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LOVE this apartment...the collection of furniture, the modern sensibility and the overall hue! Fantastic. Nubby gray Bo Concept rug and sofa from there too. Custom modern white coffee table on casters (wheels). These standard pieces are all complimented by an array of midcentury modern looking arm chairs and a classic black Thonet bentwood chair. Of course, you know me, I love the white wood floors.
Look is achieved with a very neutral base (if you take away all of the accessories) all in black white and grays and then textures and patterns are layered in the form of art, pillows, lighting, lamps and other items.
The built in book shelf that divides the kitchen from the living space is fantastic...a functional dividing wall.
What do you think of this apartment? Like or dislike? Does it need more color or are you fine with the black, white, silver and a bit of brown?
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P.S. Been having nice meetings lately with fab Hollywood agent HM. He's been introducing me around to his colleagues. He's nice.
P.P.S. Have been doing a Vegan before 6pm diet (there is some new book out that says be a vegan by day and then a carnivore by night...am always game for trying something new). Am a total airhead though. I pranced out of my office at lunch time the other day singing, "I am Vegan before 6. Vegan before 6. Vegan before 6". Everyone just looked at me as if I was kooky. I walked across the way with a person in my office, I ordered lunch and came back and started eating it. After I had taken several bites, a person in my office who was also eating the same lunch selection said, "Just thought of something...that turkey chili is not vegan". Duh. I do have quite a few airhead moments. Uhh...what about ordering "turkey chili" would ever make me think "vegan"? Tomorrow is another day!
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I think this apartment looks fabulous! It does not need any more color. So serene and lovely.ReplyDelete
I love this apartment, so crisp and organized...I love the black and white and touch of wood, I would have put something brown or same colour of wood chairs on the other side of the room to balance it...maybe even a brown vase... but other than that I wouldn't change a thing...beautiful!ReplyDeleteReplies
Good idea regarding balancing with a bit of brown!Delete
I love the black, white, ivory and charcoal. Chic minimalism at its best.ReplyDelete
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- Melissa KiteMay 8, 2013 at 10:06 PM
I love this!! White floors, yes. I would do with less pillows in the living and allow the art to give the gorgeous texture it does. Been following you for quite some time and LOVE it. Thank you!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Glad you like this Melissa! Thank you for following along here on COCOCOZY!Delete
I love the crisp, clean feel, but I would infuse a tiny bit of color maybe in a vase of flowers or a couple of throw pillows or a piece of art. It is quite striking thougReplyDeleteReplies
Flowers would be a nice addition. Fab idea! Oddly, I might just do all green flowers like my new fave Dianthus Green Trick!Delete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2013 at 2:28 PM
I LOVE this apartment! By the way, lack of protein is a big reason for space brain, sounds like you need the meat in the chili! I would also say vegan in the day and met at night is NOT a healthy diet for your hormones or endocrine system, in fact, the opposite would be better for a woman, or anyone busy or who is feeling lightheaded. We women destroy our thyroids and our bodies abilities to regulate our food nutrients from all these wacky and misconstrued ways of eating. Eat the heavier food during the day when you need it and while you are actively burning it off all day. Eat lighter at night when your body is more sedentary and your cortisol can rest.ReplyDeleteReplies
Very good points! Will take into consideration and perhaps bag the Vegan before 6pm regimen! :-)Delete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2013 at 6:02 AM
Love this apartment! I've been a vegan for 2 years and would never go back. Good luck.ReplyDeleteReplies
That is fantastic about being vegan for 2 years. Uh oh...now I just read this comment and am confused on what to do. To be vegan before 6p or not to be vegan before 6p. I'm sure being vegan is good but this book says be Vegan only before 6pm so it is a bit contradictory. Arggghhhhhh! Help. Thank you for weighing in though!Delete
This apartment is most favourable for a couple to stay on as it's nice, simple and has a charming look.ReplyDelete


