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No music yet, but it's a start
A clever chap by the name of Thomas Pleasance has got in touch with Pocket-lint with news of a big breakthrough - Apple AirPlay via a PC using Windows Media Center.
Now, before you go getting all excited about streaming your iTunes music collection to your nettop and home cinema system, we better tell you that there's no music support at the moment, just video and picture streaming from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
The add-in works in tandem with Apple's Bonjour service and apparently works 'seamlessly'.
It's only in its first beta stage at the moment but Thomas has already hinted at some of the new features going forward, including extenders support.
It's music that we want though, so we'll be keeping a keen eye on Thomas' progress and we'll let you know if and when that support lands.
In the meantime you can download the free add-in at madeformediacenter.com. It's free.
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Apple AirPlay lands on Windows Media Center originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 24 May 2011 10:55:00 +0100
" I will give it a try and report back my findings both good and bad "Safety has always been a social experience: as friends and family, we look out for each other and pass along advice to help each other stay safe. Safety on Facebook works the same way. By keeping each other informed, people make Facebook a more trusted environment. Today, we're making it easier to stay safe with the launch of new safety resources, tools for reporting issues and additional security features.
During President Obama's White House Conference on Bullying Prevention last month, we announced plans to expand our existing safety resources with new content for families. Beginning today, you can visit the newly redesigned Family Safety Center. There, you'll find useful articles for parents and teens and videos on safety and privacy, as well as many other resources. In the coming weeks, we'll also be providing a free, downloadable guide for teachers, written by safety experts Linda Fogg Phillips, B.J. Fogg and Derek Baird. We hope this guide will help educators with social media in the classroom.
Meet some of the team who work on safety at Facebook, many of whom are also parents.
We also recently unveiled a new social reporting tool that allows people to notify a member of their community, in addition to Facebook, when they see something they don't like. Safety and child psychology experts tell us that online issues are frequently a reflection of what is happening offline. By encouraging people to seek help from friends, we hope that many of these situations can be resolved face to face. The impact has been encouraging, and we're now expanding social reporting to other major sections of Facebook, including Profiles, Pages and Groups.
We're also starting to introduce Two Factor Authentication, a new feature to help prevent unauthorized access to your account. If you turn this new feature on, we'll ask you to enter a code anytime you try to log into Facebook from a new device. This additional security helps confirm that it's really you trying to log in.
We announced earlier this year that people could experience Facebook over a secure connection using HTTPS. This feature helps protect your personal information and is particularly useful if you're uncertain about the security of your network or you're using public wifi to access Facebook. Today, we're improving HTTPS so if you start using a non-HTTPS application on Facebook, we automatically switch your session back to HTTPS when you're finished.
We think that social solutions to safety will become increasingly important to using the web. Tools like social reporting will help make our community even stronger, and we encourage you to use them.
Arturo, a director of engineering at Facebook, is excited about social reporting.
TOKYO -- Toyota is setting up a social networking service with the help of a U.S. Internet company and Microsoft so drivers can interact with their cars in ways similar to Twitter and Facebook.
Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. and Salesforce.com, based in San Francisco, announced their alliance Monday to launch 'Toyota Friend,' a private social network for Toyota owners that works similar to tweets on Twitter.
" This should be really interesting and will it be a prelude to other similar companies using social media as an avenue for getting facial and social awareness of peoples needs. ? 'Numbered,' our weekly digits digest, is bringing you the numbers behind the news.
This feature highlights the top new stats, facts, and figures to bring you the latest on tech, by the numbers, and quantify the changing state of mobile, social media, and more.
In this week's edition: Sony predicts major losses, LinkedIn's value soars, Microsoft warns of attacks, and more. See last week's stats here.
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Following up on yesterday's post outlining the proposed changes to RICO and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, today I will dissect the White House's proposal for the National Data Breach Notification Act.
The new rules would apply to any business possessing the PII of 10,000 or more individuals in a 12-month period. They would supersede any existing state laws, creating one unified national standard.
The proposal includes a 'safe harbor' provision when measures are in place to protect data (encryption). Organizations must still report the data loss to the FTC within 45 days, including a professional risk assessment, logs of access to the data and a complete list of users who had access to the protected data.
Businesses would be required to notify the Department of Homeland Security for law enforcement purposes when any of the following are true:
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Google has already started rolling out a fix!
The issue had already been fixed in Android 2.3.4 (codenamed Gingerbread), but as we mentioned earlier this week over 99% of Android users are running earlier versions of the operating system.
Google has started to implement a server-side patch that addresses the issue for all versions of the Android OS. The great news is that it doesn't require a software update on the Android devices themselves - meaning the fix is automatic and worldwide. Effectively this is a silent fix.
The fix addresses a vulnerability with the use of authTokens for Google's Calendar and Contacts apps discovered by researchers at Germany's University of Ulm, but a similar issue with Picasa is still being investigated. If not fixed, the problems could mean that a hacker could snoop on your activity when you use an unencrypted WiFi hotspot and steal personal information.
Google reckons the work will be complete, and all devices secured from this vulnerability, within the week by forcing its servers to use an encrypted HTTPS connection when Android phones try to sync with them.
Here's what a Google spokesperson had to say:
'Today [May 18th] we’re starting to roll out a fix which addresses a potential security flaw that could, under certain circumstances, allow a third party access to data available in calendar and contacts. This fix requires no action from users and will roll out globally over the next few days.'
So, it's a very good thing that this problem is being fixed. Of course, concerns still remain as to how easy it would be to fix a serious security vulnerability on the Android devices themselves, given that Google is so reliant on manufacturers and carriers to push out OS updates.
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