Sweet Fiber Alabama

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Sweet Fiber Alabama
Number 2694
Broadcast Date FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Episode Length 36:35
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Veronica Belmont

Could bots and chat interfaces replace your homescreen apps? Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt discuss. Plus the latest from Mobile World Congress.

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Headlines

Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to employees Monday morning saying the government should withdraw its request for assistance cracking the passcode of an iPhone 5C and suggesting Congress form a commission on intelligence-civil liberties issues. In an op-ed on the site Lawfare, FBI Director James Comey wrote Sunday that the FBI does not want a back door, just the chance to guess the passcode without the phone deleting data. iPhone security researcher Jonathan Zdziarsky noted the FBI is also asking for a more open copy of the software for testing.

Over the weekend the FBI admitted it had reset the Apple ID password of the phone’s iCloud account eliminating the possibility of prompting a cloud backup and gaining some of the phone’s data that way.
Facebook, Nokia, Intel and several telcos like Deutsche Telekom are collaborating on an open source hardware and software platform for communication networks. The Telco Infra Project — or TIP — will cover access, backhaul and core elements of a network. The aim would be to have modular components similar to Facebook’s Open Compute project for data centers. The first pilot network using TIP gear was created in the Philippines and more test networks are expected this year.
At its Interconnect Conference in Las Vegas IBM announced cloud partnerships with Apple, VMWare, GitHub, Bitly and Siemens. Apple and IBM will continue collaboration on Swift with a preview of a runtime and Package Catalog to create enterprise apps. IBM and VMWare will extend into more hybrid cloud services in partnership. GitHub will offer a dedicated Enterprise experience on Bluenix. Bitly will migrate to IBM’s cloud and Siemens will work with IBM on energy efficiency. IBM also put three new Watson artificial intelligence APIs into beta — Tone Analyzer, Emotion Analysis and Visual Recognition.
Cyanogen is launching a platform called MOD to give developers deeper access to Android. As an example Microsoft has developed a mod that puts Skype into the Cyanogen Android dialer. Cyanogen has launched new APIs and the MOD Ready Program staring now. The MOD platform will arrive on device next month for Cyanogen OS 13.0.
Saturday Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre announced the website had been hacked to deliver a version of Mint with a back door including a changed checksum. The malicious version was removed Saturday. A European hacker told Zack Whittaker at ZDNet that a few hundred installations were under control. Peace claimed to have stolen Mint’s forum database twice on Jan. 28 and Feb. 18 including email addresses, birthdates and scrambled passwords. Lefebvre confirmed on Sunday that the forum had been breached.
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Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is creating maps of population concentration to help solve connectivity problems. The lab analyzed satellite images for 20 countries using Facebook’s image-recognition engine to identify human-built structures. That was combined with census data for estimates on where people lived. The team has plans to work with Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network to create a new, combined population dataset later this year and release data to the public.
Google is partnering with several mobile operators to roll out Rich Communication Services for Android. The GSMA specified RCS as a program to create-cross-platform SMS-like communications with added features such as group messaging, IP voice calls and file-sharing. Partners for the Android push include Orange, Sprint, Telstra, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Bharti Airtel, América Móvil and more.
Google announced Monday it will bring its Gigabit service to Huntsville, Alabama over the fiber network being built by city-owned Huntsville Utilities. Google will lease the space non-exclusively so other ISPs could offer service over the same fiber. The first service should be available by the middle of 2017.
Snapchat geofilters allow special overlays of neighborhood names and special events for partners. Now Snapchat will allow any user in the US, UK and Canada buy a geofilter that can be triggered in an area from 20,000 to 5 million square feet from an hour up to 30 days. Prices start at $5 which could get you an eight hour Friday event in a major city. Users can design the filter and submit it at www.snapchat.com/on-demand. Snapchat will take one business day to approve the image.
Facebook will update its 360-degree videos with dynamic streaming inside the Oculus video player for Gear VR, making the streams higher quality and more data efficient. Facebook also announced it has created a Social VR team led Left 4 Dead designer Mike Booth game designer Daniel James.
Sony launched the Xperia X and larger Xperia XA today. Sony touted its camera focus features and two-day battery life. The X and XA will arrive this summer in White, Graphite Black, Lime Gold and Rose Gold. The Xperia Ear is an Android accessory that takes voice commands for things like calendar, news, weather, navigation and search. Sony also teased the Xperia Eye wearable 360-degree camera, the Xperia Projector and the Xperia Agent which is a combination of Ear, Eye and Projector in one. The Xperia Ear comes this summer, no price or release otherwise.
If you’re not an Amazon Prime Member, Amazon has raised its free shipping minimum from $35 to $49. The minimum for books stays at $25. In its last earnings report Amazon noted fulfillment costs were up 32.8% year-over-year.
HTC confirmed its Vive VR headset will sell for $799 with preorders starting at 10 AM Eastern February 29th for shipping in 24 countries starting early April. That price includes two hand-tracking controllers and two Lighthouse laser tracking boxes for headset tracking and for a limited time, two free games. The Vive will also connect to phones by Bluetooth to allow answering calls and reading texts and calendar invites in the headset.

Discussion

Submitted by tm204

Pick of the Day

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Submitted by William

Messages

There’s a new DTNS app available in the Apple TV store!

Just search DTNS and you’ll find a lovely app from Dx & Sarah at Waterside Development in the UK/Amsterdam.

It takes video from the RSS and shows you the latest episode plus archives and even gives you a favorites section if you want to save episodes for later.

Dx said “we’re looking for feature suggestions (hint hint) if you can think of anything to add” So let him know your ideas!

And thanks again to them for making this as a labor of love!!

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