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capedgirardeau writes: An update to the Google Play store now groups app permissions into collections of related permissions, making them much less fine grained and potentially misleading for users. For example, the SMS permissions group would allow an app access to both reading and sending SMS messages. The problem is that once an app has access to the group of permissions, it can make use of any of the allowed actions at any time without ever informing the user. As Google explains: "It's a good idea to review permissions groups before downloading an app. Once you've allowed an app to access a permissions group, the app may use any of the individual permissions that are part of that group. You won't need to manually approve individual permissions updates that belong to a permissions group you've already accepted."
Today Mozilla made Firefox 30 available, a relatively minor release after the massive redesign in version 29. According to the changelog, new features include VP9 video decoding, support for Opus in WebM, and horizontal volume control for HTML5 video and audio. Developers got support for multi-line flexboxes and hang reporting for background threads. There were also a number of security fixes. The Android version of Firefox received better support for native text selection, cutting, and copying, as well as predictive lookup for Awesomebar entries. The availability of Firefox 30 coincides with the launch of Firebug 2.0, which features an updated UI and a new debugging engine called JSD2. Significant new features include JavaScript syntax highlighting and de-minifying, improved code auto-complete, and the capability to hide or show individual Firebug panels.
New submitter green453 writes: 'As a Houston resident with limited home broadband options, I found the following interesting: Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle reports (warning: paywalled) that Comcast plans to turn 50,000 home routers into public Wi-Fi hotspots without their users providing consent. Comcast plans to eventually convert 150,000 home routers into a city-wide WiFi network. A similar post (with no paywall) by the same author on the SeattlePI Tech Blog explains the change. From the post on SeattlePI: "What's interesting about this move is that, by default, the feature is being turned on without its subscribers' prior consent. It's an opt-out system – you have to take action to not participate. Comcast spokesman Michael Bybee said on Monday that notices about the hotspot feature were mailed to customers a few weeks ago, and email notifications will go out after it's turned on. But it's a good bet that this will take many Comcast customers by surprise."' This follows similar efforts in Chicago and the Twin Cities.
schwit1 (797399) writes 'It wasn't touted onstage, but a new iOS 8 feature is set to cause havoc for location trackers, and score a major win for privacy.As spotted by Frederic Jacobs, the changes have to do with the MAC address used to identify devices within networks. When iOS 8 devices look for a connection, they randomize the MAC address, effectively disguising any trace of the real device until it decides to connect to a network.'
An anonymous reader writes "Wireless security researcher Michael Ossmann asked himself: 'Could I make the gadgets that the agency uses to monitor and locate mobile phones, tap USB and Ethernet connections, maintain persistent malware on PCs, communicate with malware across air gaps, and more, by just using open source software and hardware?' In this podcast he shares his insights on what to use — and how — to duplicate hardware devices found in the ANT catalog."
theodp writes: "Where have you gone, Mavis Beacon? A nation of smartphone and tablet typists could use your help. You've seen people type fast-and-furiously on smartphones and tablets, so you know it can be done, but how exactly do these one- and two-fingered wonders (YouTube video) manage to do so? Is it their reaction time? Technique? Both? Back in the day, touch-typing teachers showed kids the secrets to higher word-per-minute scores on their Smith Coronas. Later, typing tutor software got kids up-to-speed on PCs. So, with over 1 billion smartphones and 200 million or so tablets shipped in 2013, what are the best software and tutorials that teach mobile typing techniques? And what platform specific features — iOS, Android, WP8/Win8, BB — do you find make your mobile typing life a whole lot easier?"
redletterdave (2493036) writes 'Apple has purchased Spotsetter, a social search engine that uses big data to offer personalized recommendations for places to go. Spotsetter was designed to combine recommendations from friends with trusted reviews and other data to create more social maps. It would show you which friends were 'experts' in a given area, and you could tag your friends as experts (like LinkedIn) to boost the influence of their recommendations. You could also discover new places by browsing Spotsetter's maps to see where your friends have been and what they've recommended. Spotsetter's app, which was available on iOS and Android, officially closed down just six days ago.'
An anonymous reader writes "Wildly popular video game Tetris launched 30 years ago today, and continues to capture the hearts of folks around the world. Topping best-of video game lists for years, the colorful block puzzle has sold an estimated 170 million copies—about 100 million of which are played on mobile devices."
An anonymous reader writes 'A routine request in Florida for public records regarding the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray took an extraordinary turn recently when federal authorities seized the documents before police could release them. "This is consistent with what we've seen around the country with federal agencies trying to meddle with public requests for stingray information," Wessler said, noting that federal authorities have in other cases invoked the Homeland Security Act to prevent the release of such records. "The feds are working very hard to block any release of this information to the public." ... "We've seen our fair share of federal government attempts to keep records about stingrays secret, but we've never seen an actual physical raid on state records in order to conceal them from public view," the ACLU wrote in a blog post today.'
reifman (786887) writes 'Last week, AT&T shut down my data service after I turned roaming on in Canada for one minute to check Google maps. I wasn't able to connect successfully but they reported my phone burned through 50 MB and that I owed more than $750. Google maps generally require 1.3 MB per cell. They adamantly refused to reactivate my U.S. data service unless I 'agreed' to purchase an international data roaming package to cover the usage. They eventually reversed the charges but it seems that the company's billing system had bundled my U.S. data usage prior to the border crossing with the one minute of international data roaming.'
jfruh (300774) writes "Imagine you've spent years making credit card purchases in your home state of California, and suddenly a bunch of charges appear the card in Russia. Your bank might move to shut the card down for suspected fraud, which would be great if your account number had been stolen by hackers — but really irritating if you were on vacation in Moscow. AT&T is proposing a service that would allow customers to let their bank track their movements via their cell phone, to confirm that you (or at least your phone) and your credit card are in the same place."
