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Solving a crime is like a puzzle. Police gather bits of information that, when put together, tell a story about what happened. Using cell phone data to know the historic location of a suspect can be one of those key pieces of the puzzle. Take this case Democratic Senator Linda Valentino told her fellow senators the story of homicide in southern Maine where a man was murdered.
"The wife claimed an intruder broke into the house," Valentino said. "When detectives interviewed the wife the next day, her brother and a friend were at a house, and detectives were told they had just arrived from New York to comfort her."
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"We don't want anyone, including the government, searching our homes, our cars, or our mail, without a darn good reason," Katz said.
The bill includes an exception for emergency situations, such as a search for a missing child or in the event of a terrorist attack. Search warrants would not be needed in those cases. But Katz, who is an attorney, said it's time for the law to catch up with technology. Democratic Senator Seth Goodall, also an attorney, agrees. He said information about your location tells a lot more than just your whereabouts.
"In this day and age, where your cell phone, your smart phone, tells your whole life story," Goodall said. "The places you have been, to the foot. The places you have stopped. How long you have been there. The patterns of your behavior. And from all of that information, so much can be gleaned."
The Maine State Police, the Chiefs of Police, and Attorney General Janet Mills all oppose the bill, and Republican Senator David Burns, a former state trooper, voiced that opposition to the Senate. He said he's mystified about why this bill was even conceived.
"There are no complaints about abuse of this in this state," Burns said. "There's no abuse, no complaints from the third party people that keep these records, nor for any issues of abuse by the police or prosecutors office."
But just because there haven't been complaints in the past doesn't ensure that law enforcement won't abuse their access to this information, said Democratic Senator John Patrick. He points out that the bill includes a $134,000 fiscal note to fund two full time positions at the Attorney General's office to handle law enforcement requests for this cell phone data.
"That doesn't make sense," Patrick said. "How many hundreds of thousands of Mainers are they spying on if they're going to need two full-time people?"
Patrick said he doesn't want to take away from law enforcement's ability to catch criminals, but he also wants to protect Maine citizen's privacy. Patrick voted for the bill, along 19 other senators, along bipartisan lines. It has yet to be considered by the house.


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Siri was Apple's "one more thing" at the end of the iPhone 4S press event and it's left a lot of people rather curious about this feature described by head of product marketing at Apple, Phil Schiller, as the best thing on the iPhone, not once but twice.
If you're asking yourself, what is Siri, you're not alone. As ever, we consider it our job at Pocket-lint to unravel technobabel to the point where normal people can actually work out for themselves whether something is good or not before it becomes another buzzword that gets used to sell you something. So here is everything there is to know about Siri. The lot.
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In short, Siri is a built-in, voice-controlled personal assistant for the iPhone. The idea is to offer you a seamless way of interacting with your mobile without having to tap away at the touchscreen to find what you're after. Instead, you speak to Siri and Siri speaks back to you. You can ask it questions for which it has to find the answer or issue it with commands for Siri to execute on your behalf, more or less hands-free.
In many ways, Siri is an app of apps. It has access to just about every other built-in application on your iPhone - Mail, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Safari, etc - and can call upon those apps to present data or simply search through their databases whenever it needs. The advantage to that is that Siri does all the leg work for you, thus you can carry out a single task with a single app even if you would otherwise need to open multiple ones in order to achieve your goal.
Now, while that sounds all very well and good on paper, there are a couple of practical issues which the developers have had to solve in order for it to work properly. The first is that the voice recognition software needs to be good. It's no use if it can't understand what you've said. Fortunately, that appears to have been well handled. The other, and more subtle, issue is that you don't want to have to rethink the way you speak in order to get your meaning across and it's here where Siri appears to excel. Apple claims that you can talk to Siri like a person. It understands what you say and what you meant when you said it. Press and hold the home key for a few seconds and away you go.
What can Siri do?
