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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Amazon Says Streaming Web Usage, Spending Increasing - Peter ...
Netflix added a bunch of streaming video subscribers in the last quarter. How did rival Amazon do?
Who knows? Amazon is fiercely dedicated to the notion that it won?t say squat about its business, and things stayed true to form during yesterday?s earnings call.
But the question did come up a few times during the call. Which makes sense, because Jeff Bezos is pumping a bunch of money into video ? by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings?s account, perhaps a billion dollars a year.
So Amazon CFO Thomas Szkutak did make a point of telling Wall Street that things are moving up and to the right ? both in terms of usage and investment dollars. A collection of his video-related quotes, via Seeking Alpha:
* ?The percentage of Prime customers who were watching free content through Prime Instant Videos has gone up dramatically year-over-year?
* ?We have also increased Prime membership dramatically, year-over-year. They are also purchasing a paid content. Those customers that are using this, they watch free but they are also paying for new content which is great.?
* ?I can?t give you specific for attach rates but the business is making good progress on the video content side. Again it?s still very early.?
* ?We will continue to expand our selection, both in terms of Amazon Instant Video as well Prime Instant Video and we will do that in a number of different ways. We think we have a very interesting selection right now and you should expect that will be spending more on content as it relates to Prime over time. We will continue to add selection on the Instant Video. Beyond that, you have to stay tuned.?
In other words: Yes, we?re spending a bunch of money. And yes, based on outsiders? guesstimates, we?re way, way, way behind Netflix in terms of overall video streaming usage. But we think our ?spend now, earn later? strategy is going to pay off here, too.
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20130130/amazon-makes-murmurs-about-its-video-business/
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Buy tickets now for Tracing Your Family History event at Bloomsbury ...
29 January 2013
In association with The National Archives, the Bloomsbury Institute presents an evening of advice and discussion on researching your family tree.
Chaired by The National Archives' family history specialist Audrey Collins, authors Guy Grannum (Tracing Your Caribbean Ancestors), Peter Christian (The Genealogist's Internet) and Andrea Stuart (Sugar in the Blood) will tell you how to get started and discuss what's involved in researching your family tree.
Tickets are on sale now from bloomsburyinstitute.com.
Date: Thursday 7 February. Drinks at 18:00 and talk at 18:30
Venue: Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP
Price: ?8 / ?4 for students
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Leah's engaged and pregnant on 'Teen Mom 2'
By Drusilla Moorhouse, TODAY contributor
MTV
Jeremy and Leah are expecting a new baby!
We begin Monday's "Teen Mom 2" recap with another real-time rundown in soap opera starring Jenelle Evans: Since announcing her pregnancy last week, the reality trainwreck filed assault charges against her husband, reunited with her bad-boy ex (does Jenelle have any good-guy boyfriends?) Gary Head and reportedly miscarried. Surely her evil (angelic?) twin will arrive any moment?
Enough with the spoilers! On the latest episode of "Teen Mom 2" ...
The Cabin in the Woods: Leah is whisked away by her boyfriend, Jeremy, to a deluxe vacation cabin that even has a hot tub on the back deck! While Jeremy declares, "I'll definitely be soaking my butt in that," Leah retires alone to bed. (What?! Keep reading.)
The next morning, Jeremy treats the young mama to her very first breakfast in bed and her second bouquet of flowers -- with an attached card reading, "Will you marry me?" Aw. Romantic, yes, but can anything top her first husband's proposal? Corey took Leah fishing and had her reel in her engagement ring. Classy!
Time to talk kids! Leah, practically middle-aged at 20, doesn't want to "wait 10 years" (or until she's grown out of her retainer) before having another baby. In related news, Leah admits to her appalled friend Kayla that she removed her IUD and seems to be experiencing morning sickness. With MTV filming everything but her bathroom breaks, Leah takes an in-home pregnancy test and shares the happy news with her twin toddlers: a baby sibling is on the way. (Spoiler alert: Heartbreak results, followed by more joyful tidings.)
Who's Your Daddy? Jenelle enjoys another TV-friendly outing with her son, Jace, taking him to a children's museum. There her girlfriends entertain the tiny tot by re-enacting Jenelle's latest roommate clash with puppets: "Hi, I'm Amber, and I'm a b----!" (Because Jace isn't treated to enough screaming profanity at home.)
Jenelle is surprised by a 12-step "amends"-style call from Andrew, her absentee baby daddy. Or is he? Turns out she hooked up with BFF Tori's boyfriend after a "physical argument" with Andrew a month before she got pregnant. (Headdesk.)?"I felt really slutty afterwards," she admits about hiding the secret. When Jenelle proposes a paternity test, Andrew jumps at the chance. He's years behind in child support (although not as much as he thought, considering he thought his 2-year-old was 3), and he "literally, 100 percent" doesn't think he's Jace's dad. ?