stephendavion (2872091) writes 'Passengers can now access free Wi-Fi at the world's busiest airport. Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport has dropped its $5 fee to access Wi-Fi in its terminals. "Now, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and airport officials plan to celebrate the long-awaited arrival of the amenity at the airport Wednesday," reports Kelly Yamanouchi of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ... Interm airport manager Miguel Southwell tells Yamanouchi officials believe dropping the Wi-Fi charge will alleviate a "competitive disadvantage" for Hartsfield-Jackson.' I'm puzzled sometimes that so many airports do not yet offer free Wi-Fi, especially ones loaded with businesses (like Starbucks and McDonalds) that have made this a big draw in their non-airport locations. On the other hand, given a captive audience and the temptation for exclusive contracts, maybe I should be grateful that so many do have at least limited free coverage, and that the trend seems positive.
Linnen writes "Sony has started the process of phasing out its PSP handheld console. From The Guardian: 'Shipments to the U.S. ended this year, and they are closing in Japan soon. European stores will see their last arrivals toward Christmas. Launched in Japan in December 2004, it is almost 10 years old – not a bad achievement for a handheld that was almost written off early in its lifespan. ... The console struggled with high piracy levels of its titles, which meant the likes of EA, Activision and Ubisoft were reticent about committing to major development projects. However, the ease with which hackers were able to break the device's security system also meant that it became a favorite with the homebrew development scene, and amateur coders are still producing games and demos for the platform. Some look back on the machine as a failure beside the all-conquering Nintendo DS, but this is unfair. The console sold 80m units, a figure boosted by a series of excellent hardware and featureset updates, including the slimmer PSP-2000 and PSP-3000 models. '"
First time accepted submitter Viv Savage (3679171) writes "I live in the U.S. but my daughter will be attending college overseas next year (Scotland specifically). I need to purchase a new phone for her and I'm curious what the Slashdot community would recommend. I understand that a GSM world phone supporting 850/900/1800/1900 MHz frequencies would give her the best voice support. There doesn't appear to be a solution for getting high-speed data (i.e., 4G) here and abroad with one phone. Have any worldly Slashdotters figured this out?"
mrspoonsi (2955715) writes "Apple CEO Tim Cook during his keynote said that around 130 million customers have purchased their first Apple device in the last twelve months. He states, 'Many of these customers were switchers from Android,' he said. 'They had bought an Android phone by mistake, and then had sought a better experience and a better life.' He added that almost half of those who have purchased an iPhone in China since December have switched from Android. However, it is worth noting that iPhones were not actually available in China until December, when pre-orders began, so it is unclear how much of the device's popularity there is simply down to the novelty factor, rather than a burning desire to flee from Android."
As The Next Web reports, Samsung is finally bringing to market (in Russia, to start) a phone, the Samzung Z, running the Tizen OS. Like Android, Tizen is based on the Linux kernel, but it's intended for HTML5 apps rather than Android apps. It's not Samsung's first Tizen device, though; the second-generation of its Gear smart-watches are running Tizen as well. "Samsung earlier revealed plans for its first Tizen smartphones to be launched during its second quarter of business in 2014, which runs April to July, so it seems like smartphones other than Samsung Z could still be on their way. The Samsung executive said that Tizen devices could account for as much as 15 percent of Samsung's mobile shipments per year, but Android will still be its main business."
PC Mag reports that an upcoming laptop from HP (one that was prematurely announced in April, and now official) has decent-to-good specs — under 4 pounds, battery life more than 8 hours, Tegra processor, and a 1928x1080 touch screen — but an unusual operating system, at least for a laptop. The SlateBook 14 will run Android, rather than Windows (or ChromeOS, for that matter), which helps keep it relatively cheap, at $400. According to the article, Android is "a lot cheaper for HP to implement in a laptop; ChromeOS, in contrast, comes with more stringent system requirements that would cost HP a bit more." Ars Technica's mention in April includes a screenshot taken from a video (note: video itself appears to be disabled) which shows the keyboard layout and which reveals some Android-specific changes. Update: 06/01 19:23 GMT by T : Here's an alternative link to the promotional video.
Mark.JUK (1222360) writes "Chinese ICT developer Huawei has confirmed that it was able to achieve a record transmission data rate of 10.53Gbps on 5GHz frequency bands in laboratory trials of their new 802.11ax WiFi (WLAN) wireless networking standard. The testing, which was conducted at Huawei's campus in Shenzhen, used a mix of MIMO-OFDA, intelligence spectrum allocation, interference coordination and hybrid access to achieve the result and the new technology could hit the market during 2018."
An anonymous reader writes "After only one year in operation, Google's Moto X factory in Fort Worth, TX, is scheduled to close at the end of 2014. The decision to close apparently has nothing to do with Google's decision to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo and everything to do with poor sales numbers and high labor and shipping costs in the U.S. The factory had, at one point, employed 3,800 people. Their ranks now number at about 700. Moto E and Moto G, newer and cheaper iterations of Moto X, have sold in more profitable numbers overseas, so Google's original rationale of building phones nearer to the largest customer base to decrease time between assembly and delivery to end user will unsurprisingly force the closure of the U.S.-based factory and transfer labor overseas as well."
DeviceGuru writes: "An open-spec COM that runs OpenWRT Linux on a MIPS-based Ralink RT5350 SoC has won its Indiegogo funding. The $20, IoT-focused VoCore measures 25 x 25mm. How low can you go? Tiny computer-on-modules (COMs) for Internet of Things (IoT) applications are popping up everywhere, with recent, Linux-ready entries including Intel's Atom or Quark-based Edison, Ingenic's MIPS/Xburst-based Newton, Acme Systems's ARM9/SAM9G25 based Arrietta G25, and SolidRun's quad-core i.MX6-based MicroSOM. Now, an unnamed Chinese startup has raised over six times its $6,000 Indiegogo funding goal for what could be the smallest, cheapest Linux COM yet."
colinneagle (2544914) writes "What if you could transmit data without link layer flow control bogging down throughput with retransmission requests, and also optimize the size of the transmission for network efficiency and application latency constraints? In a Network World post, blogger Steve Patterson breaks down a recent breakthrough in stateless transmission using Random Linear Network Coding, or RLNC, which led to a joint venture between researchers at MIT, Caltech, and the University of Aalborg in Denmark called Code On Technologies.