A lot, is the short answer to that one. Siri can read your messages out to you when you receive them and it will reply using your words without you having to type a thing too. It can give you directions. It can answer factual questions by opening the web browser and searching for the answer. It can set alarms for you; as many as you like. It can even set reminders which can activate only when it recognises that you're in or have left a certain location ("Pick up dry cleaning", when you leave work, for example).
Siri will play music for you in the same way that the Voice Control app which it replaces used to do on iOS. It can set calendar events. It can set timers and, indeed, you can use it to dicatate any lines of text for any text entry field on the iOS system. When the keyboard pops up, you'll see a microphone icon to allow you to tap and start talking.
Probably most impressive of all is when Siri combines the above to service your needs. For example, you could ask Siri:
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Siri would then find your position using the GPS function, search the web for German food outlets in you vicinity, present them to you in order of rating according to web reviews and finally offer you directions on how to get to your chosen establishment. (Incidentally, if you're anywhere in the London area, it'll be Herman Ze German on Villiers Street, WC2N 6NE that should be top of the list.)
Essentially, Siri is designed to fulfill just about any of your needs. You tell it what you want and it will use all the apps in its power to bring you back the info you're looking for.
How does Siri work?
Siri is based on the based on the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, and it has three components - a conversational interface, personal context awareness and service delegation
The first of the three describes how it understands you in the first place. The general workings of the straight word-for-word voice recognition have to be good in order to hear what you're saying but deciphering the meaning is all down to statistics and machine learning and that's where the personal context awareness system comes in. There's a huge amount of work in Siri that can predict what you're getting at based on key words that you use as well as your general habits and language choice. In fact, it's designed to adapt to the user's individual preferences over time and even begin to personalise results.
It sounds complicated and it probably is but think of it as a multimedia extension of the same kind of mechanism as the text prediction service Swifkey that you find on Android. Swiftkey can present you with the next word you're looking for before you type it because it has an idea of what you're going to say from what you've said in the past and the words immediately before. The Siri system does something similar when interpreting your needs from how you talk.
Finally, at the bottom of the stack, is the service delegation system which is something that we can only imagine has improved leaps and bounds since Apple itself has taken the software on giving it unbridled access to all of the iPhones built-in apps and their inner workings. It should be an even smoother experience than the original version and it's going to have to be to fit into the iPhone way.
Where did Siri come from?
Siri was originally an app in its own right available for free on the iTunes App Store. (It's since been pulled before you try to find it.) The brainchild of developers Dag Kittlaus (CEO), Adam Cheyer (VP Engineering), and Tom Gruber (CTO/VP Design) and together with Norman Winarsky, Siri was founded in December 2007 as an offshoot of the SRI International AI Center, which itlsef has roots in a DARPA-funded project that was once described as "perhaps the largest artificial-intelligence project ever launched". And when we say DARPA, yes, we mean the US military research agency of future thinking techno-boffins.
Siri was acquired by Apple on 28 April 2010 for a rumoured $200m sum and has now been made famous by Tim Cook and pals. Its origins might explain why it's not called iAssistant or PA or such.
What services does Siri leverage?
So far the list includes: OpenTable, Gayot, CitySearch, BooRah, Yelp, Yahoo Local, ReserveTravel and Localeze for all the restaurant and business questions and actions; Eventful, StubHub and LiveKick for events and concert information; MovieTickets, RottenTomatoes, New York Times for movie information and reviews; True Knowledge, Bing Answers, and Wolfram Alpha for factual question answering; and Bing and Google for web search. So, pretty bloody comprehensive, then.
Naturally, there are some big hitters missing like TripAdvisor, Time Out, IMBD and such but others are expected to be adding as the Siri service grows.
Does Siri require data usage?
Yes. Good question. Yes, it does. Apple hasn't been specific about this but there's data in the app, data in the Apple service centre and obviously data on the Internet at large for many of those connected services. You can access that data either over 3G or Wi-Fi but it's not clear what Siri will be able to do for you, if anything, when you've got no connection.
We'd like to think the simples of setting alarms and timers would be allowed with no coverage or Wi-Fi but, it's very possible that the language recognition and/or interpretation systems are cloud-based which would effectively render Siri useless under such unconnected circumstances. Fingers crossed, Apple has thought this one through. Right, Tim? Right?