Barbershop: Forget Snip-its for Kids: For their son's very first haircut, Kailyn and Jo take Isaac to a bare bones men's barbershop. Kailyn nervously hovers over her son, apparently terrified he's going to sob like Anne Hathaway in "Les Miz" (he doesn't), and is annoyed that Jo is indifferently texting. (Or is he live-tweeting the important event, ? la Jenelle and her supposed miscarriage?)
Thank goodness for Javi, Kailyn's very own Jeremy -- devoted, romantic and eager to capture the attention of the MTV film crew. "You're going to be my best friend," vows Kail's future teen husband, not at all stalkery. At least he isn't begging her to have another baby?
Weird Science: Chelsea sobs in her cheetah sheets because she's not celebrating baby daddy Adam's birthday with him. Rinse and repeat. Somehow she manages to pull herself together and take her math and science GED tests. "Pass or fail, it's a milestone," her proud papa says on her cell phone, which she's holding to her ear while driving in the ice and snow.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
RBS hit by report of possible criminal charges over Libor
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The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. authorities were pushing RBS to accept criminal charges as part of a settlement which will see it fined up to 500 million pounds for the attempted manipulation of the London interbank lending rate (Libor) and other benchmark interest rates.
"It's put the word 'Libor' back in front of the banks and people are using it as an excuse to take profits," says Central Markets chief strategist Richard Perry.
RBS shares closed the day down 6 percent, the leading faller in a 0.28 percent-weaker European bank sector <.sx7p>, with volume in the bank's shares at 257 percent of the 90-day daily average.
The bank declined comment on the WSJ report.
One RBS shareholder told Reuters that criminal charges would make the bank more vulnerable to future litigation and said Chief Executive Stephen Hester would be reluctant for the bank to accept criminal responsibility.
"Stephen Hester is not the kind of man to play a dangerous game but the stakes here could be rather high," one of the bank's biggest institutional shareholders said.
The bank is braced for fines of up to 500 million pounds ($785 million) for its role in the scandal and expects the punishment to be meted out as early as next week, sources have said.
RBS, which is 81 percent owned by the British taxpayer, would be the third bank after Barclays
Barclays was fined $453 million in June while UBS paid about $1.5 billion in December. However, some analysts believe those fines could be dwarfed by the costs to banks from civil litigation linked to attempted interest rate rigging.
BONUS BATTLES
British trade union Unite attacked RBS over a report in the Financial Times saying it planned to pay its investment bankers bonuses of as much as 250 million pounds at a time when branch staff are being laid off. Unite called on Britain's Chancellor to intervene.
"Once again it looks like ordinary bank workers and taxpayers will pay the price for the greed at the top of RBS. It is time George Osborne put his foot down. This is no way to repay the country's patience," the union said.
RBS paid out 390 million pounds in bonuses at its investment bank a year ago. Sources have told Reuters it plans to reduce payments by over 100 million pounds this year to help pay Libor fines.
RBS is facing intense scrutiny on its pay and bonuses due to the state's majority ownership, although Barclays has also come under stiff pressure to cut pay for its executives and investment bank staff for several years.
Barclays is under particular pressure to show restraint this year following its Libor punishment and criticism that its culture and standards were too lax.
New CEO Antony Jenkins, who took over in August after his predecessor Bob Diamond was felled by the Libor scandal, has pledged to improve standards and restrain pay for staff and the bank has sounded out some leading investors for their views.
Barclays could award bonuses of 1.5 billion to 2 billion pounds for last year, Sky News reported on Tuesday, citing people close to the bank. That would be down from 2.2 billion a year ago.
Jenkins, who gets a base salary of 1.1 million pounds and could get 2.75 million in annual bonus, is being lined up to get a bonus of more than 1 million pounds, payable in deferred shares, Sky said.
Barclays declined to comment.
($1 = 0.6367 British pounds)
(Reporting by Matt Scuffham, Sinead Cruise and Steve Slater; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rbs-close-libor-settlement-u-uk-authorities-wsj-064007813--sector.html
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Weddings Startup Lover.ly Scores Content And Ad Deal With Real ...
Lover.ly,?a search engine for all things wedding, is today making a move that will broaden its reach considerably: The company is announcing a partnership with Real Simple to power the content for the site?s first-ever online weddings channel. Real Simple, which is best known for its magazine about home decor, beauty and fashion (it?s like an offline version of Pinterest), will now be helping to sell?Lover.ly?s?advertising inventory as a part of this deal.
For those unfamiliar, Lover.ly launched in fall 2011, as a centralized place for brides to discover and save wedding ideas and inspiration, and then?received $500,000 in seed funding last?February.?Similar to Pinterest, the site lets its users create boards (on Lover.ly, they?re called ?bundles?) to keep track of their favorites. But as founder and CEO Kellee Khalil explains it, Lover.ly is more of a search engine than it is a ?Pinterest for weddings,? so to speak.
Lover.ly?s content comes from 35 prominent wedding bloggers, a handful of wedding magazines like Bridal Guide, Southern Weddings, Smitten Magazine and others, plus?retailers, brands and vendors. By participating on Lover.ly, these sources can grow their traffic and/or sales, while bloggers can score brand partnerships and get help with advertising.
