menu of this interface presented icons for controlling the motorized draperies, the lights, the thermostat, the audio and the video. The A/V should have been fun, but it ended up being quite frustrating. There were an awful lot of choices; scrolling through them was quite a chore, considering the “slow” response time of the Control4 system. I’d press a button; when I didn’t hear or see anything I’d naturally press the button again, which brought up a song I really didn’t want to hear or a show I really didn’t want to watch. Eventually, I learned to be patient—to let the system catch up with my commands. The same punch-and-wait exercise had to be applied when setting up a wakeup routine, which was one of the coolest high-tech features of my room. Using the touchpanel, I told the Control4 system to wake me up at 6 by opening the sheers and drapes, gradually bringing up the lights and playing music from a soft-rock station. It’s a much better way to wake up than to the sound of a blaring alarm.
All said and done—my stay was a hit. The automation system enhanced the luxurious design and atmosphere of the room. Once I was in that room, I never wanted to leave.
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Virtualisation provider AppSense is making its first move into cloud-based data storage with the launch of a new product called DataLocker, which enables users to encrypt sensitive information in their Dropbox account.
Consumer file-sharing and synchronisation apps like Dropbox have become popular with business users, because they make it easy to sync files between computers, tablets and smartphones. However, many of these apps lack the security, centralised administration and management of enterprise solutions, causing headaches for IT departments.
DataLocker allows Dropbox users to encrypt their data, meaning that they can carry on using the service they know while still adhering to compliance regulations. The DataLocker suite, available via a free download, includes native clients for Windows, Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
When users login to their Dropbox account via a DataLocker client, they can encrypt files depending on the level of security required. For example, a user could upload an encrypted file from a desktop PC and browse that directory securely from their Datalocker app on a tablet while they are out on the road.
The user can then decrypt a file if they want to show it to a customer, or send an external a link, along with a password by SMS, so that an external person can access the files themselves in a secure fashion.
"This is definitely a new direction in terms of what our enterprise customers have seen, but data is an important part of user virtualisation," said Keith Turnbull, vice president of global development at AppSense.
"You've virtualised the OS, you've virtualised your apps, now you can virutalise the user context - and of course data is one of the most important aspects of being able to virtualise user context, because that's the single most important thing a user does."
AppSense plans to extend the DataLocker application to provide encryption and decryption to any cloud storage product. Turnbull said it is a very generic and useful tool for anyone.
"A lot of companies are moving towards a true enterprise data solution that's got full policy and full governance, but in the interim, something like this is a fantastic place to get the puck on the ice from a data compliance point of view."
DataLocker is the first product to come out of AppSense Labs, the new research arm of the AppSense global research and development group. The focus of AppSense Labs will be on helping people harness emerging cloud, tablet, and mobile technologies alongside traditional PCs and enterprise IT infrastructure, the company said.
While these innovations may find their way into future IT-focused AppSense products, AppSense Labs will also freely experiment in new technology areas and make its innovations available directly to technology enthusiasts.
"We're taking our various development talents across the West Coast and in the UK, and effectively allowing them freedom to innovate, rather than throttling everything through a normal go to market process," said Turnbull. "Anything that helps blur the line between personal and business IT is a sweet spot."
The DataLocker launch comes at a time when a number of IT companies are making new inroads into cloud-based storage. For example, Apple recently launched iCloud, offering a central online repository for mail, contacts, calendars, music, TV, app and book purchases, photos, documents and backup, and Google is rumoured to be on the verge of launching its own cloud-based storage product called Drive.
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If you’re coming to our site after having seen MAKE’s founder Dale Dougherty on CNN’s The Next List, welcome! We thought we’d take this opportunity to introduce you (and others who might be new to MAKE) to some of what we do here and why. We’ve got a lot of different things going on and are tremendously excited by the work we do and the global community of do-it-yourself (DIY) enthusiasts with whom we collaborate.
MAKE is a division of O’Reilly Media, the highly regarded technology publisher. Under the MAKE banner, we produce the quarterly MAKE magazine, run a number of websites (Makezine, Make: Projects, CRAFT, Make: Kit Reviews), have one of the more popular channels on YouTube, produce annual DIY festivals called Maker Faire, and run an etail business called Maker Shed.
MAKE magazine is how we got started in all of this. It’s a quarterly technology projects magazine and a house organ for the maker/do-it-yourself movement. Projects in the magazine range from old-school balsa wood and tissue-paper airplanes to what to do to keep aging high-tech gadgets alive to building autonomous robots from junk. Our current issue, Volume 29, is entitled “DIY Superhuman,” and … You can subscribe here and find back issues here.
One of our MAKE special issue publications,
the Ultimate Kit Guide 2012
Makezine.com is the award-winning website that you’re reading right now. It’s one of the most popular online watering holes for makers, crafters, inventors, tinkerers, and amateur tech and science nerds of all stripes. People come here for breaking DIY news and information, original content on building, repairing, and modifying their technology, and for step-by-step project articles on a broad range of topics. We also have several popular video series that run regularly on this site which showcase cool projects, kit builds, and explain (in plain English) how various technologies work. Here’s a recent one of our videos, with one of our amazing kid-makers, Super Awesome Sylvia, showing how to make “squishy circuits:”
Maker Faire is our annual DIY festival, makers meet-up, show and tell, and celebration of creativity, invention, and the incomparable joys of making stuff. We’ve held Faires in the SF/Bay Area for the last six years, New York City for the past two, and Faires in Austin, Texas, and Detroit. Last year’s Bay Area Faire attracted some 100,000 people. Apparently, there are more people interested in giant flaming neurons, a life-size Mousetrap game, human-powered carnival rides, robot giraffes, and musical Tesla coils than you might think. If you’ve never been to a Maker Faire, mark your calendars. The next Bay Area Faire is May 19th & 20th and World Maker Faire in New York City is Sept 29 & 30. See the Faire site for more details and info about Mini Maker Faires taking place all over the US (and the world).
The Maker Shed is easy to describe. Quick: think of the coolest, nerdiest bookstore, museum gift shop, arts and craft shop, and electronics emporium you can possibly dream up — now roll them all into one. You’re in the Maker Shed! The Shed houses an irresistible collection of books, kits, robots, microcontrollers, science sets, electronics, craft tools and supplies, all curated by us, the people behind MAKE and Maker Faire. It’s all of the wondrous stuff we’dhope to find in such a store. Maker Shed is a year-round online store, and we also set up pop-up retail shops at each of our Maker Faires.
We hope you enjoyed our little tour and will join us in our quest to put the joy of making back into our hectic modern lives. We hope you’ll join in the fun. And if you want to get a truly thrilling and eye-opening experience of the length and breadth of the DIY movement, come to a Maker Faire! We can assure you it’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced and that you will come away truly inspired.
If you have questions about MAKE, or any of our projects, please feel free to ask in the comments below, or email us.
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