The RLNC-encoded transmission improved video quality because packet loss in the RLNC case did not require the retransmission of lost packets. The RLNC-encoded video was downloaded five times faster than the native video stream time, and the RLNC-encoded video streamed fast enough to be rendered without interruption.
In over-simplified terms, each RLNC encoded packet sent is encoded using the immediately earlier sequenced packet and randomly generated coefficients, using a linear algebra function. The combined packet length is no longer than either of the two packets from which it is composed. When a packet is lost, the missing packet can be mathematically derived from a later-sequenced packet that includes earlier-sequenced packets and the coefficients used to encode the packet."
Bismillah (993337) writes "An interesting study by WilmerHale lawyers and Intel's assistant general counsel Ann Armstrong looked into how much royalty payments and demands actually amount to per device, and found the cost so high it threatens industry profitability and competitiveness. 'As the bank robber Willie Sutton is reported to have said, he robbed banks 'because that's where the money is' - so too of smartphones for patent holders,' the authors wrote."
sfcrazy (1542989) writes "Developers need access to device running the platform for which they develop. Nexus was Google's reference device and now Mozilla is coming out with its own device. Mozilla has opened pre-order for Flame, its Firefox OS reference devices for $170 including free shipping." Specs are, of course, modest: a dual core 1.2GHz snapdragon, 1G of RAM, 8G of flash, an 854×480 4.5" screen, and a 5MP camera. Now, if only they would release a device with a keyboard.
lpress (707742) writes "Amazon's Kindle is a good e-reader and they've sold around 40 million units, but it is far from perfect. It could be significantly improved with speech recognition for commands and text entry, a well-designed database for marginal notes and annotations, and integration with laptop and desktop computers. Google, Apple and Microsoft all have device design and manufacturing experience as well as stores that sell books and other written material. A Kindle-killing e-reader would be low-hanging fruit for Apple, Google or Microsoft — think of the competition if they each built one!" Handwriting as an input method would be nice too; a friend in college had one of the experimental Windows XP tablet PCs, and it was great for note taking and document annotation.
oztechmuse (2323576) writes "Samsung has just released an updated version of its health software for the Samsung Galaxy S5 that measures stress levels. Using the heart rate sensor on the back of the phone, the S5 will calculate a measure of stress from low to high. Although this may seem far-fetched to some, the phone is actually using a measure of the heart rate to calculate something called 'heart rate variability' or HRV. HRV has been shown to be related to a range of clinical conditions that include problems with the heart but also mental issues of stress and anxiety. Athletes have also used HRV as a measure of over-training and so use heart rate monitors to check if they need rest days. Samsung seems to be claiming the ground in terms of innovation in health-related sensor technology. In addition to the built-in pulse oximeter sensor used for the HRV measurements, Samsung phones now support direct connections to heart rate straps using the Ant+ protocol as well as through Bluetooth. Apple and others have a long way to go to catch up."
Ars Technica reports that HP is back in the $100 tablet market, and this time with a tablet that's intended to be priced there instead of just a fire sale. The new offering lacks Bluetooth and GPS, among other features you might wish for in a tablet, and the screen is surrounded by a hefty bezel, but manages a pretty good list of features. Ars summarizes: "For $100, you can't expect much of the spec sheet. The HP 7 Plus has a 7-inch 1024x600 IPS display, a 1GHz quad-core Cortex A7 processor (made by a company called "Allwinner"), 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, 802.11 b/g/n, a microSD slot, and a 2800 mAh battery. The biggest downside HP could have fixed at this price point is the software: it's only running Android 4.2.2. Android versions are free, HP." Having an avaialble microSD slot beats some more expensive options, too.
Bloomberg reports that after Apple's patent victory in court last week over smart-phone rival Samsung, Apple is seeking a sales ban on several specific phones from Samsung; none of them are currently flagship devices. "The nine devices targeted by Cupertino, California-based Apple for a U.S. sales ban include the Admire, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch, Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, Galaxy S3 and Stratosphere." Getting the competition blocked from the marketplace over patent claims is something that Apple's tried before in connection with its beef with Samsung, and the company has had mixed results, depending on jurisdiction. Last week's decision in favor of Apple hints that the jury didn't think the company deserved the entire $2.2 billion it was seeking, awarding (a mere) $120 million, instead.
TechCrunch's video introduction (not intended as a full review) to the recently introduced Microsoft Surface Pro 3 has mostly good things to say about the device. Reviewer Alex Wilhelm compares it to his MacBook Air, and though he's not sure that the Surface is a better fit for all-day typing than the 11" Air (slightly larger, slightly heavier than the Surface), he says the Surface does a good job of integrating input options (both finger and stylus input) that the Air -- and most laptops -- just don't have. The Washington Post's Hayley Tsukayama also compares the Surface to the Air, rather than to an Android or Apple tablet, writing, "It's heavy for a tablet, sure, but light for a laptop at 1.7 pounds. And while it doesn't have the array of ports that laptops do, you can make do with the two that it does have, a mini-display port that's good for presentations and a USB 3.0 that's good for, well, everything else. You will probably need a hub to get everything you want of this, though. (Or you could go to using Bluetooth accessories, which the Surface Pro 3 will also support.)" Ars Technica has an informative hands-on review as well, but one which parts from these by emphatically describing the Surface as a tablet, not a laptop; Ars reviewer Peter Bright gives high marks for many aspects of the design and materials, though he says his experience with the included pressure-sensitive pen was "problematic." (His initial sample pen had to be replaced, and even when it did work, it lacks tilt sensing.) Troubling for anyone who would prefer to use it as a laptop, Bright says the Surface 3 is better than its forebears but still an awkward fit for using on an actual lap, and that despite the improvements Microsoft's made it therefore isn't quite the system he's looking for.
jfruh writes "For years for cell phone companies, one specific kind of data — voice calls placed by dialing a traditional telephone number — was entirely different from all the other kinds of data a phone used. But in the U.S., that's finally starting to change, as all the major carriers are planning shifts to voice over LTE. The carriers promise sharper call quality and quicker connections."