Khalil says Lover.ly?s content, which has grown to include over 700 brands, and its brand, is what appealed to Real Simple. The company came to her a few months ago to discuss a potential partnership after a Real Simple editor listened to her speak on a panel about wedding and technology, she says. ?Real Simple approached us and said your brand is very similarly aligned with ours ? we?re trying to help the modern women who?s overwhelmed, make her life easier, and bring simplicity,? Khalil explains.
The partnership is expected to be mutually beneficial to all parties involved ? Lover.ly and its content providers get wider exposure and traffic, and Real Simple gets the content it needs for the new vertical, plus relationships with key bloggers.
There?s also an advertising relationship going into effect as a part of the deal.?Currently, Lover.ly monetizes by display ads, as well as sponsored content and giveaways across its network. Meanwhile, with retailers and brand partners, it?s a cost-per-click system. With the exclusive partnership announced today, Real Simple will provide the startup with access to its sales team to help Lover.ly fill its ad inventory.
?We just soft-launched our network halfway through last year, so this is the first partnership of its kind,? says Khalil of the deal. ?Real Simple (Time, Inc.) is one of the biggest media companies in the world, and I think it?s really forward-thinking of them to?partner?with a startup that?s a year-and-half old,? she adds.
What?s Next: A Relaunch Of The Website And Mobile Apps
The deal with Real Simple isn?t Lover.ly?s only news, however. The startup is poised for a complete overhaul and relaunch of its website and brand, following nearly a year of tracking its user data and behavior.
?We?re launching a brand-new property from start to finish,? says Khalil. ?We had to look at our brand, what it stands for, and how it?s going to translate over time. We?re leaning towards becoming a lot more sophisticated, more modern and more tech-centric. And with that, we?re also going to be launching a mobile app,? she says. The new app will focus on a more passive browsing experience, and will add a feature that will allow brides to ?snap? inspiration while on the go in order to save things to their private boards. These launches are still a few weeks out.
Asked what it means to be more of a ?tech? company, Khalil explained that the technology they?re building in-house is something that can translate across different verticals. ?We actually don?t produce any content; our core?competency?is aggregating from bloggers, retailers, brands and also wedding professionals,? she says. The proprietary technology Lover.ly has developed is a tagging system that makes that content searchable. That means users can search by a range of things beyond keywords ? for example, by season, style, location, color palette, themes or trends. The site even features a unique color search interface that lets brides-to-be click on a color to search across the site by pinks or silvers, or whatever their wedding colors happen to be.
Today, Lover.ly?s search engine has indexed a couple hundred thousand wedding photos, while the site also offers close to 100,000 products. ?Think of us like what Kayak has done for travel?that?s essentially what we are [for weddings],? says Khalil. She says the new Lover.ly website will shift focus to the company?s search capabilities, making the search box more prominent, while also moving away from the more ?girly? feel the site has today.
Eventually, the company wants to apply its curated search functionality to other verticals, including perhaps home decor, party planning, shopping, or anything that?s design-focused. ?There?s definitely opportunity to go into other verticals, and that?s always in the back of our head when we?re thinking about what we?re doing,? Khalil says.
The company declined to provide user numbers, but reports recent growth and good engagement figures. Five percent of the audience returns 3-6 times per day, while 22 percent come anywhere from 15 to 100 times per month. Somewhat?surprisingly,?48 percent of the audience reports themselves as ?pre-engaged? ? meaning they?re women who are planning their wedding in advance of an actual proposal. Site visits are also up 75 percent month-over-month from last month, and Lover.ly has grown its social footprint to nearly 80,000 Facebook fans, 28,000+ Twitter followers, and 34,000 followers on Google+.
Competition in the weddings space is tough lately, given the number of startups angling for brides? attention, including, but not limited to,?RegistryLove,?Appy Couple,?Wedit,?WedPics,?Wedding?Party,?WeddingLovely,?Weduary?and others, not to mention Pinterest. But not all these are focused on search, of course ?- many are social apps or wedding website providers. Khalil says with Lover.ly, she wants to become the ?Google for weddings.? That could make other wedding startups potential partners, instead of competitors further down the road.
Lover.ly is a vertical search engine focused on all things bridal. We help brides and their friends find ideas, people to hire, and things to buy for their wedding.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Davos: The Crisis Is Over - Business Insider
We've been saying for a while that the age of crisis was coming to an end. And now the world's elites have made it official.
The economic crisis is over.
From Peter Coy and BusinessWeek:
The hive mind of Davos has concluded that the financial crisis is done, finished. The new worry: a bubble in the credit markets.
There is no official declaration, or even a formal survey. But the chatter at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is about the end of the financial crisis that began in 2008 and dragged on through last summer?s spike in Spanish and Italian government bond yields. ?There?s a crystallization of thought that the financial crisis is over,? says Scott Minerd, managing partner and chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners, a Santa Monica (Calif.) firm with about $160 billion under management.