Does Siri speak my language?
Well, possibly but it's got no time for anyone in South America unless you happen to speak English, French or German as well as your native Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch (French Guiana, the Falkland Islands and Guyana excepted). What we're trying to say is that Siri will only recognise and speak French, German, US English, Australian English and real proper English English for now. God save the queen, etc, etc.
Other launguages are promised at a later date.
Can I get Siri on my phone?
Probably not. Siri is going to be unique to the iPhone 4S for the time being; mean, old Apple. So you'll have to buy one from fresh in order to get it. Jailbreaking iOS 5 might buy you some joy but that remains to be seen.
Otherwise, if you happen to be on Android, there are a few similar but probably slightly less smooth services including Google's own voice recognition system which, sadly, is cloud-based.
Siri might turn up on other iPhones once Apple has seen that the A5 chip can handle the app with ease. It might not, though.
When is Siri released?
Well, the iPhone 4S release date is 14 October 2011. You can pre-order yours from 7 October.
Is Siri on iPhone 4 going to work?
Another good question. Maybe. If enough of it still works when you have no internet connection, then that's the first hurdle to success surmounted. Next up, Apple needs to convince people to use it and that barking orders at an inanimate object in public doesn't make you look silly. Arguably, Siri could remain something that you use in private but that rather wipes out a mass of use cases and possible the will to persist with it at all.
The true key to its future is if it's smooth and actually saves you time. It's a bit of a worry that the previous Voice Control effort has never quite got the traction it needed to be called a hit and having to press a button to activate a voice system is a bit of a chore in the first place but we'll have to leave it for the iPhone 4S review before we know any more.
It is worth noting that Siri is only officially in beta, so expect a few blips. Phil Schiller's face when he mentioned that fact at the keynote rather tells you exactly how concerned you should be. On the plus side, once it's in full swing, it should come with a better stack of languages and services as well as a better ride too.
But I already own the Siri app?
Not any more you don't. Apple will be wiping that app remotely from your handset on 16 October which gives you two days to pretend that you own an iPhone 4S. Yeah, sorry about that. (Except they're not).
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Shipping charges for the return of goods within and outside of the UK will be paid for by you and we will incur the cost of redelivering the exchanged goods. You can Download the UK Returns Form from here.
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Shipping charges for the return of goods within and outside of the UK will be paid for by you and we will incur the cost of redelivering the exchanged goods. You can Download the International Returns Form from here.
Customers must get proof of posting when returning product to us.
For refunds please allow 14-21 working days for the amount to appear in your bank account. This time frame is dictated by your bank or card issuer and is outside of our control. Your refund will be credited to the same card with which you made your original purchase. If for any reason this is not possible, (i.e. the card had been declined or has expired) we will send a cheque to your billing address.
* Please note that due to system restrictions we are only able to process exchanges for a different colour or size in the same product. Should you be interested in a different product you would need to return the item for a refund and place a new order. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Saleable condition - when trying on items of clothing, please ensure that you are not wearing perfume / aftershave or a deodorant which may leave a scent or marks on the item. Please also ensure that the environment is free of smoke and any strong odours such as food cooking etc. We will be unable to accept the return of any item where there is evidence that these instructions have not been followed. The item must be returned in its original packaging with any enclosed documentation.
Due to technical processes used, it is imperative that each individual garments' washing instructions are followed exactly as stated on the care label. Each garment is wash-tested and quality control checked on each production batch prior to leaving the factory. We will not accept returns that have been soiled, torn or damaged due to incorrect washing.*
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Your satisfaction with our products and services is our utmost concern and Victorinox Swiss Army strives to provide a high level of service. By selecting one of our authorized dealers you can be confident of receiving an authentic quality product with the full Victorinox Swiss Army 3 year's limited warranty and the service you expect.
This requires Victorinox Swiss Army to preserve your interests by warning you against unauthorized dealers and internet sales offering timepieces of dubious origin, second hand product and any risk of fraud, particularly relating to counterfeits.