An anonymous reader writes "Engadget reports that Samsung is working on virtual reality technology to compete with the Oculus Rift. Their work is fairly far along, and it's expected to be announced this year. It's being built to function in tandem with Samsung's flagship mobile devices, most likely their upcoming Galaxy phones and tablets. From the article: 'We're told it has an OLED screen, as good or better than in the second Rift dev kit; it's not clear how the headset connects to your phone/tablet, but we're guessing it's a wired connection rather than wireless. ...This is a device meant for use with games. What type of games? Android games! Sure, but which ones? That's certainly the question. Great games make the platform, and VR games are especially tough to crack given the newness of the medium. One thing's for sure: most major games won't work on VR as direct ports.' The report also suggests Samsung is targeting a lower price point than its competitors. True or not, it will hopefully help drive down prices for all upcoming VR tech." Meanwhile, DARPA is experimenting with the Oculus Rift for cyberwar visualization.
An anonymous reader writes "An opinion piece at ReadWriteWeb makes an interesting suggestion: Microsoft's efforts in the tablet market aren't aimed at competing with the iPad or any of the Android tablets, but rather inventing a new facet of the PC market — one Microsoft alone is targeting. Quoting: 'Microsoft wants everyone to think the Surface Pro 3 is a tablet, but its pricing gives the game away. Microsoft wants to recreate the lucrative PC market that made the company billions of dollars by repackaging a PC into tablet clothing and then hammering away at the Surface product line until everybody believes that PCs never really went anywhere, they just got a touchscreen and a cellular connection.' This is also supported by the lack of a smaller Surface tablet, which many analysts were predicting before this week's press conference. Microsoft is clearly not pursuing the tablet-for-everyone approach, but instead focusing on users who want productivity out of their mobile computing device. The Surface Pros are expensive, but Microsoft is hoping people will balance that cost against the cost of a work laptop plus a personal tablet."
Lucas123 (935744) writes "After using Google Glass for several weeks, Computerworld columnist Matt Lake had plenty of reasons to explain why he returned them, not the least of which was that they made him cross-eyed and avoid eye contact. Google Glass batteries also drain like a bath tub when using either audio or video apps and they run warm. And, as cool as being able to take videos and photos with the glasses may be, those shots are always at an angle. Of course, being able to do turn-by-turn directions is cool, but not something you can do without your smart phone's cellular data or a mobile hotspot. The list of reasons goes on... Bottom line, if Google Glass is in the vanguard of a future class of wearable computers, the future isn't the present."
An anonymous reader writes "MIT Technology Review reports that French company Sigfox will soon roll out a cellular data network in the San Francisco Bay Area aimed exclusively for low-bandwidth, low power devices such as household appliances and sensors. It's the U.S. debut for a technology already in use in France. The network uses the 900 MHz unlicensed spectrum used by cordless phones. Sigfox says that and their technology's very low bandwidth makes it possible to connect devices significantly more cheaply than with conventional cellular modems and service."
crookedvulture (1866146) writes "Microsoft unveiled its Surface Pro 3 tablet at a press event in New York this morning. The device has a larger 12" screen with a 2160x1440 display resolution and a novel 3:2 aspect ratio. Intel Core processors provide the horsepower, starting with the Core i3 in the base model and extending all the way up to Core i7 in pricier variants. The tablet is just 9.1 mm thick, which Microsoft claims is the thinnest ever for a Core-based device. Microsoft developed a new radial fan that's suppose to distribute airflow evenly inside the chassis without generating audible noise. The tablet weights 800 g, shaving 100 g off the Surface Pro 2, and it's supposed to have longer battery life, as well. Microsoft has also rolled out new keyboard accessories, a pressure-sensitive stylus, and a docking station that supports 4K video output. The Surface Pro 3 is scheduled to be available tomorrow with prices starting at $799." Update: 05/20 17:12 GMT by T : Mary Jo Foley points out at ZDNet that one thing not announced today is an ARM-powered Mini version.
Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the surveillance is part of a top-secret system – code-named SOMALGET – that was implemented without the knowledge or consent of the Bahamian government. Instead, the agency appears to have used access legally obtained in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to open a backdoor to the country's cellular telephone network, enabling it to covertly record and store the 'full-take audio' of every mobile call made to, from and within the Bahamas – and to replay those calls for up to a month."
An anonymous reader writes "Just when people got used to good smartphones costing $200 with a 2-year contract, they also started to realize that those 2-year contracts were bad news. Still, it's often more palatable than fronting $600 for good, new hardware. But that's starting to change. Cell phone internals are getting cheap enough that prices for capable devices have been creeping downward below $200 without a contract. We ran into something similar with the PC industry some years back — previous-gen chips had no trouble running next-gen software (excluding games with bleeding-edge graphics), and so the impetus to keep getting the latest-and-greatest hardware disappeared for a lot of people. That revolution is underway now for smartphones, and it's going to shake things up for everybody, including Apple and Samsung. But the biggest effects will be felt in the developing world: '[F]or a vast number of people in a vast number of countries, the cheap handset will be the first screen, and the only screen. Their primary interface with the world. A way of connecting to the Internet where there are no telephone lines or coaxial cables or even electricity. In nations without subsidized cell phone contracts or access to consumer credit, the $50-and-you-own-it handset is going to be transformative.'"
An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard about iPhone users switching over to Android-powered phones and no longer being able to receive text messages from friends and family still using iPhones. Well, a woman with exactly this issue has filed a lawsuit against Apple, complaining that '[p]eople who replace their Apple devices with non-Apple wireless phones and tablets are "penalized and unable to obtain the full benefits of their wireless-service contracts."' To be specific, '[t]he suit is based on contractual interference and unfair competition laws.' She is seeking class action status and undetermined damages."