And here's Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group writing at The Huffington Post:
So why has Davos decided to look on the bright side? I'd sum it up as follows:
There's a sense that the world economy has turned the corner, and after four years, the financial crisis is finally behind us. Not only are people much more attuned to the new environment of risks, but also, there is a sense that the downsides are nearing their limits. Sure, the eurozone is suffering through record unemployment and a bleak economic environment--but defaults or a eurozone breakup didn't pan out. A double-dip recession in the U.S. never materialized. The threats are still disparate and uncertain, of course, but it feels like the cataclysmic possibilities are off the table for the time being.
The mood at Davos echoes what we're hearing from non-Alpine pundits, like Mohamed El-Erian and others, who have been talking about how the 'New Normal' might be coming to an end. Even earlier, economists like Jan Hatzius at Goldman had been calling for 2013 to represent a big global economic turning point.
Great news. (Except if you're in the news business!)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/davos-the-crisis-is-over-2013-1
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The Yeshiva World VIDEO: R' Amnon Yitzchak Speaks Out ...
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Following the election defeat of his Koach L?Hashpiah party, which failed to pass the minimum threshold to enter the 19th Knesset, Rav Amnon Yitzchak speaks out, in the form of a video, speaking of the ?sheker?, the lies that accompanied the election campaign and the Shas officials ?who preferred the chilonim Yair Lapid who closes kollelim and drafts Bnei Torah instead of the person who brings people back to teshuvah.
In the 17 minute video, Rav Amnon speaks of the grief caused to Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita, and the chilul Hashem and unacceptable actions of the Shas officials. He speaks of the insults to Maran and the Torah due to the actions of Shas leaders, who acted inappropriately, as well as the attacks and insults against him.
?Shas officials preferred voting for Arabs instead of me.? He explains how the Shas rabbonim never bothered to inquire, to probe and verify if indeed the harsh allegations against him were founded, which of course they were not.
Rav Amnon says he does not forgive any of them for the spilling of his blood and pain and suffering caused.
Rav Amnon speaks of many cases in which they detected voter fraud, the tricks that took place, the threats, those who saw Shas people outside asking voters ?who are you voting for?, the distribution of cash and even distribution of cell phones free of charge, all to pull people from voting Koach L?Hashpiah.
The vehicles driving around Rosh Ha?ayin and Rehovot announcing that Koach L?Hashpiah closed and that Rav Amnon instructed voters to return to Shas. The rav speaks of how Shas ignored the rulings of Central Election Committee officials, conducting a campaign that was ruled illegal and unacceptable.
Rav Amnon laments how the actions of Shas leaders and supporters actually pushed some people away from being frum, not wishing to be associated with Jews like this, citing the foul play and tactics that have become Shas, actions that are not seen among the most left-wing secular party in Israel.
Rav Amnon speaks of how 30,000 rabbonim, roshei kollel and their followers used all their energy against one man, who was simply acting upon the instructions of HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita, and instead, Yair Lapid has 19 seats.
?Lapid is good for Shas while Amnon Yitzchak is very bad. Can someone please explain this to me? he adds.
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Oopsy! Celebrities Show Off More Than They Intended! (Photos)
Oopsy! Celebrities Show Off More Than They Intended! (Photos)
Wardrobe malfunctions in the celebrity world happen all the time. An outfit that may look great when tried on might bare more than you intended as you move around. One major wardrobe malfunction can only be obvious when the celebrity is on the red carpet and their clothing becomes see-through under the flash of the ...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
New lingo for consumers: health overhaul glossary
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law has spawned its own jargon. With the law finally about to take full effect, consumers might want to get familiar with some of the terms:
Affordable Care Act ? The most common formal name for the health care law. Its full title is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA, pronounced (Pea-PUH-kah). Opponents still deride the law as "Obamacare," but Obama has embraced that term, saying it shows he cares.
Employer mandate ? A federal requirement that companies with 50 or more workers pay a penalty to the government if one of their workers obtains taxpayer subsidized coverage through the law. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Intended to keep companies from "dumping" employees into public coverage.
Individual mandate ? A federal requirement that virtually everyone in the United State has health insurance, either through an employer, a government program or by buying his own plan. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Exemptions for financial hardship and religious objections. Does not apply to illegal immigrants. People who ignore the mandate will face fines from Internal Revenue Service.
Essential health benefits ? Basic health benefits that most health insurance plans will have to cover starting in 2014. They include office visits, emergency services, hospitalization, rehab care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, prescriptions, lab tests, prevention, maternal and newborn care, and pediatric care.
Exchanges ? Online health insurance marketplaces in each state where consumers can get private health insurance, subsidized by the government. Open enrollment starts Oct. 1, and the coverage takes effect Jan. 1, 2014. Exchanges can be run by the states, the federal government, or a state-federal partnership. Small businesses will have access to their own exchanges.
Medicaid expansion ? The health care law also expands the federal-state safety-net program to cover more low-income people. Medicaid is expected to account for close to half of the 30 million uninsured people who, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, eventually will gain coverage through the law. The federal government will pay the full cost of the new coverage from 2014-2016, then phase down to 90 percent. States are free to reject the expansion. In those states, many adults below the poverty level would remain uninsured.