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6" Fibrox Flexible Boning Knife
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The Victorinox Swiss Army 6" Fillet Knife features our popular non-slip Fibrox. This razor sharp knife is the perfect addition to any home kitchen. Used to fillet meat, poultry or fish, the swiss army fillet knife carries a lifetime warranty against manufacturer's defects.
Click here to view the article written by Cook's Illustrated about our Fibrox Collection.
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By Aldo Panessidi
Following my 'Cell Phone and Bathroom Usage' piece... I thought to research on the hygienic condition of typical cell phones and mobile devices.
You may want to brace yourself... for your smartphone and mobile devices are a petri dish accommodating and sustaining a thriving micro bacterial ecosystem. Dreadfully frightening isn't it?
In 2009, the prominent journal "Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials" conducted a study wherein they tested the various cell phones brands (iPhone, Blackberry, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Nokia, Sony, LG, etcc..) of 200 of their staff members. The results were alarming a whopping 94.5 percent of the devices were severely contaminated with various bacterial strains - many of which were resistant to multiple antibiotics. Moreover, the study yielded that over 60% of the bacteria thriving on the phones were ultimately transferred to the users.
When one considers that most users take their cell phones with them everywhere... including the bathroom. A startling 95% percent of common folk admitted to routinely using their mobile device, cell phones, tablets, laptops, notebooks and other media playing devices during toilet sessions... you can discover the statistics from a study conducted by 11 Mark in my previous blog on 'Cell Phone and Bathroom Usage'.
Microbes have been existing long before any other life form appeared on our planet. Their inherent ability to thrive and multiply in adverse conditions and hostile environments has fuelled their prolific growth and widespread presence throughout the world. Studies indicate their propensity to subsist in both highly populated regions and on public surfaces. Our entire bodies as well as public bathrooms, phones, computers, park benches, restaurant kitchen counters and tables are all ideal hosts harbouring a magnitude of microbe strains - with paper currency being found to have one of the highest concentration of bacteria. As such, it is plain to see that we are engaged in a true germ warfare... protecting our physical health against bacterial invasion.
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Wireless devices are excellent breeding grounds for bacteria... as they generate the requisite heat which helps promote and facilitate breeding. Furthermore, the majority of people do not think of routinely disinfecting their mobile devices, to this end, typical cell phones and mobile devices have more bacteria than toilet seats. I would highly recommend protecting both their devices and ultimately themselves with iSkin protective accessories' revolutionary Microban technology. Built-in to products during the manufacturing process, Microban antimicrobial product protection inhibits the growth of microbes such as bacteria, mold and mildew that can cause stains , embarrassing odors and deterioration of both cell phones and other mobile devices.
It was also reported that while older flip phones have more nooks and crannies for bacteria to hide in, the flat touch screens of current smartphones are not immune to bacteria. Numerous studies have found colonies of streptococcus, staphylococcus and diphtheroids on people's cell phones. And there's even been one reported case of a person contracting an MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) infection – a so-called flesh-eating bug – from a phone. Now that is downright nasty!
For the most part, though, the bacteria that reside on your smartphone and mobile devices come from your own skin and mouth. It's other people's germs you have to worry about; think about that the next time you set your phone down in a public place or share your phone with someone. You're taking in their germs, as well as the bacteria they've picked up just by using their cell phones out in world. You're not only touching the phone, but also everyone and everything that phone has touched.


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With the beginning of March Madness, USA Today has launched its Mobile Hoopla contest, which lets you scan a Microsoft Tag in the newspaper's Sports section and build an NCAA men's basketball bracket on your mobile phone, with team selections for each round of the tournament. Plus, you can share your bracket with your Facebook and Twitter friends and see how your picks rank against theirs.
Once you complete your bracket, you're automatically entered into a national contest for a chance to win an Xbox 360 Console with Kinect. The five players who make the most accurate picks by the end of the NCAA Tournament will win. Woop!
Think you've got what it takes to beat your friends' picks? Scan the Tag on this page, build your bracket, and find out. Hurry though – brackets are only open through midnight this Wednesday, March 17.
