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Monday, July 7, 2014

Vertu launches 'Bentley' collection of luxury smartphones

BYRichard Lai @richardlai16 hours ago

What happens when two British luxury brands make a baby? In the case of phone maker Vertu and automaker Bentley, the pair have just announced that they are working on "Vertu for Bentley" phones -- with the first one due in October, followed by four more models over the course of the five-year exclusive partnership (sorry, no more love for Ferrari). There's little info on what to expect here at the moment; all we know is that these special edition devices -- presumably running on Android with nice specs à la Signature Touch -- will offer exclusive Bentley content to their users, and that they "will be jointly designed by the Vertu and Bentley design teams, based on a relationship that goes far deeper than the utilisation of materials and cues on design." Jeez, get a room, you two.

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UK set to defy EU by requiring collection of phone and browsing records

BYSteve Dent @Stevetdent13 hours ago

The UK government is set to pass emergency NSA-style measures requiring telecom companies to retain records of all web activity and phone calls in Britain for up to two years. That's happening over fears of radicalization of UK Muslims, heading in waves to the Middle East to fight in Syria and Iraq. Such tracking, which started back in 2006 under the "Data Retention Directive," was declared illegal in April by the European Court of Justice. That prompted emergency discussions between the UK government and opposition. But if passed, the new law would just let the UK retain its existing powers under the Data Retention Directive, rather than giving it any new ones. Morever, the opposition said it would never let the measures become permanent, and has the leverage to secure such a guarantee -- in order to happen, the new law will require the sign-off of all parties.

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Source: The Guardian

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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Interactive Björk album "Biophilia" is the first downloadable application in the permanent collection of the MoMA

On display at the Museum of modern art - bedroom "Rain", a sex toy with your mobile phone actress bedroom works an Academy Award-winning, have we seen many crazy things. You can now add "Tablet app" to this list. Bjork "Biophilia," an interactive album released on iOS and Android, has become the first downloadable application to the permanent collection of the MoMA. Published in 2011 (still for sale) and the album allows listeners to "Songs to contribute" by playing with interactive screen. In "Solstice" for example (see picture above), the orbits can actually control the music for strings, with the ability to record and save your own version. Finally, it was this interactivity, which have the app, a place in the collection. "With Biophilia, Björk is really innovative people like music, that experience, to take part in the performance and music and Visual effects, rather than just passively listening", MoMA says senior curator Paola Antonelli in a blog.

Note that this not the first application to join the collection of the MoMA; This is the first download-only. The first application was in fact the 'reactive book' - collection - disc embedded in physical books by John Maeda 1994 (Oh, the years 90) "apps are very"collector"due to its finished or half-finished could be linked to the live stream and on the Web, but their infrastructure design is stable and defined, unlike Web pages," Antonelli wrote. "As one of the objects of the collection of the own MoMA is the app the Museum seven days a week exposed to. That is to say, to save the price of the ticket $25 (and the trip to Manhattan), we offer you only download it for $12.99. 0 comments

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Source: Museum of modern art, Biophilia (iTunes), (part of Google)

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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Bjork's interactive 'Biophilia' album is the first downloadable app in MoMA's permanent collection

BYDana Wollman @danawollman20 hours ago

We've seen lots of crazy things on display at the Museum of Modern Art -- a "rain room," a sex toy that works with your phone, a sleeping Academy Award-winning actress. Now you can add "tablet app" to that list. Bjork's "Biophilia," an interactive album released on iOS and Android, has become the first downloadable app to join MoMA's permanent collection. First released in 2011 (and still available for sale), the album allows listeners to "contribute" to songs by playing with interactive on-screen visuals. In "Solstice," for instance (pictured above), the orbits actually allow you to control the string music, with the option to save and record your own version. Ultimately, it was that interactivity that earned the app a spot in the collection. "With Biophilia, Björk truly innovated the way people experience music by letting them participate in performing and making the music and visuals, rather than just listening passively," said MoMA senior curator Paola Antonelli in a blog post.

Of note, this isn't the first app to join MoMA's collection; it's just the first downloadable one. The first app was actually John Maeda's 1994 collection "Reactive Books" -- floppy disks tucked inside physical books. (Oh, the nineties.) "Apps are highly 'collectible' because of their finite or semi-finite nature-they might be connected to live feeds and to the Web, but their infrastructure design is stable and defined, unlike that of websites," Antonelli wrote. As one of MoMA's own collectibles, the app is on display at the museum seven days a week. That said, to spare you the $25 ticket price (and the trip to Manhattan), we'd suggest you just download it yourself for $12.99. 0 Comments

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Source: Museum of Modern Art, Biophilia (iTunes), (Google Play)

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Verizon fought the NSA's metadata collection program but lost anyway

It looks like Verizon's concerns about government snooping go beyond publishing transparency reports -- but also haven't had much of a tangible effect. The Washington Post understands through both a declassified ruling and sources that Big Red quietly challenged the constitutionality of the NSA's call metadata collection in January, only to be shot down by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in March.

The company had been hinging its case on Judge Richard Leon's non-final ruling that the NSA's surveillance is unconstitutional. FISC Judge Rosemary Collyer, however, argued that Leon's opinion was "unpersuasive." She sided with earlier precedents claiming that people have "no legitimate expectation of privacy" when they hand data over to third parties, such as telecoms. Collyer also didn't believe that the scale of any data collection determined whether or not a search is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, and rejected notions that metadata was likely to reveal private information. As you might imagine, civil liberty advocates disagree with this interpretation. TechDirt notes that there's a big difference between targeting one person versus the entire US, that many do expect privacy, and that it's entirely possible to track people using metadata.

Verizon isn't confirming that it filed the challenge, which redacts the source of the complaint. Provided that the Post's sources are accurate, though, Verizon was the first carrier to dispute the constitutionality of the NSA's activities; Judge Collyer noted that no other network had tried this before. We don't know if other firms have attempted something since, but they may not be eager to follow in Verizon's footsteps knowing the likely outcome.

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