Metal levels ?The four levels of coverage available through exchange plans, called bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. Bronze plans feature the lowest monthly premiums, but cover only 60 percent of average costs. Platinum plans cover 90 percent of expected costs.
Pre-existing condition ? An ongoing or past health problem. Currently insurers can use pre-existing conditions to deny or restrict coverage, or charge more. Those practices will be barred by federal law starting Jan. 1, 2014, and insurers will have to accept all applicants.
Tax credits ? Government health insurance subsidies for individuals will come in the form of tax credits. The money will be paid directly to the consumer's health plan. The subsidies are based on income. Each year, people will have to "true up" with the IRS to make sure they got the right amount. People who receive too generous a tax credit may owe money back to the government.
Tax penalty ? The fine levied on individuals who disregard the individual insurance mandate. It starts small and gets bigger in subsequent years. In 2014 it's $95 or 1 percent of taxable income. By 2016, it's $695 or 2.5 percent of taxable income, whichever is greater. Thereafter it's adjusted for inflation.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lingo-consumers-health-overhaul-glossary-131735322--finance.html
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DRM in HTML5 | The Beautiful, Tormented Machine
A few days ago, a new proposal was put forward in the HTML Working Group (HTML WG) by Microsoft, Netflix, and Google to take DRM in HTML5 to the next stage of standardization at W3C. This triggered another uproar about the morality and ethics behind DRM and building it into the Web. There are good arguments about morality/ethics on both sides of the debate but ultimately, the HTML WG will decide whether or not to pursue the specification based on technical merit. I am a member of the HTML WG. I was also the founder of a start-up that focused on building a legal, peer-to-peer, content distribution network for music and movies. It employed DRM much like the current DRM in HTML5 proposal. During the course of 8 years of technical development, we had talks with many of the major record labels. I have first-hand knowledge of the problem, and building a technical solution to address the problem.
TL;DR: The Encrypted Media Extensions (DRM in HTML5) specification does not solve the problem the authors are attempting to solve, which is the protection of content from opportunistic or professional piracy. The HTML WG should not publish First Public Working Drafts that do not effectively address the primary goal of a specification.
The Problem
The fundamental problem that the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification is attempting to solve is to find a way to reduce piracy (since eliminating piracy on the Web is an impossible problem to solve). This is a noble goal as there are many content creators and publishers that are directly impacted by piracy. These are not faceless corporations, they are people with families that depend on the income from their creations. It is with this thought in mind that I reviewed the specification on a technical basis to determine if it would lead to a reduction in piracy.
Review Notes for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
Introduction
The EME specification does not specify a DRM scheme in the specification, rather it explains the architecture for a DRM plug-in mechanism. This will lead to plug-in proliferation on the Web. Plugins are something that are detrimental to inter-operability because it is inevitable that the DRM plugin vendors will not be able to support all platforms at all times. So, some people will be able to view content, others will not.
A simple example of the problem is Silverlight by Microsoft. Take a look at the Plugin details for Silverlight, specifically, click on the ?System Requirements? tab. Silverlight is Microsoft?s creation. Microsoft is a HUGE corporation with very deep pockets. They can and have thrown a great deal of money at solving very hard problems. Even Microsoft does not support their flagship plugin on Internet Explorer 8 on older versions of their operating system and the latest version of Chrome on certain versions of Windows and Mac. If Microsoft can?t make their flagship Web plugin work across all major Operating Systems today, what chance does a much smaller DRM plugin company have?
The purpose of a standard is to increase inter-operability across all platforms. It has been demonstrated that plug-ins, on the whole, harm inter-operability in the long run. The one shining exception is Flash, but we should not mistake an exception for the rule. Also note that Flash is backed by Adobe, a gigantic multi-national corporation with very deep pockets.
1.1 Goals
The goals section does not state the actual purpose of the specification. It states meta-purposes like: ?Support a range of content security models, including software and hardware-based models? and ?Support a wide range of use cases.?. While those are sub-goals, the primary goal isn?t stated once in the Goals section. The only rational primary goal is to reduce the amount of opportunistic piracy on the Web. Links to piracy data collected over the last decade could help make the case that this is worth doing.
1.2.1. Content Decryption Module (CDM)
When we were working on our DRM system, we took almost exactly the same approach that the EME specification does. We had a plug-in system that allowed different DRM modules to be plugged into the system. We assumed that each DRM scheme had a shelf-life of about 2-3 months before it was defeated, so our system would rotate the DRM modules every 3 months. We had plans to create genetic algorithms that would encrypt and watermark data into the file stream and mutate the encryption mechanism every couple of months to keep the pirates busy. It was a very complicated system to keep working because one slip up in the DRM module meant that people couldn?t view the content they had purchased. We did get the system working in the end, but it was a nightmare to make sure that the DRM modules to decrypt the information were rotated often enough to be effective while ensuring that they worked across all platforms.
