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Jolla launches Sailfish OS community, limited edition Jolla C smartphone

It looks like the reports of Jolla’s demise have been somewhat exaggerated. After running into financial troubles last year and announcing it’d be unable to ship tablets to everyone who had placed orders, the company recently announced it had raised new funding for its efforts to continue developing the Sailfish operating system in hopes of licensing it to other manufacturers.

Now Jolla has introduced a new program for developers and enthusiasts called the Sailfish OS Community… along with a limited-edition Sailfish OS smartphone called the Jolla C.

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Now Jolla has introduced a new program for developers and enthusiasts called the Sailfish OS Community… along with a limited-edition Sailfish OS smartphone called the Jolla C.

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Lebensmittel-Lieferdienst: Amazon Fresh soll doch in Deutschland starten

Laut einem Bericht kommt Amazon Fresh noch in diesem Herbst in eine große deutsche Stadt. Zuvor hatte der US-Konzern noch erklärt, keine Pläne für die Lieferung frischer Lebensmittel zu haben. (Amazon, Kindle)

Government agencies keep sacrificing cash to zombie IT systems, GAO finds

50-year-old Cobol code, 8-inch floppies, and PowerBuilder live on in government IT.

For those of you who don't remember, this is what an 8-inch floppy disk looks like. (credit: Government Accountability Office)

Some of the most critical business systems run by US government agencies are older than many of the IT people who support them, written in mainframe assembler code or COBOL. That might not shock or surprise anyone who works in mainframe-centric industries like insurance and finance, where the time-tested reliability of some systems has granted them lives that reach back to the Johnson administration. But a new GAO report has called out some of these systems as being so archaic that they're consuming increasingly larger portions of agencies' IT budgets just for operation and maintenance. As the breach at the Office of Personnel Management demonstrated, old systems are also a security risk—particularly when they've been "updated" with now-unsupported versions of Windows Server and Internet and database components that were end-of-life'd by their creators years ago.

To drive those points home, the report—written by David A. Powner, GAO's Director for Information Technology Management Issues—called out specific legacy systems from multiple agencies that are particularly obsolete, reliant on older programming languages and older computing technology that are no longer supported. To help members of Congress too young to remember them, the report also included an infographic (as show above) to explain what an 8-inch floppy disk was.

Of the top ten oldest systems cited by GAO, six are over 50 years old—and five of the ten oldest systems, all dating from before the 1980s, are not slated to be replaced anytime soon. And it should come as no surprise that the two oldest systems in government are at the Internal Revenue Service, and both will remain in place for some time.

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Buglas: Verband kritisiert Rückzug der Telekom bei Fiber To The Home

Die im Buglas tätigen Stadtnetzbetreiber sind sauer auf die Telekom, die Konkurrenten vorwirft, nur zu jammern statt das Netz auszubauen. 70 Prozent der vorhandenen FTTB/H-Anschlüsse in Deutschland kämen von den Netzbetreibern, was auch stimmt. Doch Höttges hatte andere angegriffen. (Telekom, Glasfaser)

Apple Store: Apple darf keine Geschäfte in Indien eröffnen

Indien ist ein Markt mit einem hohen Technikbedarf in der Bevölkerung. Doch Regularien verhindern, dass Apple dort eigene Geschäfte eröffnen kann. Der Konzern scheiterte laut einem Agenturbericht damit, eine Ausnahme zu erwirken. Samsung hingegen hat schon länger einen Experience Store im Land. (Apple Store, Apple)

Mitsubishi MRJ90 und MRJ70: Japans Regionaljet ist erst der Anfang

Japan will sich in der zivilen Luftfahrt etablieren. In zwei Jahren soll der MRJ90 dafür den Beginn einer ganzen Industrie markieren. Hilfreich ist dabei, dass Japans Unternehmen schon lange High-End-Komponenten für die Luftfahrtindustrie liefern. (Mitsubishi, Flugzeug)

Keysweeper: FBI warnt vor Spion in USB-Ladegerät

Was unverdächtig nach einem USB-Ladegerät aussieht, verbirgt eine ausgefeilte Spionagetechnik mit einem Arduino. Nun warnt das FBI vor dem Datendieb, den ein “White Hat” vor mehr als einem Jahr entwickelt hat. (Verschlüsselung, Microsoft)

Was unverdächtig nach einem USB-Ladegerät aussieht, verbirgt eine ausgefeilte Spionagetechnik mit einem Arduino. Nun warnt das FBI vor dem Datendieb, den ein "White Hat" vor mehr als einem Jahr entwickelt hat. (Verschlüsselung, Microsoft)

IBM-Markenkooperation: Warum Watson in die Sesamstraße zieht

IBM und die US-Version der Sesamstraße machen gemeinsame Sache. Supercomputer Watson soll künftig die Vorschulbildung amerikanischer Kinder vorantreiben. Eine ungewöhnliche Markenkooperation, die Schule machen könnte. (Watson, IBM)

Huge Billboard Protests VPN Blocking at Netflix HQ

Netflix’s ongoing VPN crackdown is meeting fierce resistance from concerned users around the world. Today, privacy activists are driving a massive billboard around Netflix’s headquarters, hoping the company will respect their privacy and reverse the broad VPN ban.

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In an effort to appease Hollywood’s major studios, Netflix increased its efforts to block customers who circumvent geo-blockades this year.

As a result it has become harder to use VPN services to access Netflix content from other countries. However, the measures also affect well-intentioned customers who merely use a VPN to protect their privacy.

This broad blocking policy has sparked wide protests and tens of thousands Internet users have signed a petition launched by digital rights group OpenMedia, which asks Netflix to stop the VPN crackdown.

A few weeks ago OpenMedia sent an open letter to Netflix, inviting CEO Reed Hastings to discuss possible alternatives. In absence of a reply, the group is now following up with a new message that’s unmissable.

This week a massive mobile billboard is driving through the streets of Los Gatos, California, where Netflix headquarters are located. The billboard carries the message “We ♥ Our Privacy,” with the URL of the VPN unblocking campaign.

OpenMedia hopes that the billboard will send a clear message. The protests are not going to stop and with thousands of new signers per week the campaign is gaining momentum.

“Right now, Netflix customers are being forced to choose between watching their favorite shows and safeguarding their privacy,” OpenMedia’s digital rights specialist Laura Tribe says.

“Our mobile billboard is one more way we’re working to encourage Netflix to rethink their approach. The company has much better options available to it, than undermining the privacy of over 80 million paying Netflix customers in the post-Snowden world.”

OpenMedia understands that Netflix has to comply with Hollywood’s demands to restrict access, but it believes that there a there are better ways to make sure that geographic restrictions are enforced. For example, by simply linking content libraries to credit card addresses.

Thus far Netflix hasn’t been very receptive to the concerns. During an investor call last month Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that the recent crackdown on VPN users hasn’t hurt the company’s results, and that the complaints came from a “small but vocal minority.”

A ‘small’ minority with a huge billboard…

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Elektromobilität: Portalbus soll Staus überfahren

Er bietet so viel Platz wie eine U-Bahn, aber er fährt im ersten Stock: Ein chinesisches Unternehmen hat einen Schienenbus entwickelt, der über den Autos fährt und deshalb nicht im Stau steht. (Verkehr, Technologie)