If you don't build a bracket, you can still scan the Tag to view real-time game scores and get insights from USA Today's Sports page.
USA Today has been using Microsoft Tag to add greater depth to its daily editions since early February, with Tags appearing daily on the home page and in each section, and the Mobile Hoopla contest takes the paper's online engagement to the next level.
Contests are a great way to help build your brand and customer loyalty. What do you think of USA Today's Mobile Hoopla contest? Do you plan to play? Let us know in the Comments below or on Tag's Facebook or Twitter pages.
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Design Tags that scan easily and offer an engaging mobile experience
Capture customers in the moment and bring printed materials to life
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When most fans think about the Orioles farm system they can name DYLAN Bundy, Kevin Gausman, and Jonathon Schoop. A few of us know who Nick Delmonico is; but the list seems to end there, although it shouldn't because there are a few prospects in our system with plenty of potential that have had a few set backs and haven't garnered much attention lately.
My list is in the order of the prospect I think can be productive in the majors the soonest.
Bobby Bundy - Dylan's big brother was an 2008 Eighth Round big money over slot signing because he had all the goods. Injuries; however, have slowed his progress through the system. He's hit a wall at AA, but has never really had a chance to pitch with a completely healthy body at that level. His work ethic and family support system should have him ready for 2013 and, if he is, he could rocket through the rest of the system and be a legitimate option as a reliever in Baltimore late in the season. It wouldn't surprise me if he and his brother Dylan are both fighting for a rotation spot in ST 2014.
Oliver Drake - Drafted out of the Naval Academy as a SP he lost most of the 2012 season to an injury and may no longer project as a SP because of his age (26 in the 2013 season) and the fact that he will need a season or two to build innings, again. He was also outrighted off of the 40 Man Roster after this season, but was not taken in the Rule 5 Draft. With a FB that might stay in the 95 range with a sinking movement in one or two inning stints, and swing and miss slider he could be a Seventh Inning or later RP as early as mid to late 2013.
Dan Klein - He has the four pitches to be a successful SP but his persistent shoulder problems may force a RP role. He could have been in Baltimore's bullpen in 2012 if he hadn't lost the season to another injury. The FB and slider are ML pitches right now so earning a bullpen role for the seventh inning or later this year is not out of the question if he can remain healthy. If he can add an above average or better change up he could be a legitimate closer candidate. If he can pitch at least 35 innings by the end of June don't be surprised to see him in an Orioles' uniform this season.
Trent Mummey - At least a four tool player he has had injury problems that have limited him to less than 300 ABs in any of his three pro seasons. If he can finally put together back to back injury free seasons he may never be an impact player in the majors, but he could be a versatile 4th OF that has a good OBA and above average defense no later than mid 2014.
Ryan Berry - Another used and abused SP from Rice. He'll be playing at age 25 in the 2013 season, but he's missed too much time to injuries to build up enough innings to be a legitimate SP candidate any longer. Particularly, since the Orioles' farm system FINALLY has enough legitimate SP prospects to fill the rotations at the levels he would play at. Ryan has three solid pitches, any two of which would make him a solid late inning reliever. He might not be ML ready in 2013, but watch for him in 2014 ST.


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Sandra Okita featured in TC's Mini Moments with Big Thinkers
Sandra OkitaSandra Okita, Assistant Professor of Technology and Education in TC's Department of Math, Science & Technology, is an expert on the learning partnership between individuals and technology, and how technology intersects with learning and instructional processes. She has worked at the Honda Research Institute in Tokyo designing and testing robots for educational settings.
To learn more about Sandra Okita, read:
When a Teacher Is 2 Feet Tall (Wall Street Journal)
Engineering Better Playdates (Computer, published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Robots That Get it Wrong (TC Today magazine) Premiered on 4/15/2013
Learn more about technology-related work at Teachers College by visiting the Department of Human Development and checking out the spring 2012 issue of TC Today magazine, "Rewiring the Learning Landscape."
For More Information Please Visit: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/