Having first-hand knowledge of how such a system works, it?s a pretty terrible idea for the Web because it takes a great deal of competence and coordination to pull something like this off. I would expect the larger Content Protection companies to not have an issue with this. The smaller Content Protection companies, however, will inevitably have issues with ensuring that their DRM modules work across all platforms.
The bulk of the specification
The bulk of the specification is what you would expect from a system like this, so I won?t go into the gory details. There were two major technical concerns I had while reading through the implementation notes.
The first is that key retrieval is handled by JavaScript code, which means that anybody using a browser could copy the key data. This means that if a key is sent in the clear, the likelihood that the DRM system could be compromised goes up considerably because the person that is pirating the content knows the details necessary to store and decrypt the content.
If the goal is to reduce opportunistic piracy, all keys should be encrypted so that snooping by the browser doesn?t result in the system being compromised. Otherwise, all you would need to do is install a plugin that shares all clear-text keys with something like Mega. Pirates could use those keys to then decrypt byte-streams that do not mutate between downloads. To my knowledge, most DRM?ed media delivery does not encrypt content on a per-download basis. So, the spec needs to make it very clear that opaque keys MUST be used when delivering media keys.
One of the DRM systems we built, which became the primary way we did things, would actually re-encrypt the byte stream for every download. So even if a key was compromised, you couldn?t use the key to decrypt any other downloads. This was massively computationally expensive, but since we were running a peer-to-peer network, the processing was pushed out to the people downloading stuff in the network and not our servers. Sharing of keys was not possible in our DRM system, so we could send the decryption keys in the clear. I doubt many of the Content Protection Networks will take this approach as it would massively spike the cost of delivering content.
6. Simple Decryption
The ?org.w3.clearkey? Key System indicates a plain-text clear (unencrypted) key will be used to decrypt the source. No additional client-side content protection is required.
Wow, what a fantastically bad idea.
- This sends the decryption key in the clear. This key can be captured by any Web browser plugin. That plugin can then share the decryption key and the byte stream with the world.
- It duplicates the purpose of Transport Layer Security (TLS).
- It doesn?t protect anything while adding a very complex way of shipping an encrypted byte stream from a Web server to a Web browser.
So. Bad. Seriously, there is nothing secure about this mechanism. It should be removed from the specification.
9.1. Use Cases: ?user is not an adversary?
This is not a technical issue, but I thought it would be important to point it out. This ?user is not an adversary? text can be found in the first question about use cases. It insinuates that people that listen to radio and watch movies online are potential adversaries. As a business owner, I think that?s a terrible way to frame your customers.
Thinking of the people that are using the technology that you?re specifying as ?adversaries? is also largely wrong. 99.999% of people using DRM-based systems to view content are doing it legally. The folks that are pirating content are not sitting down and viewing the DRM stream, they have acquired a non-DRM stream from somewhere else, like Mega or The Pirate Bay, and are watching that. This language is unnecessary and should be removed from the specification.
Conclusion
There are some fairly large security issues with the text of the current specification. Those can be fixed.
The real goal of this specification is to create a framework that will reduce content piracy. The specification has not put forward any mechanism that demonstrates that it would achieve this goal.
Here?s the problem with EME ? it?s easy to defeat. In the very worst case, there exist piracy rigs that allow you to point an HD video camera at a HD television and record the video and audio without any sort of DRM. That?s the DRM-free copy that will end up on Mega or the Pirate Bay. In practice, no DRM system has survived for more than a couple of years.
Content creators, if your content is popular, EME will not protect your content against a content pirate. Content publishers, your popular intellectual property will be no safer wrapped in anything that this specification can provide.
The proposal does not achieve the goal of the specification, it is not ready for First Public Working Draft publication via the HTML Working Group.
Source: http://manu.sporny.org/2013/drm-in-html5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drm-in-html5
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Huawei tests 2Tbps data transmission over Vodafone's German network, calls it a 'first'
As terabit speeds go, Huawei's latest fiber feat falls on the lower end of recent industry achievements. At 2Tbps, the Chinese company's field test -- one it's hailing as a "world's first" -- comes nowhere close to the 100Tbps-plus experiments conducted by the likes of NEC and NICT. But top speed isn't entirely the point here; real-world performance is. By leveraging existing fiber infrastructure owned by Vodafone across portions of lower Germany, Huawei was able to successfully demonstrate two record-breaking, 200G transmissions: one spanning 1,500km and the other 3,325km over an "ultra-long-haul solution." To give you a bit of perspective on just what sort of data haul theoretical networks of this kind can achieve, Huawei claims this ultra-fast connection is "equivalent to downloading 40 HD videos in once second." Impressive, indeed. But don't go ditching that TWC wideband or FiOS contract just yet. While it's nice to know this tech exists, practical deployment is still a ways off. Until then, gigabit's the buzz word.
Huawei and Vodafone Complete World's First 2 Tbit/s WDM Field Trial
Shenzhen, China, 24 January 2013:
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology solutions provider, and Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile communications companies, today announced the successful trial of 2 Tbit/s optical fiber transmission technologies on Vodafone's live network. The field trial achieved 2 Tbit/s transmission capabilities of over 3,325km. This provides a data highway capacity 20-times higher than current commercially deployed 100Gbit/s systems and has a speed equivalent to downloading 40 HD videos in one second. This marks an important step forward for optical transport technology advances beyond 100G.