An anonymous reader writes "Reuters reports that Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility unit are settling all patent lawsuits over smartphone tech. The settlement 'does not include a cross license to their respective patents,' and the companies will work together for patent reform. According to Reuters, 'The two companies informed a federal appeals court in Washington that the cases should be dismissed, according to filings on Friday. However, the deal does not appear to apply to Apple's litigation against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, as no dismissal notices were filed in those cases. The most high-profile case between Apple and Motorola began in 2010. Motorola accused Apple of infringing several patents, including one essential to how cell phones operate on a 3G network, while Apple said Motorola violated its patents to certain smartphone features.'"
SmartAboutThings (1951032) writes "After it was long rumored and discussed about, the ability to text 911 in case of emergency is slowly rolling out in the United States to subscribers of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. For the time being, the service is available in areas of Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. According to the FCC, the service will gradually roll out to more areas and by the end of this year, virtually anyone with a cellphone and enough service will be able to make use of it. Which means that all carriers will support it." TechCrunch has a deeper article that explains why "you probably can't use it yet," and links to the FCC's own explanation of the service.
redletterdave (2493036) writes "When my best friend upgraded from an iPhone 4S to a Galaxy S4, I texted her hello. Unfortunately, she didn't get that text, nor any of the five I sent in the following three days. My iPhone didn't realize she was now an Android user and sent all my texts via iMessage. It wasn't until she called me about going to brunch that I realized she wasn't getting my text messages. What I thought was just a minor bug is actually a much larger problem. One that, apparently, Apple has no idea how to fix. Apple said the company is aware of the situation, but it's not sure how to solve it. One Apple support person said: 'This is a problem a lot of people are facing. The engineering team is working on it but is apparently clueless as to how to fix it. There are no reliable solutions right now — for some people the standard fixes work immediately; many others are in my boat.'"
An anonymous reader writes "BlackPhone was designed by Phil Zimmermann (inventor of PGP). The 4.7" display phone features a 2 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 4i ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core processor with 60 GPU cores, 1GB RAM and 16GB storage [more specs]. The OS is a customized version of Android called PrivatOS which offers encrypted calls, texts and emails that can't be unscrambled even by spy agencies. It also offers built-in resistance against malicious software which will be most welcomed for users worried about free Apps that are becoming increasingly invasive, if not pure data collection spyware for unknown 3rd parties. It's coming out this June, and many Fortune 50 companies have already ordered the phone to protect against industrial espionage."
jfruh (300774) writes "BlackBerry broke its longstanding business model recently by announcing that its BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 management platform would be able to manage not just BlackBerry devices, but Android and iOS gadgets as well. Now, in a new announcement, the company is also exploring the flipside of that coin, allowing software from other companies to manage BlackBerry phones. The moves acknowledge a world in which fewer and fewer people are interested in a vertical BlackBerry solution — but also seem to kill the last things that make BlackBerry special."
redletterdave writes: "The other shoe has dropped for Square. The once-hyped mobile payments company is killing off its Wallet payments app and replacing it with a new app called Order, which will allow users to order food and beverages ahead of time at their favorite cafes and restaurants. For entrepreneurs, the concept of a mobile wallet seems so logical that the payments industry looks like it's ripe for disruption. If everybody is always carrying around a powerful computer in their pockets, it's natural to consider loading payment information onto that secure device as an alternative to cash or plastic cards. The problem comes when this logical entrepreneurial spirit merges with an industry segment that is classically illogical. The payments system in the United States is a mess of entrenched interests, fragmented business opportunities, old infrastructure (like point-of-sale systems), back room handshakes and cut throat competition. This behavior is not going to change any time soon, which means mobile wallets like Square are going to continue to struggle — at least until a more legitimate, easy-to-use and cost-effective solution comes along."
Freshly Exhumed (105597) writes "Tomi Ahonen's newly released 2014 Almanac reveals such current mobile phone industry data gems as: 'The mobile subscription rate is at or very very nearly at 100%. For 7.1 Billion people alive that means 7.1 Billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide.' Compared with other tech industries, he says: 'Take every type of PC, including desktops, laptops, netbooks and tablet PCs and add them together. What do we have? 1.5 Billion in use worldwide. Mobile is nearly 5 times larger. Televisions? Sure. We are now at 2 Billion TV sets in use globally. But mobile has 3.5 times users.' Which mobile phone OS is the leader? ''Android has now utterly won the smartphone platform war with over 80% of new sales. Apple's iPhone has peaked and is in gradual decline at about 15% with the remnant few percent split among Windows, Blackberry and miscellaneous others.'"
First time accepted submitter Dimetrodon (2714071) writes "It is an unspoken rule of military procurement that any IT or communications technology will invariably be years behind what is commercially available or technically hobbled to ensure security. One case in point is the uncomfortably backronymed NeRD, or Navy e-Reader Device, an electronic book so secure the 300 titles it holds can never be updated. Ever."
Mark.JUK (1222360) writes "Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO has announced that they'll make use of Ericsson's advanced antenna technologies and radio base stations in order to conduct one of the world's first trials of a possible 5G based Mobile Broadband technology in Yokosuka (Japan), which aims to deliver downstream speeds of more than 10 Gigabits per second using the 15GHz radio spectrum frequency. But this is just one possible candidate for 5G connectivity and many organizations are still working to try and define an official standard, while most countries don't expect the first services to be deployed until around the year 2020."
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Zend_Io is a package providing means to read/write primitive PHP types (string, integers, ...) to a character stream.
Zend Framework: Zend_Io Component Proposal
Proposed Component Name
Developer Notes
Sven Vollbehr
Matthew Ratzloff
Jon Whitcraft
Zend Liaison
1.1 - 8 August 2009 (wiki revision: 8)
Table of Contents
1. Overview
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4. Dependencies on Other Framework Components
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- Milestone 2: Unit tests exist and work.
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- Milestone 4: Moved to core.
7. Class Index
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Jul 02, 2009

