Several restaurants are banning the customers taking pictures of their food. It is very distracting to the other customers. Some people have gone as far as standing on chairs to get pictures of their plates from above. Some restaurants take the customer into the kitchen to shoot the plate as it comes out, this makes it more of an adventure for them. In some of the smaller restaurants it is very distracting.
The Dawson student that was expelled because he exposed Skytech’s security flaws has been offered a scholarship and part-time job by them. The student said that he was surprised because Skytech had done nothing to help him since he was expelled. Dawson College is standing by its decision for expelling him for breaking the school’s code of conduct.
Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a 20-year old computer science student from Montreal’s Dawson College was expelled after he found and reported a flaw in the computer system used by most Quebec CEGEPs. Ahmed was working on a mobile app to allow students to access their college account. He found sloppy coding in Omnivox software that would allow anyone with basic knowledge of computers to access the personal information of any student in the system, Social insurance number, home address, and phone number included. He brought his findings to the attention of the Director of Information Services and Technology Francois Paradis. Paradis promised that he a Skytech would fix the problem immediately. Two days later Ahmed decided to run a software program called Acunetix to test if the problem had been fixed. A few minutes later his phone rang and it was Edouard Taza, the president of Skytech. He said that they saw Ahmed in their logs and that what he was doing was a cyber attack. Ahmed apologized repeatedly and explained that he was one of the people that had found the problem. Taza said that if Ahmed did not meet with him and sign a non-disclosure agreement that he was going to call the RCMP and have Ahmed arrested. Ahmed signed the agreement. The administration of Dawson College proceeded to expel Ahmed for a “serious professional conduct issue.”
Apple has posted a job opening for
?[S]omeone who combines a love for language, wordplay, and conversation with demonstrated experience in bringing creative content to life within an intense technical environment.?
They?ll need ?experience in writing character-driven dialog?, a good vocabulary, and ideally knowledge of more than one language. The end result, says the ad, will ?evolve and enrich Siri?known for ?her? wit, cultural knowledge, and zeal to explain things in engaging, funny, and practical ways.?
Apple is looking to improve Siri’s charm.
The production of the iPad screen has been cut because of the demand for the iPad mini. This news could add to concern about Apple’s shares. There has also been increased competition from Samsung with its Galaxy and Microsoft’s Surface.
Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post used copyrighted photos that belonged to Daniel Morel that he took of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010, Distract Judge Alison Nathan ruled. AFP argued that once the pictures were on Twitter that they were freely available, the judge said that Twitter’s terms of service do not give a license to publish the images without Morel’s permission. The judge ruling partially granted morel’s summary judgement motion but limited damages he could recover.
Microsoft’s tablet sold half the estimated amount. MSFT is quarterly earning are less than previously expected due to weak sells of company’s tablet and personal-computers. The new tablet, Surface Pro, is going on sell this month.
Anonymous defaced MIT’s Web site just hours after MIT pledged to investigate its role into the suicide death of Aaron Swartz. Swartz committed suicide on Friday. He was arrested in 2011 and accused of stealing over 4 million documents from MIT and Jstor. He faced $4 million in fines and 50 years in prison. Anonymous hacked two MIT websites shortly after MIT President L. Rafael Reif issued a statement promising to look into MIT’s involvement. Anonymous is calling for a reform of computer crime laws.
During an interview in China Schiller said ?every product that Apple creates, we consider using only the best technology available. This includes the production pipeline, the Retina display, the unibody design, to provide the best product to the market.? This does not mean that there will not be lower priced smartphones only that Apple will not make a smart phone with worse materials or construction in order to lower the price.
The demand for the tablets is not enough to warrant the heavy investment in consumer education. They also did not hit the price point they had hoped to attain. Samsung does offer it Ativ Smart PC with Windows 8 here in the States through AT&T retail stores. Samsung has not yet completely ruled out the US for Windows RT.