Traffic on carrier backbone networks is growing exponentially, driving global momentum for commercial 100G deployments and attracting attention on optical transport beyond 100G. Riding on cutting-edge technologies such as flex oDSP, super SD-FEC, and flex modulation format, this field trial achieved a record-breaking transmission distance of 1,500 km using a super-channel PDM-16QAM-based high spectral efficiency solution, and a second record-breaking transmission distance of 3,325 km using a super-channel Nyquist PDM-QPSK-based ultra-long-haul solution. Both transmissions were on a link with G.652 fibers and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) without electrical regeneration. The link used in the trial was on Vodafone's backbone network, passing through a few cities across middle and south Germany.
"We are at the forefront of global 100G deployments, and have taken the lead in delivering key breakthroughs in technologies beyond 100G. Through collaboration with Vodafone and other leading international operators and customer-centric R&D, Huawei is always ready to build advanced optical networks for customers," said Jack Wang, president of Huawei's transport network product line.
To help customers optimize their overall technical architecture and adopt next-generation transport networks, Huawei conducted the world's first 2T WDM field trial and pan- European 400G field trial in 2012, and also unveiled a series of scientific research achievements in optical transmission. According to Ovum, Huawei ranks No. 1 in the WDM/OTN, 40G, 100G, and global optical network markets, as of Q3 2012.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
NEC's Medias W unveiled: a folding smartphone with two 4.3-inch displays
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo just outed its spring lineup of handsets, and the Medias W N-05E caught or eye, just like it did as a hollow mockup at last year's Mobile World Congress. The NEC-made handset has gone from a mere plastic shell to an LTE-wielding phone with a pair of 4.3-inch LCD displays (each 540 x 960 in resolution), a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel shooter, 16GB of built-in storage and a microSDHC slot. When open, the device serves up roughly 5.6 inches in diagonal screen real estate, and measures up at 64mm in width when shut. Thanks to the nature of the dual-screened beast, apps can use each screen independently or together to provide more space. Despite the Jelly Bean-toting rig's penchant for going over the top, it leaves out NFC and Japan-centric digital TV tuner functionality. The smartphone is slated for an April release with an unspecified price tag, but there's no word on availability in other territories.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
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Are you ready to overhaul, upgrade and improve your company?s marketing efforts? If so, here are ten of our favorite marketing articles, here at YFS Magazine, that every entrepreneur can benefit from:
1. How to Set Marketing Budgets
As a successful small business owner, your job is to develop budgets ? not just spend them. When you develop a sound marketing budget, it is easier to hold your team accountable, make your dollars work harder and fix what isn?t working down the road. With a clear understanding of your business situation, and marketing plan, there are six baseline budgeting frameworks you can use to determine the best marketing budget allocation for your small business. Read more
2. How to Spend Less on Marketing and Increase Sales
Are you ready to overhaul your marketing budget? First, where are you spending your promotion dollars? Do you allocate your budget to trade shows, brochures, your website, search engine marketing (SEM), PR, print ads (Newspaper or Magazine), direct mail, social media, etc? Take a look at everything you?re doing to promote your business and slash the total budget by twenty percent (20%). No matter what you are selling and where you?re selling it, I guarantee that you won?t miss it. And here?s why! Read more
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How do we create deeper connections with our customers? It?s a question that many small business owners struggle with because over time you realize that one sale is merely the beginning. Your ultimately goal is to build long-lasting connections, encourage repeat purchasing behavior and build an army brand advocates. The good news is, experiential marketing tactics can do just that ? and more. Read more
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In my experience, most of you are spending way too much time trying to impress your customers with fancy words and descriptions. And here?s the bad news ? you?ve already lost them. In fact, you put them to sleep about two minutes ago. Read more
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Learn why every small business owner should include content creation as a part of their marketing strategy. There are numerous tools at your fingertips including custom magazines, online newsletters, digital content, microsites, white papers, webcasts, podcasts ? and the list goes on. By sharing useful content (not a sales pitch) you can engage current and potential customers. Here are four proven ways to share your expertise and increase your brand?s visibility. Read more
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Millions of people in the U.S. utilize Twitter to connect with people and discover new interests online. And while it is used for a variety of reasons, Twitter can also be an effective online marketing tool for small businesses. Therefore, when you?re ready to start using Twitter as a strategic business tool, here are three ways you can gain instant traction. Read more
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Records link California home and Te'o case
FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2012, file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o walks off the field following an NCAA college football game against Wake Forest in South Bend, Ind. A story that Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia _ a loss he said inspired him to help lead the Irish to the BCS championship game _ was dismissed by the university Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, as a hoax perpetrated against the linebacker. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2012, file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o walks off the field following an NCAA college football game against Wake Forest in South Bend, Ind. A story that Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia _ a loss he said inspired him to help lead the Irish to the BCS championship game _ was dismissed by the university Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, as a hoax perpetrated against the linebacker. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
CARSON, Calif. (AP) ? When Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o ordered two dozen white roses delivered to 21503 Water Street, he says he thought they were headed to the home of his dead girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. In fact, the man implicated as the ringleader of a false-identity hoax and many of his relatives have lived in the single-story, stucco bungalow, according to publicly available records and interviews with neighbors.