Wouldn't the Zend_File namespace be better for this? And why would you want to make a lot of these methods + classes final?

Jul 02, 2009

This is an I/O component--it deals with streams. In most languages this is under an "IO" namespace.

 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/package-summary.html

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io(VS.71).aspx

You'll notice the Zend_Io_StringReader, also.

As for the final keyword, it's not necessary, but readUInt32LE() is a very specific bit of functionality. There's only one expected output from a method like this.

Aug 08, 2009

We thought of this alternative naming but discarded it because that would associate the functionality to a file. This has two downsides:

1. The class would immediately be considered as a wrapper to PHP file functions (as it would need to contain normal file manipulation methods as well in order to fulfill its meaning). Even though this is possible, it does not comply with the requirements of Zend Framework that explicitly disallows such classes.

2. The reading operations cannot be applied to different contexts without violating the design principles. Each class should be responsible of only one thing so having a file wrapper with stream manipulation/byte transformation methods is a violation of this principle. Also, it makes more sense to have a general stream Reader class to read an in-memory buffer, for instance.

As for the final methods, these are most indispensable to have. This is a consequence of the object oriented design principle called the Open-Closed Principle (OCP). The classes are not final and you can thus extend the class and create methods of your own.

Jul 03, 2009

Great Idea <ac:emoticon ac:name="wink" />

Adding support for Buffers like in Java would be a big win. Someone could really easy implement a protocol wit this class.

Something like:

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$io = new Zend_Io($socketRessource);
$rtmp = new My_Io_Buffer_Rtmp($io);
$rtmpPacket = $rtmp->read();

With a standardized buffer (some cool interfaces) it woud be really easy implementing protocols in php (at a low level) and using it (at a high level) with the object-responses of the buffer.

Jul 03, 2009

I like the idea of a Zend IO class.

Will the Zend_IO_Exceptions contain more information about the exact error that occurred?

Also, what about the unix socket, TCP/IP UDP || TCP connections?

Will you be supporting protocol stream wrappers? http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.stream.php

How do you feel about breaking the Zend_Io into 2 parts? One part for handling the actual IO, and another part for "interpreting" the IO. For example, you have Zend_Io which does the actual I/O. And then another part for reading interpreting the content as being bits, bytes, longs, ints, strings, UTF-8 vs UTF-16. etc.

Aug 08, 2009

The current implementation throws an exception in the following situations:

1. In the constructor if, for example, the file cannot be accessed

2. The method argument is wrong (length is negative, for example)

2. Trying to operate on a closed stream

In these cases a detailed error message is provided. However, currently there are theoretical cases where an exception might not be thrown, for example if fwrite causes a warning. The file descriptor is, however, checked against whether it can be written to, so this should not normally happen. Do you feel the exceptions should contain more informative error messages? In what situations?

The reader/writer classes operate a PHP file descriptor so any source will do as long as it can be opened with fopen, read with fread and written with fwrite. So yes, stream wrappers are supported.

I do see your point in splitting the functionality into two. Most purely OO language libraries do it like that. It would add an extra layer of abstraction and remove the dependency to fopen/fread/fwrite functions. However, it would make the class set quite complex and we might end up being against the Zend Framework design principles as it is not aiming to be such a pure OO library. That was at least my interpretation of it. Nevertheless, I will look forward to your contribution on that!

Sep 29, 2009

We discussed this while the component was in development, if you recall. We ultimately decided that the added complexity yielded very little benefit.

Jul 07, 2009

wouldn't Zend_IO_Writer_File be more consitent with ZF naming conventions?

Aug 03, 2009

I like this Zend_IO class, too.