Water Street, in a working-class community 13 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, adds another element to the Te'o-Lennay Kekua hoax: the house six doors down, at 21403 Water, belongs to a family named Kekua ? an uncommon Hawaiian name but the same one as the fictitious girlfriend at the center of the ruse.
Two members of the real Kekua family told The Associated Press they had never heard of a "Lennay Kekua."
The Kekua fabrication came to light Wednesday, when Deadspin.com revealed that the story of Te'o's girlfriend dying from leukemia last September was a fake ? because Lennay Kekua never existed.
Deadspin suggested Ronaiah Tuiasosopo was the person responsible for carrying out the hoax. Te'o said Friday he had been contacted by the 22-year-old Tuiasosopo, and that the man had admitted to masterminding the scam. Members of the Kekua family and others in the neighborhood told the AP on Saturday that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo had lived at 21503 Water St. and has visited it since moving out about a year ago.
The AP reviewed a compilation of documents about the property from a variety of sources, such as real estate and bankruptcy records.
In specifying where he had sent the roses, Te'o said Friday in an interview with ESPN that he still didn't know who lives at 21503 Water Street or of any possible connection between the address and the hoax.
But he did say he knew the residents had accepted delivery of the bouquet. "They sent me a picture of the roses, of them getting it," he said. And they also sent a photo of the flowers that Te'o's parents had delivered "as proof" that their tribute to the nonexistent girlfriend had been received.
Publicly available records indicate that Tuiasosopo used to live at 21503 Water Street. One neighbor said Saturday that Ronaiah had lived in the house for several years, until about a year ago. Another neighbor said that in her 27 years living on the block there had always been a Tuiasosopo living in 21503, including Ronaiah, his father and an uncle, Navy.
Multiple public records indicate that Navy, who played football for Utah State and the Los Angeles Rams, was a brother of former USC football player Titus Tuiasosopo, Ronaiah's father. A neighbor said Navy had lived at 21503 until his death in 2011.
A Cadillac still registered to Navy Tuiasosopo was parked in the driveway of Titus Tuiasosopo's home in Palmdale, about 90 miles north of Carson, on Saturday. Titus is the pastor of Oasis Christian Church of the Antelope Valley in Lancaster, Calif., and Ronaiah is active in the church band, and most recently has been living with his father.
In a joint interview Saturday, Barbara Kekua, 78, said she has lived at 21403 Water Street since it was built about 50 years ago. Her daughter, Kris Kekua, 45, grew up there, and moved back two years ago, across the street to 21406 Water, to be near her mother.
The two Kekua women said they do not know why their name was chosen for the scheme.
Kris recalled that when the story of Lennay Kekua's supposed death made national sports headlines last fall, friends asked if she was related. "I'm like, 'I don't know who that is,'" she said.
Kris said she had grown up with Titus and Navy on the block.
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Associated Press reporter Tami Abdollah and researcher Lynn Dombek contributed to this story.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
TSA to remove controversial full-body scanners
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The Transportation Security Administration confirmed Friday that it will pull the plug on?"nude" airport scanners that produce a full body image of the traveler, replacing a technology that has sparked national controversy over privacy and safety.
The TSA told NBC News that it had decided to remove all "backscatter" imaging machines ? a total of 174 scanners still in use in 30 airports ? by June 1.
The TSA plans to deploy additional "millimeter wave body scanners," which use a generic stick figure as an image, to some of the affected airports while others will just have walk-through metal detectors.
The government began rolling out the backscatter technology in airports after the failed underwear bombing on Christmas Day 2009. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had concealed plastic explosives in his underwear on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. He was restrained by other passengers who were also able to put out a fire started in his attempt to detonate the explosives.
The ?nude? imaging technology sparked a public outcry and lawsuits charging that the machines constituted an invasion of privacy. Although travelers were allowed to opt-out of the naked body scan, they would then be subjected to a pat-down, which many travelers thought was just as invasive.
Some experts also questioned the "nude" scanners? effectiveness and safety, because the machines subject the traveler being screened to a small amount of radiation, which at higher doses have been linked to cancer.
The company producing the machines, Rapiscan Systems, had been contracted to produce 500 machines for the TSA at about $180,000 apiece, but the government has terminated the contract,?Wired Magazine reported?Friday.
The?TSA had been quietly replacing the body scanners for several months, swapping them out at Boston Logan International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Chicago O'Hare, Orlando and John F. Kennedy in New York, as?NBC News and ProPublica reported in October.
At the time, the TSA said that the decision was designed to speed up checkpoints at busier airports.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/tsa-remove-controversial-full-body-scanners-1B8038882
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