But I miss some special functionality:

Read/Write IEEE 754 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754)

Read/Write Signed|Unsigned Int 24 BE|LE

Read/Write/Seek Bits

And I would think it is better to name all signed number methods with a "S" prefix

-> e.g: readSInt32LE() instead of readInt32LE()

EDIT: Similar to readUInt32LE()

Aug 08, 2009

I have used the pack function to carry out most of the byte transformations. The documentation of pack states that the sizes as well as the representations of float and double are machine dependent, so could not use this. I did not think this further then and forgot it later. However, it is a good point that there should be a way to read/write float and doubles. Maybe you or someone else can provide me with an implementation of these methods?

As for the 24-bit integers I did not know there was a need for it. However, these methods are probably possible to add using the methods for 32-bit integers.

Reading/writing/seeking bits is also an interesting observation. How do you do that in PHP? I know it is possible in C and I have tried to find a way to do this myself (would be especially usefull when decoding MPEG-1/2). Currently I have used a workaround that operates on byte level and uses a bit twiddling class to deal with the bits. Again, I am more than glad to add this should you or anyone else be able to provide me with an implementation.

Also, just as a side note, there is no method for unsigned 64-bit integer as it is not possible due to the limitations of internal data types PHP uses.

Aug 08, 2009

The naming of the methods comes from programming languages such as c and c++ where int normally denotes a signed integer and signed keyword being optional. However, the only way to define an unsigned integer, however, is to explicitly use the keyword unsigned. I could perhaps add aliases so that readSInt32LE would call readInt32LE? How do others feel about this?

Sep 29, 2009

The default is always signed. This is true of many languages, including SQL, which just about every PHP developer is familiar with.

Oct 02, 2009

Hi Sven,

I think your method readFloat have to reads IEEE754 single precision (32Bit) using

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unpack('f', $4byte);

and the method readDouble have to read IEEE754 double precision (64Bit) using

<ac:macro ac:name="code"><ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[
unpack('d', $8byte);

I don't know if byte order or other machine characteristics have to be handled.

Jul 15, 2009

Is it possible to handle Strings by only one method ?

(Unicode isn't fixed 16 Bytes long -> One character can be 8 Bytes and longer)

<ac:macro ac:name="code"><ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[
readString($length = 1, $charset = null, $order = null, $trimBom = false);

If no charset is given you can auto detect it if a BOM is available else throw exception

Only Multibyte charsets need the $order and $trimBom parameter

Aug 08, 2009

Yes, you are correct. The method names are a bit misleading. The 8 and 16 refer to bits used in the leading zeros.

The current implementation of readString8 reads $length bytes of characters and possibly trims any leading zeros (or other given characters). WriteString8 does the opposite, writes $length amount of characters possibly padding up to the given length with $padding.

The current implementation of readString16 does pretty much the same reading $length bytes of characters and trimming leading two zeros, and determining and possibly trimming the order. WriteString16 writes the missing BOM depending on the $order, and writes $length amount of characters possibly padding up to given ((int)$length/2)*2 with $padding.

The two methods only make a distinction between whether to trim or pad with a single or double character. So yes, this can be done in a single method as well if there is a parameter to denote the difference. Whether this should be the name of the character set or or something else I do not know. For instance, consider the following signatures.

readString($length, $trim='\0', $bytes=1) and

writeString($value, $length=null, $padding='\0', $bytes=1)

It would not require any mapping between character sets and number of leading zeros. Or it could perhaps be even simpler using the following signatures.

readString($length, $trim='\0') and

writeString($value, $length=null, $padding='\0')

Double byte strings are trimmed/padded by giving '\0\0' explicitly. Any thoughts?

All that BOM handling and order determination may not be required anywhere so I removed that from these examples to further simplify these methods.

Aug 03, 2009

@Marc: There are different encodings. UTF-16 has fixed 16 Byte Blocks (for longer chars there's the high and low surrogate), UTF-8 has 8 byte and more <ac:emoticon ac:name="wink" />

Aug 03, 2009

Yes, you are right but than you have to add a method like readString4 which is the same as read(1).

-> And a UTF-8 character could be theoretically endless. Which method you use to read a UTF-8 character?

I think the byte length of a string can only handle by a char set and there is no usage of the byte length within the method name.

Sep 29, 2009

I would strongly advise contacting <ac:link><ri:user ri:username="alexander" /></ac:link> and getting his thoughts on this component. Ideally, this would become a dependency for Zend_Pdf and Zend_Search_Lucene. I know that at least Zend_Pdf has somewhat similar functionality already.

Mar 25, 2010

Zend_Pdf & Zend_Search_Lucene are not the only components how would need this.

-> Zend_Amf & Zend_Serializer_Adapter_PythonPickle needs this, too!

For the python pickle serializer (in my opinion) it's a big overhead if on every un-/serialize call a new instance of a stream reader/writer must create.

-> It would be great to have a simple static interface like the the following:

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$value = Zend_Io_Reader::fromInt16($bin, $order = 0);
$bin = Zend_Io_Writer::toInt16($value, $order = 0);
Dec 16, 2009

How to edit a stream (reading & writing) ?

Need this two objects Zend_Io_Reader & Zend_Io_Writer or is it planed to add a Zend_Io_RW ?

Jul 28, 2010

Why are all these methods final? Also, is there an option to simultaneously read and write to a stream?

Aug 03, 2010
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